As food shortages deepened in Korea by...

February 1943 news article of British prisoners...

In 1943, Japanese company bosses discussed how...

Propaganda story about a Japanese couple in...

Colonial authorities abruptly abolished Korean translations of...

In March 1944 in Seoul, an angry...

Onerous regulations prescribing long lists of permissible...

Kim Ku leads the way towards Korean...

Propaganda story of Japanese couple adopting poor...

Amid severe wartime food shortages in 1943,...

In October 1943, 200 Seoul high school...

The Korean people were allegedly descendants of...

In 1941, Tokyo officials forcibly settled 1,400...

Korea in November 1945 was beset by...

March 1943 edict of Governor Koiso of...

Month: February 2024

Education

Colonial regime forced Korean schools to drop English from the main curriculum to further wartime Imperial Japanese ‘character-building’ education (April 1943)

2024-02-19

333

In April 1943, during the throes of the Pacific War, a notable article was published in Keijo Nippo, the leading

Model Korean Family

Model Korean mother left baby and bedridden husband behind at home to work as a clerk for Imperial Japanese Army, praised by boss for happily working overtime, early morning to late at night for 1/3 the usual pay without complaining, even when so exhausted she couldn’t see straight (Feb. 1944)

2024-02-10

335

This article features Mrs. Ahn, a Seoul native, who in the midst of war, leaves behind her baby and bedridden

Japanese Language

How Korean numbers (하나,둘,셋…) are related to Japanese numbers (hito-, futa-, mit-…), as explained by 1938 Japanese linguistics article from colonial regime

2024-02-05

271

I ran into this interesting linguistics article in the June 1938 issue of “Chōsen” (Korea), published as an official propaganda