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Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda

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Korean modern dancer Choi Seung-hee featured in...
Korean director of Straits of Chosun (1943)...
This Korean family donated their metallic tableware...
Propaganda ‘feel good story’ praises Korean grandfather...
‘We’re going to Washington!’ – a 1944...
By April 1944, there were 13 internment...
Korean children underwent mass medical inspections in...
Imperial Army general describes crowded movie theaters...
March 1943 edict of Governor Koiso of...
Imperial Japanese Army finally acknowledges Korea’s imminent...
Buyeo, former capital of Baekje, was used...
Korean schoolgirls make improvised ‘tadon’ coal dumplings...
Wartime news coverage of Prince Yi Un...
Simon Young Kim (김영근), a South Korean...
February 1943 news article of British prisoners...

Month: January 2025

Military

Lim Jangsu (림장수, 林長守) was a Korean Kamikaze pilot who died in a suicide attack on US navy vessels in the Philippines on Dec. 7, 1944; he was from Yeomju-eup near Sinuiju

2025-01-31

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These two Imperial propaganda news articles from January 1945 cover an ethnic Korean kamikaze pilot, Lim Jangsu (林長守), who died

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Model Korean Family

‘Selfless’ Imperial Japanese policeman visits pregnant Korean mother daily and delivers her baby after forcing her husband into Imperial war service: a 1945 ‘heartwarming’ propaganda tale

2025-01-26

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In the waning days of Japanese colonial rule in January 1945, a propaganda article was published in the Keijo Nippo

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Imperial Way

When all of Korea was forced to bow to Yasukuni Shrine to worship Imperial Japan’s war dead as gods: a chilling moment at 9:15 AM on October 23, 1944

2025-01-20

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On October 23, 1944, during one of the darkest chapters of Imperial Japanese colonial rule over Korea, the entire peninsula

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Philosophy

How Imperial Japan used the Shinto holy book ‘Nihon Shoki’ to justify colonizing Korea: a look at Koiso’s 1944 anti-Chinese, anti-American, anti-Communist youth rally

2025-01-13

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1905

In the following January 1944 speech to Korean conscripts, Governor-General Kuniaki Koiso advanced his theory that Koreans and Japanese shared

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Military

Koreans faced up to 10 years in prison and 50,000 yen in fines for not submitting their personal platinum items to the Imperial Navy by Jan. 31, 1945

2025-01-06

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In the closing months of 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy escalated its efforts to extract resources from Korea to fuel

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  • Imperial Japan shamed Koreans for going to theaters instead of preparing for invasion (March 1945)
  • Don’t wear rings or chima dresses! Don’t believe the Allied leaflets! Imperial Japan’s desperate attempts to control Koreans by late February 1945
  • “Even Dreams Must Be in Japanese”: Imperial Japan’s Chilling Wartime Propaganda for Korean Assimilation
  • Propaganda cartoons from 1943 depict cheerful Koreans enjoying Imperial Japanese rule as they are sternly warned about eavesdropping Western spies
  • Imperial Japanese cartoon from 1943 depicts Korean boy teaching his grandma how to issue commands to her dog in Japanese

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    • Imperial Japanese penal official said Korean 'ideological criminals' (independence activists) were 'not well made as human beings', but 'if only their thoughts could be corrected, then they will get better' so they can be 'used' for wartime labor, but 'this is not the case with ordinary criminals'
    • Nostalgia for Imperial Japan and its undercurrents in Kishi Nobusuke's legacy in postwar Japan, in Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan's legacy in South Korea, and why access to wartime newspapers of Japan-occupied Korea is important to combat historical misinformation by the far-right in both countries
    • Simon Young Kim (김영근), a South Korean violin virtuoso and disciple of famous violinist Jascha Heifetz, Simon was once my teacher and mentor, and his son was my best friend in elementary school
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