This is my translation and transcription of a ‘forward-looking’ news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the government of Japan-colonized Korea. It has never been republished or translated before, to the best of my knowledge. 

In September 1943, at the Minakai Department Store in Seoul, a panoramic picture was displayed depicting New York City in flames from an Imperial Japanese air raid, the residents stunned with broken noses from the exploding bombs and President Roosevelt fainting out of panic. 

Many historical revisionists claim that Imperial Japan would have never killed civilians or conducted air raids on the U.S. mainland if it had won World War II, but bellicose news articles like this one prove otherwise. In any case, by September 1943, the dream of invading the U.S. mainland, let alone conducting an air raid on New York City, had become impossibly out of reach for Imperial Japan as the Allies continued their string of victories.

(Translation)

Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) September 21, 1943

Roosevelt Faints and Collapses from Air Raids by the Japanese Military

Korean Peninsula’s Sincere Dedication of 296 Aircraft

‘Reinforcement-Themed’ Air Exhibition

The striking ‘reinforcement-themed’ venue of the Minakai Department Store featured a panorama which was assembled assuming the following scenario: “An air raid warning was issued for New York City. Just as the echoes of the sirens faded from their eardrums, a crimson flame first rose over the Empire State Building as well as the buildings of the twentieth century celebrating a materialistic civilization. The roar of the exploding bombs broke the nasal bridges of the Yankees and turned the entire city of New York into a hellish battlefield. Roosevelt, the protagonist of the White House, who did not know what to do in the face of this thunderous air raid, was so panicked that he fainted and collapsed. The wings with the bright Hinomaru red circle emblems that flew overhead were clearly visible to the nighttime eye with each dive, and the bombing continued at a leisurely pace and with precise targeting while giving a sidelong glance at the stunned Yankees.”

The venue was decorated with the production expansion of fire-breathing munitions factories and the donation of airplanes by the sincerity of the people of the nation. The wheels of the plant, which is now operating at full capacity, continue to dash forward on the road to “More production! More production!”

Meanwhile, the following is a list of donations of patriotic planes from the Korean peninsula which provide side reinforcement.

(Since the Greater East Asia War started – up to the day before Aviation Memorial Day) a total of 296 aircraft were built. Of these, there were 12 aircraft donated by individuals, which is a little sad and regrettable, 97 aircraft donated by counties (gun) alone, and 6 aircraft donated by townships (myeon) alone, which is praiseworthy like gemstones, and other donations made by companies, provinces, prefectures, and other organizations. As an example of what happens when a little dust accumulates into a mountain, if the total population of the Korean peninsula is 26 million, and if everyone saved one sen every day, then in one year we could collect 94.9 million yen and build 943 fighter planes costing 100,000 yen each.

Source: https://www.archive.org/details/kjnp-1943-09-21

(Transcription)

京城日報　1943年9月21日

日本軍の空襲にルーズベルト卒倒

半島赤誠の献納二九六機

航空展”増強篇”

”ニューヨークに空襲警報発令さる、サイレンの余韻が鼓膜から消えるその瞬間エンパイアビルディング外二十世紀の物質文明を謳歌するビル街に先ず真紅の焔が立ち上がった。爆弾の炸裂する轟音がヤンキーの鼻柱を折ってニューヨーク全市は阿鼻地獄の阿修羅場と化した。雷撃的空襲に施す術も知らず白堊館のル主人公は狼狽の極に達し卒倒した。上空に飛来した双翼の真赤な日の丸の標識が急降下の度毎に夜目にも鮮やかに眼に映り爆撃はうろたえるヤンキー共を尻目に悠々と適確なる照準で続けられる”といった想定のもとに組み立てたパノラマが眼をひく三中井の増強篇会場だ。

この会場を飾るものは火を吐く軍需工場の生産増強と国民の赤誠からなる飛行機献納である。今や超完全操業に拍車を掛ける工場の車輪は増産！増産！また増産の一路をひたぶるに驀進し続ける。

一方これに側面的増強を加える半島の愛国機献納表を見れば、

（大東亜戦以降ー航空日前日まで）総計二九六機。この中個人献納が聊かさびしい憾みがあるが十二機、郡単独の分が九十七機、あっぱれ珠玉の如き面単独の献納が六機、このほか会社、道、府等団体による献納である。塵もつもれば山となるの実例として半島総人口を二千六百万人とすれば毎日一銭づつ貯金すれば一年に九千四百九十万、十万円の戦闘機が九百四十三台造れるのだ。