tpjv86b – Exposing Imperial Japan

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Food Shortages

By December 1943, poultry was unavailable anywhere in Seoul, eggs were supposed to be priority-rationed to hospitalized war veterans and people with doctors’ certificates (pregnant women and nursing mothers), but ordinary Koreans had to buy eggs on the black market at 30 sen (about $6 USD today) each

2022-08-06

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This article talks about the egg and poultry shortage that was rampant in Korea in December 1943, two years into

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Minakai Department Store in Seoul featured a propaganda panoramic picture depicting New York City in flames from an Imperial Japanese air raid and President Roosevelt fainting out of panic, as part of a warplane donation campaign (September 1943)

2022-08-03

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This is my translation and transcription of a ‘forward-looking’ news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of

Model Korean Family

Propaganda ‘feel good story’ praises Korean grandfather for finally accepting his grandson’s voluntary enlistment in the Imperial Japanese air force, as it was ‘not easy to persuade’ him due to his ‘having lived through half a century of complicated historical changes’ (Dongdaemun Seoul, 1943)

2022-08-01

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

Food Shortages

Colonial authorities discussed how to reduce prenatal/infant mortality rates in the midst of severe 1943 wartime food shortages, declaring that the Korean children belong to Imperial Japan and not to the mother, who must raise them into future soldiers and leaders of the Co-prosperity Sphere

2022-07-24

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This is my translation and transcription of three news articles from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

Internment Camp

Young Korean men were ‘beaten into shape’ at militaristic farmers’ dōjō (Imperial Japanese training indoctrination camp) to cultivate the next generation of rural Korean leaders who would spread the Imperial Way of farming throughout the Korean countryside (Daejeon, 1943)

2022-07-18

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

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Book review of Anti-Japan Tribalism (반일종족주의, 反日種族主義), co-author Lee Woo-yeon (이우연) of the fringe ‘End Comfort Women Fraud’ group – a hit piece written by far-right Korean conservatives to attack anti-Japanese attitudes of their political opponents, distorts the historical narrative for this purpose

2022-07-11

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As some of you may know, in late June, a small fringe group of 3 Korean far-right activists Joo Ok-soon

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Governor Koiso told Korean conscripts in Imperial Army in 1944 address that the onus was on them to reduce anti-Korean discrimination by ‘cleansing away’ the ‘vestiges of the Yi Dynasty within themselves’ to become less dishonest, and be ‘penetrated in the true meaning of national identity’

2022-07-07

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The following address is a remarkable admission by the Governor-General of Korea that Korean conscripts had filed complaints about being

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Educational supervisor declares that ‘old ways of thought of the Korean women must first be corrected’, and mocks Korean mothers for being worried for their conscripted sons’ lives while they aren’t afraid of death when it comes to shopping

2022-07-06

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This 1943 article describes 200 Korean women packed in an auditorium as Mr. Kondo the colonial educational supervisor delivers a

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Governor-General Koiso blamed excessive chili peppers for ‘stimulating’ Koreans and making them ‘mentally foggy’, and ordered Koreans to ‘improve’ their diets by eating more salt and less chili peppers in his desperate 1944 push to revitalize the war effort

2022-07-03

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

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Propaganda article contrasting the ‘Bad Korean Retailer’ who is greedy, mean, dishonest, and lawless with the ‘Good Korean Retailer’ who is selfless, kind, honest, law-abiding, and committed to Japanese-Korean unification (Seoul, 1942)

2022-06-29

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the