tpjv86b, Author at Exposing Imperial Japan

Author: tpjv86b

In April 1919, two Imperial Japanese soldiers were disarmed and knocked unconscious in a village in Pyeongsan-gun by 100 protestors, who tied them up for families of deceased protestors to kill, then freed by the ward leader who feared retaliation, only for reinforcements to arrest 20 protestors

2022-03-03

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Notes: The events in this article take place in Pyeongsan-gun in what is now North Korea. The incident happened on April 8,

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Imperial Japan called Seoul residents the laziest people in the world when it came to paying their taxes, and unleashed patriotic ‘Tax Collection Assault Units’ to more aggressively collect taxes from ‘delinquent tax collection districts’ (February 1942)

2022-02-28

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Notes: This propaganda article from 1942 claims that 25 out of every 100 taxpayers in Seoul were delinquent in

School

Korean schoolgirls in 1943 mending military uniforms almost nonstop with minimal breaks from 8:30a to 4p as Imperial Japanese soldiers loom over watching

2022-02-25

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(Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) July 19, 1943 A heart of sincerity in every stitch Repairing military uniforms at

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Korean comfort women interviewed after whirlwind 1943 Japan tour visiting wounded Imperial Japanese soldiers who ‘showed us again and again with their bodies, not with their words, that Japan and Korea were to be unified as one’ and ‘we were often moved to tears because we did not feel worthy’

2022-02-21

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Notes: This article contains an interview with the Korean comfort women who were part of a ‘comfort team’ which

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Korean father and sushi chef boasts that his two children ages 3 and 7 not only don’t know a single word of Korean, they don’t even know yet that they’re Korean, he doesn’t let his 20 employees speak Korean, he hopes ‘all Koreans will become true Japanese people as soon as possible’ (Seoul 1942)

2022-02-17

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Left-to-right: father Umeyoshi (42), daughter Hideko (7), mother Tokuko (40), son Yōzō (3). (Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) May

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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

2022-02-12

Simon Young Kim is a violin virtuoso who is apparently somewhat of a celebrity in the South Korean classical music

School

Korean schoolgirls make improvised ‘tadon’ coal dumplings for the war effort, and they gang up on a dissenting girl who protested against the dirty working conditions, taunting her as being a weakling since before the battles in the Solomon Islands started (1943, Duksung Women’s Vocational School)

2022-02-07

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Notes: The vocational students of Duksung Women’s Vocational School were making improvised, handmade coal briquettes, or balls of coal

Military

British and Australian prisoners of war arrive in Seoul and Incheon on September 25, 1942

2022-02-04

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Notes: For the best experience, I recommend also reading the first-hand accounts of the Allied prisoners of war to

Philosophy

Editorial says the unity of god and man realized by the Japanese Imperial Way cannot be found anywhere else in the world, so Imperial Japan must ‘turn the world into a single realm, let all nations take their places, and let all people rest in peace’ starting with the colonization of Korea

2022-01-30

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(Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) March 6, 1943 The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula By

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As a child, one Korean father was tormented by Japanese teachers who berated him as ‘an idiot who can’t understand Japanese’, so he and his wife imposed the Japanese language on their six children to make sure they did not suffer the same trauma that he did (Seoul, 1942)

2022-01-28

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Notes: (Top row right-to-left): father Kametsuru (41), mother Su-in (37), daughter Ranhime/Ran-hee (4). (Bottom row right-to-left): daughter Eihime/Young-hee (14),