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Christianity

In 1938, an Imperial Japanese ideologue took over Chungshin Girls’ High School in Seoul and replaced prayers with moments of silence for the Imperial military, replaced bible readings with Imperial vows, and scrubbed foreigners from school portraits

2021-12-27

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Chungshin (정신) Girls’ High School is a private school in Seoul that was founded by Dr. Horace Underwood, an American

Imperial Way

1943 Imperial Japanese editorial declares liberalism collapsed and liberal civilization as incapable of maintaining peace and order, and attacks the “analytical spirit of modernity”, “extreme analysis”, “abuse of the intellect”, and “divisive individualism” while praising fascism and Nazism for building holistic, organic communal societies

2021-12-24

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The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (5) By Kamata Sawaichiro The Rise of Internal Cohesionism

Japanese Language

Korean high school student uses anonymous tip box to rat out fellow student who spoke Korean at school (Dongduk Girls’ High School in Seoul, June 1942)

2021-12-20

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Notes: In 1942, students at Dongduk Girls’ High School in Seoul were using an anonymous tip box to rat

Uncategorized

This 1942 stuttering correction seminar for Korean children involves Japanese vowel practice, abdominal training, and “infusing the Japanese spirit deep into the children’s hearts”

2021-12-17

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) August 5, 1942 Go out to the Co-Prosperity Sphere as a Human Resource Resurrecting Correct

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In Japan-occupied Korea, Koreans often spoke Japanese using phrases and grammar from regional Japanese dialects that they picked up from colonial settlers – mandatory language classes made them unlearn these “vulgar colloquialisms” and speak standard Japanese

2021-12-17

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo), June 27, 1942 Shunning the adding of “shi” at the ends of sentences The Eighth

School

February 1943, Seoul high school girls perform group calisthenics to prepare to become mothers of strong Imperial Japanese soldiers

2021-12-15

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) February 6, 1943 Behold our training! Gallantly doing group calisthenics Seoul No. 1 High School

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In Japan-occupied Korea, Koreans often mixed their spoken Japanese with Korean words like 아이고 (‘gosh’) and 나쁜 (‘bad’) and English words like ‘slogan’ and ‘service’ – in 1942, one Seoul police station cracked down on this by fining employees every time they uttered a Korean or English word

2021-12-14

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo), July 8, 1942 Saying “Aigo” also results in punishment Seodaemun Police Officer Suggests a New

Imperial Way

1943 Imperial Japanese editorial decries liberalism, individualistic humanism, rationalism, international universalism, and Marxist materialism of the West for corrupting Japan, and calls for a “high-minded Japanese worldview” and reliance on “irrational and mysterious powers” of the Japanese spirit

2021-12-13

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo), February 24, 1943 The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (3) By

Prisoners of War

In 1942 Busan, Korean pastors and foreign residents (Russian Tatar family, English woman, Chinese consul) praise Imperial Japan as British POWs captured in Malaysia start arriving in the city

2021-12-11

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) September 24, 1942 People on the ground asked about the captured prisoners of war landing

Korean Workers

In 1943, ethnic Korean school principal says Koreans lack work ethic and can’t handle the slightest hardship, uneducated Korean mothers are reluctant to send their children to the workplace

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo), January 10, 1943 Reaction to “Hiring Koreans in the Workplace” As already reported, Governor Koiso’s