Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda
It was January 1945, in the final desperate months of World War II. As fuel and fabric shortages deepened, the
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This 1945 Japanese newspaper article presents a seemingly grassroots roundtable of Korean housewives from all walks of life gathering in
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By early 1945, the Pacific War had dragged on for over three years, and Imperial Japan’s war machine was straining
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In the annals of forgotten history, few figures exemplify the complex and tragic reality of Korean soldiers in the Imperial
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The following article serves as a tragic testament to the extent of Imperial Japan’s propaganda and its devastating impact on
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This 1943 propaganda cartoon depicts an idealized portrait of life as model Korean subjects under Imperial Japanese rule. It shows
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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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In the waning days of Japanese colonial rule in January 1945, a propaganda article was published in the Keijo Nippo
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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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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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