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Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda

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Western firms including Shell, Mobil, HSBC, Otis...
Korean comfort women interviewed after whirlwind 1943...
Japanese teacher in Japan-colonized Korea punished her...
Young female employees lining up to receive...
Master Imaizumi Teisuke, the spiritual leader of...
In Japan-occupied Korea, Koreans often mixed their...
Governor Koiso told Korean conscripts in Imperial...
Korean rice farmers barely survived eating grass...
Korean schoolgirls in 1943 mending military uniforms...
‘Jeon’ became ‘Takamatsu’ and ‘Park’ became ‘Masaki’:...
Korean comfort women in a “performing arts...
Imperial Japanese PSA ordering residents to avoid...
A mere 3 days after surrender, liberated...
How Imperial Japan used the Shinto holy...
This is the only known bilingual Japanese-Korean...

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Imperial Japan shamed Koreans for going to theaters instead of preparing for invasion (March 1945)

2025-05-07

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As Imperial Japan’s war effort crumbled in early 1945, its propaganda turned increasingly desperate and moralistic. This article, published in

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Don’t wear rings or chima dresses! Don’t believe the Allied leaflets! Imperial Japan’s desperate attempts to control Koreans by late February 1945
Korean Workers

Don’t wear rings or chima dresses! Don’t believe the Allied leaflets! Imperial Japan’s desperate attempts to control Koreans by late February 1945

2025-04-29

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The following two news articles were printed adjacent to each other in the February 22, 1945 issue of Keijo Nippo,

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“Even Dreams Must Be in Japanese”: Imperial Japan’s Chilling Wartime Propaganda for Korean Assimilation
Daily Life

“Even Dreams Must Be in Japanese”: Imperial Japan’s Chilling Wartime Propaganda for Korean Assimilation

2025-04-23

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These propaganda cartoons, serialized in 1943 during the height of Imperial Japan’s war mobilization, were aimed at the Korean audience.

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Propaganda cartoons from 1943 depict cheerful Koreans enjoying Imperial Japanese rule as they are sternly warned about eavesdropping Western spies
Military

Propaganda cartoons from 1943 depict cheerful Koreans enjoying Imperial Japanese rule as they are sternly warned about eavesdropping Western spies

2025-04-15

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These propaganda cartoons, serialized in 1943 during the height of Imperial Japan’s war mobilization, were aimed at the Korean audience.

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Imperial Japanese cartoon from 1943 depicts Korean boy teaching his grandma how to issue commands to her dog in Japanese
Model Korean Family

Imperial Japanese cartoon from 1943 depicts Korean boy teaching his grandma how to issue commands to her dog in Japanese

2025-04-07

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This propaganda cartoon, published in the Korean-language Maeil Sinbo Newspaper on November 1, 1943, depicts an idealized portrait of model

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Daily Life

‘Sweaters are tools of suicide’: Koreans were forced to follow Dr. Sonomura, a radical Japanese nudist fitness guru, and practice winter ‘naked calisthenics’ to save fuel and fabric for the Imperial Japanese war effort in 1945

2025-03-30

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It was January 1945, in the final desperate months of World War II. As fuel and fabric shortages deepened, the

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Daily Life

As Seoul froze in the winter of 1944–45, Korean families were told to share kitchens and bathe together to save coal for Imperial Japan’s war effort

2025-03-23

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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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Travel

February 1945 news report painted Korean passengers as ‘loud’ and ‘unruly’ while praising Japanese as orderly and ‘appreciative’, detailing the broken and lawless overcrowded state of train travel in wartime Korea

2025-03-16

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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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Model Korean Family

Forgotten Korean Suicide Attacker ‘Hero’ celebrated by Imperial Japan: Park Gwan-bin (박관빈, 朴官彬) charged into an Allied machine-gun nest clutching an anti-tank explosive during the Burma Campaign in Dec. 1944

2025-03-06

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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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Imperial Japan celebrated a Korean boy’s angry blood vow to sun goddess Amaterasu offering up his life as a fighter pilot to avenge the U.S. bombing of Ise Shrine in 1945
Military

Imperial Japan celebrated a Korean boy’s angry blood vow to sun goddess Amaterasu offering up his life as a fighter pilot to avenge the U.S. bombing of Ise Shrine in 1945

2025-02-24

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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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  • Imperial Japan shamed Koreans for going to theaters instead of preparing for invasion (March 1945)
  • Don’t wear rings or chima dresses! Don’t believe the Allied leaflets! Imperial Japan’s desperate attempts to control Koreans by late February 1945
  • “Even Dreams Must Be in Japanese”: Imperial Japan’s Chilling Wartime Propaganda for Korean Assimilation
  • Propaganda cartoons from 1943 depict cheerful Koreans enjoying Imperial Japanese rule as they are sternly warned about eavesdropping Western spies
  • Imperial Japanese cartoon from 1943 depicts Korean boy teaching his grandma how to issue commands to her dog in Japanese

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