Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda
During the final years of the Pacific War, as Imperial Japan faced defeat and mobilized every means available to sustain
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This is a very rare Korean–Japanese bilingual wartime propaganda poster, published in Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo) on October 7, 1944.
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This is a 1944 article featuring a damage-control press conference held by Imperial Japanese authorities to publicly address growing panic
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During the final phase of Imperial Japan’s rule over Korea, conscription orders came printed on different colors of paper, each
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This 1944 news announcement represents one of the darkest moments in the history of the Korean language. In April and
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For this post, I am examining two wartime propaganda articles to explore the hierarchical administrative structure that Imperial Japan used
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Ever since Imperial Japan annexed Korea in 1910, subduing the countryside proved to be one of the most difficult tasks.
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In the last months of World War II before Imperial Japan’s surrender, the public transportation infrastructure in Seoul was in
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As Imperial Japan’s war effort was collapsing in spring 1945, life in colonial Seoul grew increasingly desperate. Ordinary Koreans were
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I have been going through Imperial Japanese newspaper articles from over 80 years ago that the National Archives of Korea
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