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Food Shortages

Korean economic crimes suspects interrogated by Seoul economic police; the police chief boasts of having eyes and ears everywhere on the ground, and contrasts the polite, law-abiding ‘good Korean retailers’ with the rude, greedy, dishonest ‘bad Korean retailers’ in 1942 interview

2022-12-10

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This photo shows the inside of an interrogation room of the economic police in the Dongdaemon precinct of Seoul. It

Moment of Silence

Koreans in Seoul streetcar observing mandatory daily Moment of Silence at noon in 1943 to honor Imperial soldiers; caption reads “they offer infinite gratitude for the blood-soaked toil of the generals who are fighting valiantly to destroy the U.S. and Britain on the pathetically brutal front lines”

2022-12-06

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This photo captures a scene inside a Seoul streetcar in 1943 as the passengers respond to the sound of sirens

Medical

Korean children underwent mass medical inspections in 1943 competition to identify and celebrate the healthiest top ‘superior children’ who would ‘become respectable Japanese people who will carry the next generation on their shoulders’

2022-12-03

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Another peculiar institution of Imperial Japan was the ‘Superior Children’ competition, where a panel of medical doctors would perform extensive

Japanese Language

Korean writers in the ‘Korean Literary Association’ became puppet voices for Imperial Japan, praising the 1942 switch from Korean to Japanese language in Korean literature and declaring, ‘Korea has come to share the mission of transmitting the spirit and culture of Japan to all regions of Asia’

2022-11-29

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Thus far, we’ve seen how Koreans of various walks of life, including comfort women and ‘model Korean families’ who mainly

Daily Life

Young female employees lining up to receive mandatory ‘payroll savings booklets’ to automatically deduct their wages to contribute to the Imperial Japanese war effort (Seoul, 1943)

2022-11-27

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The following is a photo of some young female employees at a company in Seoul lining up to receive some

Daily Life

Not content with merely banning U.S. and British jazz music, colonial authorities forced cafes, bars, and restaurants to throw out all phonograph records, and replaced the in-store background music with Imperial Japanese military songs and news propaganda blaring on the radio (Jongno, Seoul, 1943)

2022-11-23

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This is a story about a restaurant association in Jongno-gu, Seoul which not only banned American and British jazz music

School

This Japanese teacher devoted a decade of his life going door to door preaching “You Koreans and we Japanese are brothers, so dedicating yourselves to the Imperial nation is the only way!” the Koreans initially hated him, but eventually came to welcome him with respect, allegedly (Shimonoseki, 1943)

2022-11-21

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The following propaganda article profiles one Japanese teacher in Shimonoseki who took it upon himself to organize Korean residents into

Korean Workers

80 years ago today, Korean women were making gloves for the Imperial Japanese Army at a factory run by Wakōkyōen, a nonprofit of the Japanese Jōdo Buddhist sect operating in Korea since 1893 and contracting with the colonial regime to rehouse, educate, and employ evicted Seoul slum residents

2022-11-17

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This is a photo of Korean girls and women manufacturing gloves at a factory in Gwansu-dong, Seoul exactly 80 years

School

Korean schoolgirls standing in front of Seoul Whashin Department Store in 1943 as Korean women make some stitches in Shinto cloth amulets to be gifted to Imperial Japanese soldiers

2022-11-14

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In Imperial Japan, schoolgirls would stand around public places like department stores and hold white strips of cloth, and then

Imperial Way

Onerous regulations prescribing long lists of permissible and forbidden types of clothing were imposed on Koreans in 1943 to promote a ‘minimalist lifestyle’ of ‘Japanese beauty and simplicity’ in the name of wartime resource conservation

2022-11-11

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In September 1943, almost two years into waging war against the United States and Britain, facing extreme shortages in everything

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