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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

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

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

Daily Life

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

Military

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

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

Model Korean Family

Imperial Japanese cartoon from 1943 shows how Koreans were forced to bow to the Emperor every morning, speak Japanese, and accept poverty without complaints

2025-02-14

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This 1943 propaganda cartoon depicts an idealized portrait of life as model Korean subjects under Imperial Japanese rule. It shows

Model Korean Family

Lim Jangsu (림장수, 林長守) was a Korean Kamikaze pilot who died in a suicide attack on US navy vessels in the Philippines on Dec. 7, 1944; he was from Yeomju-eup near Sinuiju

2025-01-31

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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

Police

‘Selfless’ Imperial Japanese policeman visits pregnant Korean mother daily and delivers her baby after forcing her husband into Imperial war service: a 1945 ‘heartwarming’ propaganda tale

2025-01-26

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In the waning days of Japanese colonial rule in January 1945, a propaganda article was published in the Keijo Nippo

Military

When all of Korea was forced to bow to Yasukuni Shrine to worship Imperial Japan’s war dead as gods: a chilling moment at 9:15 AM on October 23, 1944

2025-01-20

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On October 23, 1944, during one of the darkest chapters of Imperial Japanese colonial rule over Korea, the entire peninsula