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

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Korean schoolgirls in 1943 mending military uniforms...
Western firms including Shell, Mobil, HSBC, Otis...
1943 Editorial: the Imperial Way embraces the...
Imperial Japan had postwar plans to quadruple...
Korean residents of Seoul once spoke their...
1943 Imperial Japanese editorial declares liberalism collapsed...
Pro-Japanese Korean colonel (신태영)’s full 1943 speech...
Propaganda article contrasting the ‘Bad Korean Retailer’...
The Korean people were allegedly descendants of...
In 1943, Japanese company bosses discussed how...
February 1943, Seoul high school girls perform...
In February 1943, a massive network of...
The Lim Family portrayed as happy, model...
In Japan-occupied Korea, Koreans often spoke Japanese...
Korean modern dancer Choi Seung-hee featured in...

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Imperial Japanese and Korean collaborator elite partied in brothels and luxury restaurants while ordinary Koreans starved in wartime Seoul, early 1945

2025-07-08

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Below is a translation of an Imperial Japanese news article from the Keijō Nippo (京城日報), dated March 5, 1945, reporting

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Post-Liberation

How the war criminals of Imperial Japan shaped modern South Korean politics and business: the pro-Japanese legacy that Kishi, Sasakawa, and Kodama left behind in Korean conservatism

2024-12-10

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As a Japanese blogger posting content about Imperial Japan’s colonization of Korea, I have been following the latest news coming

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Daily Life

Korea in November 1945 was beset by rampant inflation, which the Koreans editors of newly liberated Keijo Nippo blamed on ‘Korean traitors’ and departing Japanese who liquidated their property and spent cash ‘indulging in lavish eating and wastefulness’

2023-10-11

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In my recent trip to Seoul, I visited the National Library of Korea and took many photos of pages from

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Business

Western firms including Shell, Mobil, HSBC, Otis Elevator, Singer were active in colonial Korea, a US firm had a corn starch factory in Pyongyang, until the regime confiscated their assets with the outbreak of war, accused of having a ‘Jewish spirit’ which ‘exploits the entire wealth of mankind’

2023-01-11

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This is an article from December 1942, and it particularly stands out for its especially antisemitic, anti-American, and anti-British messaging.

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Business

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

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  • Imperial Japanese and Korean collaborator elite partied in brothels and luxury restaurants while ordinary Koreans starved in wartime Seoul, early 1945
  • The film that tried to make Koreans see Imperial Japan as their “Omoni” (Mother): Inside the 1945 propaganda movie “Love and Vows” (愛と誓ひ, 사랑과맹세)
  • In 1945, Imperial Japan trained almost every able-bodied Korean man, woman, and child to stab Americans to death with bamboo spears in suicide combat militias under direct Imperial Army command
  • Imperial Japan banned passengers wearing chima skirts from boarding trains, escalating its campaign against traditional Korean garments in May 1945
  • “If Japan loses, Koreans will fight each other, divided by foreign powers”: June 1945 warning by Korean collaborator (박춘금, 朴春琴) who urged authorities to redirect Korean nationalism into support for Imperial Japan

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    • Imperial Japanese penal official said Korean 'ideological criminals' (independence activists) were 'not well made as human beings', but 'if only their thoughts could be corrected, then they will get better' so they can be 'used' for wartime labor, but 'this is not the case with ordinary criminals'
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