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Exposing Imperial Japan

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

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Propaganda articles say Koreans men are cowards...
In Japan-occupied Korea, Koreans often spoke Japanese...
Model Korean mother left baby and bedridden...
Nostalgia for Imperial Japan and its undercurrents...
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Simon Young Kim (김영근), a South Korean...
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Imperial Japan banned passengers wearing chima skirts from boarding trains, escalating its campaign against traditional Korean garments in May 1945

2025-06-08

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In May 1945, as the war situation worsened, the Japanese colonial authorities in Korea tightened their grip on everyday life

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Daily Life

Imperial Japan called Korean women in chima dresses ‘the most filthy and ugly sight’ and shamed them with posters captioned ‘there are still women like these’ (April 1945)

2025-05-18

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In April 1945, with Imperial Japan losing the war, Imperial authorities turned their rage inward—targeting Korean women for wearing traditional

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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
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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

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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Korean Woman in Hanbok Detained by Imperial Police in 1944 Seoul for Wearing the “Wrong” Clothing in Violation of Wartime Attire Regulations

2024-12-30

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This photo, published by the colonial regime in 1944, captures a police encounter of a Korean woman with members of

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Daily Life

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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  • 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
  • Imperial Japan called Korean women in chima dresses ‘the most filthy and ugly sight’ and shamed them with posters captioned ‘there are still women like these’ (April 1945)
  • Imperial Japan shamed Koreans for going to theaters instead of preparing for invasion (March 1945)

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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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