Onerous regulations prescribing long lists of permissible...

Dehumanization in Colonial Korea, 1943: Branding Koreans...

In June 1944, the Japanese military gave...

Korean schoolgirls attend a five-day swimming camp...

The Sulemans were a Russian Tatar refugee...

Japanese abductee escaped Korean Communist guerrillas in...

Korean schoolgirls in 1943 mending military uniforms...

In 1943, ethnic Korean school principal says...

Buyeo, former capital of Baekje, was used...

Imperial Japanese Army finally acknowledges Korea’s imminent...

Part 2 – Thousands of young Korean...

Imperial Japanese penal officials brag about brainwashing...

Book review of Anti-Japan Tribalism (반일종족주의, 反日種族主義),...

This Korean family donated their metallic tableware...

Ms. B.F. Starkey, blue-eyed American missionary featured...

Category: Education

Imperial Way

Dehumanization in Colonial Korea, 1943: Branding Koreans as ‘just objects’ for ‘not understanding the blessings of Imperial Japan’ and labeling them as ‘hypocrites who are outwardly obedient, but inwardly rebellious in their hearts’

2023-06-22

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I’m posting here today to share a rather unsettling article from colonial Korea in 1943. It is timely, as this

Education

Tourist groups visiting the historical sites of Buyeo (부여, 夫餘) had to perform 3 hours community service (road repair, water pipes, tree planting) under Imperial Army command and indoctrinated in ‘Japanese-Korean Unification’ propaganda with mandatory Shinto worship, no individual tourists allowed (1943)

2023-04-09

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This article is the last one in a series of three educational articles published by the colonial regime to promote

Education

Colonial officials claimed ‘Korean must naturally stop being spoken as a result of the spread of Japanese’ ‘no words in Korean can express the essence of the Japanese spirit in a straightforward way’ ‘Korean will one day be regarded as just another local dialect like the Kyushu dialect’ (June 1943)

2023-03-22

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In June 1943, Keijo Nippo ran a long series of roundtable discussion articles, where colonial interior ministry officials gathered to

School

Korean kindergartners holding rising sun flags shouting ‘Banzai!’, schoolchildren worshiping at Shinto Shrines vowing to ‘defeat the U.S. and Britain’, high school girls ice skating on Chundangji Pond in Changgyeonggung Palace grounds – a series photos of student life in Seoul, late January 1943

2023-01-26

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The third and final school semester (January to March) began in Seoul in late January 1943, and the Keijo Nippo

Japanese Language

Colonial authorities abruptly abolished Korean translations of the neighborhood meetings of Patriotic Groups in May 1942 as part of a ‘radical treatment’ to make Koreans speak Japanese, equating the inability to speak Japanese to a serious medical illness

2022-12-18

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This May 1942 article announces that Korean translations of the regular meetings of the Patriotic Groups are hereby abolished. The