Educational supervisor declares that ‘old ways of...

Korean writers in the ‘Korean Literary Association’...

Propaganda story about a Japanese couple in...

Koreans faced up to 10 years in...

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

Korean kindergartners holding rising sun flags shouting...

Why did many Koreans “voluntarily” enlist in...

Japanese Keijo Nippo reporters interviewed Korean abductee...

Lim Jangsu (림장수, 林長守) was a Korean...

In January 1943, Hollywood films were banned...

Propaganda articles say Koreans men are cowards...

Governor-General Koiso blamed excessive chili peppers for...

Korean schoolgirls in 1943 mending military uniforms...

Shamseinoor Berikova, 19-year-old blue-eyed Russian Tatar refugee...

Korean forced laborers worked the Gyeongsan cobalt...

Category: Japanese Language

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March 1943 edict of Governor Koiso of Japan-occupied Korea focusing on Korean girls in assimilation campaigns to “penetrate them with the Japanese spirit and be aggressive”

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(my translation) Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo) March 31, 1943 Focus on the girlsThe Governor explains the results of his

Japanese Language

Imperial Japan waged an aggressive Japanese language campaign on Korean villages in the ’30s and ’40s, entering homes to attach Japanese labels on household objects, putting residents under 55 in mandatory classes, applying an “unyielding whip” to “break down their customs and stray dreams”

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This article from Japan-occupied Korea in 1943 describes an aggressive Japanese language campaign that was conducted in Korean villages

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By April 1944, there were 13 internment camps in Seoul for Japanizing Korean girls into wives for Japanese soldiers, with most of the girls enlisted for military labor, and instructional time cut from all day to just the afternoons (photo: Japanese language class at a camp in Jongno-gu, Seoul)

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This article from April 1944 shows that this system of internment camps had expanded to at least 13 in

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In 1944, the Japanese govt built internment camps in Korea to intensively train young Korean school girls in Japanese ways and turn them into assimilated mothers and wives of Japanese soldiers (top photo: Ewha students in training; bottom photo: Sookmyung students teaching Japanese to local women)

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TL;DR: In February 1944, the Japanese fascist government announced their plans to build internment camps all over Korea to