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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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As Seoul froze in the winter of...
Korean farming family weaving straw bags known...
Korean economic crimes suspects interrogated by Seoul...
Lim Jangsu (림장수, 林長守) was a Korean...
In October 1922, a hit squad of...
1943 editorial calls for Korean language to...
By December 1943, poultry was unavailable anywhere...
Angry Koreans filed numerous complaints against local...
Shamseinoor Berikova, 19-year-old blue-eyed Russian Tatar refugee...
Colonial regime forced Korean schools to drop...
‘Malicious brokers’ and impoverished Koreans fought each...
Ms. B.F. Starkey, blue-eyed American missionary featured...
Nostalgia for Imperial Japan and its undercurrents...
The Korean people were allegedly liars, slackers,...
Master Imaizumi Teisuke, the spiritual leader of...

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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)

2025-06-24

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This is my review and analysis of a deeply unsettling Imperial Japanese propaganda film, Love and Vows (愛と誓ひ), which was

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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

2025-06-15

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mobilizing Koreans in Let’s look at three articles from Keijo Nippo (the official Japanese colonial newspaper in Korea) published in

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“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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“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

2025-05-31

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This is a translation of a Japanese newspaper roundtable discussion from June 1945, held just two months before Imperial Japan’s

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“Even Dreams Must Be in Japanese”: Imperial Japan’s Chilling Wartime Propaganda for Korean Assimilation
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“Even Dreams Must Be in Japanese”: Imperial Japan’s Chilling Wartime Propaganda for Korean Assimilation

2025-04-23

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These propaganda cartoons, serialized in 1943 during the height of Imperial Japan’s war mobilization, were aimed at the Korean audience.

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Propaganda cartoons from 1943 depict cheerful Koreans enjoying Imperial Japanese rule as they are sternly warned about eavesdropping Western spies
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Propaganda cartoons from 1943 depict cheerful Koreans enjoying Imperial Japanese rule as they are sternly warned about eavesdropping Western spies

2025-04-15

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These propaganda cartoons, serialized in 1943 during the height of Imperial Japan’s war mobilization, were aimed at the Korean audience.

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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

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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
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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

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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

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Imperial Way

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

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Military

Koreans faced up to 10 years in prison and 50,000 yen in fines for not submitting their personal platinum items to the Imperial Navy by Jan. 31, 1945

2025-01-06

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In the closing months of 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy escalated its efforts to extract resources from Korea to fuel

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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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