Category: Post-Liberation

Business

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

Press

Imperial Japanese news staff departing Korea wrote last words celebrating the ‘Young Korea’ as a ‘joyous uprising’, praising Kimchi, saying goodbyes to Korean collaborator writers, baring ‘a heart full of desolation’, mourning a daughter’s death, criticizing war leaders… (Nov. 1, 1945)

2024-01-23

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This is the second part of a two-part series. The first part is posted here. The following is content from

Post-Liberation

Japanese news staff wrote sad and internally conflicted farewell essays to the Korean people in the very last page of Keijo Nippo (colonial propaganda newspaper) published under Japanese control before takeover by Korean activists on Nov. 2, 1945

2024-01-17

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The following is content from a Seoul newspaper published on November 1, 1945, two and a half months after Japan’s

Post-Liberation

‘Malicious brokers’ and impoverished Koreans fought each other in cutthroat battles to lay claim to empty houses vacated by the Japanese in Seoul in immediate post-war period

2024-01-09

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Continuing with my ongoing exploration of the old newspaper archives from 1945 Korea that I checked out at the National

Post-Liberation

Nov. 1945 news articles called out Korean ‘national traitors’ who helped Japanese residents liquidate their assets into cash to take back to Japan, even public shaming one man by name

2024-01-06

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Continuing with my ongoing exploration of the old newspaper archives from 1945 Korea that I checked out at the National

Post-Liberation

Optimistic news coverage of Syngman Rhee meeting with communist leader Park Heon-young in ‘national unity’ talks, nationwide expansion of People’s Republic of Korea, militant opposition to US-Soviet trusteeship (Nov. 2, 1945)

2024-01-01

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Continuing with my ongoing exploration of the old newspaper archives from 1945 Korea that I checked out at the National

Post-Liberation

Keijo Nippo editors endorsed the People’s Republic of Korea and ‘class liberation’ in Nov. 3, 1945 commemoration of the 1929 Gwangju Student Movement with calls to ‘eradicate the remnants of Japanese imperialism and national traitors’

2023-12-25

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This is an intriguing article from November 5, 1945, originating from Keijo Nippo, which I found at the National Library

Post-Liberation

Kim Ku leads the way towards Korean independence with support of the Korean people (news editorial cartoon in liberated Keijo Nippo, Dec. 2, 1945)

2023-12-23

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This is an intriguing editorial cartoon from December 2, 1945, originating from Keijo Nippo, which I found at the National

Daily Life

American soldiers meeting local women and shopping for flowers and dolls in Seoul and Incheon, providing trucks to Patriotic Groups to clean the streets (September 21-22, 1945)

2023-12-16

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These photos are from pages of the Keijo Nippo newspaper that I stumbled upon during my visit to the National

Post-Liberation

U.S. soldiers guard the Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) newspaper office on September 11, 1945, three days after the start of the U.S. military occupation of southern Korea

2023-12-11

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This photo is from a page in the Keijo Nippo newspaper that I stumbled upon during my visit to the