Imperial Japanese colonial regime instilled intense fear...

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

Imperial Japan had postwar plans to quadruple...

In 1942, one pro-Imperial Japan Korean family...

Young Korean men were ‘beaten into shape’...

Nostalgia for Imperial Japan and its undercurrents...

Imperial Japan lavished praise on 박춘금 (朴春琴),...

Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo) was Korea’s largest...

“Koreans need to assimilate with the Japanese...

Colonial officials claimed ‘Korean must naturally stop...

February 1943, Seoul high school girls perform...

In April 1919, two Imperial Japanese soldiers...

In June 1944, the Japanese military gave...

American soldiers meeting local women and shopping...

In 1944, the Japanese govt built internment...

Category: Prisoners of War

Prisoners of War

February 1943 news article of British prisoners of war interviewed by their Imperial Army captors in Keijo (Seoul) POW camp

2023-12-16

385

This is a news article from February 1943, published in Keijo Nippo newspaper, an organ of the Imperial Japanese colonial

Uncategorized

British and Australian prisoners of war arrive in Seoul and Incheon on September 25, 1942

2022-02-04

406

Notes: For the best experience, I recommend also reading the first-hand accounts of the Allied prisoners of war to

Prisoners of War

Part 1 – Thousands of young Korean men were recruited to guard Allied POWs, and guards were told to teach the POWs to “recognize the superiority of the Japanese people and to make them respect the Japanese Empire from the bottom of their hearts”

2022-01-24

366

Notes: Some 3000 young Korean men were recruited by Imperial Japan as civilians to work as civilians to guard

Military

Part 2 – Thousands of young Korean men were recruited to guard Allied POWs, who were called “masses of materialism with little spiritual cultivation” and “mentally retarded people” whom the guards had to “splendidly guide and subdue”

2022-01-24

339

Notes: Some 3000 young Korean men were recruited by Imperial Japan as civilians to work as civilians to guard

Prisoners of War

In 1942 Busan, Korean pastors and foreign residents (Russian Tatar family, English woman, Chinese consul) praise Imperial Japan as British POWs captured in Malaysia start arriving in the city

2021-12-11

314

Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) September 24, 1942 People on the ground asked about the captured prisoners of war landing