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Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda

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‘We’re going to Washington!’ – a 1944...
Lim Jangsu (림장수, 林長守) was a Korean...
Young Korean men were ‘beaten into shape’...
Imperial Japanese PSA ordering residents to avoid...
Colonial regime forced Korean schools to drop...
Not content with merely banning U.S. and...
A collection of 27 farewell letters to...
‘Sweaters are tools of suicide’: Koreans were...
Optimistic news coverage of Syngman Rhee meeting...
Imperial Japan’s manhunt for the “Communist Bandit...
Korean writers in the ‘Korean Literary Association’...
Korean girls in a “women’s volunteer corps”...
Seoul police busted some British and American...
Young Korean teachers teach children the ‘will...
By December 1943, poultry was unavailable anywhere...

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

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

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

2022-02-04

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

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Military

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

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

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Prisoners of War

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

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

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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

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

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