Propaganda articles say Koreans men are cowards...

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

Elderly Korean farmer Kim Chi-gu (김치구, 金致龜),...

Keijo Nippo editors endorsed the People’s Republic...

A tour of Sinuiju Yamato Imperial Boarding...

Wartime news coverage of Prince Yi Un...

Imperial Japanese news staff departing Korea wrote...

August 28, 1945: Colonial regime announces a...

Japanese abductee escaped Korean Communist guerrillas in...

In November 1943, colonial authorities implemented a...

A Korean father spent 8 years looking...

Optimistic news coverage of Syngman Rhee meeting...

1943 Editorial: the Imperial Way embraces the...

Korean schoolgirls make improvised ‘tadon’ coal dumplings...

This Japanese teacher devoted a decade of...

Category: Travel

Daily Life

February 1945 news report painted Korean passengers as ‘loud’ and ‘unruly’ while praising Japanese as orderly and ‘appreciative’, detailing the broken and lawless overcrowded state of train travel in wartime Korea

2025-03-16

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By early 1945, the Pacific War had dragged on for over three years, and Imperial Japan’s war machine was straining

Daily Life

Koreans needed Imperial police-issued ‘travel purpose certificates’ to travel on buses and trains by April 1944, police cracked down on female passengers for illegal food vending and ‘unnecessary and non-urgent travel’

2024-10-18

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In the midst of World War II, life in Korea under Imperial Japanese rule was marked by increasing restrictions and

Korean Workers

Imperial Japan’s railway system in Korea was falling apart by early August 1945 with severe overcrowding, parts and labor shortages, exhausted staff causing more accidents, train conductors gone rogue …

2024-09-07

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This article offers a fascinating glimpse into the decrepit state of the streetcar system in Seoul at the beginning of