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Comfort Women

Korean comfort women interviewed after whirlwind 1943 Japan tour visiting wounded Imperial Japanese soldiers who ‘showed us again and again with their bodies, not with their words, that Japan and Korea were to be unified as one’ and ‘we were often moved to tears because we did not feel worthy’

2022-02-21

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Notes: This article contains an interview with the Korean comfort women who were part of a ‘comfort team’ which

Model Korean Family

Korean father and sushi chef boasts that his two children ages 3 and 7 not only don’t know a single word of Korean, they don’t even know yet that they’re Korean, he doesn’t let his 20 employees speak Korean, he hopes ‘all Koreans will become true Japanese people as soon as possible’ (Seoul 1942)

2022-02-17

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Left-to-right: father Umeyoshi (42), daughter Hideko (7), mother Tokuko (40), son Yōzō (3). (Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) May

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Simon Young Kim (김영근), a South Korean violin virtuoso and disciple of famous violinist Jascha Heifetz, Simon was once my teacher and mentor, and his son was my best friend in elementary school

2022-02-12

Simon Young Kim is a violin virtuoso who is apparently somewhat of a celebrity in the South Korean classical music

School

Korean schoolgirls make improvised ‘tadon’ coal dumplings for the war effort, and they gang up on a dissenting girl who protested against the dirty working conditions, taunting her as being a weakling since before the battles in the Solomon Islands started (1943, Duksung Women’s Vocational School)

2022-02-07

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Notes: The vocational students of Duksung Women’s Vocational School were making improvised, handmade coal briquettes, or balls of coal

Prisoners of War

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

Philosophy

Editorial says the unity of god and man realized by the Japanese Imperial Way cannot be found anywhere else in the world, so Imperial Japan must ‘turn the world into a single realm, let all nations take their places, and let all people rest in peace’ starting with the colonization of Korea

2022-01-30

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(Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) March 6, 1943 The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula By

Model Korean Family

As a child, one Korean father was tormented by Japanese teachers who berated him as ‘an idiot who can’t understand Japanese’, so he and his wife imposed the Japanese language on their six children to make sure they did not suffer the same trauma that he did (Seoul, 1942)

2022-01-28

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Notes: (Top row right-to-left): father Kametsuru (41), mother Su-in (37), daughter Ranhime/Ran-hee (4). (Bottom row right-to-left): daughter Eihime/Young-hee (14),

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

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

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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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1943 editorial calls for Korean language to be wiped out, says Korean comfort women were touched by the noble appearance and hearts of the Imperial Japanese soldiers, and the women offered heartfelt comfort in response as their chests filled with excitement, their sincere hearts touching each other

2022-01-18

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Notes: This editorial article from 1943 explicitly and blatantly calls for the Korean language to be “wiped out”. Here