Japanese Keijo Nippo reporters interviewed Korean abductee...

Editorial says the unity of god and...

Chinese children in 1944 Seoul featured singing...

Korean economic crimes suspects interrogated by Seoul...

Master Imaizumi Teisuke, the spiritual leader of...

Korean candidate defiantly ran for office in...

This is the only known bilingual Japanese-Korean...

In October 1943, Seoul high school girls...

Colonial police warned residents about police impersonators...

‘Malicious brokers’ and impoverished Koreans fought each...

Korean schoolgirls in 1943 mending military uniforms...

February/March 1943 foreign movies in Seoul theaters:...

Korea in November 1945 was beset by...

Imperial Japan purged Korean schools of ‘pro-American’...

Propaganda article contrasting the ‘Bad Korean Retailer’...

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In 1944, the Japanese govt built internment camps in Korea to intensively train young Korean school girls in Japanese ways and turn them into assimilated mothers and wives of Japanese soldiers (top photo: Ewha students in training; bottom photo: Sookmyung students teaching Japanese to local women)

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TL;DR: In February 1944, the Japanese fascist government announced their plans to build internment camps all over Korea to

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On October 10, 1938, the US women’s amateur softball team arrived in Korea as part of their 4-month-long 1938 Pacific goodwill tour, introducing modern women’s softball to Korea for the first time

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According to other sources online, this was a four-month-long 1938 Pacific tour by the US women’s softball team organized

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In October 1922, a hit squad of over ten Korean assassins, disguised as Chinese people, was reported to be on its way to Fengtian (present day Shenyang) to assassinate pro-Japanese Koreans

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October 10, 1922 Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) An Assassination Squad Targeting Pro-Japanese Koreans headed to Fengtian According to the

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In October 1943, 200 Seoul high school girls were deployed to a tobacco factory to make cigarettes for Japanese troops

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October 8, 1943 Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) The Maidens’ Sincerity Engraved on Cigarettes The Monopoly Bureau has decided to

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In a 1928 news editorial, a colonial government official describes getting into an argument with students and professors opposed to Japan’s colonial policies in Korea during a lecture at Kyoto University

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February 18, 1928 Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) Students of Japan proper who are ignorant about the situation in Korea

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In 1917, an 11-year-old Korean girl in Gyeongbuk made the news for managing to enroll in a school for Japanese settlers

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August 11, 1917 Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) An Admirable Young Korean Girl Eleven-year-old Sin Hoja is a daughter of

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In 1935, Pyongyang Girls’ High School made the news headlines for having a student body that was majority Korean-born

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November 4, 1935 Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) Korean-born the absolute majority Unusual statistics found in investigation of Pyongyang Girls’