Exposing Imperial Japan – Page 13 – Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda

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Propaganda story about a Japanese couple in Seoul adopting a poor Korean orphan boy who grows up to become a restaurant owner in Japan with Japanese wife and mixed children, tearfully reuniting with his adoptive parents and vowing to “fulfill our duties as Imperial subjects on the home front” (1943)

2022-08-20

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

Food Shortages

In November 1943, colonial authorities implemented a clumsy, inefficient fish rationing system in Seoul which led to large spoilage losses, a measly fish quota of less than 750 grams a day per person, angry complaints about irregular store hours, families were sometimes allotted poisonous fugu fish

2022-08-15

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

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On August 5, 1942, severe flooding hit all of Korea but especially Seoul and Gyeongi-do, at least 13 people died, and water overflowed Cheonggyecheon River and flooded Gwanghwamun Street (news coverage published on August 7, 1942)

2022-08-09

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My condolences to the residents of Seoul who lost their lives in the flooding yesterday. I read a tip from

Food Shortages

By December 1943, poultry was unavailable anywhere in Seoul, eggs were supposed to be priority-rationed to hospitalized war veterans and people with doctors’ certificates (pregnant women and nursing mothers), but ordinary Koreans had to buy eggs on the black market at 30 sen (about $6 USD today) each

2022-08-06

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This article talks about the egg and poultry shortage that was rampant in Korea in December 1943, two years into

Military

Minakai Department Store in Seoul featured a propaganda panoramic picture depicting New York City in flames from an Imperial Japanese air raid and President Roosevelt fainting out of panic, as part of a warplane donation campaign (September 1943)

2022-08-03

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This is my translation and transcription of a ‘forward-looking’ news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of

Model Korean Family

Propaganda ‘feel good story’ praises Korean grandfather for finally accepting his grandson’s voluntary enlistment in the Imperial Japanese air force, as it was ‘not easy to persuade’ him due to his ‘having lived through half a century of complicated historical changes’ (Dongdaemun Seoul, 1943)

2022-08-01

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

Food Shortages

Colonial authorities discussed how to reduce prenatal/infant mortality rates in the midst of severe 1943 wartime food shortages, declaring that the Korean children belong to Imperial Japan and not to the mother, who must raise them into future soldiers and leaders of the Co-prosperity Sphere

2022-07-24

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This is my translation and transcription of three news articles from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

Imperial Way

Young Korean men were ‘beaten into shape’ at militaristic farmers’ dōjō (Imperial Japanese training indoctrination camp) to cultivate the next generation of rural Korean leaders who would spread the Imperial Way of farming throughout the Korean countryside (Daejeon, 1943)

2022-07-18

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This is my translation and transcription of a news article from Keijo Nippo, a propaganda newspaper and mouthpiece of the

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Book review of Anti-Japan Tribalism (반일종족주의, 反日種族主義), co-author Lee Woo-yeon (이우연) of the fringe ‘End Comfort Women Fraud’ group – a hit piece written by far-right Korean conservatives to attack anti-Japanese attitudes of their political opponents, distorts the historical narrative for this purpose

2022-07-11

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As some of you may know, in late June, a small fringe group of 3 Korean far-right activists Joo Ok-soon

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Governor Koiso told Korean conscripts in Imperial Army in 1944 address that the onus was on them to reduce anti-Korean discrimination by ‘cleansing away’ the ‘vestiges of the Yi Dynasty within themselves’ to become less dishonest, and be ‘penetrated in the true meaning of national identity’

2022-07-07

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The following address is a remarkable admission by the Governor-General of Korea that Korean conscripts had filed complaints about being