Exposing Imperial Japan – Page 15 – Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda

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Imperial Japanese penal officials brag about brainwashing Korean ‘ideological criminals’ (a.k.a. independence activists) in ‘Yamato cram schools’ and converting them into enthusiastic collaborators willing to die shouting ‘Banzai to the Emperor!’ (Seoul 1943)

2022-05-23

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These are very interesting articles describing Korean ‘ideological criminals’, many of whom had upper class Yangban backgrounds, and how they

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Amid severe wartime food shortages in 1943, propaganda article notes that Korean laborers are not coming to work in the cities due to hunger, but suggests hunger can be a productivity booster if workers get used to it, and full stomachs are not necessary for proper nutrition

2022-05-19

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(Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) July 26, 1943 Discussing Wartime Nutritional Foods Roundtable discussion hosted by the head office

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Another part of a propaganda interview of Korean comfort women who returned from a whirlwind 1943 Japan tour visiting wounded Imperial Japanese soldiers, and one of the comfort women retired to “live life without shame as a sister and mother of splendid soldiers of the Korean peninsula”

2022-05-15

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(Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo　(Keijo Nippo) August 14, 1943 A chorus of sincerity in response to gratitude Receiving encouragement from the heroes

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This Korean father made sure his family and employees exclusively spoke Japanese, he ran a store supplying residences of Imperial Japanese Army officers in Yongsan, said he got triggered seeing ‘bold gentleman types speaking to each other enthusiastically in Korean’ inside the trains (Seoul 1942)

2022-05-10

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Photo: Ikeyoshi family: Tokuji (41) and his wife Sachiko (31). L-to-R: daughter Masako (10), sons Fumio (8), Masao (6), Toshio

Food Shortages

As food shortages deepened in Korea by 1943, Imperial propagandists encouraged Koreans to eat wild grasses as meat substitutes, which they insisted were nutritionally comparable to meat, and follow food quack Horace Fletcher’s advice to chew food 30 times to make up for the lack of food quantity

2022-05-06

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(Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) July 18, 1943 The way to solve the food problem Wild grasses are also

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Propaganda story of Japanese couple adopting poor Korean girl, raising her to become a “respectable” Japanese woman, and marrying her off to a model Japanese-speaking Korean man (Seoul, 1942)

2022-05-01

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

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Korean comfort women in a “performing arts comfort team” embark on whirlwind July-August 1943 Japan tour visiting wounded Imperial Japanese soldiers

2022-04-26

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There was a “performing arts comfort team” of 14 Korean comfort women who went to Japan in July and

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In 1943, Japanese company bosses discussed how to ‘train’ Korean workers to work even harder – one punished workers who suffered heat exhaustion by making them run, pushed them to work until they collapsed, strictly reprimanded them for consuming a 10-day food supply in only 3 days

2022-04-21

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Notes: It is July 1943. Imperial Japan, including Japan-colonized Korea, has been mobilized in total war against the United

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Japanese teacher in Japan-colonized Korea punished her Korean students for speaking Korean and imposed Imperial Way ideology on them during WWII; in 1976 at a school reunion in Daegu, she apologized and they forgave her; former teacher (now 100 years old) and students still keep in touch as of 2021

2022-04-09

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Blogger Note: Although the English version of this article is available here at the Asahi website, it is a very

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Tracing the origins of the myth that the Korean people invited Imperial Japan to colonize Korea, comparing anti-Korean comments on online Japanese forum, 2channel, and 1943 propaganda article defending the colonization of Korea

2022-04-02

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(Notes) This propaganda editorial from 1943 spreads the myth that the Korean people invited Imperial Japan to colonize Korea,