Exposing Imperial Japan - Page 20 of 20 - Viewing the suffering of colonized people through the lens of the colonizer's propaganda

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Japanese teacher in Japan-colonized Korea punished her...

By April 1944, there were 13 internment...

Korean modern dancer Choi Seung-hee featured in...

Dehumanization in Colonial Korea, 1943: Branding Koreans...

In 1944, the Japanese govt built internment...

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By April 1944, there were 13 internment camps in Seoul for Japanizing Korean girls into wives for Japanese soldiers, with most of the girls enlisted for military labor, and instructional time cut from all day to just the afternoons (photo: Japanese language class at a camp in Jongno-gu, Seoul)

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This article from April 1944 shows that this system of internment camps had expanded to at least 13 in

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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’