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In Japan-occupied Korea, Koreans often mixed their spoken Japanese with Korean words like 아이고 (‘gosh’) and 나쁜 (‘bad’) and English words like ‘slogan’ and ‘service’ – in 1942, one Seoul police station cracked down on this by fining employees every time they uttered a Korean or English word

2021-12-14

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo), July 8, 1942 Saying “Aigo” also results in punishment Seodaemun Police Officer Suggests a New

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1943 Imperial Japanese editorial decries liberalism, individualistic humanism, rationalism, international universalism, and Marxist materialism of the West for corrupting Japan, and calls for a “high-minded Japanese worldview” and reliance on “irrational and mysterious powers” of the Japanese spirit

2021-12-13

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo), February 24, 1943 The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (3) By

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In 1942 Busan, Korean pastors and foreign residents (Russian Tatar family, English woman, Chinese consul) praise Imperial Japan as British POWs captured in Malaysia start arriving in the city

2021-12-11

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) September 24, 1942 People on the ground asked about the captured prisoners of war landing

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In 1943, ethnic Korean school principal says Koreans lack work ethic and can’t handle the slightest hardship, uneducated Korean mothers are reluctant to send their children to the workplace

2021-12-06

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo), January 10, 1943 Reaction to “Hiring Koreans in the Workplace” As already reported, Governor Koiso’s

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1943 Editorial: nature is an object of love in Japan, while nature is an object of conquest in the West, which is why the early Scientific revolution started in the West

2021-12-04

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The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (4) The “Way” Penetrating the Reality of HistoryThe Japanese

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1943 Editorial: the Imperial Way embraces the “freedom” of democracy, the “unity and authority” of Mussolini’s Fascism, and the “ethnic totalitarian world view” of Hitler’s Nazism, achieving a “complete and active freedom” by obeying the authority of the Japanese God-Man

2021-12-02

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) February 27, 1943 The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (6) Sawaichiro

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In October 1943, Seoul high school girls make “comfort books” filled with pictures, poetry, songs, and cute dolls for Imperial Japanese soldiers fighting in the Pacific front

2021-11-30

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Gyeongseong Ilbo, October 29, 1943 Comfort books to the front lineNew Opportunity for Seoul No. 2 High School Girls

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In January 1943, the CEO of a telephone company talks frankly about the problems associated with hiring Koreans in Japan-occupied Korea

2021-11-29

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) January 13, 1943 The Growing Response to the “Employment of Koreans in the Workplace” The

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March 1943 edict of Governor Koiso of Japan-occupied Korea focusing on Korean girls in assimilation campaigns to “penetrate them with the Japanese spirit and be aggressive”

2021-11-28

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(my translation) Keijo Nippo (Gyeongseong Ilbo) March 31, 1943 Focus on the girlsThe Governor explains the results of his

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Nostalgia for Imperial Japan and its undercurrents in Kishi Nobusuke’s legacy in postwar Japan, in Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan’s legacy in South Korea, and why access to wartime newspapers of Japan-occupied Korea is important to combat historical misinformation by the far-right in both countries

2021-11-25

In a previous post, I explained in detail the intractable movement of historical denialism and revisionism that is prevalent in

Exposing Imperial Japan

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In 1942 Busan, Korean pastors and foreign residents (Russian Tatar family, English woman, Chinese consul) praise Imperial Japan as British POWs captured in Malaysia start arriving in the city

In 1943, ethnic Korean school principal says Koreans lack work ethic and can’t handle the slightest hardship, uneducated Korean mothers are reluctant to send their children to the workplace

1943 Editorial: nature is an object of love in Japan, while nature is an object of conquest in the West, which is why the early Scientific revolution started in the West

1943 Editorial: the Imperial Way embraces the “freedom” of democracy, the “unity and authority” of Mussolini’s Fascism, and the “ethnic totalitarian world view” of Hitler’s Nazism, achieving a “complete and active freedom” by obeying the authority of the Japanese God-Man

In October 1943, Seoul high school girls make “comfort books” filled with pictures, poetry, songs, and cute dolls for Imperial Japanese soldiers fighting in the Pacific front

In January 1943, the CEO of a telephone company talks frankly about the problems associated with hiring Koreans in Japan-occupied Korea

March 1943 edict of Governor Koiso of Japan-occupied Korea focusing on Korean girls in assimilation campaigns to “penetrate them with the Japanese spirit and be aggressive”

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