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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

Korean Workers

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

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In March 1944 in Seoul, an angry speech by Governor Koiso of Japan-occupied Korea called for the “Anglo-Saxon utilitarian worldview” to be shattered and Hakko Ichiu thought to be spread across the world; his rally celebrated the war path of martyrdom and “Banzai to Holy War”

2021-11-22

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Kuniaki Koiso was the Governor of Japan-occupied Korea from June 1942 to July 1944. He was arguably the most

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In April 1943, Seoul high school girls went to an Imperial Japanese military camp to plant a flower garden, then entertained Japanese soldiers at a “comfort party” by dancing, singing Japanese imperial military songs, and acting in Kabuki plays

2021-11-22

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This article describes some school girls from Seoul No. 2 Girls’ High School taking a day trip to an

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”

In March 1944 in Seoul, an angry speech by Governor Koiso of Japan-occupied Korea called for the “Anglo-Saxon utilitarian worldview” to be shattered and Hakko Ichiu thought to be spread across the world; his rally celebrated the war path of martyrdom and “Banzai to Holy War”

In April 1943, Seoul high school girls went to an Imperial Japanese military camp to plant a flower garden, then entertained Japanese soldiers at a “comfort party” by dancing, singing Japanese imperial military songs, and acting in Kabuki plays

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