Exposing Imperial Japan

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Imperial Japan waged an aggressive Japanese language campaign on Korean villages in the ’30s and ’40s, entering homes to attach Japanese labels on household objects, putting residents under 55 in mandatory classes, applying an “unyielding whip” to “break down their customs and stray dreams”

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This article from Japan-occupied Korea in 1943 describes an aggressive Japanese language campaign that was conducted in Korean villages

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Why did many Koreans “voluntarily” enlist in the Imperial Japanese military during WWII? Partly due to ominous Japanese government edicts like this one in 1943 threatening Korean students with worse treatment under punitive conscription for missing the deadline to voluntarily enlist

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On October 20, 1943, the government of Japan-occupied Korea selected certain groups of male students in Korea, like liberal

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Korean girls in a “women’s volunteer corps” learn Japanese tea etiquette at a naval weaponry factory in Toyama Japan, June 1944

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So this article shows an example of a Korean “women’s volunteer corps” (joshiteishintai, 女子挺身隊), one of many that were

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Imperial Japan published propaganda science fiction during World War II – this story predicts that Japan will win the space race against the US and become the first nation to land a man on the moon and televise it to the whole world, much to the chagrin of the Allies

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This article appeared in Keijo Nippo, the main newspaper of Japan-occupied Korea from 1905 to 1945. The author, Juzo

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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

Exposing Imperial Japan

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Why did many Koreans “voluntarily” enlist in the Imperial Japanese military during WWII? Partly due to ominous Japanese government edicts like this one in 1943 threatening Korean students with worse treatment under punitive conscription for missing the deadline to voluntarily enlist

Korean girls in a “women’s volunteer corps” learn Japanese tea etiquette at a naval weaponry factory in Toyama Japan, June 1944

Imperial Japan published propaganda science fiction during World War II – this story predicts that Japan will win the space race against the US and become the first nation to land a man on the moon and televise it to the whole world, much to the chagrin of the Allies

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)

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)

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

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

In October 1943, 200 Seoul high school girls were deployed to a tobacco factory to make cigarettes for Japanese troops

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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