Tag: 1943

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Korean schoolgirls in 1943 mending military uniforms almost nonstop with minimal breaks from 8:30a to 4p as Imperial Japanese soldiers loom over watching

2022-02-25

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(Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) July 19, 1943 A heart of sincerity in every stitch Repairing military uniforms at

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Korean comfort women interviewed after whirlwind 1943 Japan tour visiting wounded Imperial Japanese soldiers who ‘showed us again and again with their bodies, not with their words, that Japan and Korea were to be unified as one’ and ‘we were often moved to tears because we did not feel worthy’

2022-02-21

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Notes: This article contains an interview with the Korean comfort women who were part of a ‘comfort team’ which

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Korean schoolgirls make improvised ‘tadon’ coal dumplings for the war effort, and they gang up on a dissenting girl who protested against the dirty working conditions, taunting her as being a weakling since before the battles in the Solomon Islands started (1943, Duksung Women’s Vocational School)

2022-02-07

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Notes: The vocational students of Duksung Women’s Vocational School were making improvised, handmade coal briquettes, or balls of coal

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Editorial says the unity of god and man realized by the Japanese Imperial Way cannot be found anywhere else in the world, so Imperial Japan must ‘turn the world into a single realm, let all nations take their places, and let all people rest in peace’ starting with the colonization of Korea

2022-01-30

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(Translation) Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) March 6, 1943 The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula By

Comfort Women

1943 editorial calls for Korean language to be wiped out, says Korean comfort women were touched by the noble appearance and hearts of the Imperial Japanese soldiers, and the women offered heartfelt comfort in response as their chests filled with excitement, their sincere hearts touching each other

2022-01-18

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Notes: This editorial article from 1943 explicitly and blatantly calls for the Korean language to be “wiped out”. Here

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1943 Imperial Japanese editorial declares liberalism collapsed and liberal civilization as incapable of maintaining peace and order, and attacks the “analytical spirit of modernity”, “extreme analysis”, “abuse of the intellect”, and “divisive individualism” while praising fascism and Nazism for building holistic, organic communal societies

2021-12-24

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The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (5) By Kamata Sawaichiro The Rise of Internal Cohesionism

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February 1943, Seoul high school girls perform group calisthenics to prepare to become mothers of strong Imperial Japanese soldiers

2021-12-15

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Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) February 6, 1943 Behold our training! Gallantly doing group calisthenics Seoul No. 1 High School

Imperial Way

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

Korean Workers

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

Imperial Way

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