As Seoul froze in the winter of...

Colonial regime forced Korean schools to drop...

Imperial Japan banned passengers wearing chima skirts...

Korean rice farmers barely survived eating grass...

In 1942, Matsumoto Chitei reportedly became the...

Propaganda story of Japanese couple adopting poor...

“Koreans need to assimilate with the Japanese...

Model Korean mother left baby and bedridden...

By December 1943, poultry was unavailable anywhere...

The film that tried to make Koreans...

In 1943, Japanese company bosses discussed how...

Book review of Anti-Japan Tribalism (반일종족주의, 反日種族主義),...

The Sulemans were a Russian Tatar refugee...

Imperial Japan’s manhunt for the “Communist Bandit...

February/March 1943 foreign movies in Seoul theaters:...

Tag: Cartoon

“Even Dreams Must Be in Japanese”: Imperial Japan’s Chilling Wartime Propaganda for Korean Assimilation

Japanese Language

“Even Dreams Must Be in Japanese”: Imperial Japan’s Chilling Wartime Propaganda for Korean Assimilation

2025-04-23

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These propaganda cartoons, serialized in 1943 during the height of Imperial Japan’s war mobilization, were aimed at the Korean audience.

Propaganda cartoons from 1943 depict cheerful Koreans enjoying Imperial Japanese rule as they are sternly warned about eavesdropping Western spies

Military

Propaganda cartoons from 1943 depict cheerful Koreans enjoying Imperial Japanese rule as they are sternly warned about eavesdropping Western spies

2025-04-15

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These propaganda cartoons, serialized in 1943 during the height of Imperial Japan’s war mobilization, were aimed at the Korean audience.

Imperial Japanese cartoon from 1943 depicts Korean boy teaching his grandma how to issue commands to her dog in Japanese

Model Korean Family

Imperial Japanese cartoon from 1943 depicts Korean boy teaching his grandma how to issue commands to her dog in Japanese

2025-04-07

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This propaganda cartoon, published in the Korean-language Maeil Sinbo Newspaper on November 1, 1943, depicts an idealized portrait of model

Imperial Japanese cartoon from 1943 shows how Koreans were forced to bow to the Emperor every morning, speak Japanese, and accept poverty without complaints

Model Korean Family

Imperial Japanese cartoon from 1943 shows how Koreans were forced to bow to the Emperor every morning, speak Japanese, and accept poverty without complaints

2025-02-14

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This 1943 propaganda cartoon depicts an idealized portrait of life as model Korean subjects under Imperial Japanese rule. It shows