1938 Italian Fascist Delegation to Korea - Imperial Japan welcomed 22 Fascists in Black Uniforms Led by Ambassador Marquis Paulucci - Exposing Imperial Japan

Three American missionaries defied Imperial Japan’s order to worship at a Shinto shrine in Pyongyang in 1935: George McCune and Velma Snook refused to back down, while Howard Lee eventually gave in to...

Seoul residents bowing their heads in compulsory Moment of Silence for fallen Imperial Japanese soldiers (news photos from 1943 and 1944) - Exposing Imperial Japan

In just three hours, Japanese colonial authorities rounded up 466 Seoul residents for black-market trading, sentenced them on the spot, and sent them by streetcar to Seodaemun Prison (July 1945) - Exp...

“Even prison will not save you”: unmarried young Korean women feared sexual enslavement in Imperial Japan’s wartime labor conscription, but officials said evaders would be imprisoned and then conscrip...

In 1944, Imperial Japan formally conscripted almost all unmarried Korean women ages 12-40 into a forced labor system that had already been used for years to traffic laborers into sex slavery according...

Imperial Japan hunted shortwave listeners in colonial Korea: 246 people investigated and 50 radios seized by Inspector Saiga Shichirō, a notorious torturer accused of fabricating cases and sending det...

May 1939: Nazi German Newspaper Delegation Visits Imperial Army Headquarters in Colonial Seoul - Exposing Imperial Japan

Nazi leader Richard Foerster passionately preached Hitler's teachings to Korean schoolchildren and gifted them signed photos of Hitler as they gave him a "Heil Hitler" salute on a train to Seoul (May ...

‘Hitler’s right-hand man’ Richard Foerster and Nazi editor Peter Winkelnkemper enjoy Korean cuisine and kisaeng entertainment at a Seoul press banquet, May 11, 1939 - Exposing Imperial Japan

Russian Tatar refugee Shamshinoor Nugman in colonial Seoul after fleeing the Bolsheviks with the White Russians (November 1941) - Exposing Imperial Japan

Delegation from Fascist Spain visiting the Yi Royal Household Museum of Art in colonial Seoul, 1940 - Exposing Imperial Japan

Smiling Korean family gives "profound thanks" to Governor Abe Nobuyuki for increasing their rice rations, vowing to repay his "parental concern" with increased production for Imperial Japan's war effo...

When all of Korea was forced to bow to Ise Grand Shrine and vow before the Shinto gods to annihilate Imperial Japan's enemies: a chilling moment at 1:22 PM on December 12, 1943 - Exposing Imperial Jap...

Daughter of collaborator 이진호 (李軫鎬) promoted as model Korean woman devoting unpaid labor to Imperial Japan's war effort (Seoul, February 6, 1944) - Exposing Imperial Japan

Nazi Germany donated copies of Mein Kampf to Seoul Imperial University in 1941 to teach Korean students "the great path of building a New World Order" - Exposing Imperial Japan

Nazi German community in Seoul December 1941 celebrating Imperial Japan's declaration of war - Exposing Imperial Japan

Wartime rations often vanished amid corrupt neighborhood leadership, leading to so much public anger that Imperial officials pleaded, ‘let us avoid becoming emotional with one another’ (Feb. 1945) - E...

Inside the 1943 Seoul Crackdown on ‘Demonic Music’: Imperial Japan’s Campaign to Purge American and British Records, From Hawaiian Jazz to Dvořák, but German music (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach) and Italia...

How Imperial Japan spun a dead Korean industrial accident victim into a wartime hero: 'Follow in the spirit of Mr. Lim!', 'The flower of the workplace!' at Tōyō Metal in Sinuiju (October 1, 1943) - Ex...

Rule by Fear: How Imperial Japan Expanded the Death Penalty and Toughened Sentences in Wartime Korea - Crackdowns on Protesters After Just One Warning (February 1944) - Exposing Imperial Japan

“Demonic Americans”: How Imperial Japan Tried to Turn Koreans Against U.S. Missionaries in 1944 - Exposing Imperial Japan

Terrified by rumors of forced labor conscription under the Imperial Army, young Korean women rushed into marriages to escape, prompting officials to hold April 1944 press conference to deny and deflec...

Koreans tried to bribe their way out of Imperial Japan’s forced labor conscription, but patriotic student informants turned them in (June 1945) - Exposing Imperial Japan

In 1944, Imperial Japan launched an “all-out campaign” to erase Hangul from public life, mobilizing teachers and Korean youth to destroy Korean signs, books, and even phonograph records - Exposing Imp...

Imperial officials fanned out across rural Korea visiting townships one by one to indoctrinate villagers in Imperialist ideology in 'Grassroots Penetration' Campaign (March 1944) - Exposing Imperial J...

Koiso’s 1943 'Great Leader' Strongman Tours: Surprise village inspections to intimidate local leaders and impose Japanese language and culture all over the Korean countryside - Exposing Imperial Japan

March 1945: Taxis in Seoul nearly vanish, rickshaws exploit passengers, yet Japanese and Korean collaborator elite still get chauffeured drunk to bars and brothels - Exposing Imperial Japan

April 1945 Seoul dining: the public endured price-gouging and scraps, while privileged Japanese and Korean collaborator elites drank and feasted behind closed doors - Exposing Imperial Japan

21-year-old Kamikaze pilot Han Jeong-sil (한정실, 韓鼎實) delivering his last testament for radio broadcast before flying to die off Okinawa on June 6, 1945 - Exposing Imperial Japan

Imperial Japanese and Korean collaborator elite partied in brothels and luxury restaurants while ordinary Koreans starved in wartime Seoul, early 1945 - Exposing Imperial Japan

Don’t wear rings or chima dresses! Don’t believe the Allied leaflets! Imperial Japan’s desperate attempts to control Koreans by late February 1945 – Exposing Imperial Japan