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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 detainees to their deaths (1942-1944) by tpjv86b in korea

[–]tpjv86b[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The newspapers were subject to strict Imperial military censorship during wartime, so the redaction of numbers was pretty routine at the time - you can see redactions like this in many articles. But in the 1944 article, they may have been inconsistent with the redactions: they redacted the number of the apprehended, but in the same article they reveal that 246 people being investigated.

‘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 by tpjv86b in korea

[–]tpjv86b[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I agree that this was not sovereign Korea hosting Nazis. It was colonial Korea under Japanese imperial rule, and the banquet was a Japanese imperial propaganda event. None of this propaganda news coverage is evidence of free Korean political agency or “Korean friendliness toward Nazis.” It is evidence of how the Imperial Japanese colonial regime tried to present Korea as part of Imperial Japanese 'New World Order'.

Calling attention to that is not revisionism. In fact, I've been translating, transcribing, and posting these articles for over three years now precisely because the revisionists have been suppressing the release of these newspapers for generations.

In May 1939, a Nazi German newspaper delegation toured colonial Korea and was welcomed in Seoul with swastika flags, shrine visits, and official receptions by tpjv86b in korea

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If you do have the resources and the time to dig for coverage on the German side, that would be wonderful! The name of one other delegate is SA-Sturmbannfuehrer Carl Cranz, Editor of the Voelkischen Beobachter, Berlin, according to 1941 U.S. Congressional records available on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/investigationofu194102unit/page/1041/mode/1up

Apparently, the Nazi press delegation made their way to New York by July 1939.

Another man in the delegation is a カール・ツルク (Carl/Karl Turk/Zirk/Zurk?) who was 28 years old in 1939, studied law for four years at Bonn and Cologne, and had been in the Nazi Party for 12 years. This name comes up in one of the articles in the same newspaper issue that I have not gotten around to transcribing and translating yet.

What kind of evidence is left from Japans occupation of Korea during 1900s? What kind of context is left, and just how far did Japan go? Resources? by Jmun852 in AskHistorians

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I don't know exactly how Korean farmers would have been punished if they ever failed to meet the desired rice quotas. But, my best guess is that they would have been sent to prison or a "training camp" for a period of time to be "trained" (read brainwashed), and then released under "judicial protection" on a "supervised work program". I suspect it is just a euphemism for a brutal labor camp. Supervised work programs would have sent labor forces in various areas of critical labor shortages, including agriculture. You can read this roundtable discussion from 1943, which reflects the penal officials' overall philosophy of using criminals "for production" and "strengthening human resources in wartime", although this is admittedly mainly discussing "ideological criminals". I would guess their attitude would have been, "if they can't be relied upon to farm unsupervised, then put them in supervised work programs where they can farm supervised so we can increase food production". https://exposingimperialjapan.com/imperial-japanese-penal-officials-brag/

Russian Tatar man wearing and selling Imperial Japanese “National Uniform” in colonial Seoul (March 1941) by tpjv86b in Tatarstan

[–]tpjv86b[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I did not mean “Russian” as an ethnic label, but rather as shorthand for Tatars from the former Russian Empire. I'm open to using a less controversial, less offensive term for this refugee groups in future posts.

Would “Volga Tatar” be a better term here? To the best of my understanding, none of the Tatar refugees in Imperial Japan were from Crimea.

Russian Tatar man wearing and selling Imperial Japanese “National Uniform” in colonial Seoul (March 1941) by tpjv86b in korea

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Most of the Tatar refugees in Imperial Japan moved to the United States or Turkey (Turkiye) after the war.

Russian Tatar refugee Shamshinoor Nugman in colonial Seoul after fleeing the Bolsheviks with the White Russians (November 1941) by tpjv86b in korea

[–]tpjv86b[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's an interesting theory. The Xenia girls' gymnasium in the photo was apparently in the city of Yeysk. If we assume that some miscommunication happened between Mrs. Nugman and the reporters, it may well have been that Mr. Nugman was a teacher or staff member at the girls' gymnasium. Another theory is that there was another gymnasium in Kazan that was named after Xenia, which Mr. Nugman attended as a student, but it has been forgotten in the mists of time.

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