#japanese occupation of korea

[1900scartoons]

Wonder What Happened To the Canary?

July 25, 1907

The Japan cat licks its lips by the empty Korean birdcage; the Hague Peace Tribunal smiles as portraits of England, Germany, and France look on.

The caption reads "The Peace Lady - 'I'm so glad my dove didn't happen to be in that cage!'"

Japan had forced the abdication of Korea's Emperor after he secretly sent delegates to the Hague Peace Conference requesting help. The conference refused to see the delegates, allowing Japan to continue their annexation of Korea.

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/5820/rec/205

[mayday396]

THATS FUCKING TERRIBLE

You're gonna ignore the shit load of Colonialism that came with that?

Biden what the fuck, most likely you said this because you're sick physically but like holy shit dude

He said WHAT

[quotesfrommyreading]

There are little mysteries I understand differently now, all these years later. Visits to my family in Korea often meant dinners where I would be told, always, what we were eating, no matter how many times they’d seen me eat it before. Now that I know other Korean families do this, I wonder if it is all some relic of a time when the children had to learn the names of the food they could now eat again. The Korean-American habit of quizzing one another — When was the last time you were back in Korea? Do you speak Korean? Do you read it? What food can you make? — now feels to me like the drills of people studying for a more Korean future than the one they had had.

And the more openly didactic qualities of my visits with my grandfather — always being told that Korean culture or language was superior, for example, which once felt to me like his way of chiding my father for leaving for the United States and not teaching us Korean — I now understand as the act of a man who still woke from dreams in Japanese, who had lived to see a future where his son, also born during the occupation, could decide not to live in the country once lost to them, could decide not to teach what was once forbidden for them to learn. And his grandson might never know.

  —  My Family’s Shrouded History Is Also a National One for Korea

[aleixis]

i feel so guilty liking anime/manga as a korean like yeah a lotta koreans like anime but like at the same time my dad REALLY doesn't like japan and japanese culture and stuff which is understandable but 😭😭 i'm asking him if i can go out and buy manga and like 😭😭

[nibeul]

stumbled upon this white girl complaining about how the handmaiden doesn't pass the bechdel test like why do you people not have an ounce of critical thought I swear

[postcard-from-the-past]

Temple of Heaven's rose garden and Chosen Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, during the Japanese occupation

Japanese vintage postcard, mailed in 1924 to San Francisco

[friendrat]

I finished Whale Star. Man... I knew that it was a little mermaid retelling, and it wasn't gonna be a happy ending, but it was still so sad to reach the end and see it happen. I am really impressed with how the author pulled off a historical fiction fairy tale retelling, and especially how it translated at the end. I was really curious how the mermaid sacrificing herself for the prince would play out, and it did not disappoint.

I don't like historical fiction generally, but I really enjoyed this one because of the little mermaid parallels. I would be willing to read more historical fiction if it was written as a fairy tale retelling.

[anarkhebringer]

"Understanding and demonstrating respect for the real-world histories and culture being referenced" okay then get rid of the racist lore for Blue Mage then and get our names out of your mouths

[mixtapenempire]

It must be 1945 or after 1945 because after World War 2, the United States did actively control Japan militarily from 1945-1952. This led to the removal of their military and imperialist government, the creation of their own constitution, and the creation of the JSDF (Japanese Self Defense Force). As the name applied, Japan could only have a defensive military force.

But Japan owned the Korean peninsula, and since the soviet union did contribute to the war against Japan by attacking Manchuria, Korea was - well, we all know what happened there, especially today.

whats it with people calling japanese characters from japanese anime who live in japan and speak japanese and have japanese names white

[1900scartoons]

The Story Of a Rescue

July 28, 1907

In the first panel, Korea shouts for help as she is assaulted by the Russian Bear. In the second panel, Japan Rescues her. In the third panel, she shouts to be saved from Japan.

The Japanese had driven the Russians out of Korea during the Russo-Japanese War, but had proceeded to make it a protectorate, and slowly taken over the country.

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/6112/rec/208

[an-onyx-void]

Korean government's idea of removing border controls between Seoul, Tokyo triggers stirs - The Korea Times

[biologusputrifier777-blog]

>If X was really a total dictator who cared only about power, it would be much easier for him to align with a super-power that could protect their position >X is aligned with a super-power that can protect their position It's like pottery

The thing is that if Kim Jong Un really was a total dictator who cared only about power and cruelty, it would be so much easier for him to ally with the US and be just like the Gulf monarchs or Pol Pot or one of the other million of criminals on Washington’s payroll. Recent wars have demonstrated very blatantly that US puppet leader is a great job for someone whose primary passions are killing babies and threatening their neighbors with nukes. For heads of state looking to sell out their people, Washington is the top buyer.

Literally what is there to be gained from the DPRK’s “isolationist” policies other than the security of its people?!

[driftlessarearev]

Translation Tuesdays: Mater 2-10, by Hwang Sok-yong

Mater 2-10, by Hwang Sok-yong, chronicles Jino’s sit-in, weaving together Korean history and Jino’s family history into a multi-generational saga.

Via A series dedicated to literature in translation whether classic or contemporary. Translated by Sora Kim-Russell & Youngjae Josephine Bae Originally published by Changbi Publishers (2020) Scribe (2023) “When nine-tenths of Africa had been seized (by 1900), when the whole world had been divided up, there was inevitably ushered in the era of monopoly possession of colonies and,…

[shesnake]

The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook // Interview with the Vampire episode 11 (2024) dir. Levan Akin

He lost his Hindu-originated name “Arun” when he was trafficked from Dehli as a child, was renamed “Amadeo” by his paedophile Maker the vampire Marius, then finally assigned “Armand” by the Roman coven before they sent him to France. He’s also lost his voice in a way, shown code-switching and adopting different accents in different settings. Throughout world history, colonised peoples have often been forced to adopt the languages and names of their oppressive colonisers as a way to erase their cultural identities.

Armand’s history was essentially colonised. His personal sexual trauma is an allegory for wider colonial trauma. This idea was explored similarly in Park Chan-wook’s 2016 film The Handmaiden, where the character Hideko’s forced exposure to pornographic Japanese literature as a child is meant to parallel the colonial oppression of the Japanese occupation of Korea.

The only evidence remaining of Armand’s experiences of sexual and colonial violence is this painting The Adoration of the Shephards With a Donor that hangs in the Louvre. Another cruel irony here is that ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’ is an episode of Jesus’s nativity. Arun as a (presumably) Hindu boy was used as a prop in a Christian narrative. The one historical document that exists of his mortal life is a depiction of his religious assimilation. Completely divorced from his roots, with no identity outside the roles his abusers assigned him, Armand, Amadeo, and Arun “were cut loose and dead like children turned to stone.” Being immortalised, “donated”, and placed on display in a European museum, a space he’s not even really allowed to access, for the mostly-white gaze is a clear metaphor for colonisers’ persisting theft of cultural artefacts belonging to their victims.

The only consolation this journey has for Armand is creative inspiration. He took Amadeo, trapped in the horror of his youth for the entertainment of others, and transferred that idea into the play My Baby Loves Windows to torture Claudia.

Armand, colonialism, and the weaponisation of anti-Blackness by Deah

[hotpinkashcrimson]

That post about Edgeworth's favorite music being Korean disco had me digging and not only was it TRUE from a fanbook interview but ALSO I learned the genre is specifically 'ppong-jjak', and I lost my fucking mind.

I need everyone to listen to this and know that this is the song ace prosecutor Edgeworth has in his ferrari sports car this is it

Edit: this post blew up AND EVERYBODY HAS BEEN DRAGGING ME WHEN IM A FAN OF PPONGJJAK SO ADDITIONAL CONTEXT: ppongjjak, or its real name, 'trot'; is a genre created during the Japanese occupation of Korea, and it has many musical influences from traditinal korean to japanese enka and even american/european folk.

It's a very long standing genre, so it has a very strong demographic of 40-80 year olds. So it's kinda what you would call boomer music I guess? Recently there's been a trot resurgence in Korea though!

Here's one of the songs that brought about the resurgence it's about socrates

Here's a good article I found if you're interested!

[cottagehorror-lesbians-stuff]

the "creature" in gyeongseong creature was a clever way to represent violences committed against women during japanese colonial occupation in korea.

land and women are always linked when it comes to colonialism because the land is stolen and destroyed, and so are the bodies of women, appropriated in a similar way by masculine occupation forces. it's a large topic, well-researched if you're really interested.

anyway. the fact that the parasite was tested on women was a clever euphemism for sexual violence. it avoided traumatic (and exploitative) depictions of physical brutality towards female bodies, although it conveyed this strong metaphor.

it also extends the representation of brutality to a people, a land, a culture.

choosing a woman to be the person who incarnates the results of suffering caused by colonialism was definitely the best choice made by the creators of this show. it links all the stories of colonized peoples together through this one feature that you can be sure to always find in accounts of occupation: the exploitation of women and their bodies.