I cannot find the same article online but there was an interesting article (for me) in today’s Korean Herald.
Military fatigues cause confusion at protests over U.S. beef imports.
“The Defense Ministry briefly got entangled yesterday in a public rumpus over U.S. beef imports after it said it was moving to crack down on protesters wearing military [...]
I have finished my first draft on this topic, and I think the bibliography might be useful to others as well.
Official Documents
I used the Japanese government’s (the Government General in Korea and Chosengun) documents mostly as primary sources.
Chōsengun, Chōsenjin Shiganhei Seido ni Kansuru Iken (The Opinions Concerning the Korean Volunteer System), June 1937, available at: [...]
Sorry for the long interval. I had to submit a proposal on this topic and my blogging could not catch up with my research.
I was going to blog about some interesting stuff I found in the primary sources. I was reading monthly Japanese High Police reports (特高月報, 特高外事月報) between 1936-1938 on domestic affairs to see [...]
As I indicated in the previous posting, I read 宮田節子「朝鮮民衆と皇民化政策」and Brandon Palmer’s dissertation “Japan’s mobilization of Koreans for war, 1937-1945″ as a starter. Miyata Setsuko looks at similar sources (高等外事月報, 朝鮮思想運動 etc) and analyzes the reaction of Korean people to the 1937 Sino-Japanese war, the volunteer soldier system, and the conscription policy. Palmer also gives [...]
I have another paper topic to figure out soon for a class on comparative history of colonial rule in the twentieth century. I got numerous ideas just by reading the two primary sources listed in my previous posting, but I needed to find something comparable to other colonial cases, related to my interest in ‘youth’ [...]
Below are interesting discussions and topics that could potentially lead to further research.
First, Chae refers to a work by a Japanese journalist, Nomura Susumu, and discusses the reason why there was a wide-spread rumor that Korean prison guards were more cruel in their torture of the POWs than the Japanese. According to Chae, Nomura revealed [...]
Last week, I read one book and one article on the Class BC Korean war criminals who were put on trial in war tribunals in the immediate postwar period in major cities in Southeast Asia and in Yokohama. One is Utsumi Aiko’s book 朝鮮人BC級戦犯の記録 (A Record of the Korean Class BC War Criminals), Keiso Shobo, [...]
Professor Takeda at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo kindly mailed me a couple of interesting things to read from Japan. They are all interesting from an academic point of view, but one of them is absolutely hilarious and I have to blog about this. It was a new journal called “MamoR,” and is basically a [...]
This is what I expected!
18-Month Military Service Planned, The Korea Times, Jan. 8
I have shown some differences between Taiwan and South Korea in their conscription policies in my previous postings. I asked the professors that I met why there are such differences. The summary of their and my speculations is as follows.1. The influence of the authoritarian regime of the past in Korea (pointed out by a Korean [...]