Japanese woman waiting for her boyfriend on a train platform as she listens to her NEC transistor radio on her earphones and carries an Asahi Journal magazine, 1959 (credit to @kosyosinra)1yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/vintageads
In 1956, a three-minute phone call from USA to Japan cost $12, or $127 incl. tax in 2020 US dollars3yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/japan
Standard Japanese compared side-by-side with three dialects (Akita, Kyoto, Kumamoto) (translated text from Aesop's Fables - the Frog and the Ox)4yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/japan
Japanese woman waiting for her boyfriend on a platform at JR Yurakucho station as she listens to her NEC transistor radio on her earphones and carries an Asahi Journal magazine, 1959 (credit to @kosyosinra)1yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/Tokyo
Korean high school student uses anonymous tip box to rat out fellow student who spoke Korean at school (Dongduk Girls' High School in Seoul, June 1942)2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
By April 1944, there were 13 internment camps in Seoul for Japanizing Korean girls into wives for Japanese soldiers, with most of the girls enlisted for military labor, and instructional time cut from all day to just the afternoons (photo: Japanese language class at a camp in Jongno-gu, Seoul)2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
Imperial Japan waged an aggressive Japanese language campaign on Korean villages in the '30s and '40s, entering homes to attach Japanese labels on household objects, putting residents under 55 in mandatory classes, applying an unyielding whip to break down their customs and stray dreams2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
The top YouTuber in Japan is currently はじめしゃちょー(hajime)with 8.71M subscribers and $238.8K est. monthly earnings3yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/japan
On this day 78 years ago, 200 Seoul high school girls were deployed to a tobacco factory to make cigarettes for Japanese troops2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
In 1942, Matsumoto Chitei reportedly became the first Korean woman ever to earn a Medical Ph.D., all while raising three children in Japan-colonized Korea; she discovered at Seoul University that the midbrain of the toad had a cardiovascular center which regulated heart rate2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
Japan population change map 2015-2018, bluer colors showing decline, redder colors showing growth, note the growth hot spots in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Fukuoka5yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/japan
This computer terminal was used by patients in the early 1970's in Japanese hospitals to enter their medical histories - there were a total of 306 questions to answer2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/vintagecomputing
In April 1943, Seoul high school girls went to an Imperial Japanese military camp to plant a flower garden, then entertained Japanese soldiers at a comfort party by dancing, singing Japanese imperial military songs, and acting in Kabuki plays2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
As a child in Japan-colonized Korea, one Korean father was tormented by Japanese teachers who berated him as 'an idiot who can't understand Japanese', so he and his wife imposed the Japanese language on their six children to make sure they did not suffer the same trauma that he did (Seoul, 1942)2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
National shortage of foley catheters, Pleurovacs, BIS monitors due to high demand for critically ill COVID patients2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/Shortages
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill crying over the Fall of Singapore in 1942, If we had only listened to Japan during last fall's negotiations, we wouldn't be in such grief - Imperial Japanese editorial cartoon (translation in comments)2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
In 1944, the Japanese govt built internment camps in Korea to intensively train young Korean school girls in Japanese ways and turn them into assimilated mothers and wives of Japanese soldiers (top photo: Ewha students in training; bottom photo: Sookmyung students teaching Japanese to local women)2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
Why did many Koreans voluntarily enlist in the Imperial Japanese military during WWII? Partly due to ominous Japanese government edicts like this one in 1943 threatening Korean students with worse treatment under punitive conscription for missing the deadline to voluntarily enlist2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
Breakdown by nationality of foreigners in Japan arrested for violating Swords and Firearms, Drug Control, Immigration, Entertainment Business, and Prostitution laws in 20155yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/japan
Japanese municipalities with the fastest foreigner population growth, highest percentage of foreigners, and highest numbers of Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipinos, Brazilians, and Nepalese 2014-2018 (from Toyo Keizai)5yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/japan
In 1942, one pro-Imperial Japan Korean family went to great lengths to force Japanese on their children, scolding a son for informally learning some basic Korean at school, making sure their Korean-speaking grandmother visiting them in Seoul from Kaesong did not influence them too much2yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
Just picked up a Japan tourist visa from the consulate. Any idea why there are special check boxes for Indians and Iranians on the receipt?5yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/japan
Celebrations in Damascus on February 21, 1958 when Syria voted to join Egypt and form the United Arab Republic (National Geographic)3yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/Syria
Syrian women enjoying a beach north of Latakia (July 1996, National Geographic)4yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/Syria
Classroom in Syria, students wearing uniforms of the Vanguard (July 1996, National Geographic)4yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/Syria
In the October 1996 issue, National Geographic declined to rename the Sea of Japan on its maps3yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/korea
DistributedBio / Centivax has succeeded in generating potent antibodies against COVID-194yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/coolronavirus
Chinese customs now opening up and inspecting arriving international packages, then spraying disinfectant inside (screenshot of WeChat message post from my friend)4yr ⋅ tpjv86b ⋅ r/China
