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16,000 Koreans Forcibly Mobilized to Sakhalin During Japanese Colonialism Half of Sakhalin’s Koreans May Have Been Massacred During World War II The discovery of these long-buried court records in a Sakhalin archive has revealed the truth behind the rumors circulating among Sakhalin’s Korean population. These were truths that had been sealed. According to a draft of a 1945 Soviet government report obtained from the State Archives of Sakhalin, Russia, 10,229 Koreans lived in the Estoru region in northwestern Sakhalin before World War II. However, after the war, only 5,332 remained. The Soviet government cited the possibility of massacres by the Japanese, along with refugees and repatriations, as reasons for the decline in the Korean population. The restored photo was shocking. A woman was swaddled on her back, and a baby was found wearing diapers. The Soviet Civil Administration’s autopsy revealed that the baby was six months old. The stab wounds to the chest and genitals were vivid. It was a cruel fate. Even a forensic pathologist, who frequently encountered various corpses, called it an “extremely brutal crime.” Why did the Japanese, after their defeat in the war, brutally murder even a newborn baby? At the time, numerous testimonies emerged stating, “If the Soviet troops had entered southern Sakhalin a few days later, many more Koreans would have been massacred by the Japanese.” 34.3% of Sakhalin residents remained unaccounted for Some were subjected to forced labor in takobeya (punishment facilities) and even double-conscripted from Sakhalin to Japan. source: https://news.kbs.co.kr/news/pc/view/view.do?ncd=4263236 https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/9053914 https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250811/p2a/00m/0na/009000c The Massacre of Koreans on Sakhalin Amidst widespread indifference, the victims’ names and graves remain undiscovered. Even the exact extent of the damage caused by the Sakhalin Korean Massacre remains unknown, and the truth remains buried. Consequently, some have called it the “Second Great Kanto Earthquake,” a massacre of Koreans in Japan. During the massacre of Koreans following the Great Kanto Earthquake in September 1923, rumors circulated that “Koreans were poisoning wells and trying to start a riot,” but over time, this rumor shifted to “Koreans are Soviet spies.” Someone had to document this recurring tragic historical fact. Ask a japanese about imperial japan and their war crimes, most will either be ignorant about it or straight up deny it. Compared to germany, japans way of handling war crimes is quite half assed. Let’s take a look at the current activities of Japan’s leading politician. A social media post by Japan’s newly appointed Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, about her visit to memorial sites in Kuala Lumpur has drawn online criticism, with some Malaysians expressing anger over her remarks. On Saturday (25 October), Takaichi posted on social media about visiting a Japanese cemetery in Kuala Lumpur, where she laid flowers at a memorial monument. In her post, written in Japanese, she said she was able to “commemorate our ancestors who lost their lives in Malaysia” and felt “deeply moved” by the experience. The controversy stems from Takaichi’s framing of Japanese war dead as “ancestors” deserving of commemoration in her Japanese-language post, while appearing to treat Malaysia’s National Monument – which commemorates those who died in the struggle for independence, especially during conflicts like World War II and the Japanese occupation and the Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) – as merely another stop on her diplomatic tour https://x.com/takaichi_sanae/status/1982353188608172515 Takaichi’s Twitter submitted by /u/Necessary-Taste8643 |
Newly declassified Russian records reveal more Japanese murders of Koreans in 1945.The number of Koreans forcibly mobilized to Sakhalin is at least 16,000. The rate of non-returns among forcibly mobilized Koreans, including those who went missing,is significantly higher at 34.3%than in other regions
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