{"id":106001,"date":"2019-08-15T03:28:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T01:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/15\/i-dont-have-much-hope-koreans-search-for-loved-ones-who-died-fighting-for-japan\/"},"modified":"2019-08-15T03:28:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T01:28:04","slug":"i-dont-have-much-hope-koreans-search-for-loved-ones-who-died-fighting-for-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106001","title":{"rendered":"&#039;I don&#039;t have much hope&#039;: Koreans search for  loved ones who died fighting for Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Tokyo marks the end of war in Pacific, conscripts\u2019 families search for information on where their forebears fellKim Jung-im was three years old when her father, Kim Dong-won, was conscripted into the Japanese imperial army in 1940.He died, aged 23, in the jungles of New Guinea in 1943, two years before Japan\u2019s wartime defeat and the Korean peninsula\u2019s liberation from more than three decades of colonial rule by Tokyo. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/15\/i-dont-have-much-hope-koreans-search-for-loved-ones-who-died-fighting-for-japan\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;I don&#039;t have much hope&#039;: Koreans search for  loved ones who died fighting for Japan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Tokyo marks the end of war in Pacific, conscripts\u2019 families search for information on where their forebears fellKim Jung-im was three years old when her father, Kim Dong-won, was conscripted into the Japanese imperial army in 1940.He died, aged 23, in the jungles of New Guinea in 1943, two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}