From 1931 to 1945, Japan moved aggressively to expand its overseas territory, occupying first China and then Southeast Asia, and initiating a series of military conflicts against Nationalist and Communist forces in China, against the Soviet Union, against the United States, and against the British Empire. Along with the expansion of the "Japanese Empire", Japan's colonial policies also changed. Followingly, Korea's position as a subject within the "Japanese Empire" also changed. This change led to a series variations and reworking of detail ps even further. Even though during this period Japan's dominant colonial policy in Korea was high handed, ideological propaganda was one of the most important methods for completely colonializing Koreans. During the Pacific war Japan's ideological propaganda against the West and toward "Asia" was expressively increased. The narrative of ideological propaganda was engendered and racialized. This kind of engendered and racial narrative influenced Korean people's perception of the "Other" Especially after 1942, a time when Japan conquered Southeast Asia, Korean's narrative regarding Southeast Asia assimilated with Japan's colonial narrative as a result of this colonial propaganda. Korean people's changed perception of the "Other" was not, however, unilaterally influenced by Japan's colonial narrative. The change of the Korean people's perception of the "Other" was related to the Korean people's subject positioning among other Asian countries. They were known as the "New Children of the Empire" by Japan at that time. The gaze of the Korean confronted with this notion of being "New children of an Empire" was filled with anxiety and envy. Anxiety stemmed from struggling to stabilize their position inside of the "Japanese Empire". Envy stemmed from not being able to identify as the center of the Empire. Korean identity, whether it is national or anti national, whether as a position of the colonizer or the colonized, was constructed upon this kind of envy and anxiety. Korean people's subjectivity in Pacific wartime was extremely unstable. Such is the sorrow fate of being colonized.