Starting from deep respect for Professor Hiroshi Furuta’s research on the Korean Peninsula, this essay examines the UN Human Rights Commission, Japanese media, the Syngman Rhee Line, and the distortion of Japan’s postwar discourse. It criticizes the way Asahi Shimbun, NHK, opposition politicians, self-styled human-rights lawyers, and cultural figures have followed the narratives of China and the Korean Peninsula, and calls on Japan to recover its dignity, intelligence, and moral clarity.

April 14, 2020
As a condition for releasing the fishermen whom he had illegally seized and confined under extremely poor conditions, Syngman Rhee is said to have forced the Japanese government to release several hundred people from the Korean Peninsula who had been imprisoned in Japan for crimes including murder, and to grant them permanent residence in Japan.
This is because such writing stands on a completely different plane from the hypocritical, prearranged harmony of the childish leftism of Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and the like.
Even I, when I reread it, often rediscover its astonishing force.
I am republishing, after correcting typographical errors, the chapter I released on March 5, 2019 under that title.
The Juche-oriented administration in the South is strengthening its domestic authoritarian coloration in an attempt to accelerate unification.
Japanese people must be alert.
A chapter I released on November 6, 2018 under that title is now ranked 12th in Ameba’s official hashtag ranking for Mongolia.
Five years ago, in August, I stopped subscribing to Asahi Shimbun and began subscribing to four monthly magazines.
It was then that I first came to know a truly great scholar.
I deeply respect him as the finest example of a late bloomer.
He is the world’s greatest scholar on the Korean Peninsula, and in recent years he has deepened his field even to the roots of the West.
The essay by Professor Hiroshi Furuta, one of the greatest scholars in the world today, is a terrifying essay.
Speaking of the days he had spent researching the Korean Peninsula, he once said in a dialogue with someone, “I wasted forty years.”
When I came upon that passage, I could not help bursting out laughing.
His gift for humor is also first-rate.
At a certain point, I began the very difficult and troublesome work of introducing the writings of such people to Japan and to the world by using each sentence as a title.
The reason goes without saying.
The essays of true scholars and true men of speech are not the sort of things discussed on television wide shows, which are gatherings of fools and half-baked people.
Nor are they barbershop chatter.
Each sentence is the result of forty years of study, sixty years of thought.
They are far beyond the kind of writing that can be read while doing something else, or skimmed quickly so that one can pretend to have understood it.
All the more so because they stand on a completely different plane from the hypocritical, prearranged harmony of the childish leftism of Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and the like.
Even I, when I reread them, often rediscover their greatness.
How much more so, then, for people who are mediocre to begin with and who have had their hearts stolen by smartphones and the like.
It is inevitable that I should often criticize the Korean Peninsula from the perspective of the present situation.
But the UN Human Rights Commission is truly laughable in its membership.
It is composed of committee members from human-rights-violating states, with China at the head.
Last year, the United States withdrew from the Human Rights Commission, saying that it was far too absurd and far too politically biased.
Japan’s true treasures, acting at their own expense, have finally stood up, saying that they can no longer tolerate this hypocrisy.
This time, they finally began to counter South Korea with facts, and succeeded in having an excellent essay published in English.
Yet the Japanese media have completely ignored one of the finest forms of Japanese conduct in recent years.
With anger at that fact, I will first publish the Japanese text up to the middle.
The day before yesterday, I finally reached the English text posted on the UN commission’s website, and began the work of making it known to the world.
Even if it is in English, most people probably do not even know that it exists.
Ordinary people do not go out of their way to visit the website of the Human Rights Commission.
All the more so for people who can speak and read only their own languages.
They do not even know the website of the Human Rights Commission.
However, yesterday, as soon as I began the work, goo suddenly made it impossible for me to post, saying that I had exceeded the posting limit.
I think that goo, like media organizations such as NHK and TBS, is an organization extremely vulnerable to organized pressure from groups such as Chongryon and to malicious attacks.
There is now a woman from Waseda University who is fighting almost alone, truly struggling for Japan, against China’s theft, which is a grave problem in the world of IT.
Ms. Moe Fukada, who is truly a national treasure illuminating one corner, as Saicho said, has also, like me, continued to suffer harassment such as suddenly having her search numbers reduced to one-hundredth.
The essence of the Internet is that it is the greatest library in human history.
Yet there are people who abuse its anonymity.
Many of them are people steeped in a political culture of bottomless evil and plausible lies.
After all, Syngman Rhee is said to have forced the Japanese government, as a condition for releasing the fishermen whom he had illegally seized and confined under extremely poor conditions, to release several hundred people from the Korean Peninsula who had been imprisoned in Japan for crimes including murder, and to grant them permanent residence in Japan.
What kind of shadow has this distortion of postwar settlement cast upon Japanese society today?
As I have already written, I was horrified.
In trivial television dramas and movie trailers, I often see plots in which the father was a murderer.
I came to think that behind such things, too, there may be the distorted discourse space and production environment of postwar Japan.
Those forces constantly attack me.
Their persistent attacks took control of TBS and NHK.
goo probably cannot withstand them at all.
In other words, defeated by their specialty, persistent attack, Japan has long been in a state in which bad money drives out good.
There are countless people in every field who sympathize with their persistent attacks.
In reality, they are a minority.
But these vicious people have infiltrated the world of discourse in great numbers.
By invoking moralism, the Personal Information Protection Law, hate speech, and the like, they have succeeded until now in further distorting Japan.
But from now on, things will be different, you villains.
A Nobunaga living in the present age, though unwillingly, appeared in this way in July 2010.
Now I will no longer let you do as you please.
The political culture on which you rely, a culture of bottomless evil and plausible lies, is as different from Japan as heaven is from earth.
Asahi Shimbun, which you have controlled, is already dead.
I will not allow the foolish and most ugly idiots such as Okoshi and Takeda, who control NHK’s news division, to trample upon Japan, the most wonderful and beautiful country in the world.
There is nothing more foolish and ugly than your pseudo-moralism and pseudo-political correctness.
I will not allow such utter fools to continue trampling upon Japan.
Now, it seems, they will broadcast a special program presenting Sun Yat-sen, a great liar and the worst kind of man, as a hero.
Sun Yat-sen, who embodied bottomless evil and plausible lies, not only consumed the Japanese wealthy men who had sincerely wished to help poor China, but also arbitrarily took Japanese women as wives and abandoned them.
There is no lower man than that.
It seems that such a man will soon be presented as a hero in a special program.
NHK’s corruption, foolishness, and lack of study have reached their limit.
The extent to which it appears to be under Chinese influence has also reached its limit.
Opposition politicians, so-called human-rights lawyers, so-called cultural figures, so-called citizens’ groups, Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and the like have followed the claims of the Korean Peninsula and China, the very sources of hate.
In other words, such so-called people, Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and the like have followed the claims of the Korean Peninsula and China, the very sources of hate.
That was the truly foolish and stupid tragedy of Japanese media and politics.