2024-02-21
Then I ask you: Does the democracy you speak of mean continuing to tell lies and engage in sophistry?
December 21, 2015
The following is from yesterday’s evening edition of Nikkei.
Anyone with a sound mind who reads this should also recognize that Nikkei is a newspaper of the same kind as Asahi and the others.
This man, Gerald Curtis (a professor at Columbia University), is also an utterly incorrigible individual.
A man who has said virtually nothing to China, a state under the one-party dictatorship of the Communist Party, or to South Korea, a state that has continued totalitarian education under the name of anti-Japanese education for seventy years since the war, and who has left them unchecked and allowed them to grow increasingly arrogant until they reached their present state, now has the audacity to tell Japan that it faces a crisis of democracy—or rather, to spout such nonsense.
Speaking of Columbia University, I wondered whether those ludicrous anti-Japanese scholars, Carol Gluck and Alexis Dudden, were also associated with it, so I searched Wikipedia and found the following description.
Carol Gluck (Carol N. Gluck, November 21, 1941–) is an American historian.
She specializes in modern Japanese history.
She is the George Sansom Professor at Columbia University.
Born in Chicago.
A graduate of Wellesley College.
She received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1977.
Where Is Japan Going? (A History of Japan, Volume 25), coauthored with Kang Sang-jung, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Teruo Hiyane, Naoko Iwasaki, Takashi Fujitani, and Harry Harootunian, Kodansha, 2003; Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko, 2010.
“I see, Kang Sang-jung,” anyone with a sound mind should immediately understand what is going on.
There can be little doubt that the others are of the same ilk.
These must be the people who constantly engage in unbelievably anti-Japanese statements and conduct in the United States.
To begin with, Curtis, instead of wasting your time saying foolish things to Japan about democracy and whatnot, think seriously, for once, about who dropped two atomic bombs on Japan and, when Japan’s defeat was already unmistakably clear, carried out indiscriminate bombing—indiscriminate slaughter—raining incendiary bombs on 127 cities throughout Japan and reducing them to scorched wastelands, before you open your mouth.
You blockhead.
Japan is the country that has sustained the United Nations by paying enormous assessed contributions even while your country suspended its payments.
Is that any way to speak to Japan, which has carried on without a single complaint even while being subjected to unbelievably malicious anti-Japanese propaganda in the United Nations?
I visit the Kyoto Imperial Palace thirty times a year, and the other day I was appalled by something I learned for the first time.
Among the materials relating to an imperial household, there was an account stating that the occupation forces had also considered requisitioning the Kyoto Imperial Palace.
What an ignorant and uncouth lot they were.
That, so to speak, was the feeling I had.
Is that any way for people from a country that, in its history of merely a few hundred years, massacred the Native Americans, enslaved Black people, and literally colonized the Philippines and other countries, to speak to our country?
Thus I berate Curtis in the thunderous voice of Oda Nobunaga.
You blundering, utter fool.
The other person must be one of the foremost ideologically committed anti-Japanese offenders.
Alexis Dudden (Alexis Dudden, May 26, 1969–) is an American historian.
A professor at the University of Connecticut.
Her specialty is modern and contemporary East Asian history.
She has written books on relations between the United States and Japan, China, and South Korea, among other subjects.
She actively comments on territorial and historical issues.
She graduated from Columbia University in 1991.
In 1998, she received a doctorate in history from the University of Chicago.
During this period, she studied language at Yonsei University in South Korea in 1994.
The final point I emphasized was new to me.
I see: they were the very epicenter of anti-Japanese statements and conduct in the United States, acting in accordance with the wishes of South Korea and China.
Japan’s responsible journalists should immediately investigate whether they have received any donations or similar payments, regardless of the amounts, from Chinese or South Korean organizations and the like.
I will introduce the Nikkei article in the next chapter.
It is the sort of piece whose contents you can probably already imagine without my introducing it.
But the problem is that the female journalist reporting this article, presumably Nikkei’s New York correspondent, gives the impression of writing it in complete agreement.
Japan and the Japanese people must realize that the time when merely expressing astonishment was enough had already ended last August.
The people mentioned above are calling such entirely natural things a crisis of democracy.
Then I ask you.
Does the democracy you speak of mean continuing to tell lies and engage in sophistry?