The conduct of Onaga and his supporters closely resembles the mindset fostered by postwar Nazism-like education in South Korea and even the one-party communist dictatorship of China.
The tragedy of Okinawa has been deliberately distorted, while the indiscriminate bombings and atomic attacks on mainland Japan—the greatest mass killings in human history—have been ignored.
Kenzaburō Ōe and the Asahi Shimbun bear grave responsibility for this distortion.
This article calls for confronting reality, abandoning falsehoods, and recognizing the true foundations of Japan’s security.

The conduct of Onaga and his supporters closely resembles that of South Korea, and perhaps should also be compared to the one-party communist dictatorship of China.
2016-12-20

The conduct of Onaga and his supporters closely resembles that of South Korea, and perhaps should also be compared to the one-party communist dictatorship of China.

As I have already written, South Korea is a country that has carried out seventy years of Nazism-like education since the war and has continued Nazi-style politics.
As I have also already noted, the correctness of my argument was recently proven perfectly.
I have written before that I decided never to go to South Korea, and that I will continue never to go.
I have no Korean acquaintances at all, so I did not know the actual state of Korean education, but I have also written that I learned from an article in a monthly magazine that
“in South Korea, children are taught at the very beginning of their education that the Korean people are the most superior people in the world.”
A despot who teaches his own people that they are the best in the world, and who incites hatred against others and other nations in order to maintain his own power—
this is precisely what Nazism is.

Those mentioned at the outset can no longer be said to be anything less than Nazis.
That wig-wearing Onaga even had the nerve yesterday to declare before television cameras that Japan is not a state governed by the rule of law.
To such words, a Kansai person should respond with this.
Just who do you think you are.

Who created and emboldened such people.

大江健三郎 also bears the greatest responsibility for having written a book called Okinawa Notes, a wretched work that represents the very pinnacle of pseudo-moralism, filled with lies and nonsense.
For through this book, he created Okinawans like Onaga—
Okinawans portrayed as sinners,
and as liars beyond all measure.

The most tragic suffering of the Japan–U.S. War did not occur in Okinawa.
It was the mainland, as they call it, that suffered the most devastating damage.
From Hokkaido in the north to Kagoshima in the south, more than 127 cities were subjected to indiscriminate incendiary bombings.
Japan was reduced to scorched earth.
Women, children, and the elderly—
non-combatant civilians—
were killed on a scale unprecedented in human history.
The final act was the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
in which hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in an instant.
The greatest massacre in human history did not occur in Okinawa.

What occurred in Okinawa was that
the slogans constructed and propagated by the Asahi Shimbun and others—
“Demonize the Americans and British,”
“One hundred million shattered jewels (better to die than live as captives)”—
were followed to the letter.
The fact that Okinawans acted even more faithfully than mainland Japanese to the prewar and wartime editorials of Asahi Shimbun
is proven by the truth of the Himeyuri monument,
which Ōe and Asahi themselves cite as the symbol of Okinawa’s tragedy.

Kenzaburō Ōe shifted the crimes of Asahi Shimbun and others onto the Japanese military.
Ōe and those who have sympathized with him or continued to exploit his work are despicable villains.

Here I wish to tell them one simple thing.
Today, on the mainland, one in six children is growing up in a household living in poverty.
Many cannot even obtain proper meals.
Not only higher education, but even the fulfillment of compulsory education is in jeopardy.
That Okinawa occupies an extremely important military position in the realities of international politics is something even a kindergarten child can understand.
That is why U.S. forces placed bases in Okinawa.
At last, Japan achieved the reversion of Okinawa.
That U.S. bases exist not only in Okinawa is also something even a kindergarten child can understand.

That a Japan stripped of its military by the United States would be invaded even by China or South Korea without the Japan–U.S. alliance
is likewise something even a kindergarten child can understand.

In light of the fact that U.S. bases exist in Okinawa,
and that Japan’s independence and security are barely maintained because of this,
the Japanese government has continued to pour, in effect, the largest local allocation subsidies in the country into Okinawa,
even while leaving unaddressed the reality that one in six children on the mainland grows up in poverty.
As a result,
today’s Okinawans must feel that their standard of living is higher than that of mainland Japanese.

If they are to say that such a Japanese government is not a state governed by the rule of law,
then they should first return the enormous sums of aid they have received as compensation for hosting the bases,
and only then speak.

Or do Okinawans, who have continued to subscribe to the two newspapers that are the worst offspring of Asahi,
wish to acknowledge themselves as people who know neither courtesy nor shame,
as people for whom lying, deceiving others, and stealing others’ money are second nature—
that is, as Koreans or Chinese,
as human beings of
“bottomless evil”
and
“plausible lies.”

That is not the case at all.
The strongest proof that they were, in fact, Japanese through and through
should have been the tragedy of the Himeyuri Student Corps.

Is it not time to leave behind the evil of lying.
You may assume that you will not be punished by law in this life,
but you would do well to know that in hell,
King Enma
awaits you with the harshest of torments.