Unease over Articles Praising South Korea: The Constitution, National Security, and the Irresponsibility Corroding Japanese Society
This article, dated April 26, 2020, examines the author’s unease over certain Sankei Shimbun articles that appear to praise South Korea during the Wuhan virus crisis. It criticizes defects in Japan’s postwar Constitution, the lack of national security awareness, and insufficient journalistic inquiry, while also addressing the background of pachinko parlors continuing business and the K-1 event held despite official requests for cancellation.
April 26, 2020
He makes absolutely no mention of the fact that the operators of the pachinko parlors, and all those who forcibly held K-1 on March 22 while ignoring repeated requests for cancellation from the minister and the governor of Saitama Prefecture, are Koreans residing in Japan.
Just as there is no such thing as a completely flawless human being, there can be no such thing as a completely flawless organization.
Today, both in Japan and in the world, the most decent newspaper is the Sankei Shimbun.
But that does not mean that the Sankei Shimbun has only the finest reporters.
In sharp contrast to Masayuki Takayama, the finest reporter produced by the Sankei Shimbun, who entered society, trained himself in the profession of newspaper reporting, discovered in that process the joy of learning, and became the one and only journalist in the postwar world, there is a strange reporter named Kuroda something-or-other, who seems to live off nothing but the title of having graduated from a former Imperial University, and who, for some reason, appears to be permanently stationed in South Korea.
Everyone with clear insight must be thinking that this man is like a double agent.
In today’s newspaper as well, he has written a strange article in his serial column.
He makes absolutely no mention of the clear fact, which even an elementary school child can understand, that South Korea is Nazism itself, the very posture of a totalitarian state, and that unless it stops the anti-Japanese education it has continued ever since Syngman Rhee, throughout the postwar period down to this very day, South Korea can never become a proper country.
Today’s article, too, is, astonishingly, a praise of South Korea that truly makes one want to vomit.
I am a person who was strictly ordered by my mentor to remain at the university from which this Kuroda something-or-other graduated, which is his only selling point, and to carry it forward on both my shoulders.
For that very reason, all the more, I truly feel like vomiting when I read the strange and repulsive articles of a person who, like Arima of NHK, is, without exaggeration, a present-day Hotsumi Ozaki.
There is nothing in this man’s articles except cheap observation and hearsay.
He completely lacks the reporting ability and reporting effort that are the characteristics of the reporters of whom the Sankei Shimbun is now proud.
He writes that South Korea is succeeding in defeating the virus disaster, while in Japan pachinko parlors are continuing business, and so on.
Yet he makes absolutely no mention of the fact that the operators of those pachinko parlors, and all those who forcibly held K-1 on March 22 while ignoring repeated requests for cancellation from the minister and the governor of Saitama Prefecture, are Koreans residing in Japan.
Nor does he make any mention at all of the fact that, at the root of the difference between the posture taken by South Korea and the posture taken by Japan, there is a fundamental difference in their constitutions.
GHQ gave Japan a Constitution designed to weaken Japan forever.
For that reason, the Constitution of Japan is a strange Constitution found nowhere else in the world.
It is the world’s most foolish Constitution, explicitly stating, in effect, that Japan must not even have a military to defend its own country.
The so-called constitutional protection forces, such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, say that this must be cherished forever.
For the expansion of those constitutional protection forces, South Korea has been working ceaselessly, not only toward Japan but also in the international community, so that Japan will not revise its Constitution, so that Japan will remain a weak country forever, so that Japan will remain a paradise for spies forever, and so that Japan can be moved according to South Korea’s wishes.
He never says this.
He never says that, as a result, there are the attitudes seen in the forced holding of K-1 and the pachinko parlors that calmly continue operating.
This man is a true disgrace to the university whose name he uses as his credential.