2019-01-15
A chapter I published on September 4, 2018, under the title, “From an Essay by Hiroshi Furuta, Professor at the University of Tsukuba Graduate School, Entitled ‘There Is Neither “Progress” nor “Inevitability” in History,’” entered Ameba’s official hashtag ranking today, placing 93rd in the category of Spain.
The following is taken from an essay by Hiroshi Furuta, Professor at the University of Tsukuba Graduate School, published on page 13 of this morning’s Sankei Shimbun under the title, “There Is Neither ‘Progress’ nor ‘Inevitability’ in History.”
It is an essay that should be read not only by the Japanese people, but by people throughout the world.
It was only after August four years ago that I first became aware of the existence of this truly exceptional scholar, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Korea.
Until then, I had subscribed to and closely read the Asahi Shimbun for many years, and therefore knew absolutely nothing about him.
The bias of the Asahi Shimbun had reached its extreme in deliberately excluding a scholar of such extraordinary ability and learning.
The Asahi Shimbun told its readers absolutely nothing about genuine scholars and journalists such as Hiroshi Furuta and Masayuki Takayama.
Like identical pieces of Kintaro candy cut from the same stick, the Asahi continued to fill its pages with scholars and so-called cultural figures who did nothing but speak, in the language of pseudo-moralism and political correctness, about a masochistic view of history and the anti-Japanese ideology that grew from it—a condescending contempt for Japan.
To look down upon Japan from a position of supposed superiority…
As was clearly revealed in Le Monde’s criticism of the Japanese judicial system’s treatment of that avaricious Carlos Ghosn, this is the baseless sense of white superiority—racial discrimination—that remains deeply rooted in the West.
The fact that the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, Kenzaburo Oe, Haruki Murakami, and others—Japanese people themselves—imitated it represents folly of the highest possible order.
Taking advantage of the blatant discriminatory attitude that the United States displayed toward Japan at the time of Japan’s defeat…
South Korea, despite being composed of the same Asian and so-called yellow race, took advantage of the confusion following Japan’s defeat to steal Takeshima, unilaterally draw the Syngman Rhee Line, seize Japanese fishing vessels, kill Japanese fishermen, and hold others in detention.
In South Korea, the first propaganda children are taught in school is the claim that Koreans are the most outstanding people in the world.
As a result of being raised under such an abysmal form of education…
They have, astonishingly, continued to speak to Japan from a position of superiority while telling every conceivable lie and committing acts of bottomless evil against it.
China has attacked Japan with a false version of history, headed by the fiction of the Nanjing Massacre.
In doing so, it has proceeded while winning over the Asahi Shimbun and NHK.
That is exactly what one would expect from corrupt states whose sole reason for existence is propaganda operations.
China and the Korean Peninsula continue even now to display the DNA of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
Subscribers were made to read arguments written entirely in accordance with the Asahi Shimbun’s intentions.
Or else…
Through Iwanami and similar circles, they were continually made to read the plausible lies of people who had long prostituted themselves intellectually to China and the Korean Peninsula—people possessed by a masochistic view of history and an anti-Japanese ideology.
One consequence was that every reader of the Asahi Shimbun had such an extreme and entirely baseless absurdity as “one must never speak badly of South Korea” implanted even into the unconscious reaches of the mind.
Because the other party was a country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” it is an undeniable fact that Japan and the Japanese people have continued, even to this day, to suffer enormous damage.
It is also an undeniable fact that the Asahi Shimbun has still not informed the world that both its comfort-women reporting and its reporting on the Nanjing Massacre were fabrications of its own making.
Hiroshi Furuta’s essay will appear in the next chapter.