This essay exposes the true nature of the phrase “Learn from Germany” as an instrument of anti-Japanese propaganda.
It analyzes how figures such as Kang Sang-jung, NHK, and Asahi Shimbun contributed to undermining Japan’s international standing and historical legitimacy.

2016-08-24

The first time I heard the laughable phrase “Learn from Germany” was quite some time ago.
It was when Kang Sang-jung appeared on TV Asahi’s program Asa Made Nama TV, which I happened to be watching.

That was also the first time I became aware of this man.

Anyone with a sound mind who watched that program must have wondered what on earth this man was talking about, or what ulterior motives lay behind such foolish remarks.

It is no exaggeration to say that all those who, with him as their representative, kept insisting that Japan should “learn from Germany” were being manipulated by the governments of South Korea and China, or their intelligence agencies, or were acting as their mouthpieces.

Their aim was to keep Japan in the position of a “political prisoner” within the international community.

To continue undermining Japan’s national strength and international credibility.

At every opportunity, they exploited the narrative fabricated by the United States to conceal its own original sin committed at the end of the war—the claim that Japan was an evil nation and that the Japanese people were evil.

All of this was done to extort enormous sums of money from Japan.

With Asahi Shimbun cooperating with them at every turn, South Korea and China succeeded in extracting the largest amounts of aid money in human history from Japan.

Regarding the vast sums of aid they received, China—a one-party communist dictatorship—and South Korea, which for seventy years since the war has pursued anti-Japanese education as a national policy based on the falsified history created by Syngman Rhee, have never informed their citizens that this enormous aid from Japan contributed to their countries’ economic development.

Instead, they continue to falsify Japan as a criminal state equivalent to Nazi Germany, and persist in intense slander even today throughout the world, centered on the United States.

I was the first to make known to the world just how villainous Kang Sang-jung and those who aligned with him—NHK, Asahi Shimbun, and the so-called cultural elites—truly were.