This essay examines Hanada Collection: Korea’s Two Lies — Forced Labor and Comfort Women, criticizing what the author views as postwar historical fabrications.
It addresses international propaganda surrounding wartime issues, the role of Japanese intellectuals and media, and the moral responsibility of those who, knowingly or unknowingly, sustain what the author calls “boundless malice” and “plausible falsehoods.”

2019-01-24
Though they are the lowest sort… ignorant and grotesque individuals, does not everyone feel certain that the Korean Peninsula and China—who at least know how to raise their voices loudly in the international arena—must have lent them great support?
The currently available Hanada Collection, “Korea’s Two Lies: Forced Labor and Comfort Women” (926 yen), is a book that every Japanese citizen and every pseudo-moralist around the world, dancing to ignorant and foolish propaganda, must read before anything else.
For if one does not read this special issue, one will not only continue to abet the falsehoods that persist in the postwar world, but will also continue to aid the “boundless malice” and “plausible falsehoods” emanating from China and the Korean Peninsula.
Some may arrogantly assume that because they will not be punished in this world, they may continue to abet such evil.
For example, Alexis Dudden in the United States, the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Germany, the self-styled Italian journalist who dominates the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, and certain ignorant and foolish bigots residing in Paris who are manipulated by propaganda built upon “boundless malice” and “plausible falsehoods,” among others.
But you have no gate to Heaven.
Remember that the King of Hell awaits you with the harshest torment prepared.
Among those listed in the following table, all Japanese individuals must be subjected to severe punishment under the crime of inviting foreign aggression.
Those who have subscribed to the Asahi Shimbun will surely look upon this table with deep regret.
As for Kenzaburō Ōe, one wonders what sort of forces were behind awarding him the Nobel Prize.
Though they are the lowest sort… ignorant and grotesque individuals, does not everyone feel certain that the Korean Peninsula and China—who at least know how to raise their voices loudly in the international arena—must have lent them great support?