The Fundamental Problem of Historical Perception Seen in Anti-Japanese Education on the Korean Peninsula and the Comfort Woman and Wartime Laborer Statue Controversies

Published on July 18, 2019.
The author discusses anti-Japanese education since Syngman Rhee, the controversies over comfort woman statues and wartime laborer statues, the masochistic historical view implanted by GHQ, the old class system on the Korean Peninsula, and the example of Yasuke in Japan, examining the difference in historical perception between Japan and the Korean Peninsula.

July 18, 2019.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that they are equivalent to the Hitler Youth…this is obvious at a glance when one looks at the boys and girls who now appear on the front lines of the uproars over the erection of comfort woman statues and wartime laborer statues.
In other words, the people who say that Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula….
They grew up under Nazism called anti-Japanese education, begun by Syngman Rhee, the worst dictator in history, who even wrote lies into the Constitution in order to hide the absurd origins of his own regime and to maintain that regime….
They are, so to speak, Koreans who are the children of Syngman Rhee, and…it is no exaggeration at all to say that they are equivalent to the Hitler Youth…this is obvious at a glance when one looks at the boys and girls who now appear on the front lines of the uproars over the erection of comfort woman statues and wartime laborer statues.
The so-called scholars, so-called left-wing lawyers, and so-called cultural figures who possess anti-Japanese thought rooted in the Constitution given by GHQ, the masochistic historical view implanted by GHQ, and the theory that the Japanese people and the Japanese military are villains…in reality, traitors and enemies of the nation…are represented, as is clearly evident, by Oe Kenzaburo and Murakami Haruki.
On the Korean Peninsula, kings and yangban reigned, and all other people were members of discriminated classes.
…Even scholars were so.
Women were the private property of the yangban=slaves.
That is why women had no names.
The yangban, in effect, treated women as things.
Not only were they used as sexual playthings by the master, but because the master’s wife became jealous of this, they were subjected to humiliation such as having a stick inserted into their private parts, tortured to death, and thrown into the Han River…with no punishment whatsoever for the yangban.
Their corpses would get caught on branches along the riverbank whenever the river rose; that was the daily reality of the Korean Peninsula until Japan annexed it.
In other words, the Korean Peninsula was a country where most of the people were slaves.
By contrast, what about Japan?
Japan is a nation rare in the world, and it is no exaggeration to say unique, in that its people did not have slaves and detested the very concept of having slaves.
If one searches “Yasuke” on Wikipedia, this is obvious at a glance, and I will excerpt the beginning.
Yasuke (birth and death years unknown) was a Black man who came to Japan during the Sengoku period, and as a slave owned by missionaries, was presented as a gift to the Sengoku daimyo Oda Nobunaga, but Nobunaga took a liking to him and took him into service as a retainer.
Omission.
On February 23, Tensho 9 (March 27, 1581), Valignano brought him along as a slave when he had an audience with Nobunaga.
In Shinchō Kōki, it is written that “a black monk came from the Christian country,” and he is described as being around 26 to 27 years old, with “the strength of ten men” and “a body as black as an ox.”
Having satisfied himself that the man’s skin truly was black, Nobunaga showed great interest in this Black man, negotiated with Valignano to receive him, named him “Yasuke,” formally raised him to the status of a samurai, and decided to keep him close by, according to the Annual Report of the Jesuit Mission in Japan; it is said that Nobunaga took a liking to Yasuke and intended eventually to make him a lord, or castle master.
Also, according to Kaneko Hiraku, in a manuscript thought to be a copy of an autograph manuscript handed down in the Kaga Ota family, descendants of Ota Gyuichi, the author of Shinchō Kōki, and held by the Sonkeikaku Bunko, there is a description stating that this Black man, Yasuke, was given a private residence and a short sword, and at times carried Nobunaga’s tools.
To an extent that is incomprehensible outside Japan, from ancient times Japan was such a true democratic nation that it is no exaggeration to say Japanese people were a rare people who did not possess the sense of treating others as slaves.
A lawyer from Rikkyo University who held an important post in the Japan Federation of Bar Associations went all the way to the United Nations many times…,
Asahi Shimbun jumped on Yoshida Seiji’s lies, reported them on a massive scale, and spread them throughout the world…,
lawyers such as Fukushima Mizuho seized upon them as ideal material for attacking the Japanese government and wringing money from it…,
and regarding the prostitutes who were gathered when North Korean spies in South Korea latched on to this….
The lawyer who said, “They were not comfort women, they were sex slaves,” and boasted in an interview article in Sekai Nippo that he was the one who had made the term “sex slaves” take root—could he in fact be someone who carries the DNA of the Korean Peninsula, which was an astonishing slave-system state until Japan annexed it?
The reason is that, even without citing the example of Nobunaga, a genuine Japanese person would never come up with the idea of “sex slaves.”
That in South Korea, even today, this pattern of enslaving others still remains…,
Murotani Katsumi, one of the commentators who knows the reality of South Korea best, has brilliantly made clear in his serialized column “The Shape of the Neighboring Country” in this month’s issue of the monthly magazine HANADA.
His essay, too, is required reading for the Japanese people and for people throughout the world.
If the fools who have called themselves intellectuals and have taken seriously the anti-Japanese propaganda that countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” continue to carry out throughout the world were to learn by what degree of evil it is being done, they would know their own foolishness so deeply that, before going to hell, they would want to crawl into a hole if there were one.
I will introduce this from the next chapter onward.

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