Published on July 18, 2019.
Referring to Takayama Masayuki’s latest book, the author discusses the yangban system on the Korean Peninsula, the treatment of women, anti-Japanese education in South Korea, the masochistic historical view implanted by GHQ, the comfort women issue, and the example of Yasuke, who served Oda Nobunaga, in order to examine differences in historical perception between Japan and the Korean Peninsula.

July 18, 2019.
Those who possess anti-Japanese thought whose foundation is the theory that the Japanese people and the Japanese military were villains…so-called scholars, so-called left-wing lawyers, and so-called cultural figures who are, in reality, traitors and enemies of the nation.
The chapter I published on July 10, 2018, titled “Could he be someone who carries the DNA of the Korean Peninsula, which it is no exaggeration at all to say was an outrageous slave-system state?” is now ranked 45th in the official hashtag ranking: latest books.
“Until Japan went to Korea in the twentieth century, women over there had no names.”
This opening passage appeared while I was introducing the latest book by Takayama Masayuki, the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
Having witnessed the words and actions of President Lee Myung-bak in his final stage, I wondered what kind of country South Korea was, or what kind of people Koreans were,
and, as I have already written, when I searched for the first time on the Internet, the greatest library in human history, I understood the history and reality of South Korea＝the Korean Peninsula in just one hour.
I take pride in being the first person in the world to have clearly stated that what characterizes the Korean Peninsula is the yangban.
When I learned the nature of the yangban, I immediately realized that it was the prototype of the strange practice in Japan’s yakuza world known as “protection money.”
Because almost all Japanese yakuza are Koreans residing in Japan.
Living without working oneself, extorting others and living off others…this is a tradition that continues unbroken not only among yakuza, but among politicians of the Korean Peninsula…and, in essence, among the astonishingly numerous naturalized Korean opposition-party political operators in Japan who are the same as them.
A recent example is clear if one looks at the behavior of Kim Jong-un and his party at the U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore.
They had neither an aircraft that could safely fly them to Singapore nor even money for lodging…and yet they shamelessly stayed at a top-class hotel without hesitation….
They not only suppress the people, but calmly continue nuclear development while driving them to the brink of starvation.
If someone merely voices dissatisfaction with the government in casual neighborhood conversation, he is taken to a correctional camp, tortured, and finally killed.
Some years ago, when the United Nations reported on and adopted recommendations regarding these severe human rights violations in North Korea, I was stunned when I saw the torture instruments that were revealed.
The reason is that they were exactly the same as the instruments I had learned about in one hour when I learned the reality of the yangban…instruments used when the people could not provide the money or food demanded by them, and were brought to their mansions, confined, and tortured.
Today, now, in this chapter, all Japanese citizens and people throughout the world must know the real truth.
Until Japan annexed Korea in the twentieth century, women on the Korean Peninsula had no names.
In other words, Japan did not colonize the Korean Peninsula; it liberated them.
No one anywhere in the world has ever heard or seen that the Western powers broke down the status-discrimination systems of their colonies, began compulsory education systems, built schools throughout the land, invested more than 20 percent of the national budget to build infrastructure, and transformed them all at once into modern states.
It is an obvious fact that a colony is, in every respect, the complete opposite of what Japan did for the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan.
In other words, those who say that Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula are Koreans who grew up as children of Syngman Rhee, the worst dictator in history in every possible sense, under Nazism called anti-Japanese education, which he began in order to write lies even into the Constitution to hide the absurd origins of his own regime and to maintain that regime,
and those 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 were villains…so-called scholars, so-called left-wing lawyers, and so-called cultural figures who are, in reality, traitors and enemies of the nation…whose representative figures are, as is clearly evident, 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.