Published on August 21, 2019. This chapter, originally sent out on January 4, 2019, introduces a dialogue between Masayuki Takayama and Miki Otaka published in WiLL, discussing Yoshida Seiji’s testimony, the Karafuto lawsuit, Koreans left behind in Sakhalin, the comfort women issue, the wartime laborer issue, and the involvement of the former Socialist Party and lawyers in a structure aimed at extracting compensation from the Japanese government.

August 21, 2019.
That is because, at that point, comfort women had not yet become an issue.
The purpose was for those connected with Sakhalin to inscribe the forced mobilization of Koreans on a stone monument and to use Yoshida’s testimony as a stepping-stone for extracting money from the Japanese government forever.
This is the chapter I sent out on January 4, 2019, under the title: Extortion and Shakedown: All Japan Is in an Anti-Korea Wave!! The Ugly Anti-Japanese Japanese Who Gave Foolish South Korea Its Ideas.
The following is from a special dialogue article between Masayuki Takayama, journalist, and Miki Otaka, journalist, published in the previous month’s issue of the monthly magazine WiLL under the title: Extortion and Shakedown: All Japan Is in an Anti-Korea Wave!! The Ugly Anti-Japanese Japanese Who Gave Foolish South Korea Its Ideas.
It is a must-read for every Japanese citizen and for people throughout the world.
The Karafuto lawsuit → comfort women → wartime laborers……one after another, situations arise as if Japan were being subjected to extortion.
Behind them are anti-Japanese Japanese.
Could there even be kickbacks from the compensation money!?
Yoshida Seiji, who was used.
Takayama.
Oh, here comes the former Miss Japan.
Otaka.
How embarrassing.
Laughs.
Takayama.
No, no, you are as beautiful as ever.
To get right to it, Ms. Otaka, in your 2017 book I Will Remove My Father’s Apology Monument: The Confession of the Eldest Son of Yoshida Seiji, the Origin of the Comfort Women Issue, published by Sankei Shimbun Publishing, you thoroughly pursued Yoshida Seiji’s life and the course that led to his false testimony.
Otaka.
Yes.
Takayama.
Now South Korea has once again done something outrageous with the wartime laborer ruling.
Otaka.
In 1983, Yoshida Seiji erected a monument apologizing for forced mobilization at the “Hill of Manghyang” in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
He prostrated himself at the unveiling ceremony, but there is nothing written about comfort women on that monument.
That is because, at that point, comfort women had not yet become an issue.
I think the purpose was for those connected with Sakhalin to inscribe the forced mobilization of Koreans on a stone monument and to use Yoshida’s testimony as a stepping-stone for extracting money from the Japanese government forever.
Takayama.
I see.
So the existence of wartime laborers had been talked about from quite some time before.
Otaka.
Yes.
I think the beginning was when the treatment of Koreans left behind in Sakhalin during and after the war became an issue.
Takayama.
When Japan governed the Korean Peninsula, Koreans who had Japanese nationality moved to Sakhalin together with Japanese people as workers, through migrant labor or mobilization, did they not?
Otaka.
The year before My War Crimes: The Great Forced Mobilization of Koreans, in which Yoshida described in detail the hunting of comfort women on Jeju Island, was published, Yoshida spoke about the hunting of comfort women at a lecture meeting.
In September and November of the same year, in the lawsuit over the return of South and North Koreans remaining in Sakhalin, the so-called “Karafuto lawsuit,” he appeared in court twice; the first time he testified about hunting Korean men for Karafuto, and the second time about hunting comfort women on Jeju Island.
I think some people may not immediately grasp how Yoshida and the “Karafuto lawsuit” are connected, but unless one knows the circumstances around this, the essence of the comfort women issue will not become visible.
The “Karafuto lawsuit” was brought against the Japanese government with the involvement of Igarashi Kozo, formerly of the Socialist Party and later Chief Cabinet Secretary, and with lawyer Takagi Kenichi, who was involved in South Korea’s comfort women lawsuit, serving as secretary-general of the plaintiffs’ legal team.
If one knows this fact, everyone should think that the many claims that Doi Takako, who was the leader of the former Socialist Party, was a Korean resident in Japan are probably also true.
People such as Tsujimoto Kiyomi, who belonged to the former Socialist Party, have changed their name to something that sounds legitimate, such as the Constitutional Democratic Party, but they have worked in order to make the Japanese government pay an enormous amount of money without cause to the Korean Peninsula…they have worked in order to serve the Korean Peninsula…they are truly national traitors and sellouts themselves.
Those who support the Constitutional Democratic Party and vote for the Constitutional Democratic Party should be called Koreans or Chinese rather than Japanese citizens.
Calling them national traitors and sellouts is, in its actual substance, an entirely correct use of the terms.
The legal team claimed, “Japan forcibly took as many as 43,000 Koreans to Sakhalin and, after the war, left only the Koreans behind.
The Japanese government should take responsibility for this.”
The Koreans in Sakhalin were people who had gone there of their own accord seeking better wages, but if that were the case, Japan would have no responsibility to compensate them, so at all costs they needed the after-the-fact logic that they had been “forcibly taken” by Japan.
That is why Yoshida was pulled out as a witness to forced mobilization.
Takayama.
I see, so there was such a connection.
And that is why the Asahi made that testimony into an article.
This article continues.