Published on October 17, 2019.
This article discusses Japan’s postwar settlement, reparations, wartime extensions under copyright law, the United Nations enemy-state clauses, and the issue of loans to South Korea, while criticizing continued demands for apology and compensation despite the responsibilities Japan has already fulfilled.

October 17, 2019.
While receiving massive compensation payments that Japan had no original obligation to pay, and while receiving enormous assistance, there exists next door a deranged country that, based on fabricated history, still continues to demand apology and compensation.
This is a chapter republished on January 16, 2019, under the title “For me, who have lived what may be called a singular life, Bob Dylan and John Lennon are, to an extent ordinary people cannot understand…”
I am adding revisions and republishing it once again.
The chapter I published on November 29, 2018, under the title “The current outstanding loan balance to South Korea is 67.58 trillion yen in state loans, originally scheduled to be fully repaid in 1982,” is ranked seventh in search numbers on Ameba.
The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
The passages between ＊～＊ are mine.
Additional note.
Actually, that is not all.
For example, under copyright law, there is what is called the wartime extension, and in Japan the rights for foreign works are extended by ten years.
In other words, the claim is that Japan did not protect copyrights during the war.
But did Japan fight a war for ten years?
And if that logic applies, should it not apply equally to the victorious countries?
If one searches, there must be any number of other examples.
The position of being a defeated nation has still not ended.
The enemy-state clauses of the United Nations have still not been deleted.
I want more people to know, as common sense, the postwar settlement that the Japanese people paid for with their blood and squeezed out of themselves.
If they did, they would be able to take pride in being Japanese.
After all, there is probably no country that has carried out postwar settlement so earnestly.
After World War I, Germany, faced with reparations that were far too harsh, ultimately chose the next war.
http://webtoy.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/500202/
Sixty-eight years after the end of the Greater East Asia War, despite having completed payment of all reparations throughout the world, there exists next door a deranged country that, while receiving massive compensation payments Japan had no original obligation to pay and enormous assistance, still continues to demand apology and compensation based on fabricated history.
Moreover, there is an ethnic group that does not return to its mother country, parasitizes Japan, shouts anti-Japanese slogans inside Japan, and continues to commit crimes while pretending to be Japanese.
Has the patience of the Japanese people not already reached its limit?
Is it not time to draw a clear line?
They have not paid the loans from the IMF period, various other debts, or even the interest.
How long must we allow them to keep saying, “Japan must have a correct historical understanding and sincerely apologize and compensate”?
No matter how much money they extort, and no matter how many times Diet members without historical understanding apologize, they have declared that they will keep saying this for the next thousand years.
This is no joke.
＊The person who said, in response to this, that Japan must indeed apologize forever was Haruki Murakami, who, in reality, may without exaggeration be called an agent of China and South Korea.
As I have already written, when I first saw his writing in the “Biographies of Japan’s Hollow Men” series in the monthly magazine Sound Argument, I was stunned by the immaturity of his prose style.
I have now become convinced that my supposition was entirely correct: that Murakami plagiarized the representative work written by Joyce Carol Oates, an American woman writer, a professor at Princeton University, and a Nobel Prize candidate, who had drawn inspiration from Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” and wrote Norwegian Wood from it.
The reason is that when I searched just now to confirm Joyce Carol Oates’s full name, I became convinced of this.
My intuition, which I was the first in the world to express, flashed in my mind when I previously searched for Joyce on Wikipedia and saw the facts written there.
Having lived a singular life, I walked through life together with Bob Dylan and John Lennon.
As I have already written, they were, so to speak, my close friends, constantly encouraging me and guiding me.
To an extent ordinary people cannot understand… one need only recall Yuming’s true once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece, Hikōkigumo.
Because I am such a person, it flashed upon me in an instant.
Many people would agree with my inference that the greatest turning point that enabled the publishing world, which had completely begun its path toward a declining industry, to make Murakami into the darling of the publishing world was Haruki Murakami’s writing of Norwegian Wood.
That is because Joyce Carol Oates, the author of the novel that I intuitively recognized as the original source of Norwegian Wood, is the genuine article, and because the above-mentioned representative work of hers is probably her once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece.
The nature of the Asahi Shimbun, which prevents people from searching for inconvenient facts, the people of the Korean Peninsula, and one-party dictators is truly similar.
Perhaps because my point struck exactly at the heart of the matter, distorted Harukists had completely deleted the above-mentioned passage from the Japanese Wikipedia article on Joyce Carol Oates!
Not only that, the article, which had once been of considerable length, had become unbelievably short.
They never realize that such conduct instead exposes the truth.＊
Do you intend to let them continue uttering such incomprehensible nonsense down to our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren, and generations beyond them?
Will such a Japanese response not be judged by the world as nothing but cowardice, rather than indecisive good nature?
No matter how much one speaks inside Japan of “Japanese pride,” “Bushido,” or “the Yamato spirit,” once one steps outside Japan, one realizes that such things are of no use whatsoever.
What must be asserted must be asserted thoroughly, again and again, until finally one’s true meaning and will are conveyed to the other side.
That is international common sense.
Should we not settle such foolish matters in our own generation?
The current outstanding loan balance to South Korea is 67.58 trillion yen in state loans.
It was originally scheduled to be fully repaid in 1982.
There are also 8.9 trillion yen in private-sector loans, but even most of the interest has still not been repaid.
On top of that, they continue to say, “Give us money!”
What they say is the same as the yakuza.
No, it is even worse.
To be continued.