2020-01-08
In March 2019, Kang Kyung-wha, South Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a statement of about thirteen minutes at the High-Level Segment of the Human Rights Council, and once again criticized Japan over the comfort women issue.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Moves to guard against the author’s activities have also begun to appear.
This happened when I participated in the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in August 2018.
Two days before the review of Japan was to take place, I remained in the hall from morning until the end, listening to the proceedings.
However, the next day, a Japanese newspaper reported that “House of Councillors member Itokazu Keiko, elected from Okinawa, spoke at the United Nations.”
Although I had been in the chamber from morning until the end, I had heard no statement by Senator Itokazu.
Therefore, when I checked with two media companies that have bureaus inside the United Nations, they told me, “Japanese left-wing NGOs told the UN committee members that Mr. Fujiki was frightening, and in fact, they held a meeting with the committee members one hour before the session began.”
As a result of my having overturned, one by one, the lies told by the left at the United Nations, they must have thought that, if they excluded me from UN meetings, they could once again have the stage entirely to themselves, as before.
Since this kind of obstruction may continue to occur in the future, I believe it is necessary to increase conservative activities at the United Nations.
Another example is my protest against South Korea and North Korea.
In March 2019, Kang Kyung-wha, South Korea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a statement of about thirteen minutes at the High-Level Segment of the Human Rights Council, and once again criticized Japan over the comfort women issue.
This was despite the fact that, in the Japan-South Korea agreement on the comfort women issue reached at the end of 2015, South Korea had promised “not to raise this issue again in the international community.”
Furthermore, the North Korean government delegation also made statements such as that the abduction issue had already been resolved by agreement with the Japanese government, and that “not making Korean schools tuition-free is racial discrimination.”
Therefore, I immediately secured an NGO speaking slot at the Human Rights Council and rebutted each of these two countries.
The scenes from that occasion have been made public on YouTube in videos titled “Texas Daddy Secretariat: Fujiki Shunichi Pursues South Korea’s Repeated Treaty Violations at the United Nations” and “Texas Daddy Secretariat: Fujiki Shunichi Rebuts Statements Contrary to Fact by the North Korean Government at the United Nations,” so I ask readers to watch them.
Due to space limitations, I can introduce only a small portion of my rebuttal here, but with regard to South Korea, I explained that the so-called “wartime laborers” were not “forced laborers,” but workers who had traveled to Japan seeking high incomes, and that any compensation, including individual claims, had been settled completely and finally under the 1965 Agreement on the Settlement of Problems concerning Property and Claims between Japan and South Korea.
With regard to the 2015 Japan-South Korea agreement on the comfort women issue, I also emphasized that “a treaty is a legally binding promise between states, and even children know that breaking a promise is wrong.”
To the North Korean government, I also pointed out that North Korea’s statements had no basis regarding “forced laborers” who had not been forced, “sex slaves” who were merely wartime prostitutes, and “subsidies for Korean schools” that do not follow the rules.
Regarding Korean schools, I appealed that, if they satisfy the standards of Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, they can become eligible for subsidies as early as the following day, and I called for the return of all Japanese “abduction victims” whose abductions North Korea itself has acknowledged.
To be continued.