Published on January 15, 2020.
This article reconstructs a chapter originally issued on January 12, 2019, criticizing an NHK Seoul bureau chief who appeared on “watch9” and categorically stated that “Japan colonized Korea.”
It questions the historical view that equates Japan’s rule of the Korean Peninsula with Western-style colonialism, refers to modernization projects such as railways, schools, ports, dams, and Keijo Imperial University, and argues that NHK owes an explanation to the Japanese people.

January 15, 2020
If he cannot explain it, he must immediately resign as an NHK employee, which in effect means a national public servant, and apologize to the Japanese state and the Japanese people.
The chapter I issued on January 12, 2019, titled “NHK Seoul Bureau Chief Takano Categorically Commented, ‘Japan Made Korea a Colony…’ This Is the Reality of NHK, Japan’s State Broadcaster,” is now overwhelmingly ranked number one in goo’s real-time top ten.
Perhaps the people who were watching watch9 a little while ago remembered it and searched for it again.
A chapter I issued on November 21, 2018, titled “A Little While Ago, NHK Seoul Bureau Chief Takano Categorically Commented, ‘Japan Made Korea a Colony…’” is now ranked number one in searches on Ameba, with a number overwhelmingly higher than usual.
It is probably because the true nature of the country called South Korea has begun to be exposed in broad daylight.
In this chapter, I have made some additions and organized the paragraphs.
Among those who make their living in the media, the simplest way to distinguish those who are under the influence of operations from China or the Korean Peninsula, such as money traps or honey traps, is to see whether their facial expressions on television are all strange.
Within those strange expressions, they always say exactly what accords with Chinese or Korean Peninsula propaganda.
Just now, when I was watching NHK’s watch9, a man with the title of Seoul bureau chief appeared.
This man stated categorically, as though it were a complete fact, that Japan had colonized Korea.
Let me first say something simple.
Did Japanese people colonize Korea?
On the contrary, what fact exists other than the fact that millions of people from the Korean Peninsula settled in, or came over to, Japan?
The concept of a colony means that powerful Western countries made poor regions around the world into colonies, exploited the products of those regions, and enriched their own countries.
What products of the Korean Peninsula did Japan exploit in order to become wealthy?
The facts are completely the opposite.
The Korean Peninsula was a country with a king and where the yangban had trampled the country completely—according to Professor Hiroshi Furuta, one of the world’s leading experts on the Korean Peninsula, it was an ancient despotic state—and at last the national treasury had become empty.
At that time, the Korean Peninsula had one of the worst status discrimination systems in the world, unbelievably subdivided.
Aside from the king and the yangban, everyone was a discriminated person.
Even scholars were discriminated persons.
Perhaps for that reason as well, it was one of the poorest countries in the world.
At the same time, this was also the period when Russia was beginning to try to turn the Korean Peninsula into its dependency.
China, which had been its suzerain since time immemorial, so to speak, had never wanted to obtain the Korean Peninsula.
As many experts on the Korean Peninsula say, it was because its people only brought trouble.
The United States withdrew all its consulates and other offices, saying, “There is no system here as a state. This is not a country.”
Then it told Japan.
Japan had no choice but to annex it.
Although it is a clear historical fact that Japan did not make it a colony but made it into a united state, and that the king of Korea at the time was received as if he were a member of Japan’s Imperial Family,
a little while ago, NHK Seoul Bureau Chief Takano categorically commented, “Japan made Korea a colony…”
This is the reality of NHK, Japan’s state broadcaster.
Takano.
Which Western country in the age of colonialism invested more than 25 percent of its own national budget in a colony and built schools throughout the entire land?
For a people who were virtually in the condition of an ancient state, Japan not only provided compulsory education, but even established Keijo Imperial University, now Seoul National University, in 1924, Taisho 13, earlier than the establishment of Nagoya University.
Which Western country also built every kind of infrastructure, including railways, ports, and dams?
Japan did exactly the opposite of those countries.
It transformed the Korean Peninsula, which had been a premodern state, all at once into a modern state like Japan.
You need to explain properly on watch9 where in the West there was such a colonialist state.
If you cannot explain it, you must immediately resign as an NHK employee, which in effect means a national public servant, and apologize to the Japanese state and the Japanese people.
That is because your words and actions are equivalent to treason against the state and false accusation.