Published on February 5, 2020.
This article republishes a chapter originally posted on October 17, 2019, and discusses an essay by Nishioka Tsutomu published in the monthly magazine Hanada.
It introduces Nishioka’s argument that the “theory of illegal rule” promoted since the 1980s by Wada Haruki and other so-called “conscientious Japanese” lies behind the South Korean Supreme Court ruling on former wartime laborers, and examines Japan’s historical-recognition issues surrounding the comfort women issue, the wartime laborer issue, the Asahi Shimbun, Alexis Dudden, and others.

2020-02-05
The activities carried out since the 1980s by Mr. Wada and other “anti-Japanese Japanese” lie behind the unjust ruling issued by the South Korean Supreme Court last October.
People such as Alexis Dudden.
I am republishing the chapter posted on October 17, 2019, under the title:
“People Such as Alexis Dudden, Though They Are Agents of Nazist States That Still Exist in the Twenty-First Century, Namely China and the Korean Peninsula, Bear the Titles of University Professors and Legislators; They Are the Most Malignant People in This World.”
The following is the chapter posted on August 28, 2019, under the title:
“Japan’s ‘Conscientious Intellectuals’ Also Bear Great Responsibility for the Present Grave Situation.
In connection with wartime laborers, they looked on at, assisted, and, in worse cases, even participated in the distortion of history.”
The following is from an essay by Nishioka Tsutomu, published in this month’s issue of the monthly magazine Hanada, in the special feature “The Disease Called Korea,” under the title “Anti-Japanese Japanese Who Still Side with Korea Even at This Late Stage.”
He is the scholar who perfectly verified and pointed out that the so-called comfort women reports fabricated and spread throughout the world by the Asahi Shimbun were false.
In other words, he is a truly great Japanese who has made the greatest contribution to Japan and the Japanese people.
He is worthy not only of the People’s Honor Award, but also of the Nobel Prize.
People such as Alexis Dudden, who took advantage of the Asahi Shimbun’s fabrication to demean Japan in the United States, the United Nations, and other parts of the international community.
Though they are agents of Nazist states that still exist in the twenty-first century, namely China and the Korean Peninsula, they bear the titles of university professors and legislators, and are the most malignant people in this world.
The evil deeds by which Nazist states such as China and the Korean Peninsula, together with their agents, have worked behind the scenes
to keep Japan, the country toward which The Turntable of Civilization is turning as divine providence,
in the position of a political prisoner in the international community
are what have created today’s unstable and extremely dangerous world.
The emphases marked with ＊～＊ and those in the text are mine.
The True Nature of “Conscientious Japanese”
Mr. Wada Haruki and others, who bear great responsibility for the deterioration of Japan-Korea relations, are once again doing strange things that worsen the situation.
On July 25, Mr. Wada and others, together with more than seventy like-minded people, issued a statement criticizing the current Abe administration’s policy toward Korea.
In my latest book, The Fabricated Wartime Laborer Issue, published by Soshisha, I devoted one chapter to criticizing the fact that the activities carried out since the 1980s by Mr. Wada and other “anti-Japanese Japanese” lie behind the unjust ruling issued by the South Korean Supreme Court last October.
To summarize that criticism:
● Mr. Wada stood on the “theory of illegal rule,” which denies the legal validity of the 1910 Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty, and since the 1980s he has continued a movement to make that biased view of theirs the official view of the Japanese government.
＊ Hashimoto Toru, who appeared either on a special election-night program for the House of Councillors election or later on a BS-TBS program, acted as if, because he was a lawyer, he knew the truth, in the manner of no more than a mere lawyer, and spoke with absurd arrogance as if siding with these contemptible people.
In this respect, Hashimoto Toru was truly unforgivable, equivalent to a traitor to the nation, and lower than toilet paper. ＊
● In 2010, they issued something called the Japan-Korea Intellectuals’ Joint Statement, aiming to have Prime Minister Kan Naoto at the time issue a prime ministerial statement incorporating that position.
Prime Minister Kan did repeat apologies, but even he did not explicitly include in the statement the “theory of illegal rule,” which would overturn the foundation of Japan-Korea relations.
However, the activities of Mr. Wada and others were widely reported in Korea.
● Two years later, in 2012, a small bench of the South Korean Supreme Court, in a lawsuit brought by former wartime laborers, adopted for the first time the “theory of illegal rule” proposed by Mr. Wada and others as the basis of its reasoning, and issued a remand ruling overturning the lower-court judgment in favor of Japanese companies.
● The final Supreme Court ruling last October used the same reasoning.
Here too, my long-held view has been proven: that since the 1980s, it has been Japanese people who have set fire to historical-recognition issues.
That same Mr. Wada has once again issued a statement criticizing the Japanese government.
Although it was almost completely ignored by the Japanese mass media, in Korea it is still praised as the activity of “conscientious Japanese.”
As a result, it obstructs a proper understanding in Korea of why the great majority of Japanese people support the current Abe administration’s policy toward Korea.
In August of this year, Mr. Wada received the Manhae Peace Prize for reasons including his spread of the “theory of illegal rule.”
At the award ceremony held in Korea on August 12, Mr. Wada said:
“For sixty-six years, I have appealed so that the Japanese government and people would live with a heart of reflection and apology regarding colonial rule and the past.
I want to continue walking the same path until the final moment.”
The prize, said to be one of the most prestigious in Korea, commemorates Han Yong-un, a Buddhist monk, poet, and independence activist whose pen name was Manhae, and every year honors “persons who have contributed to world peace.”
Past recipients include the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Kim Dae-jung.
Meanwhile, on July 28, Dr. Lee Woo-yeon, an up-and-coming Korean economic historian who has empirically criticized the conventional theories of forced mobilization and slave labor concerning the wartime laborer issue, criticized Mr. Wada and others on social media, saying:
“These movements by some people in Japan do not help Korea-Japan relations.
They instead encourage the Korean government, which is moving in the wrong direction, and are harmful.
Japan’s ‘conscientious intellectuals’ also bear great responsibility for the current grave situation.
In connection with wartime laborers, they looked on at, assisted, and, in worse cases, even participated in the distortion of history.
The comfort women issue is the same.
Why did they do this?
It was ‘sympathy-ism.’
They are now once again trying to cover up the facts.”
To begin with, for Mr. Wada, who bears responsibility for worsening Japan-Korea relations to this extent, to question the Abe administration’s responsibility is truly an unforgivable “match-pump” argument.
His sin is great.
To be continued.