Based on a dialogue between Masayuki Takayama and Miki Otaka, this article examines the influx of Koreans into Japan before and during the war, Ikaino, Hiroshima, the wartime labor issue, and its connection with comfort women propaganda. It also considers anti-Japan activities conducted under Japanese names and the structure that gives rise to second and third Seiji Yoshidas.

February 26, 2020
Koreans seem to say that they were a colony, but if they had been colonial subjects, they would never have been allowed to freely enter and leave the suzerain country, Japan.
And they even obtained jobs without discrimination (laughs).
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Koreans Flowing into Japan
Takayama
Since South Korea was founded in 1948, that country has always done strange things.
Before that, during the 36 years of Japanese rule, life was peaceful and comfortable, and rice was harvested in sufficient amounts.
There was plenty of food and work, and people lived fulfilled lives.
Koreans seem to say that they were a colony, but if they had been colonial subjects, they would never have been allowed to freely enter and leave the suzerain country, Japan.
And they even obtained jobs without discrimination (laughs).
Otaka
In the Joseon dynasty period, Korean women, who were discriminated against under the idea that “no one except the yangban is a person,” were truly lively and enjoying life.
This can be understood very clearly from Osamu Tajima’s How Bright Korean Rule Was, as Told by 300 Unique Advertisements, published by Business-sha, page 164.
Takayama
In 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and one large city disappeared.
At that time, the population of Hiroshima City was about 350,000.
Of that number, about 80,000 were Koreans.
The Koreans who entered Japan had no work in rural villages, so they all flowed into the cities.
Even so, the fact that one out of every five Hiroshima citizens was a Korean who had flowed in is an astonishing figure.
When one thinks about it that way, it is understandable that many Korean victims were produced by the atomic bombing.
Otaka
That is how many Koreans were in Japanese cities.
Takayama
It is hard to believe, but at that time, a ferry connecting Jeju Island and Ikaino in Osaka was regularly going back and forth.
Otaka
Today it has become Ikuno Ward and forms a Korean town.
It is the place of origin of Ko Yong-hui, the biological mother of Kim Jong-un, and of Mun Se-gwang, who assassinated Yuk Young-soo, the wife of Park Chung-hee.
I visited it several times for reporting, and there were places such as the Christian church where Asahi reporter Uemura gave a lecture, Chongryon and Mindan facilities, and meeting places for people who had fled from Jeju Island.
It gave me the impression not so much of Ikaino as of “another-world field” (laughs).
Takayama
Those Koreans who flowed in are now making a fuss, saying they were forcibly taken as wartime laborers and are pitiable victims.
Otaka
And the fact that Japanese people are helping them makes it unbearable.
We do not know who the people carrying out anti-Japanese activities under Japanese names really are.
Especially overseas, if they operate under common Japanese-style names and keep spreading false information that degrades Japan, it becomes impossible to settle the matter.
Foreigners are deceived into thinking, “Since this is testimony by a Japanese person, it must be true.”
Because such activists have been left alone, we have allowed a situation in which second and third Seiji Yoshidas can be born.
Takayama
Katsuichi Honda, too, is still living at ease.
Otaka
This time, when I looked into the names of activists involved in the wartime labor issue, there were indeed people who overlap with the comfort women issue propaganda group.
They are anti-Japan maniacs.
Takayama
The root is one and the same (laughs).
Otaka
Just as with the comfort women issue, there is a strong possibility that lawsuit brokers for the wartime labor issue will operate behind the scenes.
In the case of the comfort women issue, Soon-im Yang, the mother-in-law of Takashi Uemura and chairwoman of the Association of Bereaved Families of Pacific War Victims, formed the “Civilian Claims Litigation Group against Japan” in 2010 and