This article republishes a chapter first issued on January 4, 2019. Based on a dialogue between Masayuki Takayama and Miki Otaka, it examines Chongryon, forced labor claims, unpaid wages, privileges for Korean residents in Japan, Hosei University, and the spread of false information overseas regarding the comfort women issue.

February 26, 2020
Speaking of hate, false information about issues such as the comfort women issue has been spread one-sidedly overseas, and we have fallen into the absurd situation in which all Japanese people are victims of hate speech.
Is that true?
Hosei University had an especially high reputation among Korean residents in Japan.
Really?
That current still exists even now.
I am republishing, with corrections to paragraphs and so on, a chapter I published on January 4, 2019 under that title.
But does this mean that, behind this ruling, there was not only the South Korean Supreme Court running wild, but also an aspect in which the Japanese side prepared the stage?
Otaka
Exactly!
It is a match pump.
There is one more interesting point about “forced mobilization” made by Kim Chan-jong, a former member of Chongryon and a second-generation Korean resident in Japan who became a nonfiction writer.
It concerns the abundant source of funds of Choren, the League of Koreans in Japan, which was established after the war under GHQ directives and which later became Chongryon, and which may be called a detached unit of the Japanese Communist Party.
He wrote that “the largest source of funds was the unpaid wages and so on of the forced laborers who were returning home.
By the end of 1946, claims for unpaid wages were submitted in the name of the head of the Central Labor Department of Choren to Japanese companies that had employed those who had been forcibly taken.
The amount claimed reached 43.66 million yen, and Choren collected a considerable amount of money from Japanese companies.
Most of it did not go into the hands of the forcibly mobilized people, but was diverted to Choren’s activity funds” (from Chongryon, Shincho Shinsho).
Takayama
That is an interesting story.
Come to think of it, in 1945, the League of Koreans in Japan was formed.
It later split into Mindan and Chongryon, but the person who created the original base was Kim Chon-hae.
Amazingly, the theme he set for the league was “to make Japan a country where we can live comfortably” (laughs).
Otaka
Hasn’t that come true exactly as he wanted?
They are treated with such excessive favor that, when someone points out, “That is unfair,” it is called “hate,” and we are in a state where no scalpel can be applied to the problem.
Speaking of hate, false information about issues such as the comfort women issue has been spread one-sidedly overseas, and we have fallen into the absurd situation in which all Japanese people are victims of hate speech.
Takayama
That is truly so.
Whose country do they think Japan is?
As soon as the League of Koreans in Japan was established, in Osaka they issued ticket after ticket so that “Korean residents in Japan could ride freely on the national railways and private railways.”
Eisaku Sato, who was then director of the Osaka Railway Bureau, was surprised that the Osaka district had almost no revenue, and learned of the outrageous conduct of the Korean residents in Japan.
It seems he somehow crushed it, but the League of Koreans in Japan also created a scholarship association, and the children of Korean residents in Japan were allowed to enter Hosei, Meiji, and Chuo Universities freely.
Otaka
Is that true?
Takayama
Hosei University had an especially high reputation among Korean residents in Japan.
Otaka
Really?
That current still exists even now.
Jiro Yamaguchi, who said, “Abe is not human.
I will cut him down,” is a professor in the Faculty of Law at Hosei University.
Takayama
He is a professor who receives hundreds of millions of yen in scientific research funds from the government while shouting anti-government slogans.
Moreover, the president is the red Yuko Tanaka.
Otaka
I see.
The famous Sunday Morning faction on TBS (laughs).
In any case, the Japanese government, which has repeatedly failed in negotiations with the South Korean government over historical recognition, should say this to the South Korean government from now on.
“From now on, all compensation claims concerning forced mobilization should be made to the South Korean government or to Chongryon” (roaring laughter).
This article continues.