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They will continue to violate Japan’s sovereignty and carry out incursions to show their people that they are constantly fighting Japan
The emphasis in the text, except in the headings, is mine.
Hiroshi Furuta, Professor, Graduate School, University of Tsukuba
The World of “If a Lie Gets Through, So Much the Better”
September 20, 2012 — Sankei Shimbun
A series of political actions by East Asian countries has finally made it clearer to the public on this occasion that our country is surrounded by a group of threatening states: North Korea, the kidnapper state; South Korea, the island thief; and China, the sea thief.
≪Seeking the Illusion of “Victory over Japan”≫
Since publishing East Asia’s “Anti-Japan” Triangle (Bunshun Shinsho) in 2005, I have repeatedly warned through this column that our country would soon face a crisis.
In these countries, nationalism is layered upon a Sinocentric order founded on the conviction that they alone embody absolute justice.
Consequently, from the perspective of that Sinocentric order, they remain perpetually dissatisfied with the prosperity of Japan, which appeared to them in the Middle Ages as a peripheral land.
Nationalism erupts from the strata of tradition in the form of hostility toward Japan.
There were also problems with their postwar independence.
There is the country liberated by the United States without fighting the Japanese military (South Korea); the country that engaged in a little guerrilla warfare but suffered heavy losses and became a Soviet puppet (North Korea); and the country whose leaders built up their strength in the mountains while others fought the Japanese military, then drove out those who had fought and established an independent state after the war (China).
These countries cannot tell the story of their peoples without the false history that they defeated Japan.
I once wrote in this column that they would continue to violate Japan’s sovereignty and carry out incursions to show their people that they are constantly fighting Japan.
(“Seiron” column, May 8, 2009, “Are You Not Living in a Shameful Country?”).
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak landed on the island his country had seized and said:
“If the Emperor wishes to visit South Korea, he must apologize to Korean independence activists. If he comes only with the words ‘deep remorse,’ he need not come.”
South Korea’s Sinocentric order is merely a “small Sinocentric order,” that of an ass wearing the skin of the lion called China, yet it is clearly still full of enthusiasm for insulting Japan.