This essay exposes how student movements, leftist ideology, and major media outlets shaped a distorted postwar narrative in Japan. It reveals how enormous Japanese investment in the Korean Peninsula was erased from public memory and how a false “colonial” narrative was cultivated through newspapers like the Asahi and their television affiliates.

The reason is that the majority of the Japanese people grew up subscribing to the Asahi and watching television broadcasts aired by its subsidiary networks.
January 29, 2016.

What, then, is a university student?

First and foremost, a university student is someone who is still living off the support of their parents. Of course, among them there are not a few young people with the grit to work multiple part-time jobs and graduate from university even though they have no parental support to rely on.

However, the majority live off their parents.

The nature of households in the United States and in Japan differs greatly in this respect, but this too is a matter of ethnicity and family history.

In the first place, a university is the highest institution of learning. In other words, it is a place where one must pursue scholarship to its fullest. Even today, there are many students who fail to realize this.

The true duty of a student is to pursue to the utmost the field of study that he or she has chosen.

All the more so while one is still living off one’s parents.

One’s way of life and one’s attitudes should be determined only after one has entered society and become able to earn one’s own living.

Yet the people who spent their university days in those times misunderstood this point, convinced themselves that they were already full-fledged adults, and began to speak about politics.

Needless to say, what made organizations such as the Democratic Youth League (Minsei) and the Zenkyōtō absolutely evil was precisely the fact that they “harvested” students while they were still supposed to be devoted to their studies, and pulled them into their own ideology.

This may be a perspective that no one but I had at the time.

Those who, then and even now, have been drawing students into political activities through Minsei and similar groups are precisely the kind of people that even King Enma would never forgive.

Many of those people later entered the media. As represented by Katsuhiko Honda and Yayori Matsui of the Asahi Shimbun—and indeed all of the successive television hosts who came from TBS and TV Asahi—Masayuki Takayama, the greatest journalist of the postwar world, has vividly described in one chapter of a certain book how all of them visited the utterly absurd so-called Anti-Japanese Memorial Halls that the Chinese Communist Party has been deploying across China as part of its anti-Japan propaganda, and what they said there. It was Takayama who first revealed this.

In other words, it is no exaggeration at all to say that all of them were nothing less than spokespersons for the Chinese Communist Party and for South Korea.

During the period in which Japan annexed the Korean Peninsula, Japan continuously invested more than 20 percent of its national budget into the peninsula. To have called such a state of affairs “colonial rule” is in itself absurd stupidity.

In other words, it is the stupidity and evil created by people who gladly aligned themselves with the evil that will be described below.

Colonialism is something that the Western powers originated. Yet it is a historically indisputable fact that not a single country ever continued, as Japan did, to pour more than 20 percent of its national budget into its so-called colony throughout the entire period of its control.

What this fact signifies is that the claim that Japan made the Korean Peninsula into a colony is nothing but a blatant lie.

The historical truth is that the Korean Peninsula, which did not wish to be conquered by Russia either, was, through the Sino-Japanese War, liberated for the first time in its history from being a tributary state of China. Naturally, it did not desire to become a tributary of China once again.

Amid the circumstances that surrounded the peninsula at that time, Korea chose union with Japan.

This is an unmistakable historical fact. That is precisely why Japan regarded Korea as completely one with itself and invested over 20 percent of its national budget there. How magnificent and outstanding Japan’s infrastructure investment was can be seen, for example, in the railway tracks that were laid all at once using standard gauge that exceeded even that of the Japanese National Railways; in the dams that supplied electricity across the entire peninsula in one sweep; and in the founding of Seoul National University, which predates even the establishment of Nagoya University.

A place where such things were done cannot possibly be called a colony. A colony is a system in which the products of the land are ruthlessly exploited while the local people are left in abject poverty.

The claim that Japan made the Korean Peninsula into a colony is nothing but a monstrous lie born of unspeakable evil.

Those who believe this lie must also understand that they too are evil to a degree that even King Enma would never forgive.

For it constitutes the gravest possible insult to the blood taxes of the Japanese people who, year after year, poured more than 20 percent of the national budget into the peninsula.

On this count as well, there is no gate to heaven awaiting the Asahi and the people who have followed in its footsteps.

What awaits them instead is the boundless fury of the great figures that Japan has produced throughout its history—figures like Nobunaga and Hideyoshi—who would undoubtedly cut them down without hesitation.

As an aside, it is also a historical fact that Hirobumi Itō, who later became the Resident-General of Korea and was assassinated at Harbin Station, opposed the annexation out of concern, saying, “What good would it do to annex such a poor country?”

Precisely because Japan and Korea became a unified state, massive national budgets were invested and enormous infrastructure was built—railways, dams, and countless public buildings, amounting to immeasurable national assets.

As a result of these unprecedented investments, the Korean Peninsula, once one of the poorest regions in the world, was rapidly modernized.

In order to acquire these colossal Japanese assets free of charge after Japan’s defeat, South Korea (the Korean Peninsula) began to fabricate lies from A to Z and to implement anti-Japan education.

The persistence of their deception can be easily seen by searching the internet. For example, if one searches for information on the assets Japan invested in Korea, nothing will appear.

Why are there so few Japanese who understand that their thoroughgoing lies are intended to conceal the fact that they obtained these vast assets for nothing?

It is because the majority of the Japanese people grew up subscribing to the Asahi and watching television broadcasts aired by its subsidiary networks.

To be continued.

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