This article introduces Yoshiko Sakurai’s analysis of the 2018 South Korean Supreme Court ruling on former Korean Peninsula workers. Despite the 1965 Japan-Korea Claims Agreement having fully resolved the issue, South Korea continues to demand compensation from Japanese companies. The essay examines the revolutionary ideological movement behind this decision and the role played by Japanese intellectuals who support anti-Japan narratives.

2019-02-12.
They attempt to impose unjust rulings upon Japan and extract enormous sums of money, while also forcing upon the majority of South Korean citizens a revolution that they themselves would never wish for, dragging the entire country into a pro–North Korean socialist revolution led by radical forces.

The chapter titled “In addition to Professor Emeritus Haruki Wada of the University of Tokyo, many others—including a former deputy editorial writer of the Asahi Shimbun—signed their names,” which I published on 2018-11-06, is now overwhelmingly ranked No.1 in Ameba search results.
The article ranked second, “Do You Know Why TBS Engages in Anti-Japan Reporting?”, also receives many searches, but this one has more than twice as many.

The following is from an essay by Yoshiko Sakurai that appeared yesterday on the front page of the Sankei Shimbun.

On October 30, the South Korean Supreme Court ordered Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal (formerly Nippon Steel) to pay 400 million won (approximately 40 million yen) in damages to four former workers from the Korean Peninsula.

Article 2 of the 1965 Japan–South Korea Claims and Economic Cooperation Agreement confirms that issues concerning claims between “the two countries and their nationals (including juridical persons)” were “settled completely and finally.”
It clearly states that all claims—including those of individuals and corporations—were fully resolved.

At the time, the Japanese government took every precaution and exchanged official minutes between the two countries.
These include eight explanatory items concerning claims.
Unpaid wages and compensation for wartime laborers were included among them, making it doubly and triply clear that the issue had been settled.

It was therefore entirely natural that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe immediately stated after the ruling that it was “a judgment that cannot be accepted in light of international law.”
The Prime Minister also deliberately avoided the term “forced laborers,” referring instead to them as “workers from the former Korean Peninsula.”
This point was crucial, as it sharply exposed the dubiousness of the Moon Jae-in administration, which attempts to turn black into white.

The series of abnormal developments under the Moon administration would be unimaginable in a normal rule-of-law state.
These events show that South Korea is in the midst of a socialist revolution.

Revolutionary forces destroy the entire order that existed before them.
Treaties, contracts, and common sense are discarded like scraps of paper.
That is precisely what the Moon administration is doing.

They impose unjust rulings on Japan and seek to extract vast sums of money, while also forcing upon the majority of South Koreans a revolution they never desired, dragging the entire country into a pro-North Korean socialist revolution led by radical elements.

The current issue of “workers from the former Korean Peninsula” must be understood within this broader framework.
No compromise is necessary with the revolutionary-oriented Moon administration.
If a socialist revolution succeeds on the Korean Peninsula, Japan’s security and diplomacy will face severe difficulties.
Japan must urgently strengthen its own capabilities.

At least 273 companies that could potentially be sued from South Korea must deepen their understanding of the Moon administration and prepare for the policies that the revolutionary government may soon implement.

Moon’s campaign pledge of “clearing accumulated evils” should be understood as the elimination of the pro-Japan mainstream faction.
It should be seen as an attempt to build a state based on the ideology of Kim Il-sung.

This article continues.

At present, I deeply despise those thousand signatories mentioned above, especially Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami, to the same depth as Japan’s beautiful seas and the same height as its mountains.
For they are, quite literally, traitors and enemies of the nation.