Continuing from the previous chapter, this passage argues that realities ignored by outlets such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK include the many ways in which the South Korean government unilaterally violated the December 28, 2015 agreement on the comfort women issue.
While the Japanese government faithfully carried out its side of the agreement, the South Korean government is described here as having repeatedly promoted the issue internationally through exhibitions, support for UNESCO registration, the establishment of a research institute, speeches at the United Nations, and the creation of an official commemorative day.
The passage sharply criticizes the political pandering to anti-Japanese sentiment behind these actions, as well as the Japanese media structure that abets it.

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2019-03-02
As a result, Japan had vast sums of taxpayers’ money—more than 100 trillion yen in enormous blood-earned taxes—wrung out of it. The five percent of operatives hidden among NHK and Asahi employees should be arrested at once and

What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The citizens who merely read the Asahi Shimbun or watch NHK are being told nothing of these many facts.
Organizations such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK are completely cooperative bodies for South Korea and are under its influence…。
In other words, they themselves are proving that they are outright traitorous, anti-national organizations.
In the very South Korea or China with which they cooperate, their existence would not be tolerated.
They would all be arrested immediately, and their organizations would be shut down.
The punishments would also be severe, and the worst of them would likely receive death sentences.
From that standpoint, when one looks at them, their absurdity reaches an almost lamentable level of ridicule.
On last night’s News Watch 9, the program-makers on Japan–South Korea relations and the people called “anchors” alike—human beings as incomprehensible as the title itself…。
They are certainly not journalists; they are merely NHK employees affecting the air of celebrity-like journalists, and they represent the height of poor study…。
No, in reality it should be called the height of maliciously biased reporting and information manipulation—namely Arima and Kuwako.
Their manner is precisely the very same “sanctimonious pretense” that until August five years ago formed the core of the Asahi Shimbun’s reporting…。
It seems they are still, without the slightest remorse, continuing exactly the same kind of reporting…。
That is exactly what it is.
It may well be called pseudo-moralism…。
This “sanctimonious pretense” is the cause that has allowed South Korea and China, countries of bottomless evil and plausible falsehoods, to keep taking advantage of Japan,
and as a result Japan had more than 100 trillion yen in the people’s tax money wrung from it.
The five percent of operatives hidden among NHK and Asahi employees should be arrested at once and subjected to severe punishment.
Only then could one say that this is a proper nation, an advanced nation.
A country that has major media and state broadcasting under the influence of countries like China and the Korean Peninsula cannot be called an advanced nation.
Mr. Kobayashi of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives ought to denounce such Japanese media in the harshest possible terms.
As things stand, this is below even a backward country.
It is Japan’s cancer.

3-1-2. The unilateral destruction of the Japan–South Korea agreement on the comfort women issue.
On December 28, 2015, the governments of Japan and South Korea confirmed that the comfort women issue had been “resolved finally and irreversibly” through the following measures.
(1) Prime Minister Abe, as Prime Minister of Japan, once again expresses his most sincere apologies and remorse to all those who, as comfort women, underwent immeasurable and painful experiences and suffered incurable physical and psychological wounds.
(2) The South Korean government will establish a foundation for the purpose of supporting the former comfort women, to which the Japanese government will make a lump-sum contribution from its budget, and the governments of Japan and South Korea will cooperate to carry out projects for recovering the honor and dignity of all former comfort women and healing their psychological wounds.
(3) On the premise that the Japanese government states the above in (1) and faithfully implements the measure in (2), the present announcement confirms that this issue is resolved finally and irreversibly.
At the same time, the Japanese government, together with the South Korean government, will refrain from accusing or criticizing each other regarding this issue in the international community, including at the United Nations, from now on.
The Japanese government faithfully and steadily carried out all of the above measures in good faith.
However, far from honoring this agreement, the South Korean side has unilaterally trampled upon the contents of (3)—that “the comfort women issue has been resolved irreversibly, and that both sides will refrain from accusing or criticizing each other in the international community, including at the United Nations”—through the following actions.

1. According to Hankyoreh News dated June 30, 2017, from July to August 2017, the South Korean government hosted a “Special Exhibition on Victims of the Japanese Military Comfort Women.”
   The exhibition traveled from the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Seoul to Jeonju, Daejeon, and Daegu.
   This was an act by the South Korean government of reviving the comfort women issue, which was supposed to have been resolved finally and irreversibly, and it violates Article 3 of the Japan–South Korea agreement.
2. Yonhap News dated July 11, 2017 reported as follows.
   “On July 11, at a press room he visited for his inaugural greeting, Minister of Gender Equality and Family Chung Hyun-back, regarding the application by civic groups in South Korea, China, and elsewhere to register materials related to the former Japanese military comfort women issue in UNESCO’s ‘Memory of the World,’ stated, ‘The comfort women issue is no longer merely an issue between Korea and Japan but an international issue, and therefore I believe we can obtain international support,’ thereby expressing expectations for the registration.
   On the previous day, the 10th, during a meeting with victims at the House of Sharing in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, where former comfort women live together, Chung had indicated the government’s intention to support the registration.”
   For the South Korean government to support registering the comfort women issue in UNESCO’s Memory of the World clearly violates Article 3 of the Japan–South Korea agreement.
3. Sankei News dated February 23, 2018 reported as follows.
   “Geneva = Mina Mitsui.
   On the 22nd at the United Nations Office at Geneva, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women conducted its review of South Korea, and Minister of Gender Equality and Family Chung Hyun-back stated that the South Korean government plans to newly establish a tentatively named ‘Comfort Women Research Institute’ as early as this August in order to broadly raise awareness of the comfort women issue.
   Chung introduced that August 14 had been designated in South Korea as a commemorative day honoring former comfort women, and asserted, ‘The suffering of comfort women is directly connected to human rights. Conveying this is a priority policy.’
   She also said they were making efforts to ‘collect materials from around the world regarding comfort women and sex slaves,’ and stated that through the new institute they wished to commemorate the comfort women issue and pass it on to future generations.
   She also argued that ‘it is important to teach it to young students as a subject of history.’”
   This statement by Minister Chung raised the comfort women issue at the United Nations and furthermore developed the baseless assertion of “sex slaves.”
   It violates the spirit of Article 3 of the Japan–South Korea agreement and breaks the promise made by the governments of both countries.
4. At a plenary session on November 24, 2017, the South Korean National Assembly passed a law making August 14 each year an official commemorative day honoring former comfort women.
   The law includes provisions for conducting events to convey and preserve the memory of the comfort women issue domestically and abroad, and obligates the state and local governments to make efforts to carry out events and publicity in line with the purpose of the commemorative day.
   Making it obligatory to convey the comfort women issue domestically and abroad violates Article 3 of the Japan–South Korea agreement.
5. According to Yonhap News dated February 27, 2018, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on February 26, 2018 local time, referred to the comfort women issue of the former Japanese military, saying that “past wrongs must not be repeated.”
   This is clearly a violation of the agreement.
6. Sankei News dated August 10, 2018 reported as follows.
   “Seoul = Norio Sakurai.
   The South Korean government’s ‘Japanese Military “Comfort Women” Issue Research Institute,’ responsible for systematic study of the comfort women issue, opened in Seoul on the 10th and held its opening ceremony.
   Appointed as director was Professor Kim Chang-rok of Kyungpook National University, who advocates the ‘immediate nullification’ of the 2015 Japan–South Korea agreement on the comfort women issue.
   (omitted) The institute will proceed with collecting and databasing domestic and foreign materials concerning the comfort women issue, and will also support the designation of materials judged to have preservation value as ‘national records.’
   It is also said that it will work to translate the testimony of former comfort women into foreign languages and disseminate it to the international community.”
   For a South Korean government institution to translate the testimony of former comfort women into foreign languages and disseminate it internationally is clearly a violation of the agreement.
   Furthermore, the South Korean government has erected a memorial monument to former comfort women at government expense inside a national cemetery in the central region.
7. President Moon Jae-in himself referred to the comfort women issue in a United Nations speech.
   According to Sankei News dated September 27, 2018, in his general debate speech at the UN General Assembly on September 26, President Moon Jae-in referred to the comfort women issue and stated that “Korea directly experienced the 피해 of the Japanese military comfort women,” effectively delivering a speech condemning Japan over the comfort women issue.
   To be continued.