This essay examines anti-Japan narratives in South Korean state textbooks, including distortions surrounding the March First Movement, comfort women, and the wartime women’s volunteer corps, while arguing that the United Nations, NHK, and Asahi Shimbun have uncritically accepted and amplified such propaganda instead of confronting the historical record.

2019-04-11
After the Japan-Korea Annexation, just as the former West German region did for the former East German region after German reunification, Japan made enormous public and private investments for the modernization of the Korean Peninsula.
This is a chapter I published on 2019-03-01 under the title: Arima and Kuwako Should Know That They Are the Vilest of Human Beings and That Nothing Awaits Them But the Torments of Hell! You are the filthiest traitors and treacherous people of all.
At last, Japan’s men and women of discernment have risen up, against the anti-Japan propaganda of China, a communist dictatorship, and of the Korean Peninsula, which in reality is a totalitarian entity that has continued what can only be called Nazism in the form of anti-Japan education for 70 years after the war, and against those who take such propaganda at face value, while being manipulated at will by the intelligence agencies of both countries, and yet pose as intellectuals while drawing high salaries from Japan’s contributions…
Against Japan, the nation that has attained the highest intelligence and freedom in human history…
Japan, the nation in which “The Turntable of Civilization” turns as the result of having achieved, for the first time in human history, a civilization without class, without ideology, and without religion…
Against Japan, the country where women have been cherished and loved more than anywhere else in the world since the age of Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon…
Against the United Nations, which issues human-rights recommendations at every turn, and which is nothing less than a gathering of ignorant and benighted people, an organization composed of the worst human beings in history, and which Asahi Shimbun and anti-Japan profiteers have long exploited in order to demean Japan…
Japan’s clear-eyed patriots… most of them women… have at last presented the truth to this ignorant and benighted United Nations and to international society, in what is the most important essay of the 21st century.
What true freedom and intelligence are, to the ignorant and incompetent people of Asahi Shimbun, NHK, the United Nations, and so-called international society…
To people whose level is beneath that of elementary school children, who judge only by the loudness of a voice…
As a Nobunaga living in the present age, I will answer their magnificent achievement by sending a mighty voice out into the world.
The following is from page 226 of the monthly magazine Hanada Selection, Korea’s Two Lies: Forced Labor and Comfort Women (926 yen + tax, Asuka Shinsha).
The Reality of Korea’s Anti-Japan Campaign, published on the official website of the U.N. Committee, by the Japan NGO Network Against Racial Discrimination.
Preamble omitted.
III. Background.

1. History textbooks filled with anti-Japan descriptions.
   1-1. Completely at odds with historical fact.
   In the state-authorized South Korean elementary school social studies textbooks used in the 1990s, Japan’s “brutal acts” are described everywhere, and for example there are passages such as the following that drive children toward anti-Japan action.
   “Japan merged our country with its own, took everything from us, and oppressed our people.” “Let us discuss how we should confront Japan, which committed such barbaric acts.”
   However, this historical understanding is completely different from historical fact.
   In reality, Japan and the Korean Empire concluded the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty in accordance with international law and domestic law, by their respective wills, and the “annexation” of the two countries was realized, just as in the “union” of England and Scotland.
   As a result, the people of the Korean Empire acquired rights and duties as Japanese subjects.
   After the Japan-Korea Annexation, just as the former West German region did for the former East German region after German reunification, Japan made enormous public and private investments for the modernization of the Korean Peninsula.
   Because the Korean people also actively accepted this, it is a fact that the Korean Peninsula achieved modernization in only 35 years, at a speed unparalleled anywhere in the world.
   1-2. Anti-Japan middle and high school textbooks.
   Middle and high school history textbooks are also filled with anti-Japan descriptions, and for example the state-authorized middle school national history textbook of the 1990s contains the following passage regarding the so-called March First Movement of 1919.
   “Girls under ten years old, married women, and female students devoted themselves passionately to their motherland, and for the simple offense of crying out for independence, they were subjected to humiliating treatment and beaten. We were told that 300 little girls aged seven and under had already been shot to death.”
   This is propaganda writing designed to appeal to children’s emotions and stir up hatred and resentment toward Japan.
   But this too has no basis whatsoever and is not historical fact.
   The March First Movement began initially with students and religious figures seeking independence from Japan, but soon developed into a nationwide riot involving arson, looting, and murder.
   However, by judgment of the Supreme Court, the crime of insurrection was not applied to this riot, and only the Security Law and the Publication Law were applied.
   Naturally, not a single person was arrested merely for crying out for independence.
   Although in the March First riots 6 Japanese gendarmes and 2 police officers were massacred and many buildings were set on fire, not one person was sentenced to death, no one received a prison term of more than 15 years, and only 80 people received prison terms of more than 3 years.
   Moreover, under the general amnesty of 1920, their sentences were reduced by more than half.
   1-3. Distortion of history.
   Furthermore, the state-authorized middle school national history textbook of the 1990s contains the following description.
   “During the Second World War, even women were taken away under the name of the volunteer corps and victimized as comfort women for the Japanese military.”
   This description too is clearly a distortion of history.
   The volunteer corps were women who worked in factories during the war, and they were not forcibly gathered; on the Korean Peninsula, all participation was by application.
   Of course, they had absolutely nothing to do with comfort women, and among those who later came forward claiming to have been former comfort women, not a single one testified that she had been forcibly taken away as part of the volunteer corps and made into a comfort woman.
   As shown above, South Korean textbooks are filled with distortion and fabrication of history, and are used as tools to plant hatred and resentment toward Japan in children.
   And that continues even now.
   To be continued.
   Arima and Kuwako of watch9 should read this document posted at the United Nations before speaking about Japan-Korea relations! NHK should learn shame! Arima and Kuwako should know that they are the vilest of human beings and that nothing awaits them but the torments of hell! You are the filthiest traitors and treacherous people of all!