Published on May 12, 2019.
Through the controversy surrounding Park Jeong-gong (Im Seok-gyun), this essay sharply exposes how the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, Beheiren, and Japan’s so-called cultural figures were exploited by the Korean Peninsula and in turn damaged Japan’s intelligence and freedom.
It is a powerful piece that illuminates the hypocrisy and deception embedded in Japan’s masochistic view of history and anti-Japanese ideology.

2019-05-12
How utterly they have been taken in by the Korean Peninsula… and how their masochistic view of history… and the anti-Japanese ideology arising from it have been used by the Korean Peninsula… it is so absurd that it brings tears to one’s eyes…
Under the title, “Park Jeong-gong (Im Seok-gyun) was introduced as a South Korean revolutionary who had narrowly escaped vanishing like dew on the execution grounds at the hands of Syngman Rhee and crossed the Genkai Sea,”
this was a chapter I published on 2017-01-10… and for the following reasons… I published this chapter on 2019-01-22.
The chapter I published on 2017-01-10 under the title, “Tsurumi Shunsuke, Kurata Reijiro, Yoshikawa Isamu and others hold a press conference at Gakushikaikan over the Im Seok-geum issue, protesting Mr. Im’s arrest and demanding that the government grant him asylum,” has now entered goo’s top ten in search count.
This is a chapter that every Japanese citizen should reread.
It is a fact that makes perfectly clear just how foolish such people as the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and Beheiren were.
How utterly they have been taken in by the Korean Peninsula… and how their masochistic view of history… and the anti-Japanese ideology arising from it have been used by the Korean Peninsula… it is so absurd that it brings tears to one’s eyes…
Rare indeed is an essay that has so perfectly laid bare the reality of the pseudo-moralism of Japan’s so-called cultural figures…
figures more foolish and pitiable than could possibly be imagined…
And now, the truth this essay conveys…
is casting an intense light for Japan, for the Japanese people, and for the world.
Why it was that I was so deeply devoted to Akutagawa Ryunosuke when I was in high school…
and why, one day long after I had become a working adult, I suddenly realized the reason for it, I have already written about.
In the splendid booklet that my alma mater’s library used to publish every year…
I was once ordered to write something for the customary Miyagi Prefecture book report contest, and I wrote on his “Rashomon.”
The person who placed this laborious work on the Internet, the greatest library in human history, for our sake…
I thought must surely, like me, be a devoted reader of Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
For the way this laborious work ended was just like “Rashomon.”
It was in a chapter beginning, “For the verification of a paper I would write later, I tried searching Honda Katsuichi again,” that I first came across the name Im Seok-gyun.
When I looked it up on the Internet, the greatest library in human history, the following precious essay instantly appeared.
…It would be no wonder if a swindler appeared even in a student自治会 room.
One day in 1975, a man appeared at the Nippon Medical University student association room asking to borrow money, saying he had no train fare to Kagoshima.
He said he would offer his national health insurance certificate as collateral, so please lend it to him for a while.
After some time, money was lent to him from the student association funds, and with the insurance card in hand, the man left.
The man then disappeared, but I never heard what happened regarding the matter of the hole opened in the accounts.
In 1969, Kyoto University Press published Omura Internment Camp, written by Park Jeong-gong (Im Seok-gyun), as Korean Problem Series 1.
Park Jeong-gong (Im Seok-gyun) was touted as a South Korean revolutionary who had escaped vanishing like dew on the execution grounds at the hands of Syngman Rhee and crossed the Genkai Sea, and he went around among the students agitating that those who supported him were revolutionary and those who did not were reactionary.
Did not the sects perhaps compete to express revolutionary support for him.
Because the assessment of North Korea as a Stalinist land strongly pervaded the students, the appearance of a revolutionary from the South was something they would have wanted to welcome with both hands raised.
Before long, however, rumors began to be heard that he had embezzled donations addressed to the Omura Internment Camp, and that he was behaving as he pleased toward female students by saying that the Japanese nation bore the original sin of ruling Korea and that obeying him was revolutionary, and inquiries even came to me from Kyoto, but by then he had already disappeared from sight.
I also heard that he had a wife in Hokkaido.
Perhaps it was another of his names, but the “Association to Support Im Seok-geum” was launched on April 10, 1969, at Kyoto Rakuyukaikan, with forty participants, and on August 23 Im Seok-geum was re-interned, whereupon Kyoto Beheiren and others protested at the Kobe immigration office.
On the 25th, Beheiren groups from various parts of Kansai, the Overseas Chinese Youth Struggle Committee, the Chukaku-ha and others held two demonstrations in front of the Kobe immigration office with five hundred participants, and two people were arrested.
Tsurumi Shunsuke, Kurata Reijiro, Yoshikawa Isamu and others held a press conference at Gakushikaikan over the Im Seok-geum issue and announced an appeal protesting Mr. Im’s arrest and demanding that the government grant him asylum.
On the 27th, Im Seok-geum was provisionally released.
On the 28th, meetings and demonstrations over the Im Seok-geum issue were held in Sapporo, Tokyo, Kobe, Fukuoka, and elsewhere. In Kobe, 1,200 people participated, and 8 were arrested. On October 10, at a rally in Kyoto Maruyama Park attended by 10,000 people from across Kansai, Im Seok-gyun gave a greeting.
I do not know what became of him afterward.