Originally posted on July 4, 2019.
As a continuation of a chapter first posted on February 5, 2019, this piece sharply condemns the South Korean Navy’s fire-control radar lock-on incident, the falsehoods in the South Korean response, the pro-Korean forces within Japan, and the responsibility of The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, business elites, and career politicians.
Through a comparison between the video released by Japan’s Ministry of Defense and the edited South Korean footage, the overlap with false narratives surrounding the comfort women issue, and the vested-interest structure of the Japan-Korea Parliamentarians’ Union, it exposes the injustice that has long been imposed on the Japanese people.

2019-07-04
Not only because of the career politicians, but also for the sake of the vulgar men and vulgar women who make their living through The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, and the like, how long must the Japanese people continue to endure such outrageous injustice?

This was a chapter I posted on 2019-02-05 under the title, “They are convinced that the pro-Korean forces inside Japan will surely launch all manner of criticism against Japan, and that in the end ‘Japan will make concessions.’”
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The outrage of the radar lock-on.　
The fire-control radar lock-on incident that occurred on December 20, and South Korea’s response afterward, reveal “everything” about that country’s history and the deterioration of Japan-South Korea relations up to this point.　
Such radar illumination signifies what is effectively a missile lock-on state, and if a missile had actually been launched, it would have posed a danger directly connected to the “death” of the crew.
Even in such a tense situation, I am struck with admiration by the calm behavior of the Self-Defense Force personnel in the released footage and by the content of their exchanges with one another.
In the 13-minute-7-second video released by the Ministry of Defense on December 28, the voices of the Self-Defense Forces can be heard calling out in English a total of six times, with confirmation procedures in between.　
“Korean Naval Ship.
Korean Naval Ship (Korean naval vessel, Korean naval vessel).”
“Hull Number 971.
Hull Number 971 (Hull number 971, Hull number 971).”
“This is Japan Navy.
This is Japan Navy.
(This is the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, this is the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force).”
“We observed that your FC antenna is directed to us (We confirmed that your FC antenna was directed at us).”
“What is the purpose of your act?
Over (What is the purpose of your action?).”　
They were making proper calls in accordance with international rules and also in line with the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES), which 21 countries including South Korea agreed to in 2014.　
However, in the footage released by South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense on January 4, extremely underhanded editing had been added.　
Only about ten seconds of the actual voice of the Self-Defense Forces is played, repeating twice:
“This is Japan Navy (This is the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force).”
“Korean Naval Ship (Korean naval vessel).”
“Hull Number 971,”
and after that, they merely play unnecessary background music.　
They cut out the decisive audio that should clearly have been audible:
“We confirmed that your FC antenna was directed at us.”
“What is the purpose of your action?”　
Moreover, most of the footage was quoted from what the Japanese side had released, and even in the mere ten seconds or so of video that the South Korean side had filmed, all that appeared were a North Korean fishing boat drifting near the destroyer and a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force patrol aircraft flying far away in the sky like a speck.
There is no evidence whatsoever of Japan’s alleged “low-altitude threatening flight.”
No matter how much they try to dramatize the seriousness of the matter with movie-like background music, not a single problem on the side of the Self-Defense Force patrol aircraft emerges.
Lies no longer work.　
And yet, even though the fire-control radar illumination is this clear, the very thing that makes South Korea South Korea is that it instead demands an apology from Japan.　
“Japan carried out a low-altitude threatening flight against our ship while it was engaged in a humanitarian rescue operation.
Apologize.”　
At this way of speaking, even the Japanese people finally exploded in anger.
That is because it overlaps with the figure of South Koreans who, on the pretext of “forced abductions that never existed,” are erecting comfort women statues all over the world, as mentioned above.
Because of false reporting by The Asahi Shimbun, in South Korea it is believed that there were “200,000” victims of the forced abduction of comfort women.　
In South Korea, where if a lie is repeated a hundred times it becomes the truth, just as with the comfort women issue, they are convinced that if they keep saying over and over that “Japan must apologize” for the radar lock-on, the pro-Korean forces within Japan will surely launch all manner of criticism against Japan, and in the end “Japan will make concessions.”
In reality, influential Liberal Democratic Party figures in the Japan-Korea Parliamentarians’ Union, steeped to the core in Korean vested interests, are whispering things like, “Let us return to the 1998 Japan-Korea Partnership Declaration,” and “If the current left-wing government falls, things will return to normal again…,” while energetically lobbying the Abe administration toward a settlement premised on Japanese concessions.　
I am reminded of the Seoul subway incident that came to light in 1977.
This incident, in which vast sums of money were funneled back to influential LDP politicians through U.S. banks and the Tokyo branches of South Korean banks, became thereafter the “basic structure of vested interests” of the Japan-Korea Parliamentarians’ Union.
For Japanese companies to conduct business in South Korea, they had to have members of the Japan-Korea Parliamentarians’ Union speak on their behalf to the South Korean government or local administrative bodies, and for politicians, belonging to the Japan-Korea Parliamentarians’ Union itself came to be an enormous advantage.　
But for the sake of such politicians, how long must the Japanese people continue to endure such outrageous injustice?
To be continued.
It must also be added: not only because of the career politicians, but also for the sake of the vulgar men and vulgar women who make their living through The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, and the like, how long must the Japanese people continue to endure such outrageous injustice?