Published on August 21, 2019. This chapter, originally sent out on May 13, 2019, introduces a dialogue between Masayuki Takayama and Miki Otaka, discussing the Karafuto lawsuit, the issue of Koreans left behind in Sakhalin, Yoshida Seiji’s testimony, comfort women lawsuits, the Asian Women’s Fund, the former Socialist Party, the Asahi Shimbun, and NHK reporting, while examining the structure of postwar compensation interests and anti-Japanese activism.

August 21, 2019.
As a result, the Japanese government contributed more than eight billion yen from the national treasury for the issue of the return of Koreans remaining in Sakhalin.
Moreover, this “Sakhalin support money” is still being paid, and last year too a budget of about 100 million yen was allocated.
I am resending the chapter sent out on August 21, 2019, after correcting typographical errors, paragraphing, and so on.
This is the chapter I sent out on May 13, 2019, under the title: Ōkoshi, who studied at the University of Tokyo, commented with conviction, while hosting the nine o’clock news, that forced mobilization did exist, because of such good-for-nothings.
This is the chapter I sent out on January 4, 2019, under the title: Extortion and Shakedown: All Japan Is in an Anti-Korea Wave!! The Ugly Anti-Japanese Japanese Who Gave Foolish South Korea Its Ideas.
The following is from a special dialogue article between Masayuki Takayama, journalist, and Miki Otaka, journalist, published in the previous month’s issue of the monthly magazine WiLL under the title: Extortion and Shakedown: All Japan Is in an Anti-Korea Wave!! The Ugly Anti-Japanese Japanese Who Gave Foolish South Korea Its Ideas…and it is a must-read for every Japanese citizen and for people throughout the world.
The Karafuto lawsuit → comfort women → wartime laborers…one after another, situations arise as if Japan were being subjected to extortion.
Behind them are anti-Japanese Japanese.
Could there even be kickbacks from the compensation money!?
Yoshida Seiji, who was used.
Takayama.
Oh, here comes the former Miss Japan.
Otaka.
How embarrassing.
Laughs.
Takayama.
No, no, you are as beautiful as ever.
To get right to it, Ms. Otaka, in your 2017 book I Will Remove My Father’s Apology Monument: The Confession of the Eldest Son of Yoshida Seiji, the Origin of the Comfort Women Issue, published by Sankei Shimbun Publishing, you thoroughly pursued Yoshida Seiji’s life and the course that led to his false testimony.
Otaka.
Yes.
Takayama.
Now South Korea has once again done something outrageous with the wartime laborer ruling.
Otaka.
In 1983, Yoshida Seiji erected a monument apologizing for forced mobilization at the “Hill of Manghyang” in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
He prostrated himself at the unveiling ceremony, but there is nothing written about comfort women on that monument.
That is because, at that point, comfort women had not yet become an issue.
I think the purpose was for those connected with Sakhalin to inscribe the forced mobilization of Koreans on a stone monument and to use Yoshida’s testimony as a stepping-stone for extracting money from the Japanese government forever.
Takayama.
I see.
So the existence of wartime laborers had been talked about from quite some time before.
Otaka.
Yes.
I think the beginning was when the treatment of Koreans left behind in Sakhalin during and after the war became an issue.
Takayama.
When Japan governed the Korean Peninsula, Koreans who had Japanese nationality moved to Sakhalin together with Japanese people as workers, through migrant labor or mobilization, did they not?
Otaka.
The year before My War Crimes: The Forced Mobilization of Koreans, in which Yoshida described in detail the hunting of comfort women on Jeju Island, was published, Yoshida spoke about the hunting of comfort women at a lecture meeting.
In September and November of the same year, in the lawsuit over the return of South and North Koreans remaining in Sakhalin, the so-called “Karafuto lawsuit,” he appeared in court twice; the first time he testified about hunting Korean men for Karafuto, and the second time about hunting comfort women on Jeju Island.
I think some people may not immediately grasp how Yoshida and the “Karafuto lawsuit” are connected, but unless one knows the circumstances around this, the essence of the comfort women issue will not become visible.
The “Karafuto lawsuit” was brought against the Japanese government with the involvement of Igarashi Kozo, formerly of the Socialist Party and later Chief Cabinet Secretary, and with lawyer Takagi Kenichi, who was involved in South Korea’s comfort women lawsuit, serving as secretary-general of the plaintiffs’ legal team.
The legal team claimed, “Japan forcibly took as many as 43,000 Koreans to Sa‘rin and, after the war, left only the Koreans behind.
The Japanese government should take responsibility for this.”
The Koreans in Sakhalin were people who had gone there of their own accord seeking better wages, but if that were the case, Japan would have no responsibility to compensate them, so at all costs they needed the after-the-fact logic that they had been “forcibly taken” by Japan.
That is why Yoshida was pulled out as a witness to forced mobilization.
Takayama.
I see, so there was such a connection.
And that is why the Asahi made that testimony into an article.
The passages marked with ～ are mine.
“Comfort women” and “Karafuto” are connected at the root.
Otaka.
As a result, the Japanese government contributed more than eight billion yen from the national treasury for the issue of the return of Koreans remaining in Sakhalin.
Moreover, this “Sakhalin support money” is still being paid, and last year too a budget of about 100 million yen was allocated.
Most Japanese citizens, like me, must be learning this fact for the first time.
Then, two years after the “Karafuto lawsuit” ended, in 1991, comfort women lawsuits suddenly began, and in the “Asian Women’s Fund,” launched in 1995 after the establishment of the Murayama Cabinet, about 4.8 billion yen was contributed from the national treasury until its dissolution in 2007.
At any rate, whether in the Karafuto lawsuit or the comfort women issue, enormous sums of money moved.
Behind this series of lawsuits lies the weakening and collapse of the former Soviet Union, which had been a source of funds for leftist forces such as the former Socialist Party.
If one thinks that Soviet funds were entering even the Socialist Party as a public party, then one certainly cannot say that Chinese funds are not entering the Okinawa Times and the Ryukyu Shimpo, which are private companies.
Considering that the only countries in the world that want to seize the Senkaku Islands, want Okinawa to become independent from Japan, or want Japan to defend to the death the ultimate Constitution for weakening Japan imposed by GHQ are China and the Korean Peninsula, it is obvious that they are carrying out operations toward Okinawa.
This operation is perfectly supported by the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi, and NHK, organizations controlled by them, and thus the present condition of Okinawa—no different from China or the Korean Peninsula—of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” has been created.
The late Onaga and female professors at Doshisha University and others have even spread to the world the extremely malicious lie that the people of Okinawa are an ethnic minority.
It is surely an undeniable fact that brainwashing-operation funds are entering every field and every stratum of Okinawa in order to make people gratefully uphold the ultimate Constitution for the permanent weakening of Japan imposed by GHQ…and make them say, “We will not have an army, we will not attack, we will not possess nuclear weapons,” and so on.
When the citizens of Hong Kong were driven to the brink of losing freedom and intellect and finally the majority of citizens rose up, the Chinese government created more than 900 sites and spread fake news…that is, it carried out operations.
Facebook, as if to recover its reputation, confirmed this and shut them down.
Only people with brains below the level of kindergarten children, or their sympathizers, would think that China, for which operations to make others lean toward its own country are, without exaggeration, everything, is not actively conducting activities toward Okinawa…moreover, Okinawa is an island separated from the mainland.
China, which militarily seeks to weaken Japan completely and seize hegemony in Asia and, ultimately, the world, would never fail to take notice of the Okinawa Times and the Ryukyu Shimpo, which dominate Okinawa Prefecture, just as it placed the Asahi Shimbun, which controlled Japan until August five years ago, completely under its operations.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that the philosophy of one-party Communist rule, or of the Communist Party itself, is nothing but propaganda.
They are completely unrelated to art and culture; in a sense, they are people whose brains are only about money and women, and who spend day and night immersed in propaganda.
Once they could no longer expect support from the former Soviet Union, they probably jumped at the vested interest called postwar compensation and came up with the idea of extracting money from Japan.
In other words, the comfort women issue may have been prepared as the next method by those connected with the “Karafuto lawsuit” in order to extract postwar compensation from the Japanese government.
The comfort women issue is connected at the root with the Sakhalin issue, and it may be said that Yoshida was conveniently used by people who gathered around the “postwar compensation interest.”
After the Soviet Union took effective control of Sakhalin, many Koreans ended up remaining there.
I think that in order to fabricate this as the responsibility of the Japanese government, Mr. Takagi and Onuma Yasuaki, the late professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo who founded the “Asian Women’s Fund,” raised the issue using the concept of “forced mobilization.”
Ōkoshi, who studied at the University of Tokyo, commented with conviction, while hosting the nine o’clock news, that forced mobilization did exist, because of such good-for-nothings…The only people pretending that NHK is not a state broadcaster are NHK employees themselves.
And not only do they repeatedly commit all kinds of criminal acts, from indecent offenses to embezzlement, but it is no exaggeration at all to say that people such as Ikeda Eriko openly play the role of agents of North Korea.
Takayama.
In reality, the Koreans must have settled there on their own, did they not?
Otaka.
That is exactly right.
Entering the 1990s, Socialist Party members in the Diet persistently took up forced mobilization and comfort women and tried to turn them forcibly into issues.
If one reads the Diet records from that time, it is obvious at a glance.
According to Arai Sawako, author of Why Could the Koreans in Sakhalin Not Return?, published by Soshisha, Mr. Takagi was at the time a legal adviser to the former Socialist Party, and had his law office in the tenant building where Ms. Doi Takako’s office was located.
The Asahi’s revenge.
Takayama.
Speaking of the 1990s, in 1991, Uemura Takashi, who was a reporter for the Asahi, interviewed former comfort woman Kim Hak-sun and wrote an article saying that, during the Sino-Japanese War and the Second World War, it had been learned that one of the “Korean military comfort women” who had been taken to the battlefield under the name of the “Women’s Volunteer Corps” and forced to engage in prostitution with Japanese soldiers was living in Seoul, and that the “Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan,” with Yun Chung-ok as co-representative and about 300,000 members in 16 organizations, had begun hearing work.
Come to think of it, he had sued Sakurai Yoshiko for defamation, claiming that her assertion that there were fabrications in a series of Uemura articles was defamatory, but the Sapporo District Court dismissed Uemura’s claim.
In short, Uemura lost.
And in 1992, Yoshimi Yoshiaki, professor emeritus at Chuo University, copied materials on comfort women that he had viewed at the Defense Agency’s National Institute for Defense Studies Library and handed them to Asahi reporter Tatsuno Tetsuro, and that became a front-page article…
This article continues.