Published on August 27, 2019.
This article criticizes the NHK Seoul bureau chief’s categorical remark that “Japan made Korea a colony,” contrasting Japanese rule on the Korean Peninsula with Western colonialism by referring to infrastructure development, the education system, and the establishment of Keijō Imperial University.
It strongly questions NHK’s historical understanding and its responsibility to the Japanese people.

August 27, 2019.
If he cannot explain it, he must immediately resign as an NHK employee, which in substance means a national public servant, and apologize to the Japanese state and the Japanese people.
Takano, NHK’s Seoul bureau chief, categorically commented, “Japan made it a colony…”
This is the chapter I published on January 12, 2019, under the title “This is the reality of NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster.”
Just now, the chapter I published on November 21, 2018, under the title “Takano, NHK’s Seoul bureau chief, categorically commented, ‘Japan made it a colony…’” is currently ranked number one in searches on Ameba, with figures overwhelmingly higher than usual.
It is probably because the manner of the country called South Korea is beginning to be exposed in broad daylight.
In this chapter, I have made some additions and organized the paragraphs somewhat.
The simplest way to identify, among those who make their living in the media, the people who are under operations by China or the Korean Peninsula, such as money traps or honey traps, is to see whether their expressions on the television screen are all abnormal.
With those abnormal expressions, they invariably say exactly what China’s or the Korean Peninsula’s propaganda says.
Just now, while I was watching NHK’s Watch 9, a man with the title of Seoul bureau chief appeared.
This man spoke categorically, as if it were a complete fact, that Japan had colonized South Korea.
First, to state something simple, did Japanese people colonize South Korea?
On the contrary, where is there any fact other than the fact that millions of people from the Korean Peninsula migrated, or came over, to Japan?
The concept of a colony means that the powerful nations of Europe and America made poor regions around the world into colonies, exploited the products of those regions, and enriched their own countries.
What products of the Korean Peninsula did Japan supposedly exploit to become rich?
The facts are completely the opposite.
The Korean Peninsula, which was a country with a king, and where the yangban had thoroughly ravaged the country, or, following the words of Professor Hiroshi Furuta, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Korean Peninsula, an ancient despotic state, had finally reached the point where the national treasury was empty.
The Korean Peninsula at that time had one of the world’s worst status-discrimination systems, divided to an unbelievable degree.
Other than the king and the yangban, everyone was a discriminated person.
Even scholars were discriminated persons.
Perhaps for that reason as well, it was one of the poorest countries in the world.
At the same time, this was also the period when Russia had begun trying to make the Korean Peninsula its dependency.
China, which had been its suzerain for almost all recorded history, had never wanted to acquire the Korean Peninsula.
As many experts on the Korean Peninsula say, it was because its people only brought trouble.
The United States said, “There is no structure here as a state… this is not a country,” and withdrew all its consulates and other offices.
It then told Japan.
Japan had no choice but to annex it.
Although it is a clear historical fact that Japan did not make Korea a colony, but made it a united state, and that the Korean king at that time was received as if he were a member of the Japanese Imperial Family,
just now, Takano, NHK’s Seoul bureau chief, categorically commented, “Japan made it a colony…”
This is the reality of NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster.
Takano.
Which country in Europe or America during the age of colonialism invested more than 25 percent of its own national budget in its colony and built schools throughout the entire territory?
Which Western country did anything comparable to what Japan did for a people who were practically in an ancient state, not only introducing compulsory education, but also founding Keijō Imperial University, now Seoul National University, in 1924, or Taishō 13, even earlier than the founding of Nagoya University, and developing every kind of infrastructure, including railways, ports, and dams?
Japan, in complete contrast to them, transformed the Korean Peninsula, which had been a pre-modern state, all at once into a modern state similar to Japan.
You need to properly explain on Watch 9 where in Europe or America there was any such colonialist state.
If you cannot explain it, you must immediately resign as an NHK employee, which in substance means a national public servant, and apologize to the Japanese state and the Japanese people.
That is because your words and actions are equivalent to treason and false accusation against the state.