Published on September 22, 2019.
While translating an essay by Shoichi Watanabe, the author searched for the English rendering of “princely family” and was struck by the Wikipedia entry “Gwangmu Reform.”
This chapter criticizes Korean anti-Japanese education, anti-Japanese propaganda, influence operations on Wikipedia, the inaction of the Japanese government, Foreign Ministry, and Education Ministry, and the postwar Japanese masochistic historical view and anti-Japanese ideology.

September 22, 2019.
What astonished me was that I discovered an entry called Gwangmu Reform.
Yesterday, when I was translating into English an essay by Mr. Shoichi Watanabe, one of the world’s greatest scholars, I found it strange that an English translation for kōzoku, princely family, did not come up.
This morning, while searching in connection with that, I was astonished.
Seventy-four years after the war, Korean university professors have finally published a book that makes clear that the education Korea has carried out for seventy-four years since the war has been an education of lies.
In other words, intellectuals have finally appeared who realized that Korea has no future unless it puts an end to Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education.
In Korea, which in reality is a Nazi state, speaking the truth is a matter of life and death.
That is why, for seventy-four years until now, intellectuals who speak the truth had not appeared.
That book is now a bestseller in Korea.
Now, to return to the astonishing matter mentioned at the beginning.
In the Kinki region, among students at Osaka University and Kyoto University, there must be many who think that Wikipedia is completely inaccurate.
That is only natural.
At the universities where they study, splendid libraries stand at the center of the campus.
For students who read the books of genuine scholars there, the irresponsibility of Wikipedia must be astonishing.
However, there is something they too must realize.
This is now the age of the internet.
It is an age in which 99 percent of people around the world search online.
There are no people searching in the libraries of Osaka University or Kyoto University.
World opinion, and United Nations opinion, are not formed in the libraries of Osaka University or Kyoto University.
In a totalitarian state, in a one-party communist dictatorship, propaganda is everything.
Brainwashing education to maintain their own regime, inciting hostility toward a particular people, diverting the people’s eyes from their own policy failures, and using that as centripetal force to maintain power.
That is propaganda and brainwashing education.
Externally they carry out propaganda, and domestically they carry out brainwashing education.
Korea continues to carry out fierce propaganda operations against Wikipedia so that facts inconvenient to its own country will not be posted on Wikipedia.
As a result, the facts made clear by Mr. Shoichi Watanabe, one of the world’s greatest scholars, have been erased from Wikipedia, from the world of the internet,
and from the English-speaking world.
There is no room for doubt about this, nor is there any room for doubt that Alexis Dudden, Carol Gluck, and others have greatly exerted their power for Korea’s anti-Japanese propaganda.
What astonished me was that I discovered an entry called Gwangmu Reform.
It is a historical fact that the Korean Peninsula, which Japan reluctantly annexed, was one of the poorest countries in the world.
Theodore Roosevelt, the president of the United States, an English-speaking nation itself, judged that Korea did not have the substance of a state and withdrew all diplomatic offices, including the embassy.
He also said, in effect, that afterward Japan would have no choice but to look after it.
Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, has pointed out that Roosevelt not only felt Japan would become a threat, but also knew thoroughly that, unlike white people, the Japanese had a national character that did not adopt colonialism.
Therefore, Roosevelt saw through the fact that Japan would give a large amount of aid to Korea and would become greatly exhausted, both financially and in terms of human energy.
As Theodore predicted, Japan invested more than 20 percent of its national budget in the Korean Peninsula every year and turned Korea into a modern nation all at once.
In other words, it made it into a wealthy country.
It abolished one of the world’s worst systems of status discrimination and developed infrastructure such as railways.
And yet Wikipedia, calling it Gwangmu Reform and the like, describes it as if Koreans themselves carried this out.
If one searches the Japanese version under 光武改革, Gwangmu Reform, one finds descriptions that make one certain that people like Yamaguchi Jiro are using the enormous grants-in-aid for scientific research they receive from the Japanese state for this kind of work.
It is a mass of anti-Japanese thought and the idea that Japan is evil, arising from the masochistic view of history produced by GHQ’s occupation policy.
The Japanese government, or the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Education, continue to leave such things unattended.
Therefore, it is no exaggeration at all to say that they are a group of fools unworthy of an advanced country.
A large number of people who, merely because they graduated from famous universities, think of themselves as elites, are a group of outrageous fools.
That is what they are.
So too are the people of Asahi and NHK, and the so-called scholars, so-called lawyers, and opposition political operators who agree with them.
As for opposition political operators, in essence, they are nothing more than political operators who feed off the occupation of being Diet members, which gives them a salary higher than that of a company president merely by being elected, as well as numerous privileges.
Needless to say, the people who write Gwangmu Reform in English and the people who write 光武改革 in Japanese are comrades.
This essay continues.