Published on September 25, 2019.
This essay discusses Fukushima treated water, Osaka Mayor Matsui’s statement about accepting it in Osaka Bay, South Korea’s anti-Japanese education, Samsung, export controls, Osaka Governor Yoshimura, and Shinjiro Koizumi’s remarks, arguing that Japan and the international community must recognize the reality of South Korea’s anti-Japanese education.

September 25, 2019.
Unless that is done, South Korea will not only never become normal, but will also become a country that commits tremendous evil against Japan and the world.
The time has long since come for Japan, the international community, and the United Nations to know this.
This is an expanded and revised version of the chapter published on September 18, 2019, under the title: Those who read this morning’s Sankei Shimbun must have realized that the assessment I wrote today of Shinjiro Koizumi was completely on the mark.
In order to sum up Osaka, which I had chosen as the stage of my life, despite having been in tremendous hardship since the total volume control issued in March 1990, which brought about “Japan’s lost twenty years,”
on February 26, 2003, I placed an opinion advertisement titled “From Osaka To Osaka,” filled with deep emotion, as an insert advertisement in every household subscribing to the Nikkei Shimbun throughout Osaka Prefecture.
This advertisement had a tremendous impact on Osaka.
One person even said, “It is the February 26 Incident, isn’t it…”
Also, a certain gentleman who was one of the leading wealthy people in Osaka, and who normally called me frequently, called me timidly after some time had passed.
“How many months did it take you to write that…”
No, I wrote it in half a day.
“Half a day!! We could not write that even if we spent a month…”
Because the governor at that time was Ota Fusae, I was able to write it all at once…
Realizing that if I addressed it to her, I could write it in one burst, I wrote this opinion statement beginning with “Dear Ota Fusae.”
The very next day, in the Osaka Prefectural Assembly, Mr. Suzuki, who was then vice-governor in charge of Osaka revitalization, was asked by an assembly member inspired by my opinion statement, “What should be done to revitalize Osaka…”
He too had read my writing.
He answered as follows.
“I believe that Osaka’s revitalization can only be achieved by each and every citizen of Osaka Prefecture thinking about things from the position of the governor…”
Yesterday, Osaka Mayor Matsui announced that he would accept Fukushima treated water in Osaka Bay.
Asahi, NHK, and others continue to report this treated water as contaminated water, but in reality it is treated water that is equivalent to ordinary water and merely contains tritium.
It is harmless water that every nuclear-power country in the world releases into the sea after taking the same kind of measures.
The South Korean government and South Koreans are probably so ignorant that they do not even know that nuclear power plants in their own country release it into the sea in the same way.
There is no scholarship or art in South Korea, which has continued Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education for seventy-four years after the war.
It is no exaggeration to say that people created by history and scholarship made entirely of lies are a people who possess nothing but hatred toward Japanese people, just as Germans once did toward Jews.
South Korea immediately sent out to the international community a rebuttal to Osaka Mayor Matsui’s remarks, with a maliciousness that proves it is a country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
Taking advantage of the accident that occurred in Fukushima, it continues endlessly to slander and defame Japan and Fukushima.
In other words, it continues to commit hate speech against Japan and Fukushima, against the Japanese people and the people of Fukushima Prefecture.
I assert that against a country that is the very extreme of evil, a country that continues Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education, Japan must further tighten export controls and crush Samsung.
Only when Samsung goes bankrupt will South Korea first realize that this is the result of the Nazism called anti-Japanese education that it has continued for seventy-four years after the war.
Only then will it stop anti-Japanese education.
The time has long since come for Japan and the world to realize that unless that is done, South Korea will never stop anti-Japanese education.
For seventy-four years!
Japan, the international community, and the United Nations have allowed South Korea to continue Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education!
Unless that is done, South Korea will not only never become normal, but will also become a country that commits tremendous evil against Japan and the world.
The time has long since come for Japan, the international community, and the United Nations to know this.
Osaka Mayor Matsui announced that he would accept Fukushima treated water in Osaka Bay.
“As a nation, the time has long since come to do what must be done properly. It cannot be stored forever. Moreover, that is simply water…”
The people around me recognize that my opinion statement gave birth to Osaka Ishin no Kai.
I myself recognize it that way.
As my readers know, when Hashimoto Toru spoke on television…regarding his remarks on historical recognition with South Korea…I criticized him with extreme severity, saying that his words were worth less than toilet paper, or that “a mere lawyer should stop becoming a broadcast geisha and speaking about national politics.”
Compared with Hashimoto’s tendency toward verbal gaffes, I greatly agreed with the words and actions of Mayor Matsui and Governor Yoshimura…
The fact that this was entirely correct, and that this was news that made me feel most proud of the life in which I chose to die as a citizen of Osaka City and Osaka Prefecture.
A friend who is one of the finest readers brought me, in the evening, the Sankei Shimbun evening edition, since I do not subscribe to the evening edition, and the article from this morning’s Sankei Shimbun.
Those who read this morning’s Sankei Shimbun must have realized that the assessment I wrote today of Shinjiro Koizumi was completely on the mark.
…He also stated, “Those outside the jurisdiction must not lightly make remarks that may hurt the people of Fukushima.”…
This statement by Koizumi is the very height of pseudo-moralism and is completely empty language.
In Kansai dialect, he is nothing more than an “ee-kakko-shii,” a man who merely wants to look good.
I will write at a later date about the baseness of the media’s motives in elevating such a person.
Koizumi should be saying the entirety of his statement to South Korea.
Koizumi does not even understand that these are not words he should be directing toward Mr. Matsui and Mr. Yoshimura, who raised their voices as true politicians and patriots.
To begin with, has it not been precisely the behavior of the Koizumi father and son to have people outside the jurisdiction speak lightly and criticize the Abe administration?
He is an irresponsible person who merely makes statements for the moment, each time conscious of the mass media.
The time has long since come for the Japanese people to realize that his remarks prove this.