Originally published on October 17, 2019.
This article examines South Korean newspaper coverage of the fire-control radar-lock incident involving a South Korean Navy destroyer and a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force patrol aircraft, criticizing the anti-Japanese tone of South Korean media, their attacks on the Abe administration, their similarity to Asahi Shimbun and opposition politicians, and the postwar pathology of anti-Japanese education in South Korea.

October 17, 2019.
At the same time, one also notices that the tone with which they attack the Abe administration is exactly the same as the tone with which Asahi Shimbun and opposition politicians such as Tsujimoto Kiyomi attack the Abe administration.
I am reposting the chapter originally published on December 30, 2018, under the title “South Korea, You Will Probably Never Realize That Your Dignity Is of the Lowest and Most Vulgar Kind in the World So Long as You Continue Anti-Japanese Education.”
A friend happened to buy the Mainichi Shimbun and sent me the following article, saying so.
“The Mainichi Shimbun is a strange newspaper, too.
Long ago, its management crisis was always being reported, and yet it has not collapsed…
Where does it get its funds?”
“Probably from printing the Komei Shimbun.”
“Ah, I see.
And perhaps from printing some other reliable kinds of flyers and the like…”
We had such a conversation.
Now, the following South Korean newspaper reports carried by today’s Mainichi Shimbun also proved that they are the people of a country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,”
and at the same time, it is also an article that proves that their characteristic is a mental structure that assumes, as a fixed idea, that the other side must think the same things that they themselves think.
They also prove that a country cannot be called a democratic nation merely because it has the form of elections.
This country is not a democratic nation at all, but is overflowing with proof that it is a totalitarian state.
No, this is a newspaper article proving that it is an “ancient despotic state,” which is the conclusion of Professor Furuta Hiroshi, the world’s foremost expert on the Korean Peninsula and one of the greatest scholars of our time.
Most Japanese people who read this article will probably think that South Korea is a country so appalling that words fail them.
At the same time, one also notices that the tone with which they attack the Abe administration is exactly the same as the tone with which Asahi Shimbun and opposition politicians such as Tsujimoto Kiyomi attack the Abe administration.
Radar-Lock Video: South Korean Papers Say “Quagmire.”
Some Analysis Says “The Abe Administration Is Exploiting It.”
“Seoul, Kyodo” — Concerning the issue in which a South Korean Navy destroyer irradiated a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force P-1 patrol aircraft with fire-control radar, South Korean newspapers on the 29th reported the South Korean Ministry of National Defense’s reaction against the Japanese Ministry of Defense’s release of video footage, saying that “Japan-South Korea relations have fallen into a quagmire” and that the issue had “expanded into an emotional confrontation.”
Regarding Japan’s response, there was also analysis saying that “the Abe administration may be using the issue to recover its approval rating.”
South Korea,
the Japanese people are not in the least totalitarians raised for seventy postwar years under Nazism called anti-Japanese education, which Syngman Rhee began in order to justify his own regime.
During the thirty-six years of Japan’s annexation, Japan was the first to liberate women who did not even have surnames and most of whom had been the property of the yangban,
built schools throughout your country, which had long been one of the poorest countries in the world under the world’s worst status-discrimination system,
established a system of compulsory education in your country for the first time,
and rapidly developed railways, ports, dams, and other infrastructure throughout your country, turning you into a modern nation.
During the thirty-six years in which Japan treated you as a country equal to Japan, Japan invested more than twenty percent of its national budget every year for your sake, rapidly making you a modern nation and making you prosperous…
The proof of this is that, during those thirty-six years, the population of your country exploded…
In other words, it became a free modern nation without a status-discrimination system and became prosperous.
…That is the historical truth known by your grandfathers and grandmothers.
A country that changes that historical truth and continues to force lies upon its people…
That is an evil empire, and South Korea, it is your country.
That is why, at the time, you, especially women, all eagerly took Japanese names.
It was because you had become Japanese nationals.
Those women never wanted to return again to a Korea with a status system equivalent to slavery, where they did not even have surnames.
It was only natural that those women, who were suddenly and all at once liberated from the chronic condition in which they had been placed since the beginning of recorded history, should all eagerly try to take Japanese names.
I am convinced that the reason there is still no end to South Koreans overseas calling themselves Japanese is that they instinctively know that history.
Before the union, you could only be treated by the world as a second-rate or third-rate country, and when boarding trains in advanced countries, you were never given first-class seats.
In Asia at that time, only Japanese people could board first-class seats as first-class citizens among the advanced nations.
That is why it was only natural that you all eagerly tried to take Japanese names.
Or rather, in 1910, you suddenly became Japanese nationals with exceptionally favorable treatment, so it was also natural to take Japanese names.
That, however, was the one thing that could not be cured…
Although one may say that, except for the thirty-six years of Japan’s annexation, you had been a tributary state of the country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” since the beginning of recorded history…
Speaking from my own few actual experiences of personal acquaintance…
South Koreans,
Chinese people are not people seized by an abnormal degree of anti-Japanese sentiment as you are…
They rather deny the state itself…
They are a people who, in their hearts, think that rulers are liars and evil.
They are different from you South Koreans, who are Nazis living in the twenty-first century, raised and created through anti-Japanese education.
The scene of gathering junior-high and high-school girls in front of the Japanese embassy and making them shout anti-Japanese slogans, contrary to what you think,
tells the world of the abnormality of your country and that your country is a country of Nazism,
and you do not even notice this.
You are, exactly, blind Nazis.
They are merely wearing the hat called communism…
This is how almost all Chinese people think.
It is an obvious historical fact that the Korean Peninsula has been a tributary state of China since the beginning of recorded history.
The day when you realize that “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” as a result of anti-Japanese education that has continued for seventy postwar years and still continues today, dominate your brains even more than those of the original home, China, will never come if things remain as they are.
As for translating the South Korean newspaper article section, even that alone makes me feel as though my hands would rot, so I leave the translation to the readers.
If you use Google Translate in the order Japanese → English → Korean, the general meaning will get across as it is.
However, with Korean, one must be careful that facts inconvenient to them may sometimes be translated into the exact opposite.
South Korea denies the irradiation of fire-control radar.
The Dong-A Ilbo pointed out that, with the intensifying confrontation following the issue of so-called military comfort women and the South Korean Supreme Court’s ruling in lawsuits filed by former requisitioned workers, “concerns are emerging that Japan-South Korea relations have fallen into a quagmire.”
It analyzed that, behind the hard-line measure of releasing the video, “accumulated dissatisfaction” over issues such as the comfort women problem was reflected.
The JoongAng Ilbo reported the remarks of a military official who said that the reason the destroyer did not respond to the P-1 patrol aircraft’s radio calls was that “the communication conditions were poor, and in addition, the Japanese side’s English pronunciation was bad.”
At this point, one would probably feel not anger, but the utmost contempt.
That South Korea is a country whose newspapers report such a thing about that splendidly pronounced English is something that Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others have never once informed us of.
All Japanese citizens will probably feel an equivalent anger toward them as well.
South Korea, you will probably never realize that your dignity is of the lowest and most vulgar kind in the world so long as you continue anti-Japanese education.
However, reports that inflamed the confrontation were limited to some media, and among other major newspapers a restrained tone, reporting only the facts, stood out.
Meanwhile, Yonhap News on the 29th quoted Japanese media reports that “the release of the video was ordered by Prime Minister Abe Shinzo,” and criticized it, saying, “It appears to be aimed at rallying conservatives, and is a petty trick characteristic of the Abe administration, which uses diplomacy for domestic politics.”