Published on October 17, 2019.
This chapter, originally published on August 28, 2019, introduces an article by Nishioka Tsutomu from the monthly magazine Hanada’s special feature “The Disease Called Korea.”
It criticizes Wada Haruki and other so-called “conscientious Japanese” intellectuals for having observed, assisted, and sometimes participated in historical distortion concerning the “illegal rule theory,” wartime laborers, and the comfort women issue.
It also severely criticizes figures such as Alexis Dudden, who used the Asahi Shimbun’s fabricated comfort women reporting to denigrate Japan in the international community, as participants in anti-Japanese propaganda from China and the Korean Peninsula.

October 17, 2019
People such as Alexis Dudden.
They are the most malignant people in this world, holding titles such as university professor or legislator while serving as agents of China and the Korean Peninsula, Nazi-like states that still exist in the twenty-first century.
The following is a chapter I published on August 28, 2019, under the title:
“Japan’s ‘conscientious intellectuals’ also bear great responsibility for the present grave situation.
In connection with wartime laborers, they observed, assisted, and, in severe cases, even participated in historical distortion.”
The following is from an article by Nishioka Tsutomu, published in this month’s issue of the monthly magazine Hanada, in the major special feature titled “The Disease Called Korea: Anti-Japanese Japanese Who Still Take Korea’s Side Even at This Stage.”
He is the scholar who perfectly verified and pointed out that the Asahi Shimbun’s reporting on so-called military comfort women, which it fabricated and spread throughout the world, was false.
In other words, he is a truly great Japanese person who has made the greatest contribution to Japan and the Japanese people.
He is worthy not only of the People’s Honor Award, but also of the Nobel Prize.
People such as Alexis Dudden, who took advantage of the Asahi Shimbun’s fabrication and denigrated Japan in the United States, at the United Nations, and in other parts of the international community.
They are the most malignant people in this world, holding titles such as university professor or legislator while serving as agents of China and the Korean Peninsula, Nazi-like states that still exist in the twenty-first century.
The evil deeds by which the Nazi-like states of China and the Korean Peninsula and their agents have operated behind the scenes,
and have continued to place Japan, the country where the Turntable of Civilization turns as divine providence,
in the position of a political prisoner in the international community,
are what have created today’s unstable and extremely dangerous world.
Emphasis in the text and passages between ～ are mine.
The True Nature of “Conscientious Japanese”
Wada Haruki and others, who bear great responsibility for the deterioration of Japan-South Korea relations, are once again doing something strange that worsens the situation.
On July 25, Wada and roughly seventy like-minded people issued a joint statement criticizing the current South Korea policy of the Abe administration.
In my latest book, The Fabricated Wartime Laborer Problem, published by Soshisha, I devoted one chapter to criticizing the activities that Wada and other “anti-Japanese Japanese” have carried out since the 1980s, arguing that those activities lie behind the unjust ruling of the South Korean Supreme Court last October.
To summarize that criticism:
● Wada, standing on the “illegal rule theory,” which denies the legal validity of the 1910 Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty, has continued since the 1980s a movement to make this biased view of theirs the official view of the Japanese government.
Hashimoto Toru, who appeared either on a special election program for the House of Councillors election or afterwards on a BS-TBS program, spoke arrogantly in a manner suggesting that, because he is a lawyer, he knows the truth—though he is nothing more than a lawyer—and made remarks that seemed to side with these contemptible people.
On this point, Hashimoto Toru was truly unforgivable, a person less than toilet paper and equivalent to a traitor to the nation.
● In 2010, aiming to have then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan issue a prime ministerial statement incorporating that idea, they issued what was called a Japan-Korea Intellectuals’ Joint Statement.
Prime Minister Kan did repeat apologies, but even he did not explicitly include in the statement the “illegal rule theory,” which would overturn the foundation of Japan-South Korea relations.
However, Wada and his group’s activities were widely reported in South Korea.
● Two years later, in 2012, a small bench of the South Korean Supreme Court, in a lawsuit brought by former wartime laborers and others, adopted for the first time the “illegal rule theory” proposed by Wada and others as the basis of its reasoning, and handed down a remand ruling overturning the lower court judgment that had found in favor of the Japanese company.
● The final Supreme Court judgment last October used the same reasoning.
My long-held argument that historical recognition issues have been ignited by Japanese people since the 1980s is proven here as well.
That same Wada has once again issued a statement criticizing the Japanese government.
Although it was almost entirely ignored by the Japanese mass media, in South Korea it is still being praised as the activity of “conscientious Japanese.”
As a result, it obstructs correct understanding in South Korea of why the overwhelming majority of Japanese people support the Abe administration’s current South Korea policy.
In August of this year, Wada received the Manhae Peace Prize for reasons including his spreading of the “illegal rule theory.”
At the award ceremony held in South Korea on August 12, Wada said, “For sixty-six years, I have appealed so that the Japanese government and people will live with a heart of reflection and apology regarding colonial rule and the past.
I want to walk the same path until the very last moment.”
The prize, said to be one of the most prestigious in South Korea, commemorates Han Yong-un, a Buddhist monk, poet, and independence activist whose pen name was Manhae, and each year honors “a person who has contributed to world peace”; past recipients include the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Kim Dae-jung.
On the other hand, Lee Woo-yeon, a rising South Korean economic historian who has empirically criticized the conventional theories of forced mobilization and slave labor concerning the wartime laborer issue, criticized Wada and others on social media on July 28, saying:
“Such movements by some people in Japan do not help Japan-South Korea relations.
They are rather harmful because they encourage the South Korean government, which is heading in the wrong direction.
Japan’s ‘conscientious intellectuals’ also bear great responsibility for the present grave situation.
In connection with wartime laborers, they observed, assisted, and, in severe cases, even participated in historical distortion.
The comfort women issue is the same.
Why did they do that?
It was ‘sympathy-ism.’
They are now once again trying to gloss over the facts.”
To begin with, for Wada, who bears responsibility for worsening Japan-South Korea relations to this extent, to question the Abe administration’s responsibility is precisely an unforgivable “match-pump” argument.
His sin is great.
This essay continues.