Originally published on February 14, 2020. Based on a work by Kō Bun’yū and “Media Back-Report Card” from the monthly magazine Sound Argument, this essay criticizes the Ainu Policy Promotion Act, arguments that Okinawans and the Ainu are indigenous peoples, Japan-division operations by China and South Korea, and the reporting stance of the Asahi Shimbun and NHK. Through the linguistic observation that the proto-languages of Okinawa and the Ainu are almost the same as Japanese, it reexamines Japan’s national character and historical understanding.

February 14, 2020
However, linguists have long analyzed that the proto-language of Okinawa and the proto-language of the Ainu people are almost the same as Japanese.
At the recommendation of a friend who is one of the greatest readers I know, I am reading a book by Kō Bun’yū for the first time in a long while.
For some reason, I began reading from Chapter Two, and I made a great discovery.
It means that the inference I made in the following chapter, which I sent out shortly after eight o’clock this morning, is probably perfectly correct…
In other words, it was a great mistake to be confused by the movement plotted at the United Nations with IMADAR at its center and to enforce the Ainu Policy Promotion Act.
As for the reason for the mistake… there is room for extenuating circumstances, because until August six years ago, our country was ruled by the Asahi Shimbun.
Those who are propagandizing to the international community that the Ainu are an indigenous people and that the people of Okinawa are also an indigenous people, thereby attempting to divide Japan, are China and South Korea, the only two totalitarian states in the world that have continued Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education.
The people who control the reporting division of the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, which is in sympathy with it.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that the Asahi Shimbun is selling Japan to China and South Korea.
The fact that the Asahi Shimbun was not shut down in August six years ago was a grave error for Japan.
The following is from “Media Back-Report Card” in this month’s issue of the monthly magazine Sound Argument.
Preface omitted.
The passages between ＊ and ＊ are mine.
There is another major reason why politicians in the Reiwa era have become small in scale.
It is the existence of the “nitpicking media,” with the Asahi Shimbun at the head.
The harm they have done by seizing on the “gaffes” of politicians they dislike, exaggerating them out of all proportion, and thoroughly attacking them, thereby intimidating politicians as a whole, is truly great.
Very recently, Taro Aso was again made a target.
At a local national political report meeting, he said the following.
“There is no country other than this one where, over the long span of two thousand years, in one place, with one language, one people, and one imperial dynasty centered on one emperor have continued.
It is a good country.”
The Asahi Shimbun and the Mainichi Shimbun stirred this up as a “problematic remark,” and Minister Aso “apologized and corrected” it.
Now, what exactly was the problem with Aso’s remark?
I have no idea.
The Asahi article states, “Last year, the government enforced the Ainu Policy Promotion Act, which explicitly identifies the Ainu people as an ‘indigenous people’ and aims for a society that respects their pride,” and apparently what it wants to say is that since the government has legally designated the Ainu people as an “indigenous people,” Japan is not “one people.”
If that is what it means, it should write so clearly.
While it is at it, it should also write that we dislike the solemn fact that “one imperial dynasty centered on one emperor has continued.”
One can clearly, clearly see the intention to use the Ainu Policy Promotion Act as sacred scripture and attack politicians who try to protect Japan’s national character, which has flourished around the Imperial Household.
First of all, there is also an argument that the Ainu people are not an “indigenous people” in the way American Indians, recently called Native Americans, are.
＊Recently, Masayuki Takayama taught us that a University of Tokyo laboratory had clarified the fact that all Japanese people, including the people of Okinawa, share the same DNA as the Jomon people.
The first time I ever saw arguments such as Okinawan independence was when I was regularly subscribing to Shukan Asahi.
The Asahi wrote about it with delight.
Agents of China—a one-party Communist dictatorship, a country that has made anti-Japanese propaganda its national policy, and a country aiming at Okinawan independence, the division of Hokkaido, the division of Japan, and then invasion and conquest—have been saying that the people of Okinawa are an ethnic minority, while the Buraku Liberation League, together with IMADAR, which is its true form, has been acting at the United Nations exactly according to China’s operations.
The work of the University of Tokyo laboratory instantly smashed the schemes of these vicious people.
At the same time, it smashed the sloppiness and absurdity of the United Nations, which so easily takes the words of such people at face value.
Japan must immediately conduct DNA testing of those who call themselves Ainu.
To begin with, Hokkaido is an extremely cold land, and it is a well-known fact that full-scale development began only after the Meiji era.
Before that, until the Heian period, the Tohoku region was called Emishi, and the Japanese who lived there were descendants of the Jomon people… the University of Tokyo laboratory has clarified that all Japanese people are so.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the descendants of the Jomon people who were in the extremely cold land of Hokkaido continued the Jomon way of life until the Meiji era.
The monthly magazine I refer to also published a painstaking work that revealed the actual situation, including the fact that the central figure who began saying that the Ainu were an indigenous people was a believer in North Korea’s Juche ideology.
Even so, what is lowest… what is as malicious as can possibly be, is the attitude of the Asahi Shimbun.
The time has long since come for the Japanese people to realize that allowing this newspaper to continue existing forever is equivalent to handing Japan over to China and the Korean Peninsula.＊
＊The following is from the book by Kō Bun’yū mentioned below.
Preface omitted.
In China, the theory that the Ryukyu（Okinawan）people are “descendants of the thirty-six surnames of Fujian” has become common sense.
However, linguists have long analyzed that the proto-language of Okinawa and the proto-language of the Ainu people are almost the same as Japanese.
There was a time when the theory that Japanese belonged to the Tungusic branch of the Ural-Altaic language family became dominant, but there were also linguists who sought its source as far away as Tamil, near India.
As for Japanese history, whether its source may truly be traced back as far as the Jomon period has become a question, and with the rise of Jomon studies, voices have grown stronger saying that we should go back not only to the Yayoi period but also to the Jomon period.＊