2024/03/14

This is the root of the anti-Japanese ideology of the people of the Korean Peninsula.
Koreans discriminate against people from South Jeolla Province because it was a region ruled by the Wa people, in other words, a territory of Wakoku, Japan.
March 12, 2019
A well-read friend bought me “Countdown to the Disappearance of ‘Korea’ in 202X,” in Rekishitsu, a special publication associated with the April issue of the monthly magazine WiLL, saying, “There is an article in this magazine that proves what occurred to you the other day.”
This issue is essential reading for every Japanese citizen.
I urge you to go to your nearest bookstore now and purchase it.
Everyone will nod and say, “Now I understand.”
Those who did not previously know about this will be deeply grateful.
Note: The text between asterisks is mine.
In antiquity, it was the Wa people who ruled the Korean Peninsula.
＊This is the root of the anti-Japanese ideology of the people of the Korean Peninsula.
In other words, Koreans display “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
Koreans discriminate against people from South Jeolla Province because South Jeolla was a region ruled by the Wa people, a territory of Japan.
This is what I discerned.
Koreans know this.
In other words, they are lying from beginning to end.
True friendship between Japan and Korea will become possible only when Koreans begin by recognizing this as an unequivocal historical fact that cannot be changed.
As long as Koreans continue to deny their own history, they will forever remain an abnormal people.
Koreans will continue to live as such fools.
It is clear that we should no longer silently overlook such fools spreading lies throughout the world to disparage Japan.
Not only do I have every right to call Kenzaburo Oe and others like him scum, but the Japanese state must also pay them an enormous sum for the damage they have caused.＊
Yojiro Sato, writer and professor at Nihon University College of Art
Although appalled by Koreans’ falsehoods, many Japanese still believe that numerous cultures reached the Japanese archipelago through ancient Korea.
Do not be misled by newly created terms such as “toraijin.”
Japanese Blood in the Royal Family of Silla
Many of the Japanese words we use today were translated into Japanese by intellectuals such as Nishi Amane, Nakae Chomin, and Fukuzawa Yukichi when new cultural ideas entered the country from the Meiji era onward.
In doing so, they considered the overall meaning and subtle nuances.
Consequently, some do not correspond to the original meanings of the words.
Moreover, words change and evolve with the times.
Take, for example, the word “history,” or rekishi.
The character reki in rekishi means to clarify things, in other words, to make them clear, while shi means to write.
History therefore means clarifying things through writing.
Through writing, we can trace history back into the past.
However, myths, folktales, traditions, and legends do not immediately become history simply because written records exist.
Physical evidence is necessary for them to be established as history.
History is written by the victors.
And those who perform that act are human beings.
Furthermore, human emotions are complex.
There may be assertions of legitimacy as well as exaggerations.
But as the years pass, fewer people know about those matters, and the means of verifying them diminish.
This resembles a police interrogation: a suspect’s confession does not immediately establish that person as the murderer.
Only when investigators visit the scene and find physical evidence consistent with the confession is the suspect identified as the murderer.
That is how I understand historical inquiry.
Therefore, I believe that the approach of searching for the culprit through written records and then visiting the scene is apt.
With this approach in mind, I have been visiting shrines for more than thirty years.
They preserve legends and traditions that differ from “official history,” and I enjoy investigating them.
The relationship between the Korean Peninsula and Japan also reveals history from a perspective different from that of “official history.”
The Korean Peninsula and Japan are geographically close, and in shaping their respective histories, they have experienced periods of friendship as well as conflict.
However, Japanese and Korean historical perspectives in recent years have differed markedly.
We believe that fairness, justice, and impartiality are the foundations of democracy.
The same can be said of historical understanding.
Any country may place such importance on its prestige and self-respect that it becomes unwilling to accept the other’s perspective.
In doing so, it may also distort its own history.
Taken too far, this can lead to nationalism and discriminatory attitudes.
As with democracy, examining interconnected histories fairly and impartially in an open, public setting leads to an appropriate understanding of history.
Incidentally, the character 公, meaning “public,” is said to depict a person raising both elbows.
When you raise your elbows, you cannot clutch many things to yourself.
In other words, it means not being greedy.
By contrast, in the character 私, meaning “private,” the component representing grain signifies property.
The character 私 means hoarding that property and causing difficulties for others.
In other words, it means greed.
A person driven by personal interests and greed cannot be a public figure.
Today’s politicians are all private individuals who repeatedly engage in corruption and illegal political contributions.
It is also a fact that such politicians make history.
There were probably people who aspired to practice good politics for everyone’s benefit.
However, if the world were peaceful and tranquil, history would also be quiet, and there would be less to record.
Both Japanese history and world history are filled with extraordinary disruptions in society.
Examples such as the Taika Reform, the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, and the Meiji Restoration show how profoundly politics and society changed.
History is the record of those events.
We can discuss history today because various books, including the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, have survived.
The work known as Korea’s official history is the Samguk Sagi.
Compiled by Kim Busik and others on the orders of Injong, the seventeenth king of Goryeo, it is the oldest historical work of the Korean Peninsula, covering the Three Kingdoms period through the end of Unified Silla.
Its compilation began in 1143 and was completed two years later.
As the first official history, it is actually quite recent.
It appeared more than four hundred years after the Nihon Shoki, compiled in 720.
It may have been based on earlier writings, but those writings no longer survive.
The first book of the Silla Annals in the Samguk Sagi describes Talhae, the fourth king of Silla, who reigned from 57 to 80, as follows.
“When Talhae ascended the throne, he was sixty-two years old.
His surname was Seok, and his queen was Lady Ahyo.
He was originally born in the country of Tanba.
That country lies one thousand miles northeast of Wakoku.”
The original text states, “Crossing the sea eastward from the Queen’s Country for more than a thousand ri, there is another country, whose inhabitants are all of Wa stock.”
A man from that country became the fourth king of Silla, and his bloodline was passed down through generations of the Silla royal family.
Hogong, the highest political official of the time, is described as follows: “He was originally a man of Wa and came to Silla long ago with a gourd hanging from his waist.
Because he came to Silla with a gourd hanging from his waist, he was called Hogong.”
Talhae appointed this man to a senior government position.
In other words, the Wa people laid the foundations of Silla.
How would Koreans explain the account that the Wa people laid the foundations of present-day Korea?
They say, “The emperor was a man of Baekje, and Koreans created Japan,” but where is the evidence?
This article continues.