February 24, 2019
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
In other words, it concerns those who say that Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula.
Syngman Rhee, the worst dictator in history, maintained his power by writing lies into the Constitution to conceal the dubious origins of his administration.
Koreans brought up under the Nazism he initiated in the name of anti-Japanese education.
The people of South Korea are Syngman Rhee’s children.
It is no exaggeration to say that they are equivalent to the Hitler Youth.
This is clear when one looks at the boys and girls now at the forefront of the agitation to erect comfort women statues and statues of conscripted workers outside Japanese embassies and consulates in South Korea.
Those who hold anti-Japanese views founded on the Constitution handed down by GHQ, a self-denigrating view of history, and the notion planted by GHQ that the Japanese people and the Japanese military were bad.
They are the so-called scholars, so-called left-wing lawyers, and so-called cultural figures who are traitors to their country.
It is clear that Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami are their leading representatives.
On the Korean Peninsula, kings and the yangban ruled, while all other people belonged to discriminated-against classes.
Even scholars did.
Women were the private property of the yangban—in other words, slaves.
That is why women had no names.
The yangban treated women as objects, so to speak.
Even when, out of a wife’s jealousy, women were subjected to such humiliations as having sticks inserted into their genitals, tortured to death, and thrown into the Han River, the yangban were not held accountable.
Whenever the river rose, bodies would become caught on branches along its banks.
Until Japan annexed the peninsula, that was everyday life there.
In other words, the Korean Peninsula was a country where most of the population were slaves.
What, then, of Japan?
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It is no exaggeration to say that Japan had been a truly democratic country since ancient times, to a degree that no other country could comprehend.
The Japanese were a rare people who lacked the inclination to treat others as slaves.
A lawyer who had graduated from Rikkyo University and held a position in the Japan Federation of Bar Associations repeatedly went to the United Nations…
The Asahi Shimbun took up Seiji Yoshida’s lies and spread them throughout the world…
Lawyers such as Mizuho Fukushima seized upon them as ideal material for attacking the Japanese government and extracting money from it.
This concerns the prostitutes whom North Korean operatives eagerly gathered for that purpose.
At the United Nations, that lawyer said, “They were not comfort women, but sex slaves…”
In an interview published in the Sekai Nippo, the lawyer boasted of having established the use of the term “sex slaves.”
Until Japan annexed it, the Korean Peninsula was a country with a system of status discrimination that ranked among the worst in the world.
Is he not someone who carries that DNA?
A true Japanese person could not conceive of something like sexual slavery.
Even today, ways of treating other people like slaves remain in South Korea…
Katsumi Murotani is among the commentators who know the realities of South Korea best.
The publication is the monthly magazine Hanada.
Those realities are revealed in this month’s installment of his regular column, “The Shape of Our Neighbor.”
His article, too, is essential reading not only for the Japanese people but for people around the world.
The anti-Japanese propaganda that country continues to spread worldwide consists of bottomless evil and plausible-sounding lies.
If the ignorant people who call themselves intellectuals, and others who have taken it seriously, learned that it was being carried out by truly evil people, they would recognize their own foolishness so acutely that they would wish the ground would swallow them up before they went to hell.
I will introduce it in the following chapters.