2020-1-30
When I turned on the television just now, a Kansai Television news program was on.
Many people will know from television news that South Korea sent a chartered plane to Wuhan, China, in an effort to rescue its citizens.
However, the news footage conveyed that no people discriminate against others more than South Koreans.
Readers who watched this footage will recognize once again that my firsthand experiences were indeed accurate.
Given the circumstances, it is only natural that they should be kept in quarantine for a certain period.
Yet South Koreans are repeatedly creating an unbelievable uproar, insisting that they will absolutely not allow this in their own neighborhoods.
They throw water at government officials who are explaining the situation, hurl abuse at them, and refuse to listen.
Masayuki Takayama told us, as the essence of the Moritomo issue, how Koreans had moved in and begun living directly beneath the landing approach to Itami Airport,
and about the disturbances they caused when they descended upon the airport.
I instantly imagined how unbearable those disturbances must have been for airport personnel, especially those at the reception counters.
The footage told us why China had left the Korean Peninsula alone and had never sought to possess it,
and why, until Japan annexed it, the Western powers, too, had left the Korean Peninsula alone.
After the Great East Japan Earthquake, regarding the disposal of the enormous piles of debris, Toru Hashimoto announced that Osaka would accept whatever amount it could.
Fukuoka presumably made a similar announcement, but I recall that the news showed an uproar in Kitakyushu that was exactly like the footage from South Korea I had just seen.
At the time, I intuitively felt that those men engaging in such violent misconduct—they were fairly young—were not Japanese.
The footage from South Korea just now was like déjà vu of that scene.
The propaganda that South Koreans spread around the world, claiming that they were discriminated against by Japan, assaulted by the Japanese military, and so forth,
takes the form of attributing to the Japanese people and the Japanese military the discrimination and brutality that they themselves have continued to inflict upon their own citizens, and the time when the world must recognize this has long since come.
In what country anywhere in the world would people hurl abusive remarks at their own citizens rescued from Wuhan by chartered plane, saying that they should be quarantined in mountains where no one lives?