November 29, 2018
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The former Soviet Union’s operations against Japan have been brought to light.
The release of the Mitrokhin Archive and Levchenko’s testimony also revealed that those operations extended to all of Japan’s national newspapers.
The Sankei Shimbun was no exception.
Takuji Yamane, the editorial director of its Tokyo headquarters, was identified as a Soviet agent, and the operations also reached senior editors at other national newspapers.
The Korean Peninsula and China continue to provide anti-Japanese education to children, showing themselves to be peoples who embody unfathomable evil and plausible falsehoods.
They are the two countries and regions in the world that direct hostility toward Japan, and their true nature is that of Nazi states—that is, totalitarian states.
They maintain support for their governments by relying on the incitement of hostility toward Japan.
Kan Kimura says that the issue is whether a government’s approval rating rises or falls, but that is not the problem that lies between Japan and South Korea.
In South Korea, the very formation of the postwar state has involved stirring up hatred toward other peoples in order to strengthen support for the government.
The state has written a false history into its constitution and textbooks.
North Korea is no different: it is the worst cartoon state of our time.
The Korean Peninsula lies next to us.
The same is true of China.
They are not modern, advanced countries like France and Poland, which are Germany’s neighbors.
As Professor Hiroshi Furuta of the University of Tsukuba, the world’s foremost expert on Korean Peninsula studies, has characterized them,
how can we put an end to Japan’s misfortune of having ancient despotic states as neighbors?
The Japanese people are now recognizing this fact and feeling anger from the bottom of their hearts.
Needless to say, the Japanese people will never forgive the Asahi Shimbun for continuing to write false articles and, of all things, providing them with material with which to attack Japan.
In South Korea, a woman who founded the former Korean Council and whom I regard as unquestionably a North Korean spy spread anti-Japanese propaganda throughout the world.
Her activities reached even the United States; they are the lowest and most abhorrent acts, directing hostility toward Japan and attempting to swindle enormous sums of money from it.
It is no exaggeration to say that there is no greater evil in this world.
It is a group that embodies the worst stupidity and anti-intellectualism.
They carry out anti-Japanese propaganda throughout the world and are trying to create an evil group that will endlessly seek enormous sums of money from Japan.
Kan Kimura, a professor at Kobe University, and a Sankei Shimbun reporter defended it.
I have long felt that Kobe University, which ranks below Kyoto University and Osaka University, is a middling institution.
The most outstanding students in the Kinki region go on to Kyoto University or Osaka University.
Of course, there are exceptions.
There are people outside Kyoto University and Osaka University whom I regard as a source of pride in my life and whom I respect.
Two truly outstanding people who graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University are the best friends of my life, and I respect them.
Nevertheless, I can never quite shake my suspicion that Kobe University, a national university, is middling.
When the full extent of the operations carried out against Japan by the Korean Peninsula and China comes to light, will the true identities of the people I have regarded with suspicion also be revealed?