This article revisits a chapter originally published on August 28, 2012, addressing Junji Tateno, Chief of the Asahi Shimbun’s American Bureau. It highlights the ongoing issue of South Korea’s fascist structure in the 21st century, the anti-Japanese actions of Korean immigrants in the United States, and the problems inherent in Asahi Shimbun’s self-denigrating historical outlook. The text examines the geopolitical risks Japan faces and the responsibilities of the media in conveying these realities accurately.

Even now, in the twenty-first century, there exists a fascist nation, and those who found life unbearable there abandoned the country and moved to the United States.
This is from a chapter originally posted on 2012-08-28, titled “To Junji Tateno, Asahi Shimbun, Chief of the American Bureau.”
In the eighth page of this morning’s Asahi Shimbun, Mr. Junji Tateno, Chief of the American Bureau, has an opinion piece introducing the joint proposal issued to Japan on August 15 by Armitage and Joseph Nye.
At the end of the article, he writes, “A true second-rate nation is one that cannot even draw its own self-portrait.”
What is astonishing is that the country he has in mind is Japan.
This is nothing other than a Japanese self-denunciation grounded in “make-believe moralism” and an incorrigible masochistic historical view.
Mr. Tateno.
Before speaking, you should at least do as I did yesterday and read the Wikipedia article on the Republic of Korea.
Even now, in the twenty-first century, a fascist nation exists, and those who left the country because of the difficulty of living there have moved to the United States.
Those who were educated as fascists in South Korea are persistently attacking Japan across the United States.
This is what should be regarded as the real problem.
No, this is the major problem.
Mr. Tateno.
A true second-rate nation is not one that cannot draw its own self-portrait.
It is South Korea, a country that fabricates its own self-portrait and still exists in the twenty-first century as a fascist nation.
Immersing yourself for sixty-seven years in “make-believe moralism” and viewing Japan through a lens of self-denigration is something you should stop immediately.
Why?
Because a monstrous nation is next door, and there is no longer any time to indulge in such emotions in the middle of what is an urgent situation.
This is a struggle against fascism.
Your task is to convey to the United States and to the world the fearful reality of South Korea and its impermissible fascism.
To continue disparaging Japan—the nation that, alongside the United States, possesses the highest intellectual standards, freedom, and genuine democracy—only reveals thinking that is sixty-seven years out of date.