The Unthinkable Words — Why Ordinary Japanese Would Never Say Them
Examining shouted slogans and parliamentary references, this essay argues that such rhetoric mirrors anti-Japan propaganda and clashes with the Japanese ethos that rejects “tattling” to external authorities.
2016-03-18
Judging from what was shouted in front of Korean schools in Japan, and from what was said—according to the questions of Yoshifu Arita—to have been shouted in Okubo in Tokyo, it is fair to assert that those individuals were acting exactly in line with the schemes of the South Korean and North Korean CIA.
The reason is simple: such content is something that no ordinary Japanese person would ever say.
What, then, are media outlets that fail even to notice that this is anti-Japan propaganda in its raw form?
If Japan had an FBI or a CIA, and if I were its director, I would unquestionably order a background investigation of this man.
In the first place, was this not the same man who, when Takeshi Onaga engaged in abnormal conduct at the United Nations, was present there as one of those coordinating it?
They, along with so-called civic groups and the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, repeatedly went to the United Nations to tattle that Japan was a bad country, while we were working day and night with utter devotion for the good of society and others.
In other words, they were doing exactly the same thing as the ugly “tattling diplomacy” that the South Korean president pursued obsessively until a certain point.
Are they truly Japanese by birth?
Why do Japanese people end their lives amid bullying?
I am convinced that it is because they feel that speaking to parents, teachers, or friends amounts to tattling—something shameful—and therefore cannot speak out.
That is the spirit this nation possesses.
It is likely one of the major reasons bullying cannot be eradicated.
In short, I came to believe that the reason they repeatedly went to the United Nations and continued to engage in actions that demean Japan is that they are not Japanese.
