Political actors who distort truth for votes undermine democracy itself.
What is being practiced is not pluralism but fascism and totalitarianism.
Responsibility lies with local councils, complicit scholars, and media organizations.

2016-03-25
“Amiable or deplorable, Americans are rough and broad in their ways,” is how an acquaintance of mine once described them.
As readers know, I stand at the opposite end of anti-Americanism.
Korea is in fact a very difficult country to live in, which is why many Koreans abandon their homeland and move to the United States.
Monthly magazine commentators have explained that this is closely related to the preferential treatment the United States extended in return for the participation of Korean troops in the Vietnam War.
In particular, many Koreans have settled in Los Angeles.
They do not fully become Americans, and in reality they live by bringing Korean society into the United States.
Yet now they possess a vote that can no longer be ignored.
However, to call white black for the sake of a vote, for one’s own convenience, is nothing other than fascism and totalitarianism.
It is a self-denial of democracy, which is supposed to rest upon truth.
To the members of the Los Angeles City Council, and to Alexis Dudden and Carol Gluck, I say this.
What you are doing is fascism.
In order to conceal the original sin you committed, you have kept Japan as a “political prisoner” for seventy years after the war, and to this wrongdoing there has latched on the wrongdoing of Korea, whose essence is that of a country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
It is precisely this structure of wrongdoing that the members of the Los Angeles City Council are carrying out.
And needless to say, the wrongdoing of the Asahi Shimbun, which has continued to allow and sustain such wrongdoing by them, is now utterly unforgivable.