This article exposes how historical falsehoods are transformed into accepted “facts” through emotion-driven narratives rather than evidence-based research. By examining films and public discourse surrounding wartime issues, it explains why historical dialogue between Japan and Korea has become impossible.

This essay explains how false historical narratives can become accepted “facts” when emotional hostility replaces scholarly verification.
Focusing on Korea’s refusal to engage with historical documents and evidence, it shows how films and popular culture have been used to globalize fabricated accounts of wartime history.
The article argues that without evidence-based research, historical dialogue collapses into propaganda, making genuine reconciliation impossible and fueling international conflict.

2017-07-04
And yet, they have no intention from the outset of reading historical documents, nor of investigating and verifying what the historical facts actually were.
This is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The emphasized portions in the text and the sections marked with asterisks are mine.
The structure by which false history becomes historical fact.
百田尚樹 said,
“It is a country that hardly considered historical facts to begin with, and regarded them as unimportant, but this tendency will only grow stronger.”
呉善花 replied,
“When it comes to historical issues, the discussion simply does not align at all.
The Korean side will not concede anything whatsoever until 100 percent of their claims are accepted.
And yet, they have no intention of reading historical documents, nor of investigating and verifying what the historical facts actually were.”
Then what determines history?
Even before knowledge, strong anti-Japanese sentiment is deeply rooted, so history becomes an emotional interpretation driven by oppositional and antagonistic feelings.
The same applies to the comfort women issue and the wartime labor issue.
Last year, a film titled ‘Spirits’ dealing with the comfort women issue was released.
Its content—that girls were forcibly taken by the Japanese military and made into sex slaves—is sheer fabrication, yet it was screened around the world.
Furthermore, in July of this year, the film ‘Battleship Island’ will be released.
It portrays Koreans allegedly forced into labor on Hashima Island, known as “Hell Island,” risking their lives to escape—another outrageous falsehood.
In this way, as false history is appealed to the emotions of the public as if it were fact, it truly becomes historical fact.
Hyakuta responded,
“That is extremely frightening.
The Japanese government should firmly refute such claims and deal with them strictly.”
Regarding a world that believes such unbelievably nonsensical and intellectually bankrupt claims made by Koreans,
including the mayor and city council members of Brookhaven, Georgia, who recently approved the installation of a comfort woman statue that symbolizes both falsehood and Nazism,
the United Nations at the forefront, the world is truly absurd and devoid of intelligence, and that is precisely why wars never cease,
people around the world who read this chapter will fully understand the correctness of what I have written.