Originally published on July 21, 2019.
This essay discusses prewar Japanese understanding of China and the Korean Peninsula, American wartime propaganda, the Tokyo Trial, the postwar Constitution, and the influence of the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and so-called cultural figures.
It criticizes Japanese media and pseudo-moralism for contributing to the process by which China and the Korean Peninsula extracted compensation and aid money from Japan, arguing that they helped create today’s dangerous and unstable world.

2019-07-21
By manifesting precisely “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” they extracted from Japan the largest amount of money in human history under the names of compensation and aid.
Those who have continued to make the greatest contribution to this are the Asahi Shimbun and others, as well as NHK.
When one thinks about it, until before the war, the Japanese people had correct knowledge and understanding of China and the Korean Peninsula.
China and the Korean Peninsula took advantage of the complete ignorance of Japan and wartime propaganda of the United States at the time, a country whose history did not even amount to three hundred years, as well as the Tokyo Trial and the Constitution given by the United States in order to Carthaginianize Japan.
By manifesting precisely “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” they extracted from Japan the largest amount of money in human history under the names of compensation and aid.
Those who have continued to make the greatest contribution to this are the Asahi Shimbun and others, NHK, and the so-called cultural figures who have gone along with them.
It goes without saying that the representative figures among them are Oe Kenzaburo and Murakami Haruki.
Self-serving pseudo-moralism has created today’s extremely dangerous and unstable world.
The Communist Party’s one-party dictatorship state and the Korean Peninsula use this to divide and weaken public opinion in democratic nations.
The grim incidents that occur one after another—those are probably not the deeds of genuine Japanese people.
Just as they have continued to embolden China and the Korean Peninsula.
Oe, for example, denied Kawabata Yasunari’s “Japan, the Beautiful, and Myself,” and publicly declared, when receiving the Nobel Prize, that Japan was not beautiful.
While refusing the Order of Culture on the grounds that he would not receive a decoration from the Japanese government, he gladly accepted a decoration bestowed by a Nordic king.
Truly, this man is the lowest kind of low-life.
Even today’s Kyoto Animation incident was probably the act of a person whom they have emboldened.