Originally published on June 21, 2019.
Using the fire-control radar incident involving the South Korean navy as a point of departure, this essay sharply criticizes anti-Japan education in South Korean society, the deceit of its reporting, and the distortion of historical consciousness on the Korean Peninsula.
Through discussion of name changes under Japanese rule, modernization during the colonial period, the reporting posture of the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, and criticism of the United Nations and David Kaye, it denounces the totalitarian character of South Korea and the essence of its anti-Japan propaganda.

2019-06-21
Even this fact too has been continuously used as material to attack Japan and degrade Japan before international society by claiming that Japan forced the change of names, and so the Korean Peninsula is, to the very marrow of its bones,

This is a chapter I originally published on 2018-12-30 under the title, “South Korea, you will probably never realize that your national character is the lowest vulgarity in the world so long as you continue anti-Japan education.”
A friend happened to buy the Mainichi Shimbun and sent me the following article.
“The Mainichi Shimbun is a strange newspaper too. A long time ago, its management crisis was always being reported, and yet it has not gone under. Where is it getting its money from?”
“Probably from printing the Komei newspaper.”
“Ah, I see. And perhaps also by printing some other kinds of guaranteed flyers and the like.”
Such a conversation took place.
After this, it was reported that the Mainichi Shimbun had received large orders for printing Chinese government propaganda leaflets. A newspaper company like this puts on airs and lectures the people. It is not the act of a sane person that there are citizens who subscribe to such a newspaper, but this is proof of how free a country Japan is. The United Nations, which appoints a man who is nothing but the very extreme of stupidity, such as David Kaye, as some kind of special rapporteur, must learn its own ignorance, and must realize the ugliness and shame of itself for being under the control of the anti-Japan propaganda of totalitarian states, namely China and the Korean Peninsula, countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
Now then, the following report from a South Korean newspaper carried in today’s Mainichi Shimbun also proved that they are a people of a country of bottomless evil and plausible lies.
At the same time, it is also an article proving that their mental structure is one that assumes the other side must be thinking the same way as they do.
They also prove that merely because there is a form called elections, that does not make a country a democracy.
This country is not a democracy at all, and proofs that it is a totalitarian state are overflowing everywhere.
No, it is a newspaper article proving the conclusion of Professor Furuta Hiroshi, the finest expert on the Korean Peninsula in the world and one of the greatest scholars of the present age, that it is “an ancient despotic state.”
Most Japanese who read this article will think that South Korea is a country so appalling that one is left speechless.
At the same time, they will notice that the tone with which they attack the Abe administration is exactly the same as the tone with which the Asahi Shimbun and opposition political operators such as Tsujimoto Kiyomi attack the Abe administration.
“Radar Video, South Korean Papers Say ‘Mired Deeper.’”
“Analysis Also Says ‘The Abe Administration Is Using It.’”
“Seoul, Kyodo.”
On the issue of a South Korean naval destroyer having directed fire-control radar at a Maritime Self-Defense Force P-1 patrol aircraft, South Korean newspapers on the 29th, while reporting the South Korean Defense Ministry’s backlash against the Japanese Defense Ministry’s release of video, wrote of “Japan-South Korea relations sinking into a quagmire” and “expanding into emotional confrontation.”
As for Japan’s response, there was also analysis saying, “Is the Abe administration using this issue in order to recover its approval ratings?”
South Korea,
the Japanese are by no means totalitarians raised for seventy years after the war in the Nazism called anti-Japan education that Syngman Rhee began in order to justify his own regime.
And not only that.
During the thirty-six years when Japan annexed you, for the first time,
women who did not even have surnames, women who were for the most part the property of the yangban,
were liberated by Japan.
In your country, which had long been one of the poorest countries in the world under the worst class discrimination system in the world,
Japan built schools throughout your country,
and for the first time established a compulsory education system in your land.
Japan rapidly put in place infrastructure such as railways, ports, and dams throughout your country,
and it was the Japanese people who turned you into a modern state.
During the thirty-six years in which Japan treated you as a nation equal to Japan,
more than twenty percent of Japan’s national budget
was invested every single year
for your sake,
and in one stroke made you a modern state and made you prosperous.
The proof lies in the fact that during those thirty-six years the population of your country increased explosively.
That was the result of Japan having made your country into a free modern state without a class discrimination system, and into a prosperous country.
That is a historical truth known by your grandfathers and grandmothers.
A country that alters that historical truth and continues forcing lies on its citizens,
this is an empire of evil,
and South Korea, that means your country.
That is why at that time you, and women in particular, eagerly took Japanese names.
Because you had become Japanese nationals.
Because they did not want ever again to return to a Korea with a class system tantamount to slavery, where they did not even possess surnames.
From the chronic condition in which they had been placed since the beginning of history,
they were suddenly and all at once liberated,
so of course they sought en masse to take Japanese names.
Even now, I am convinced that the reason there is no end to South Koreans claiming to be Japanese overseas
is that they instinctively know that history.
Before annexation, your people could receive from the world only the treatment accorded to second-rate or third-rate countries, and when boarding trains in advanced countries, first-class seats were never given to you.
At that time in Asia, when visiting advanced countries,
the only people who could ride in first-class seats as first-class nationals were the Japanese.
That is why it was natural that you all wanted to take Japanese names.
Or rather, since in 1910 you suddenly became Japanese nationals with extraordinarily favorable treatment, it was only natural that you would use Japanese names.
And yet even this fact has been continuously used as material to attack and degrade Japan before international society by claiming that the adoption of Japanese-style names was forced by Japan, and so the Korean Peninsula is truly, to the very marrow of its bones, a country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
Even so, this alone was not cured.
Except for the thirty-six years when Japan annexed you.
Though one may say it is because since the beginning of history you had been a vassal state of a country of bottomless evil and plausible lies,
speaking from my own few actual friendships,
South Koreans, Chinese people are not people possessed by such abnormally intense anti-Japan feelings as you are.
They rather deny their own state.
They are a people who deep down think that rulers are liars and evil.
They are different from you South Koreans, who are Nazis living in the twenty-first century, raised and fashioned by anti-Japan education.
The spectacle of gathering middle- and high-school girls in front of the Japanese embassy and making them shout anti-Japan slogans,
contrary to what you think,
shows the world the abnormality of your country and that your country is a nation of Nazism.
And yet you do not even realize that.
You are, in the truest sense, blind Nazis.
They merely wear the cap of communism. That is what almost all Chinese think.
It is a plain historical fact that the Korean Peninsula has, since the beginning of history, been a vassal state of China.
“Bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,”
as a result of seventy years of anti-Japan education that continues even now after the war,
have come to dominate your minds even more than they dominate those of China itself.
And the day when you realize that,
if things continue as they are, will never come.
To translate the South Korean newspaper passages feels as though my hands would rot merely by doing so, so I leave the translation to the readers.
If one uses Google Translate in the order Japanese to English to Korean, even as it stands the general meaning will get across, though with Korean one must be careful, because inconvenient facts for them may be translated into their exact opposite.
South Korea denies that it directed fire-control radar.
The Dong-A Ilbo pointed out that, following the intensifying confrontation over the comfort women issue and the South Korean Supreme Court ruling in the wartime labor lawsuit, “concern is growing that Japan-South Korea relations have fallen into a quagmire.”
It analyzed that behind the hardline measure of releasing the video there was “accumulated dissatisfaction” regarding such matters as the comfort women issue.
The JoongAng Ilbo reported a military source as saying that the reason the destroyer did not respond to radio calls from the P-1 patrol aircraft was that “communications were poor and, on top of that, the Japanese side’s English pronunciation was bad.”
At this point, one would feel nothing but a contempt beyond anger.
That South Korea is the kind of country whose newspapers report such things in response to that splendid English pronunciation,
this is something that the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and the like have never once informed the public about.
All Japanese citizens will no doubt feel the same degree of anger toward them as well.
South Korea,
you will probably never realize that your national character is the lowest vulgarity in the world
so long as you continue anti-Japan education.
However, only some reports were inflaming the confrontation, and in the other major newspapers a restrained tone that reported only the facts was conspicuous.
Meanwhile, Yonhap News on the 29th, citing Japanese media reports that “the release of the video was ordered by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,” criticized it by saying, “It appears aimed at rallying the conservative base, and is a characteristic trick of the Abe administration, which uses diplomacy for domestic politics.”