The following is from an article by Yasuko Kato, Executive Director of the National Conference on Industrial Heritage, published in the monthly magazine Hanada titled 'Industrial Heritage Information Center," which was promptly criticized by South Korea and Asahi.'
It is a must-read not only for the people of Japan but also for people around the world.
For the first time, the Japanese people should be aware of the outrageous manner in which the reporters of the Asahi Shimbun and Kyodo News Agency covered the story.
And it is the existence of activists such as Hideki Yano, who could be called a traitor and whom almost no one in Japan knew.
At the same time, we feel the wrath from the bottom of our hearts against them.
The fact that the Asahi Shimbun was not discontinued six years ago in August is distressing because of the enormous damage it will continue to do to Japan.
The paper's existence will only bring about a hollow, black hole in Japan.
One of the first signs of this is the NHK/Watch9 report, in which the female presenter, Wakuta, looks like she is hosting a funeral... and manipulates the impression that Japan, the best country in the world, is the worst and most troubled country in the world.
Yuriko Koike, who claimed to be the governor of Tokyo, started a cluster of businesses in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district, only caring about her publicity stunts and not announcing the names of her host clubs nor suspending their operations, and attacking the regime.
It is a fact that China is expanding its violations of the Senkaku Islands.
Am I the only one who senses a Chinese conspiracy in the expansion of the number of infected people?
Preamble omitted.
A famous activist visited the museum.
A Korean media reporter looked at the material and said, 'Why do you only exhibit material in line with the Japanese government's position? It's outrageous!' I responded by saying, 'We can't force people to say what they want to say or falsify data to the liking of the South Korean or Japanese governments, and we can't do that intentionally in Japan.'
What did the Korean media reporter say?
'It can't be. The Japanese government falsified data on the Moritomo-Kake issue.'
No matter what facts we point at them, it is useless, they are not going to accept it unless the exhibit is about mourning the victims as they want it to be, and the documents and data that go along with it.
On the contrary, some Korean media left without going to Zone 3, perhaps because they were not interested in primary historical documents and testimonies, saying that they didn't have time.
Recently, Mr. Hideki Yano, Secretary-General of the Japan-Korea Joint Action for Compensation for Korean Forced Labor Victims (JJK Joint Action for Legislation for Korean Forced Labor Victims), visited the museum.
When the UNESCO World Heritage Committee met in 2015 in Bonn, Germany, Mr. Yano joined a South Korean citizens' group that had been campaigning against the registration of the island in the hotel's lobby where the committee members were staying, saying, "Gunkanjima is a Hell Island! He was the person who made a big presentation.
Mr. Yano is a well-known activist who was reported in the news as the Secretary-General of the Association in Support of the Trial of Formerly Conscripted Workers of Nippon Steel Corporation held a press conference with the plaintiffs after the Supreme Court of Korea's ruling.
Mr. Yano's message left an impression in the minds of the committee members from 150 countries at a symposium at the hotel where they stayed that Gunkanjima was no different from Auschwitz.
I thought this would be an excellent time to ask Mr. Yano some questions I've been having.
As an aside, two men came with Mr. Yano.
I was wondering who they were, since they didn't give me their business cards, and I checked the names gave it when they entered the museum. I found out that they were Mr. Daisuke Shimizu, a reporter of the Asahi Shimbun and Mr. Shu Nishino, a reporter of the Kyodo News, who specialized in covering the issue of conscripted workers.
I can't help but wonder why they hid their identities and came to cover the story as if it were a play me foul.
*I was dismayed when I searched to see if I could find out how to read Nishino Shu. Even such a lowly person graduated from the University of Tokyo. However, it's a so-called literature department. It's a very bleak feeling. It's a shame that the Japanese taxpayers' money is spent to educate and cultivate these people at the university's highest level. What more waste of taxpayers' money could there be?*
