The Deepest Kind of Human Depravity — A Nazism Still Alive in Their Hearts, No Different from China or Korea
August 9, 2018
The following is an essay I published globally on August 14, 2017. I believe it is a piece that should be reread not only in Japan but around the world.
Every time I shed light on truths long hidden from the world — such as the fact that the Korean Peninsula and China are lands of bottomless evil and plausible lies — I am again struck by the gravity of what the world has failed to see.
It was only after August 2014 that I came to know an utterly appalling truth (something I had never encountered while I was a subscriber and close reader of the Asahi Shimbun):
One of Germany’s leading newspapers, Süddeutsche Zeitung, either colluded with the Asahi Shimbun or shared similar ideological tendencies, and made repeated use of Asahi's anti-Japanese content to publish article after article aimed at humiliating and degrading Japan.
Their true motive?
To construct an image of Japan as a country just as brutal and inhumane as Nazi Germany, thereby diverting the eyes of the international community away from Germany and toward Japan.
It is the very definition of despicable — the lowest form of human baseness.
This behavior should be called for what it is: a lingering Nazism still alive at the core of these people, no different from the methods of China or South Korea.
As a result, German public opinion — and I repeat, I myself have never been to Germany and know nothing of the German people’s everyday lives — has become significantly anti-Japanese. Most Japanese, too, have never been to Germany.
We have no reason to hold any animosity toward Germans, and in fact, we generally don’t.
Likewise, I assume the majority of German citizens are the same — most have probably never been to Japan either.
And yet, due to the relentless, repeated anti-Japan coverage by Süddeutsche Zeitung,
a public opinion survey conducted several years ago revealed that nearly half of all Germans held anti-Japanese views.
When I consider the low-level but morally despicable individuals at Süddeutsche Zeitung, I often think this:
Germans should deeply and humbly appreciate the sheer luck that their neighboring countries were not like China or Korea — those nations I described at the beginning — in other words, premodern in essence.
Germany has had the great fortune of being surrounded by culturally advanced, modern states. That fortune is something Germans should never take for granted.
