Michio Ezaki is the best critic among those who graduated from the Faculty of Letters of Kyushu University.
With Eitaro Ogawa, a literary critic who graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Osaka University, they must be the pride of their respective universities.
The following is from an article by Michio Ezaki in today's Sankei Shimbun, Sound Argument, titled "Making Judge Pal's Prophecy a Reality."
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but also for people worldwide.
Review of Modern History in Europe and the U.S. Underway
In recent years, the United States and Europe have been reviewing their modern history, focusing on World War II.
In World War II, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were considered the "righteous nations," while Japan was considered the "bad nation" that invaded.
However, a reevaluation of modern history is now underway in the direction that the Soviet Union and communist forces may have been more problematic.
There are two significant factors behind this.
One is the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the "democratization" of Central and Eastern European countries.
Following World War II and the subsequent occupation by the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia (which separated into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993), Hungary, and other Central and Eastern European countries were brought under Soviet influence, and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) were annexed.
The Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) were annexed. These countries have suffered from the suppression of human rights by the Communist Party and secret police for nearly 50 years.
In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down, and the Cold War ended.
The Central and Eastern European countries and the Baltic states, which had escaped Soviet rule and had become democratic, began to build war museums one after another to investigate and prosecute the war crimes committed by the Soviet Union and the suppression of human rights after the war.
Another factor was that in 1995, 50 years after the end of World War II, Western countries took the opportunity to release classified documents on the secret operations of the Soviet Union and international communism during the war.
In 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union into the Russian Federation, B. Yeltsin, who became the first president of the Russian Federation, decided to release classified documents from the Soviet era (commonly known as the "Ritskidny Book").
The release of this information proved that the Soviet Union had sent spies and agents to countries around the world before and after the war to steal secrets from each country and to influence the mass media and politicians in each country to create public opinion and propaganda in favor of the Soviet Union and communism.
Propaganda efforts in the former Soviet Union
Inspired by this movement, in 1995, the U.S. government released the "Venona Document" (a classified document where the U.S. Army Intelligence intercepted and deciphered coded telegrams between the Soviet Union and its spies in the U.S.).
With the release of these documents, it is becoming clear that Soviet agents entered the F. D. Roosevelt administration during World War II and incited the confrontation between Japan and the United States.
In the latter half of the 1990s, the British government also released the "Mask Document" (a document that intercepted and deciphered coded telegrams between the Comintern and the Communist Party of various countries from 1930 to 1964) and the "Iskot Document" (a document that intercepted and deciphered coded telegrams between the Comintern and the German occupation zone and the Chinese branch of the Communist Party from 1968 to 1970).
Then, in 2009, the "Vasilyev Notes" (A. Vasilyev's transcriptions of former KGB documents from 1924-51) and the "Mitrokhin Documents" (V. Mitrokhin's transcriptions of files in the archives of the First Directorate of the KGB from 1918-84) were released, respectively.
Such disclosure of information has revealed that secret operations by the Soviet Union and international communism were behind the communization of parts of Asia and Central and Eastern European countries after World War II.
Perhaps because of this, some political leaders have begun to point out their wariness of international communism.
One such leader is former U.S. President D. Trump, who designated November 7, 2017, the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, as the "National Day of Commemoration of the Victims of Communism.
Japan's version of the Venona Papers.
Meanwhile, on September 19, the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, the European Parliament also adopted a resolution on "Important European Memory for the Future of Europe.
Although Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union started World War II, the Nuremberg Trials, in which the Soviet Union's "crimes" were not questioned, were problematic, and the resolution called for a legal investigation.
In fact, in 2001, the Japanese government also opened the Asian Historical Records Center. It began disclosing information, and it was discovered that the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before the war, had compiled a detailed report on secret operations against the United States by the Soviet Union and the U.S. Communist Party, the "U.S. Communist Party Report.
Japan should join the international movement to pursue the war crimes of the former Soviet Union and international communism by translating and publishing the "U.S. Communist Party Report," which can be regarded as a Japanese version of the Venona Papers, in English.
With this in mind, I have recently started a project to translate the "U.S. Communist Party Report" into English.
In 1948, Judge R. Pal of India wrote at the end of the "Judgment" of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East: "The time has come for Japan to join the international movement to pursue the war crimes of international communism.
In 1948, Judge R. Pal of India wrote at the end of the "Judgment" of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East: "When the time has softened zeal and prejudice when reason has stripped away the mask of falsehood, then, and only then, will the Goddess of Justice, keeping her scales in equilibrium, demand that many of the awards and punishments of the past be changed.
I hope this prophecy becomes a reality at any cost.
