The exception was the 36 years of Japanese rule, when the fields were more fruitful, slavery was abolished, and people lived with a smile they had forgotten.
2019/09/18
The following is a chapter sent out today in 2018.
Since August, four years ago, I have stopped subscribing to the Asahi Shimbun.
At first, I continued with a watchful eye, in the sense of monitoring its biased reporting, but I thought it would be the job of the speech writers, not mine, so I stopped my subscription with a snap, so I have no idea what the Asahi is reporting now.
The Asahi Shimbun was one of the leading players in pushing Japan toward the outbreak of war between Japan and the U.S. before and during the war.
Ozaki Hotsumi, a leading figure in Asahi and a member of Konoe's cabinet, was a Soviet spy who not only pushed Japan toward the Second Sino-Japanese War to prevent Japan from starting a war against the Soviet Union but also crushed the argument for stopping the Second Sino-Japanese War, thereby allowing the war to continue.
After the defeat, Asahi, as a faithful servant of GHQ, became a mass of masochistic view of history and wrote anti-Japanese editorials. They have been publishing countless fabricated articles, such as reports on comfort women and the Nanking Massacre, to contribute to the Korean Peninsula and China, countries that are anti-Japanese propagandists and have brought disasters to Japan.
The Asahi Shimbun has never told the international community that their fabricated articles are untrue.
It is no exaggeration to say that there is no role for Japanese scholars and public speakers other than to criticize the Asahi Shimbun for its outrageous articles harshly.
In this regard, there is no one better than Masayuki Takayama.
In his serial column, which appeared in last week's issue of Weekly Shincho, he also makes us aware of the outrageous editorials of the Asahi Shimbun's editorial board members.
This article also proves 100% that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.
The Korean mark is a blessing in disguise or Providential help of Korean efficiency.
Is the Korean peninsula in turmoil or otherwise in a state of stagnation?
There have not been many good times.
The exception was the 36 years of Japanese rule, when the fields were more fruitful, slavery was abolished, and people lived with a smile they had forgotten.
But as soon as that ended, they started a war among themselves.
A certain Nakano, an Asahi Shimbun editorial board member, said, "This is an outrageous misconception. Japan is very much responsible for that war," he wrote in a column the other day.
The column begins by condemning the way newspapers of the time wrote, "Gyeongseong has fallen. It was not Gyeongseong. It was Seoul. Why were they so insensitive as to use the colonial-era name?"
I wondered if it was such a big deal, but Gyeongseong fell anyway.
It deployed the United Nations military force in response to the North Korean invasion.
MacArthur became the head of the U.N. force, and the "U.S. Occupation Forces in Japan" were sent out.
Arms and ammunition for the U.S. forces were "unloaded at the port of Kobe and transported by Japanese to Maizuru by freight car.
Asahi's Nakano blames Japan for being so deeply involved, but what should Japan do then?
Nakano said. It was how Japan should do it.
Nakano points to the Suita Incident, in which "zainichi Koreans" attacked the Suita rail yard, the base for ammunition transport trains, threw Molotov cocktails, and set Japanese National Railways employees on fire.
The column quotes a zainichi man who participated in the commotion, saying, "If we delay the military train for an hour, it will save the lives of a thousand of our compatriots."
In short, the column suggests that the zainichi should launch an anti-war movement like the Beheiren, but the people who would be saved if the U.N. troops could not get ammunition to them would be the North Korean army.
Why should the Japanese people under occupation oppose the U.N. forces?
I don't see that part of the story at all.
Nakano is full of praise for the Zainichi's sabotage.
It is hard to understand, but I will leave it at that.
I am caught up in the phrase "If we delay one hour, our compatriots will be saved" by the Zainichi.
A few years before the Suita Incident, the U.S. military had attacked Iwo Jima, 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo.
For three days, 11 battleships and cruisers bombarded the island so heavily that it changed its shape, and the first wave of 30,000 U.S. soldiers landed on the island.
They wondered if any Japanese soldiers left for us to kill, but Lieutenant General Kuribayashi and his garrison of 20,000 men holed up in bunkers and fought well until the last man was killed.
The U.S. military's plan to "destroy the enemy in five days" was not fulfilled even after 30 days.
Why did Lieutenant General Kuribayashi's garrison do so well?
Once Iwo Jima fell, the B-29s, with their direct-cover fighters, could overrun any part of Japan as they pleased.
General Kuribayashi's words remain, "If our children can live in peace even for a day, then a day on this island we are defending has meaning."
Zainichi are imitating him.
If they have that much determination, they should return to the peninsula and fight for North Korea, even if it means stowaway.
They can even run into a U.S. military base.
What is the point of going on a rampage against the Japanese in the safety of Japan?
Nakano does not care about that rudeness.
Furthermore, during the Korean War, Japan "restored its sovereignty and revived its economy. People even heard words of Providential Help." he continues.
What is Providential help?
He believes that Japan is deeply involved as a perpetrator in the Korean War, which devastated the peninsula.
Nakano concludes his column by saying that Japan should remember this and assist North Korea.
Although this conclusion makes me cry because of its narrow perspective, the Korean War can undoubtedly be called providential help.
Because, at that time, Japan was quietly implementing demonetization policies in charge of ending white imperialism.
It was dismantling Japan's industrial power and reducing it to a level that could produce pans and cauldrons.
During such a period, Korea started a war right next door.
As the history of Korea shows, when Korea starts a war, it has a habit of forcing it on other countries, in this case, the U.S. and China.
The U.S., which was forced into the war, needed Japan's high industrial strength as a logistical support base, and as a result, it survived.
Japan had nothing good to do with Korea.
But sometimes it's good.
I honestly want to enjoy it.
