Asahi Shimbun, stop writing irresponsible articles and ignoring the brutality of the Koreans that history has proven.
October 15, 2023
The following is from Masayuki Takayama's book America and China Lie Like Great Men, which was published on 2/28/2015.
This paper also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
A long time ago, an elderly female professor of the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, who is highly respected by primas worldwide, visited Japan.
At that time, she spoke about the significance of an artist's existence.
She said, "Artists are important because they are the only ones who can shed light on hidden and concealed truths and express them."
No one would dispute her words.
It is no exaggeration to say that Masayuki Takayama is not only the one and only journalist in the postwar world but also the one and only artist in the postwar world.
On the other hand, Oe...I don't want to speak ill of the deceased, but (to follow Masayuki Takayama's example below) Murakami and many others who call themselves writers or think of themselves as artists are not even worthy of the name of artists.
They have only expressed the lies created by the Asahi Shimbun and others rather than shedding light on hidden truths and expressing them.
Their existence is not limited to Japan but is the same in other countries worldwide.
In other words, there are only a few true artists.
This paper is another excellent proof that I am right that no one in the world today deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Masayuki Takayama.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.
Before the "Bataan Death March," you ask the U.S. military to answer for the indiscriminate slaughter of the locals.
Following the bombing of Clark Field in the Philippines almost simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma and 40,000 generals landed at Lingayen Gulf two weeks later, on December 22, 1941, and drove out three times the U.S. and Philippine forces.
Trembling MacArthur informed Washington of the abandonment of Manila and began to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula.
Cowards always run fast.
Lester Tenney, a tank crewman who had just arrived in Luzon just before the war started, was no less cowardly than MacArthur.
His tank team avoided encountering Japanese vehicles and headed straight for the Bataan Peninsula.
When they came to a small village, "the whites could not distinguish between Japanese and Filipinos, so they shot indiscriminately at huts and stores," killing everyone in their path, according to his book, "The Bataan Death March.
He also says that he "immediately killed anyone who did not have identification" and that he "blew up four houses with tank guns on entire families because they were afraid the Japanese would tip them off.
Although technically Jewish, Tenney seems to believe that whites have the privilege of killing people of color.
He surrendered to the Japanese six months later and was walked to a camp only 12 kilometers away.
Half the journey was by freight car (ibid.). Still, he continued to denounce Japan with exaggerated noise, saying, "It was a hellish march," the foolish Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada invited him to Japan to apologize.
He should have been handed over to the Philippine government to be tried for the crime of killing all those innocent people.
At the same time, in British Burma, the British, who had been acting "like gods," were trembling at the Japanese invasion.
In February 1942, when the Japanese army was already close by, a monthly club championship was held at the prestigious Rangoon CC, and R. Hamilton won with a score of 84, the lowest ever recorded in the tournament.
The Japanese Army? They may have thought they were acting like it, but the score honestly conveyed their fears.
They first fled their families to India.
When the Japanese vehicles approached Mandalay from Rangoon, Viceroy Dorman Smith and his men abandoned their pose as Gods and broke away into the dense forests to the north, escaping from the Chindwin River over steep mountains to Imphal.
Two years later, during the Battle of Imphal, the Japanese army followed in the footsteps of this governor-general's escape.
The British Indian Army was supposed to provide a strong shield, but first, the Indian soldiers fled, and then the British officers stampede after them.
British officer Gerald Fitzpatrick's group met a small group of villagers at Taungsa, about 100 kilometers southwest of Mandalay.
The rest was the same as for U.S. soldier Tenney.
He confessed to the South China Morning Post on July 10, 1984, that he had killed all 27 people in the village, including children, to avoid being reported to the enemy.
Both U.S. and British colonial rule was harsh.
When they fled, they naturally got even, so their form of punishment was to kill first.
Japan ruled quite differently from the British and Americans.
In Taiwan, except for Toyoki, the wife of Hatta Yoichi, who built the Wusantou Dam, who threw herself into the dam's spillway in pursuit of her husband, who was killed in action, most Japanese were seen off by their friends in Taiwan and quietly returned to the mainland.
On the Korean Peninsula, however, people were different.
Yoko Kawashima's family, who lived in Ranam, North Korea, did not know the true nature of the Koreans until a Korean civilian war worker came in with his feet under the pretext of offering precious metals.
They took everything from Yoko's paperweight to her mother's gold-rimmed glasses.
The Yoko Story" begins with her mother and Yoko escaping this dangerous town.
Unlike Tenny, the Japanese never thought of preemptively and indiscriminately slaughtering them, but only on this peninsula was it the right thing to do.
Yoko witnessed the Koreans looting the homes of the Japanese on every occasion of their escape, attacking and murdering, and raping the fallen.
The U.S. Board of Education designated the book as a supplemental reader for junior high school students. Still, in 2006, the Korean Residents Association in the U.S. began making a big fuss about it.
They said it was a false accusation that Koreans are brutal people who love to rape.
The author, Yoko Watkins, who lives in the U.S., was dragged to a denunciation meeting where Korean correspondents joined her and forced her to apologize.
The Boston Globe reported the hanging and the removal of "Yoko's Story" from the supplemental reading material and wondered why the Japanese correspondents huddled in Washington ignored Yoko to the end.
But the Japanese documents, of course, prove Yoko right.
A woman who was raped and became pregnant on the peninsula on her way back to Japan underwent an abortion without anesthesia at the Futsukaichi Clinic near the port of Hakata.
Even in the medical questionnaire for the period ending June 1946 alone, "There were 47 illegal pregnancies. The perpetrators were 28 Koreans, 8 Soviets, and 6 Chinese. ......
The word on the street is "beastly Soviet soldiers," but in reality, the Koreans were three times more dangerous than the beastly Soviets.
The number of "repatriated Japanese who were killed," as Yoko saw it, is unknown, but in 2005, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Soviet Union had sent 27,000 of the interned Japanese soldiers to North Korea.
There are testimonies from the few survivors who say that they were mistreated in that bitterly cold region, overworked without food, and "forced to sleep outdoors."
Many of them are believed to have died an ignominious death.
The other day, the Japanese Red Cross was informed that several thousand Japanese remains had been found in North Korea.
The Asahi Shimbun writes, "Japanese who fled to the Korean Peninsula from the former Manchuria due to the Soviet invasion may have died of cold and hunger.
It was the former Soviet Union that was to blame.
There is also the testimony of Yoko.
It is time to stop writing irresponsible articles and ignoring the brutality of the Korean people, which history has proven.
Isn't the Takeshima issue also a result of Asahi Shimbun's irresponsibility in writing about it and leaving their lies unchecked?
2024/6/29 in Osaka
