The following is from the latest issue of Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the post-war world.
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In the beginning
Some Americans see the truth sometimes. George Kennan is one of them.
He writes that when the United States was embroiled in the Korean War and got into a situation where it could be driven by the communist forces.
'The result that the U.S. expelled Japan from China, Manchuria and Korean Peninsula, it came as the wise men warned.' 'Today, we have taken over the issues and responsibilities of Japan in this region for almost half a century'
As soon as they took over, Koreans began to kill each other.
Three years have passed since the United States has sent 500,000 officers and men ...
Despite efforts to suppress the war, 2.2 million Koreans and 40,000 US troops died.
Korea had lost forever, neither in the order nor the abundance, which was exactly in what they say 'Japanese imperial rule'.
'The unfortunate situation we had fallen on the Korean peninsula had to be accepted as an ironic punishment for not having understood Japan at all ... only persist just pushing aside Japan.'
The US-Japan war caused by white hubris and racial prejudice was wrong ...
More than 40,000 in the Korean War the died of wounds received in action of the U.S. soldiers were punishments for that error ...
Kenan says so.
It is not only the Korean Peninsula.
Manchukuo, which realized Five Races Under One Union, became ruined by killing and looting.
Mainland China was devastated by the Communist Party's two genocides, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Japan has lost many lives, but has quickly released the Asians to perform the last rites over the deceased into white colonial imperialism.
The wave of racial self-determination has spread to Africa far, and more than one hundred independent nations were born in the world.
If seeing from the human history, it was a great feat.
It was a great feat that could not be compared to the renaissance that happened in one corner of Europe.
More it is one with it. There is fine happiness for Japan. Japan was able to break off with Korea.
This country is still going to follow about one way or another,
No longer, relationships of let's unite with Inland (mainland of Japan) without discriminatory treatment of Korea have been resolved.
Japan got the liberty to stop a relationship with that country and for it to be possible to break off the diplomatic relations, too.
That country has a characteristic that makes all the countries involved unhappy.
For example, Battle of Baekgang.
The origin has been asking for help from Baekje who was attacked by Shilla.
When Japan was out there was a force of Tang rather than Silla.
Japan fought against Tang and lost a great deal.
Koreans impose on other countries until their fight.
The Korean war that Kennan lamented was also at first a battle between the north and the south.
The devastated south cried to the United States, and the north to China.
It was a China and U.S. war when it wakened.
South, who was freed by imposing war on other countries, pulled the Syngman Rhee line and stole Takeshima, and also robbed Japanese fishing vessels and killed 44 people.
Though it is cunning, this country has never won a war with others.
Korea was always conquered.
However, no country was eager to dominate.
While Tang conquers, but came back home to threw their military organization placed for the government without being able to maintain it.
After the last war, the Soviet Union took the north, but unlike the four northern islands, it immediately abandoned it.
Mao Tse-tung entrusted with the laterness, too, withdrew immediately.
It seems that they wanted to finish to have a connection with Korea as soon as possible. An exception was Japan.
Theodore Roosevelt broke off the diplomatic relations with the Korea about whether or not he saw through a Korean ethnicity and pressed them on Japan, saying 'burden that Japan should carry'.
Japan has a good personality was trying to make this country decent, let's unite with Inland (mainland of Japan) without discriminatory treatment of Korea ... in other words, annex Korea, it turned on the lights, ran the railway, and built a school .
From the Muromachi era, no matter how many times it let them know, it wasn't made ... make irrigation equipment for them, too, probably given their first 36 years of peace and abundance in their history.
'To inhabit at the ancient times' (Furuta Hiroshi Professor, University of Tsukuba)
Japan took their hands and led them to modernity.
However, the people of this country were characterized by the 'inferiority complex return' which would return badly even if they receive favor.
After the war, they called 'a member of the Allied Forces who fought against Japan' and demanded war compensation and apology from Japan.
Nosaka Sanzo and Suzuki Mosaburo, who were still decent, also got angry and kicked the request.
10 years, let alone leave, Park Chung-hee said real intention to give Korea the money because an apology or anything isn't necessary.
There is no reason to pay Korea but Japan paid double of Korea national budget with the intention of consolation money.
But after that they follow about and continue returning the inferiority complex.
Somei Yoshino, which is a combination of Prunus speciosa and Cerasus itosakura, says, 'Jeju Island is the origin,' or that Japanese swords were also produced by Koreans.
The Korean Army still uses wrought Japanese swords as military sword.
The prostitutes have begun to say that they are sex slaves in the suggestion of the Asahi Shimbun, and they are delighted to build a prostitute statue on the street corner.
There is no room for shame in their inferiority complex minds.
Now, before the war, those who have come to Japan to work allege a lie more than a prostitute with 'forced to be taken and unpaid' and are trying to get money from Japanese companies by turning to an accompanist until the Supreme Court.
It feels like the brush gets dirty just by writing such a national pattern, and the feeling becomes frustrating.
The weekly Shincho series 'Judge things freely from a free viewpoint' has been over 800 times thanks to it, but with such circumstances, I have been far from that country.
Even so, there were more than 30 columns that I thought was inevitable to truly understand that country.
How do you cope with that country, when do you think of ending diplomacy, it is fortunate to be the material for it, and it is said that there was also a meaning that I had suffered to write.
February 2019 Masayuki Takayama
