Germans must appreciate the good fortune that all of Germany’s neighboring countries are culturally advanced modern nations.
August 14, 2017
August 14, 2017
Every time I help reveal to the world something it has long remained ignorant of—namely, that the Korean Peninsula and China are nations of boundless evil and plausible-sounding lies—I find myself reflecting on the same thought.
It was only after August three years ago that I first came to know some truly astonishing facts (in other words, things I had absolutely no knowledge of while I was a devoted reader of the Asahi Shimbun). One such fact: one of Germany’s leading newspapers, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, whether it deliberately exploited the Asahi Shimbun or simply shared its ideological leanings, had been using the Asahi’s anti-Japanese reporting to publish its own articles that demean and shame Japan.
The intention behind this was clear: to portray Japan as a nation that committed atrocities on par with the Nazis, thereby diverting international scrutiny away from Germany and toward Japan. It is a truly base and despicable tactic—no different from the behavior of China and South Korea—and one might even call it a form of Nazism that still resides deep within their hearts today.
As a result, the German people—though I must emphasize again that I have never once visited Germany and therefore have no knowledge of the daily lives of Germans—have come to hold negative sentiments toward Japan. The majority of Japanese people, I suspect, are in the same situation: they have never been to Germany and harbor no ill will toward Germans, nor would they have any reason to.
And I imagine the situation is nearly the same from the German side. Most German citizens have probably never set foot in Japan.
Yet according to a public opinion survey from several years ago, nearly half of Germans reportedly hold anti-Japanese views, a result likely fueled by the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s relentless and repeated Japan-bashing articles.
Whenever I consider the Süddeutsche Zeitung—a paper staffed by incompetent individuals, yet ones who represent the lowest level of human indecency—I always come back to the same thought:
They should deeply appreciate the good fortune that Germany’s neighboring countries are not like China or South Korea—nations whose essence lies in being pre-modern states filled with deception and hostility.
They must sincerely be grateful that Germany’s neighbors are all culturally advanced modern nations.
