The following is from Ruriko Kubota's paper entitled 'Vexation of leftist media' in a special issue 'What anti-Japanese tribalism elucidated' of the monthly magazine Sound Argument.
This month's monthly Sound Argument is also packed with articles that must be read by Japanese citizens.
Japanese citizens must immediately subscribe to the nearest bookstore.
I will teach the people of the world as much as possible, though it is in my translation.
The book that judged an opposing main culprit of the Japan-Korea relations when being because of Korea 'politics solidified by lies'
Anti-Japan Tribalism (Lee Young-hoon editing and writing), it has become a historical bestseller with over 500,000 copies in Japan and South Korea.
The Korean version recorded 120,000 copies, and the Japanese version recorded 400,000 copies in one month since its release in the fall of 2019.
The Korean Historical Society and comfort women support groups have not yet been able to refute this book, which beat the Korean anti-Japanese historical view in examining history.
Meanwhile, Japanese left-wing media hanged on Lee, who had a meeting in Japan in late November, saying, 'What do you think of Japan's responsibility for the colonial rule?'
It was the first composition in which a Korean intellectual who stood up to correct the anti-Japanese historical view of his homeland confronted with the Japanese media that has synchronized with the Korean comfort women's slave theory and forced recruitment.
The venue became strained.
Negative media offensive
The venue was full, and the rear seats were standing up by the media.
Lee read out the 'Message for Japanese readers' for about 30 minutes in a tone that chewed Japanese (see page 145).
Some nodded, some heard their eyes closed, the sound of hitting the keyboard of a personal computer echoed in the hall.
The crowded media was divided into 'anti-Japanese tribalism' affirmatives and negatives.
The questions were mostly negatives (or skeptics), and the questions were provocative in themselves, and Lee's appearance seemed a bit nervous.
A reporter of the Shinano Mainichi Newspaper asked. 'The analysis of Korean anti-Japanese sentiment was persuasive, but I thought this book was a little or not very specific about Japan's responsibility for colonial rule. How much responsibility is there for Japanese colonial rule? How does it think that there should be the way of the ideal way of liquidation, liquidation of dominating after a fight to it?'
Lee replied plainly: 'I have been thinking a lot about Japan and Korea (from the Second Japan-Korea Agreement to the Annexation) from 1905 to 10 through a long research life. In the empire of the Republic of Korea extincted, Japan has entered the continent, and China has communized. I think that there is a Korean historical responsibility, too.'
Regarding postwar liquidation, he truncated, 'There is a lot of research, so I don't feel I need to talk. This book is a book of Korean self-responsibility and Korean self-criticism.', the leading question to elicit criticism of Japan and returned to the main subject.
Next, the newspaperman of Asahi Shimbun that stood in a question pressed for indeed in the ideology like Asahi Shimbun.
First, he disagreed, 'whether or not to use the term anti-Japanese.'
Then he said, 'There are some problems with this book. First, the problem of recruitment. Recruitment was legally enforced from September 1944. Before that, there was a stage of recruitment, recruitment by government, ('Anti-Japanese tribalism') states that it was able to reject or was not legally punished, but this does not reflect the actual situation at the time. It says that be merely written so in the law. (of a drafting worker compulsion taking theory) though there are a lot of Tonomura -sensei 's (Tonomura Masaru ・ Professor University of Tokyo) study and so on if you argue against that, you should give a little more evidence. It isn't there at all. Thought then (by a drafting worker), it seems that it didn't live a slave life, eg it is written, able to do a Japanese playing card freely, saying it was possible to come out outside, drinking the alcohol, but it is only partially and shows no basis of that part. We think that this is a problem.', he showered questions on Mr. Lee.
He argued that there was a problem in his dissertation on Anti-Japanese tribalism and asserted that he had no basis and so on. Though a basis is shown in the notation of a reference book and so on, to these papers, it was the straight question that ignored that, but Mr. Lee answered this politely. 'From 2005 to 2007, I interviewed nearly 50 Japanese workers at the time. After this book came out, many people had read Syngman Rhee Gakudo's website and book reviews (Book review of a major wrote about the memories of their own family when their relatives, father, and grandfather went to work as Japanese workers. In that they worked as a slave when concentrating them and comparing them with the data, we feel exaggerated severely. I feel that the strong assertions of very political groups have changed history. I am well aware of Mr. Tonomura's book at the University of Tokyo. I think it is a wonderful research book. However, it is too much to say that forced recruitment, including recruitment and recruitment by the government, is too much. It is a dangerous point of view that has diminished a Korean with a slave.'
This article continues.
