The reality is evident in the sheer number of anti-Japanese Japanese who have proliferated.
Even now, that curse remains unbroken.
June 28, 2024
Repeated intrusions into Japanese territorial waters and open declarations of readiness to launch nuclear attacks—if one were to continue to trust in the justice and love of peace professed by such neighboring countries—then the path of "peace through subjugation" might indeed seem like an option.
June 20, 2015
The following continues from: "Moreover, he said the thing as the scale falls from the eyes."
It is excerpted from the latest work of Kō Bun'yū.
[Opening omitted]
▼“Who is the Class-A war criminal?” asked the prosecutor.
To this, Ishihara replied that it was U.S. President Truman.
The reason, he said, was that Truman, in violation of international law, indiscriminately bombed civilians and carried out mass killings through atomic bombings—crimes far graver than any others.
Therefore, he insisted that President Truman should be indicted as a Class-A war criminal.
It is undeniably true that the historical perspective, theories, and commentaries shaped by the Tokyo Trials—which one-sidedly assigned and judged war responsibility—have had a profound impact on postwar Japanese historical education and consciousness.
This is evident from the sheer number of anti-Japanese Japanese flourishing today.
Even now, we remain under the spell of that historical framework.
No matter how many times Japan repeats "remorse" and "atonement," its relations with certain neighboring countries—China, South Korea, North Korea—continue to deteriorate.
In recent years, even Japan’s territory and national security have come under threat.
In truth, peace must be earned through strength and victory.
If one merely wishes to preserve peace, there is always the path of "peace as slaves"—that of a vassal state.
And if one continues to trust in the professed justice and love of peace of neighboring countries that repeatedly violate Japan’s territorial waters and unabashedly declare their readiness for nuclear strikes, then such a path might seem acceptable.
