The following is from a book I was recommended to subscribe to by a friend who is one of the leading readers.
It is written by Miyawaki Junko, one of the world's leading historians of the Orient.
She was introduced to me by Masayuki Takayama, the world's one and only journalist of the post-war era.
Her husband, the late Mr. Okada Hidehiro, the world's foremost orientalist, was mentioned many times by Hiroshi Furuta, a distinguished professor of Oriental history, whose existence was never mentioned by the Asahi Shimbun.
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Alexis Dudden, who is nothing more than a Korean agent who controls the American Historical Society, and John Dower, who has made a name for himself as one of the anti-Japanese scholars in post-war Japan while playing fondly with Japanese women, need to take a lesson from her.
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Chapter 8: The Tragedy of the Korean Peninsula, Divided into North and South
After Japan's defeat, the Korean people behaved like a victorious nation
The tragedy of the Korean Peninsula is not the annexation of Japan and Korea.
The problem is the post-war period.
At the time of the annexation of Japan and Korea, Koreans were actually very happy to become citizens of Japan. This first-class country became a member of the Western powers.
There are many records of them welcoming the annexation of Japan and Korea.
However, as soon as the United States defeated Japan, it quickly changed its mind and stood on the victorious nation's side and acted as if it was the victor.
Japan did not go to war with Korea.
They were fighting as the Japanese.
They acted as if it was a flip-flop.
But since they were not victorious nationals, they were called Third Nationals.
The U.S. also let those Koreans off the hook.
The U.S. knew that the Japanese occupation would be met with fierce resistance.
They intended to use Okinawa as a base for the occupation, which would take about a year to carry out.
They never dreamed that Japan would accept the occupation so peacefully.
Therefore, they tried to win over Koreans and Chinese living in Japan as third world nationals who could compete with the Japanese in Japan.
Western European colonial rule is based on the principle of divide and rule.
They tried to divide and rule by dividing the country and making Third Nationals and Japanese compete with each other.
*The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others, who have been attacking Prime Minister Abe on the backs of the CDP and other stupid parties to divide and weaken the country, have ceded their support GHQ*.
The Koreans, who were under the U.S. authority, took advantage of the chaos after the war and did whatever they wanted to get away with, such as putting ropes over the land in front of the station to make it their own.
That is why there are almost always pachinko parlors in front of train stations in Japan today.
During the American occupation, the Japanese police were not able to crack down on their criminal activities, so the yakuza protected the Japanese people with their bodies.
So the Yakuza in Hiroshima and Kitakyushu, where many Koreans lived, grew in strength.
Syngman Rhee became president after assassinating his political opponents with the backing of the United States.
After Japan's defeat in 1945, the Korean Peninsula was divided.
The Soviet Union occupied the northern part of the peninsula across the 38th parallel, and the U.S. Army occupied the south. Soon after the war, the Cold War began, and the U.S. and the Soviet Union confronted each other using the 38th parallel as a military boundary. In January 1946, the movement between North and South became impossible.
It meant that Japanese repatriates from Manchuria could not return to Japan via the Korean Peninsula.
Security was deteriorating.
They flocked to the Shandong and Liaodong peninsulas and returned on American warships.
In the south of Korea, Syngman Rhee, Kim Gu, and Lyuh Won-hyung fought for power under GHQ's military occupation.
Rhee was of the Yangban class, but he could speak English and defect to the United States.
Syngman Rhee says as if he has done anti-Japanese activities, but has done nothing in all talk.
He had no experience under Japanese rule whatsoever, so he just ideologically demonized Japan.
Kim Gu is the most active of the three.
The Emperor's assassination attempt was also Kim Gu's doing.
He also had good relations with China.
However, in the end, Rhee assassinated the other two and took over the real power. He became a conduit to the United States, but the United States did not think so highly of Syngman Rhee.
In 1948, Syngman Rhee became the first president of the Republic of Korea in a general election in the southern part of the Korean peninsula only, and the Republic of Korea was founded on August 15, 1948, after Japan surrendered.
Korea did not gain independence from Japan but the military occupation of the United States.
The United Nations also voted to recognize the Republic of Korea as the only legitimate government on the Korean Peninsula.
The "legendary General Kim Il Sung" sent by the Soviet Union was a different man.
Meanwhile, in the North, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was founded in September of the month following the Republic of Korea's establishment, with Kim Il Sung as Prime Minister.
After occupying the DPRK north of the 38th parallel, Kim Il Sung was the man whom the Soviet Union landed on a warship from Primorsky Territory.
Kim Il Sung was sent to say, "This is the legendary General Kim Il Sung.
The myth of Kim Il Sung existed before the annexation of Japan and Korea. Even after that, there was a rumor among Koreans that General Kim Il Sung, who graduated from the Japanese military academy, was going to make Korea independent in the future.
In Korea, Kim Il Sung was the hero of the anti-Japanese partisans.
Although the truth is not clear, Kim Il Sung joined the anti-Japanese forces in Manchuria during the Japanese Manchukuo era and is said to have virtually wiped out the Maeda Corps of Manchu police forces in 1940.
Even so, all the members of the Maeda Corps were Koreans, except for the captain, Mr. Maeda.
The Manchukuo police wanted them, and a bounty was placed on Kim Il Sung's head, which became a newspaper article.
In the end, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation Army in Manchuria, where Kim Il Sung stationed, was devastated by Japanese submission maneuvering and operational counterattacks. He left his superiors behind and fled with a dozen or so men to the Soviet Union's Primorsky Territory in 1940.
After the war, the Soviet military advertised that they had returned with Kim Il Sung, who had crossed the border into the Soviet Union, but he was only 33 years old and did not speak Korean.
The people of Korea also thought the famous General Kim Il Sung was an older man with a white beard.
That's why people were surprised when General Kim Il Sung appeared because he was so young.
All the people who testified that this was a survivor who was partisan with the real Kim Il Sung and that this was a different person, are killed.
The truth is buried in the dark.
Even today in Japan, Haruki Wada and other researchers of Korean history say that President Kim Il Sung was General Kim Il Sung of the partisans.
*This Wada Haruki is genuinely a hard man to deal with. Oe Kenzaburo Oe, who was always mentioned in his anti-Japanese statements from time to time to attack and criticize the Japanese government, as a so-called "cultural figure," is also the outrageous man to deal with.*
But by all accounts, Kim Il Sung, who became the leader of North Korea, cannot be the legendary Kim Il Sung, who joined the partisans.
Kim Il Sung was 33 years old when he entered North Korea.
How could the commander of a partisan unit organized in Manchuria in 1940 be 33 years old in 1945?
In North Korea, as soon as he mentioned such a suspicion, he was sent to a labor reformatory to be killed.
The fact that Kim Il Sung is from an anti-Japanese partisan background is the basis for his legitimacy as a North Korean leader.
President Syngman Rhee massacred 60,000 islanders on Jeju Island.
So what about the Rhee Syngman regime in the south, this one too, a lot of blood was shed in the process of its formation.
In 1948, the 4.3 incident occurred on Jeju Island, and by 1954, 60,000 residents were killed by the time of the Korean War.
The incident was triggered by South Korea's attempt to establish a nation through a single election without North Korea.
Leftist islanders who opposed the unilateral election rose in arms on April 3. The police and the rightist Youth League suppressed the uprising, leading to the massacre of the island's residents by the South Korean military.
During the Goryeo Dynasty, Jeju was under direct Mongolian control and was used as a grazing ground for Mongolian horses.
The island was then regarded as an island of exiles and suffered discrimination from ancient times.
The island's inhabitants are proud, independent, and significant, as their political opponents were exiled from the island.
Yoshida Seiji's testimony about hunting for military comfort women on Jeju Island was an outright lie, immediately apparent to the journalists who went to Jeju Island to interview.
Jeju's people say that if women were taken away by force, the men of Jeju would not remain silent and would kill them all in a bag.
They are such noble people that they resisted violently.
Because of this, one out of five of the islanders were killed.
It had never happened before under Japanese rule.
Syngman Rhee won the election and became the Republic of Korea's first president when South Korea had its votes, killing 600 opponents.
It is why Syngman Rhee is not popular in South Korea either.
Moreover, when the North Korean army invaded during the Korean War, he quickly fled from Seoul to Pusan.
It's the same behavior as the previous kings of the Korean peninsula, with the leader fleeing before the people.
But when the U.S.-led U.N. forces landed at Incheon and launched a counter-offensive, Syngman Rhee stunned the U.S. by telling MacArthur to "drop the atomic bomb."
For Japan, Syngman Rhee was also the worst president ever.
During the Korean War in 1952, he unilaterally expanded Japan's exclusive economic zone by establishing the Rhee Syngman Line in place of the MacArthur Line, which had previously restricted Japanese waters, and arbitrarily captured Japanese fishing vessels, arresting, detaining and shooting them.
This line would later become the reason for the effective control of Takeshima by South Korea.
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