I have been subscribing to the monthly magazine Themis, which is not sold in bookstores and is published by subscription only.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that I read an article by Masayuki Takayama entitled "Japan rebukes society,"
He is the one and only journalist in the post-war world.
In this month's issue, his article, which arrives today, is an eye-opener and a genuine treatise in its own right.
I am proud to say that I do the work of 120 million people, or rather, 6.5 billion people, and Masayuki Takayama has the same pride and commitment as I do.
No Sincerity in South Korea, which returns evil for good compassion
Think of the Olympics without the Koreans if you want to impose a grudge
Independence Day to stir up a grudge
The United States gave Korea its independence.
MacArthur went out of his way to make Korea independent on August 15, 1948, the day of Japan's surrender, when it could have been any day.
Everything this man did was insidious, and he never tried to hide his racial prejudice and vengeance.
The prosecution of Class A war criminals on Emperor Showa's birthday and the Crown Prince's birthday's execution are good examples.
He also intended the overlapping of Korea's Independence Day with Japan's National Memorial Service for War Dead to remind Koreans of Japan's domination every year, stimulating national resentment and arousing resentment against Japan.
Koreans fell right into the scheme and are still making noise with fresh hatred.
The first Korean to be driven mad with resentment was the first president of Korea, Syngman Rhee.
Before he came back, the peninsula was taken care of by Japan.
We built the roads and railroads, and the sanitary environment they now boast of, such as the K-quarantine, was created by Japan.
However, after Japan's defeat, no one gave them money anymore.
Up to 80% of the nation's wealth was public and private property left by Japan.
He should have worked like the Japanese taught him, but like before the war, Syngman Rhee only thought of extorting to Japan.
He came up with the idea of participating in the peace conference with Japan as a member of the Allies and taking money in the name of wartime reparations.
But MacArthur said, "You are neither a victor nor a vanquished nation. You are just a third world nation," he prodded.
So Rhee decided to extort Japan on his own.
That was the Rhee line setting up of February 8, 1952, which pushed South Korea's territorial waters out of its own accord.
They took Takeshima Island and began to capture Japanese fishing boats that came to fish and detained their crews.
Using this as an excuse to extort, on January 6 of the following year, Rhee visited Japan and demanded Shigeru Yoshida pay a ransom for the fishermen and compensation for colonial rule.
Yoshida chastised Lee for his outrageousness, turned him away, and refused to visit Korea to reply to the president's visit.
Angered, Lee seized 233 fishing boats and detained 2,791 people in total.
It released 474 Korean criminals in Japan.
The detention facility was inadequate, and five trapped fishermen died.
Yoshida was furious as the first step in the breakup of diplomatic relations and told the South Korean side to close down the Korean legation in Japan, arrest illegally residing Koreans in retaliation for their arrest. Also, it uses force to remove a Korean ship that had captured the Japanese ships.
Syngman Rhee shuddered and threw himself on the US's mercy; he hastily drafted a plan for a Japan-US-Korea Friendship and Security Treaty to keep the US in check.
The Hatoyama Ichiro's cabinet, which replaced Yoshida, was incompetent and did everything only for friendship.
He retracted Yoshida's hard-line policy on the importance of caring for the other side and accepted the POW exchange agreement issued by South Korea.
It was a unilateral agreement in which South Korea would release the Japanese fishermen who had been interned there. In contrast, Japan would release all the smuggled Koreans interned in Omura Camp and 474 Korean criminals imprisoned for murder in Japan with a residence permit.
The Japanese side acquiesced and added the compassionate relinquishment of all national and private property left on the peninsula.
The money at that time was 7 trillion yen.
It was enough to launch a single country, more than Israel's national finances at its founding.
Korea has become a wealthy nation.
Having made so much unjustified profit, South Korea still couldn't get enough.
Park Chung-hee, who became president in the 1960s, had a natural talent for taking advantage of the Japanese sycophants.
He was able to go to elementary school through teacher's school for free, courtesy of the Japanese.
That was enough, but when he was nearly 30 years old, he applied in the blood to go to the military academy this time.
The Japanese are susceptible to such feigned enthusiasm.
It tricked him into entering the military academy.
When he became president after the Korean War, he demonstrated his Japanese maneuvering skills to the fullest.
At that time, Japan refused to rearm under the U.S.-made constitution and did not cooperate in the Vietnam War.
Park then proposed to deploy 300,000 Korean troops "on behalf of Japan" to obtain aid from the United States while extracting compensation from Japan.
Welfare and tax-free privileges for Koreans in Japan, too.
So Reischauer pushed for a $500 million Japan-Korea treaty with Japan, which in turn forced the Japanese to perform the "Miracle on the Han River" from steelmaking to shipbuilding to power plants.
Japan continued to show compassion for Korea long afterward.
We gave Roh Tae-woo Kim Hyun-hui, the Korean bomber captured by the Japanese embassy staff in Palen.
She gave details of Megumi's abduction and others in North Korea, but Roh was reluctant to provide them, and it delayed the investigation of the kidnapping for more than ten years.
He even thoughtfully granted welfare and tax-free privileges to Koreans in Japan who had taken up residence in Japan without permission.
However, the murderers had the right to be deported from Japan, but Roh Tae-woo was unwilling to "deport" the murderers in Japan either.
He made Kaifu Toshiki "not let it happen."
Kiichi Miyazawa also had the compassion to get Japan to co-host the Japan-hosted World Cup.
The tournament was stigmatized as "the world's dirtiest World Cup" because of Korea's dirty referee takeover and rough play.
Taro Aso sympathized with South Korea's mockery by the international community and promoted Ban Ki-moon to UN Secretary General's position.
Ban responded by propagating at the UN to call the Sea of Japan the "East Sea."
He also took part in the 70th anniversary of Beijing's anti-Japanese victory to express his anti-Japanese attitude.
Koizumi Junichiro gave South Korea the White Country treatment that only a clean country can get.
South Koreans abused it to resell hydrogen fluoride and other chemicals to terrorist states such as North Korea.
Accused of betrayal, the Abe administration removed the White State and changed its compassionate policy for the first time.
Koreans, who had always taken compassion for granted, were stunned to the point that it turned their lives upside down.
The emissaries from South Korea have been coming in droves.
South Korea forces its attention on pretending to be kind.
On top of the demands for "give compensation to fake conscripted workers" and "return to A white country treatment," "I will make the Tokyo Olympics a sunny stage for the unification of the peninsula."
The good-natured Japanese have grown tired of this self-centeredness without remorse.
On the other hand, maybe it's time to consider the Olympics without the Koreans.
