The following is from the final installment of Takayama Masayuki's regular column in the weekly Shincho magazine, released today.
This article also proves that he is the only journalist in the post-war world.
It is a must-read for not only the Japanese people but also people all over the world.
Protect Hokkaido
The Slavic people who live in Russia have had a sad and unfortunate history.
The Slavic people who lived in the Volga River basin were captured by people from the West and sold into slavery.
The name of the Slavic people became the origin of the word "slave."
The slave people, who could not even believe in happiness for tomorrow, still worked hard and converted to Christianity, building a country in Kyiv.
However, the trials continued.
This time, the Mongols attacked from the east, killing the men and raping the women.
In the Americas, the white people raped the Indians, turning Central and South America into a land of mestizos.
In Russia, it was the opposite: the white people were raped by the Mongols, and all the children born had Lenin's face.
Russia endured this, and like a white nation, it aimed to become the victor of colonial imperialism.
However, Japan soundly defeated them, and they had to bear the ignominy of being "the only white nation to be defeated by a non-white nation."
They were terrible at both upbringing and luck.
It was a significant reason why the Russian character became terrible.
And the Russians, who had terrible guts, attacked Japan from behind.
The result was that the Russian tank units were utterly destroyed, their air force was wiped out, and 10,000 soldiers and officers were killed in action.
Zhukov, who had never known defeat in the war against Germany, admitted defeat, saying, "This was an unprecedentedly difficult battle."
Stalin then devised a more cunning strategy.
He thought that if they waited until Japan had accepted the Potsdam Declaration and disarmed, even the Russian army would be able to win.
The operation began on August 18, 1945, the final deadline for disarmament.
First, an advance party would land in Kushiro and occupy the area, having taken control of the Kuril Islands from the north of Kamchatka.
Russia's long-cherished dream was to have a port of call in the Pacific Ocean.
After conquering South Sakhalin, another group of troops landed in Rumoi together with the main force stationed in Vladivostok.
They seized control of Aomori by capturing 19 airfields and took control of the Tsugaru Strait.
After stealing Hokkaido, they planned to move south along the Sea of Japan.
Then, they planned to occupy Tsushima, the first time this had happened since the Russian warship Posadniku in the year before the Meiji Restoration.
It was to make the Sea of Japan into a Russian inland sea by controlling the Tsushima, Tsugaru, and Soya Straits (Tsushima Strait, Tsugaru Strait, Soya Strait) (Tsutomu Saito, "Stalin's Secret Diary").
However, the operation initially hit a snag when the advance party attempted to capture Shumushu Island, at the northern end of the Kuril Islands.
When he received word that the Russians were attacking, the commander of the 5th Area Army, HIGUCHI Kiichiro, ordered the troops to "repel the enemy to defend ourselves" (as recorded in HIGUCHI Kiichiro's Testament).
The garrison was re-armed and attacked the Russians as they landed, killing and wounding thousands.
With over 3,000 casualties, the Izvestia newspaper acknowledged the "enormous damage," and the campaign to take Kushiro from the Kuril Islands was temporarily halted.
During this time, Higuchi "informed General MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, of the illegal invasion by the Allied Forces of unknown nationality" (ibid.).
The telegram blatantly criticized the General Headquarters, which had been unable to control the Soviets.
In a bind, the General Headquarters leaked the information to the Associated Press, letting the world know about the Soviet Union's outrageousness.
On August 22, Stalin gave up on the occupation of Hokkaido.
In a fit of anger, he fired a torpedo at three repatriation ships, including the Ogasawara Maru, which was returning from Sakhalin to Rumoi, killing 1,700 people.
Meanwhile, the advance party, which had fallen behind on Shumushu Island, landed on Kunashiri on September 1.
After the surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri, on September 3, "Colonel Chetyrin and the others departed to occupy Habomai and landed on September 4" (ibid.).
The Russians stole Habomai and Shikotan after the surrender ceremony.
Prime Minister Abe clarified the chronology of events when Putin visited Japan.
It explains why Putin's mood suddenly became so bad.
After returning to Russia, he also moved the date of the Victory Day celebrations from September 2 to September 3, the day he "inspected" Habomai.
The evil character of the Russian leader Putin is on full display.
Higuchi Kiichiro saved the Jews and Hokkaido.
In honor of his outstanding achievements, his statue was erected in his birthplace, Awaji Island, and it will be unveiled on October 11.
It is the first statue of a military uniform since the war.
2024/9/5 in Onomichi
