The background to this series of lawsuits was the weakening and collapse of

They came up with the idea of extracting money from Japan.

These two lawyers have been filing lawsuits that are all in favor of Korea.
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Mr. Takagi was the legal advisor to the former Socialist Party at the time, and he had his law office in the same tenant building as Ms. Takako Doi's office.
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The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The asterisks indicate my comments.

The terms "comfort women" and "Sakhalin" are related.
Otaka　
As a result, the Japanese government contributed more than 8 billion yen from the national treasury to the issue of the return of the remaining Koreans on Sakhalin.
Furthermore, this "Sakhalin support money" is still being paid, and last year, a budget of about 1
billion yen was allocated.

*Most Japanese citizens, like me, will be hearing about this for the first time*

Then, two years after the conclusion of the Sakhalin lawsuit, in 1991, the comfort women lawsuit suddenly began, and the Asian Women's Fund, which was established in 1995 after the Murayama Cabinet was formed, contributed approximately 4.8 billion yen from the national treasury until its dissolution in 2007.
In any case, considerable money was moved in both the Sakhalin lawsuit and the comfort women issue.
The background to this series of lawsuits was the weakening and collapse of the former Soviet Union, a source of funding for left-wing forces such as the former Socialist Party.
When they could no longer hope for support from the former Soviet Union, they probably jumped at the opportunity to make money from the post-war compensation issue.
They came up with the idea of extracting money from Japan.
In other words, the issue of comfort women may have been the next step taken by those involved in the Sakhalin lawsuit to extract post-war compensation from the Japanese government.　

The comfort women issue is inextricably linked to the Sakhalin issue, and it is fair to say that Mr. Yoshida was used by those attracted to the "post-war compensation interest."

After the Soviet Union effectively controlled Sakhalin, many Koreans were forced to remain there.　

I think that to make up a story that the Japanese government was responsible for this, people like Mr. Takagi and Mr. Yasuaki Onuma (deceased, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo), who established the Asian Women's Fund, used the concept of "forced deportation" to raise the issue.

Takayama

Actually, it was the Koreans who settled there on their own.

Ohtaka

That's right.

In the 1990s, Socialist Party members in the Diet were persistently raising issues of forced recruitment and comfort women, trying to force the issue.

If you read the Diet minutes at the time, it's very clear.　

According to Ms. Arai Sawako, author of "Why Couldn't the Koreans in Sakhalin Go Home? (Sosha Publishing), Mr. Takagi was the legal advisor to the former Socialist Party at the time and had his own law office in the same building as Ms. Doi Takako's office.

 

Retaliation by Asahi

Takayama

Speaking of the 1990s, in 1991, Asahi reporter Uemura Takashi interviewed a former comfort woman, Kim Hak-sun, and reported that it had been discovered that one of the 'Korean military comfort women' who had been taken to the front lines under the name of the 'Women's Volunteer Corps' during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II and forced to engage in prostitution with Japanese soldiers was still alive in Seoul and that the 'Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan' (co-representatives: Yun Jeong-ok, 16 organizations, approx. 300,000 members) had begun to interview her.　

Speaking of which, although Sakurai Yoshiko had sued Uemura for defamation, claiming that the series of articles he wrote contained fabrication, the Sapporo District Court dismissed Uemura's claim.

In short, Uemura lost the case.

Also, in 1992, Yoshimi Yoshiaki, a professor emeritus at Chuo University, gave copies of documents related to comfort women that he had viewed at the National Institute for Defense Studies library to Asahi reporter Tatsuno Tetsuro, and this was reported in a front-page article.

 

I think they were trying to take revenge on Ichiyangi, and so they were actively covering the issue of comfort women to undermine the Japanese. 

Asahi is a newspaper with a twisted sense of morality (lol)

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Takayama

At the time, the president of Asahi was Nakae Toshitada, and he had the comfort women issue widely covered in the paper.

It was later revealed that most of these reports were false, and when then-president Tadakazu Kimura was on the verge of being fired, Nakae also made what sounded like an apology.

Ohtaka

Why did Asahi actively report on the issue of comfort women?

Takayama　

Before we discuss that, in 1989, the fabrication of the coral article was exposed.

Ohtaka

On Iriomote Island, Asahi cameraman Yoshio Honda scribbled graffiti on coral on his own, but they made up an article accusing him as if the culprit was a third party.

Takayama

That was reported widely, and the then-president, Toichiro Ichiyanagi, was fired.

From that point on, Asahi began to hate the Japanese people for disgracing the Asahi Shimbun.

I think they actively covered the comfort women issue to take revenge on Ichiyanagi and disgrace the Japanese people.

Asahi really is a newspaper with a twisted personality (lol).

 

The match-fixing trial

Ohtaka

They're the same with South Korea (lol).

Takayama　

In 1982, a reporter named Harushi Kiyota quoted Yoshida's lecture and published an article entitled "Korean Women - I Was Also Taken Away."

And then the peak came in the early 1990s.

Ohtaka

In the end, the forced labor and comfort women issues did not originate in Korea.

It is always Japanese lawyers, activists, and some politicians who collude to make up post-war compensation and make a fuss about it.

Religious figures are also involved.　

In the recent forced labor court case, a hundred human rights lawyers from Japan gathered to criticize the Japanese government's response.

You can't help but wonder what country these lawyers are from (laughs).

If they call themselves human rights lawyers, why aren't they speaking out about the tragedy of the Uyghur, Tibetan, and Southern Mongolian people, who are currently being subjected to inhumane oppression by the Chinese government?

Takayama

Furthermore, I heard these human rights lawyers meet in a conference room in the House of Councillors building.

Ohtaka　

Yes.

The fact that there are members of the Diet who have provided meeting rooms in the Diet Building to these lawyers is itself an anomaly.

In this case, it seems that Shiro Kawakami and Haruta Yamamoto, the lawyers, are taking the lead.

Takayama

These two lawyers are only ever involved in sympathetic lawsuits for Korea.

 

The Choren collected a considerable amount of money from Japanese companies, and most of it did not go to the hands of the forced laborers but was used as funding for the activities of the Choren.

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The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.

Ohtaka

Why are they suing?

According to the Chosun Ilbo (November 7), "The lawyer cited the case of a lawsuit for damages filed by Chinese victims in 2007. At the time, the Japanese Supreme Court ruled that the Chinese victims had 'lost their rights in court,' but the lawyer cited that the court also made it clear that 'the right to claim had not been extinguished.' In other words, he explained that the Japanese government had also made it clear to the Chinese side in 1991 that they were taking a similar stance to the Korean Supreme Court."

Takayama

The decision of the Japanese Supreme Court meant that the claim should be made against the South Korean government.

But the background to this decision suggests that not only did the South Korean Supreme Court go too far, but the Japanese side also helped set the scene.

Ohtaka

That's exactly right!

It's a case of playing with fire.

Another interesting point about the forced labor issue is made by Kim Chan-Hyung, a former member of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (a non-fiction writer of Korean descent).

It is about the abundant financial resources of the Choren (which could be said to be a separate unit of the later Chongryon and the Japanese Communist Party), which was established under the orders of GHQ after the war.

The largest source of revenue was unpaid wages, etc., for the forced laborers returning home. By the end of 1946, unpaid wages were claimed from the Japanese companies that employed the forced laborers in the name of the director of the Choren Central Labor Department. The amount of the claim reached 43.66 million yen, and the Chosen Rengai collected a considerable amount from Japanese companies, most of which did not get into the hands of the forced laborers but was used for the activities of the Chosen Rengai" (from 'Chosen Soren' Shincho Shinsho).

Takayama

That's an interesting story.

In 1945, the Korean Federation in Japan was formed.

It was divided into the Mindan and Chongryon, and the man who founded it was Kim Chon-hae.

His theme for the federation was, amazingly, "making Japan a country where we can live comfortably" (lol).

Ookou

That's precisely what's happened!

They're being treated too well, and when we point out that this is unfair, we're told we're being "hateful," and the problem can't be addressed.

Speaking of hate, there is a situation where one-sided and incorrect information is being spread overseas about issues such as the comfort women issue, and the Japanese people as a whole are being made victims of hate speech, which is a situation that has become entirely backward.

Takayama

That's so true.

Who do they think Japan is?

When the Korean Federation was established in Osaka, they started issuing evening discount tickets so that "zainichi" could ride the national and private railways for free.　

Eisaku Sato, the director of the Osaka Railway Bureau, was surprised to find that the Osaka Regional Taxation Bureau had almost no revenue and learned of the violent actions of the Zainichi.

He managed to shut them down somehow, but the Korean Federation created other scholarship societies, and the children of the Zainichi were allowed to enter Hosei, Meiji, and Chuo Universities freely.

Otaka

Is that true?

Takayama

Hosei University was particularly popular with the Zainichi.

Otaka

Huh, that trend still exists today.

Jiro Yamaguchi, who said, "Abe is not a human being. I'm going to cut him down to size," is a professor at Hosei University's Faculty of Law.

Takayama

He's a professor who's been shouting anti-government slogans while receiving hundreds of millions of yen in research funding from the government.

What's more, the university president is the bright red Yuko Tanaka.

Ohtaka

I see, so you're part of the famous "Sunday Morning" (TBS) group (lol).　

Anyway, the Japanese government, which has been making repeated mistakes in negotiations with the South Korean government over historical awareness, should say to the South Korean government now, "From now on, we would like all compensation claims regarding forced deportation to be made to the South Korean government or the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan" (burst of laughter).

 

Inflow of Koreans

Takayama

Since founding South Korea in 1948, that country has always done strange things.

During the 36 years of Japanese rule before that, people were living in peace and contentment, and there was plenty of rice.

Food and work were abundant, and people lived a life of contentment.

Koreans say they were a colony, but if they were a colony, they would never have been able to come and go as they pleased to the suzerain nation (Japan), which would never have been allowed.

And so they were able to get jobs without discrimination (laughs).

Otaka　

In Joseon, it was said that "all people except the yangban are not people," and it is clear from the book "300 Unique Advertisements Tell of the Cheerful Chosun Rule" (Business-sha) by Tajima Osamu (see page 164) that the Korean women who were discriminated against were actually enjoying their lives.

Takayama　

In 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and one large city was lost, but at that time, the population of Hiroshima City was about 350,000.

Of that, about 80,000 were Koreans.

Koreans who had entered Japan had no jobs in the farming villages, so they flowed into the cities.

Even so, the surprising figure is that one in five Hiroshima citizens were Koreans who had moved into the city.

When you think about it like that, it's easy to understand why so many Koreans were victims of the atomic bomb.

Otaka　

So that's how many Koreans there were in the cities of Japan.

Takayama

It's hard to believe, but there was a regular ferry service between Jeju Island and Ikuno in Osaka at the time.

Otaka　

Now it's Ikuno Ward, where the Korean town is located.

It's the birthplace of Mun Se-gwang, who assassinated Kim Jong-il's mother, Ko Yong-hui, and Park Chung-hee's wife, Yook Young-soo.　

I visited there several times for research, and I was impressed by the fact that it was more like a "different world" than Ikuno. 

It had places like the Christian church where Asahi reporter Uemura gave his lecture, the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and the Korean Residents Union in Japan, and meeting places for people who had fled from Jeju Island (laughs).

Takayama

These people who have come to Japan from Korea are now making a big fuss about how they were forced to come here and are poor victims.

Otaka

And the Japanese are helping them, so it's just too much.

We don't know how many people are carrying out anti-Japanese activities under Japanese names.

In particular, when people are active overseas under assumed names and spread false information to undermine Japan, it's impossible to put a stop to it.

Even foreigners are fooled into thinking it must be true because it's a Japanese person's testimony.

Because we have left such activists alone, we have allowed the situation to develop so that a second or third Yoshida Seiji could emerge.

Takayama

Even Katsuichi Honda is living his life carefree.

Otaka　

When I looked up the names of the activists involved in the forced labor issue this time, some overlapped with the comfort women issue propaganda faction.

They're anti-Japanese fanatics.

Takayama

They're all part of the same root (laughs).

Otaka

There is a high possibility that litigation brokers for forced laborers will be operating in secret, just like they did with comfort women.

In the case of the comfort women, Ms. Yang Soon-im, the mother-in-law of Mr. Uemura Takashi and the chairperson of the Pacific War Victims' Families Association, formed the "Civil Claim Group for Japan" in 2010 and