You know how refreshing it is to cut off your relationship with them in Corona.
2021/2/9
The following is from Masayuki Takayama's latest book, Henken Jizai: Corona Taught Us About the Big Bad, published on 1/15/2021.
This book is also the best in the world, just like his previous books.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but also for people worldwide.
Every Japanese citizen should go to the nearest bookstore and buy it right now.
I will let the rest of the world know as much as possible.
This essay also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
The emphasis in the text, except for the headline, is mine.
It is what the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, who considered resigning, really meant.
After the end of Japanese rule over Korea, a time of bliss for Koreans, the United States, and the Soviet Union brought Syngman Rhee and Kim Il-sung to lead North and South Korea, respectively.
The Korean people had no leadership.
Soon after, in June 1950, the North invaded the South.
Syngman Rhee abandoned his soldiers and fled to Busan alone.
It was also typical Korean behavior following the tradition that "when the enemy comes, the king flees to Ganghwa Island."
He was still worried and ordered Yamaguchi Prefecture to "build a temporary government. Prepare for it."
The prefectural governor immediately refused.
The U.S. also selfishly terminated Japan's occupation, which was supposed to continue forever, and decided to conclude a peace treaty in San Francisco the following year.
After the treaty was signed, the U.S. intended to have Japan abolish the MacArthur Constitution, rearm, and fight in Korea in place of U.S. soldiers.
Syngman Rhee intervened.
He demanded that MacArthur participate in the peace conference as a victorious nation and have the right to wartime compensation as a victorious nation.
MacArthur said, "You are neither a victor nor a defeated nation. You are an irrelevant third country."
If they are irrelevant, you cannot negotiate reparations with Japan.
During the Korean War, they drew a line in Japan's territorial waters to steal Takeshima, the Lee Syngman Line, and urged Japan to accept the negotiations.
They left the war they started with the U.S. and China.
This cunning has been Korea's specialty since the Battle of Baekgangr.
*Today, on February 9 and 10, 2021, NHK E-television will be airing a program titled "Emperor Tenchi" that will touch on the Battle of Baekgang. NHK will probably not mention Joseon's cunning move at all. On the contrary, it will glorify Joseon and look down on Japan.＊
Japan demanded the return of Japanese national and civilian assets on the peninsula.
Japanese state and private assets on the peninsula accounted for 85 percent of Korea's assets.
If we gave them back, there would be nothing left.
The South Koreans said, "That's our property," and demanded an apology for the Japanese colonial rule and compensation of $2.1 billion, the equivalent of 10 years of the Japanese national budget.
Naturally, the negotiations broke down.
In anger, Syngman Rhee began to seize Japanese fishing boats and detain their crews.
Some people died.
If you don't like it, let me meet with Yoshida Shigeru and resume the Japan-Korea talks.
Yoshida met with Lee in Tokyo in January of the following year.
Lee showed him his fingernail-less fingers and said they had been removed by torture during Korea under Japanese rule.
That's a lie.
During the Joseon Dynasty, he was caught by a bailiff and tortured in prison for seven years.
Yoshida hated Syngman Rhee Ichiro Kono and Sukarno all his life.
At the resumed Japan-Korea talks, Kubota Kanichiro said, "What is an apology? We made the mountains green, built schools, and installed electricity.
We would have brought the Koreans to the modern age, even though they lived in ancient times.
The meeting broke down again.
Yoshida, disgusted by Korea's lack of gratitude, ordered the "closure of the Korean delegation to Japan," the "aggressive protection of fishing vessels," and the "detention of the same number of Koreans in Japan as the detained fishermen."
Stunned, Syngman Rhee hurriedly proposed to the U.S. the "Tripartite Non-Aggression Pact between Japan, the U.S., and South Korea.
It was a cunning move to use the U.S. to suppress Japan's use of force.
The foolish Ichiro Hatoyama, who succeeded Yoshida, was fooled by Syngman Rhee and seriously considered signing a non-aggression pact.
The captured fishermen were forced to agree to a "Japan-Korea prisoner of war exchange" at Syngman Rhee's behest.
The Japanese POWs were imprisoned murderers and smugglers in Japan.
By releasing them with permanent residency, Syngman Rhee released the fishermen.
Japanese people sincerely disliked Koreans from that time.
After Syngman Rhee, the more sly Park Chung-hee came out.
Instead of asking for an apology, he refused to return Japanese assets, and on top of that, he swallowed the Japanese side with $ 500 million in money and technical assistance.
Ultimately, the Japanese were forced to pay tribute to Korea for 70 years, from Korea under Japanese rule to the Han River's miracle.
On the other hand, the people of the peninsula rose from the Paleolithic era without latrines or carts to become one of the world's leading industrial nations in those 70 years.
William Siebold, Director General of the Diplomatic Service at GHQ, who visited Korea many times before the war, described his impression of Korea as "a gloomy country. The people are stubborn and angry," he wrote in his book in just six lines. "I'm sick of it."
Harris, the current U.S. ambassador to South Korea, has announced that he will resign.
The reason is, "No matter what I do, there is no appreciation. I don't even want to be around Korea."
Japan has had too much to do with such a country.
You know how refreshing it is to cut off your relationship with them in Corona.
Let's follow Harris's example.
(April 30, 2020)
