February 11, 2013-Japan Celebrates National Foundation Day (建国記念の日Kenkoku kinen-no-hi)
The year 2013 is the 25th year of Heisei (平成２５年) since Japan's Imperial Household Agency made an official announcement of the Demise of The Emperor Hirohito on January 7, 1989, and The Crown Prince Akihito succeeded to become the 125th Emperor of Japan. Japan celebrates the 2,673rd anniversary of its founding.
Ki mi ga yo- National Anthem of Japan
Official
君が代は
千代に八千代に
さざれ石の
いわおとなりて
こけの生すまで
Hiragana
きみがよは ちよにやちよに さざれいしの いわおとなりて こけのむすまで
Romanized Letters
Kimigayo wa
Chiyo ni yachiyo ni
Sazare-ishi no
Iwao to narite
Koke no musu made
English
May your reign
Continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations,
A scary story on the scariest night of the year! Just in case you are interested in Japan's struggle to dispose of the bombs indiscriminately dropped in Japan by the US government during the Greater East Asia War (See "The Greater East Asia War" VS. "The Pacific War" , Japan Self-Defense Forces has disposed of 122, 204 live bombs found from 1958 to 2007, not including those (961 tons) found and disposed of from 1954 to 1957. As far as Japan is concerned, the war has not ended yet, costing Japan a lot not only in terms of money but also in terms of human lives.
It is reported that US Secretary of State Dulles had repeatedly threatened Japan over territorial issues while Japan was trying to straighten out the entangled territorial issues intentionally created by U.S. government, thereby keeping those irritants effectively damaging to Japan's relations with China, Taiwan, ROK, and the Soviet Union (now Russia).
Speaking of Kamikaze Special Attack Force (神風特攻隊), I would like to show you one of my photos, in which 14 heroes seem so confident and happy just before departure from Tainan air base of the Great Imperial Japanese Forces, Taiwan for their special task. Our social system which has failed to teach their true spirit and aims at elementary schools since the end of the Greater East Asia war is nothing but to have betrayed those Kamikaze pilots.
In 1896 only 31 years after Japan restored the Imperial System in 1868 under His Majesty the Emperor Meiji, the Imperial Government of Japan approved of a plan to construct a new station, later named as "Tokyo Station" when it was opened on December 20, 1914.
The openings of major railway systems after Tokyo Station was opened had helped the surrounding areas develop into the commercial center of Tokyo. However, U.S. forces executed infamous indiscriminate bombings in Tokyo by dropping incendiary bombs, killing hundreds of thousands of the innocent civilians, most of whom were non-combatants such as babies, children, women, the aged, etc. One major bombing executed on May 25, 1945 that also used incendiary bombs, a few of which hit Marunouchi exit, caused a major fire and then destoryed everything except main structures.
"Hundreds of thousands of lives were suddenly and deliberately ended by evil, despicable acts of atrocity. B-29 bombers flying at very low altitude above Tokyo, dropping incendiary bombs and napalms on the innocent civilians. Exploding -- not only burning a huge -- a huge number of houses but also suffocating and incinerating a huge -- a huge number of humans have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and unyielding anger. It was just a huge -- a huge gas chamber and a huge incinerator --the largest ever created in the history of mankind. It was just intended to demonstrate their superiority over the Asian races. But they failed. Many Asian nations gained independence from the white ruled nations after the war.-Ted Yokohama."
After undergoing a number of restoration efforts, a full-scale restoration project was envisaged by the Government of Japan in 1988 and was finalized in 1999. The final restoration project started in 2007 and it will be fully completed in 2013. It will be officially opened on October 1, 2012. Restoration cost is JPY 50 billion, equivalent to USD 0.641 billion if calculated at the exchange rate of 77.987/USD.
Below is a video of an event called "Tokyo Station Vision" held on September 22, revealing a restored Tokyo station to the public by showing images of Tokyo station from its inception. Visit Tokyo Station Vision
Note: Japan's first railway system was opened in 1872, connecting Shinbashi to Yokohama only 4 years after Japan restored the Imperial System in 1868 under His Majesty the Emperor Meiji. One has to remember that Japan achieved her modernization without getting free assistance similar to ODA (Official Development Assitance) or anything else from the western powers. No such a system as ODA and others existed when Japan embarked upon her modernization. The western powers were trying to colonize Japan. In short, everything that came to Japan from the west was fully paid or often overpaid for by Japan.
January 18, 1952-a date which will live in infamy-Japan was suddenly and deliberately invaded by the South Koreans under the command of South Korea president Syngman Rhee, so as to illegally occupy Takeshima islets by making a groundless and irrational territorial claim over those islets almost three months before San Francisco Peace Agreement (signed on September 8, 1951) became effective on April 28, 1952.
The invasion of Takeshima and its continued occupation has been one of the major irritants often regarded as a causative factor largely responsible for deterioration of relations between Japan and South Korea in the last decades despite Japan and her people’s deep sympathy expressed in the form of economic and technical assistance toward the Korean population for its unfortunate plights often indirectly and directly resulted from Russian and Chinese interferences with the Korean peninsula.
The invasion of Takeshima began with unilateral establishment of Syngman Rhee Line on January 18, 1952. 1. Syngman Rhee Line (李承晩ライン) unilaterally established by South Korea in defiance of international laws and U.S. warnings. http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/takeshima/installation.html - Installation of "Syngman Rhee Line" and Illegal Occupation of Takeshima by the Republic of Korea.
The invasion and continued occupation is a clear violation of San Francisco Peace Treaty in which Article 2 of Chapter II Territory stipulates that (a) Japan recognizing the independence of Korea, renounces all right, title and claim to Korea, including the islands of Quelpart, Port Hamilton and Dagelet. In (a) of Article 2, Quelpart Island (Jejudo, 제주도, 済州島), Port Hamilton (Geomun-do, 거문도, 巨文島), and Dagelet (Ulleungdo, 울릉도, 鬱陵島) are specifically mentioned. It is so clear to anyone that Takeshima islets have never been included in a list of the islands when Japan renounced all right, title and claim to Korea. http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/takeshima/sanfrancisco.pdf -Treaty of Peace with Japan, Chapter II Territory, Article 2.
Today, I would like to focus on one of the unforgivable atrocities the government of South Korea committed in a futile attempt to distort a number of historical facts related to Japan’s unalterable position over Takeshima islets.
On January 22, 1953, two fishing vessels respectively named “Daiichi Daihou Maru and Daini Daihou Maru of Taihou Fisheries Company left Fukuoka, Japan for fishing operations. By February 4, they arrived at No. 284 fishing zone in international waters near Jeju Island.
When two Japanese fishing vessels operating in the designated fishing zone at around 7:00 a.m. the same day, two S. Korean fishing vessels (第一昌運号제 2 장 운 호and第二昌運号제 2 장 운 호) were spotted approaching the Japanese fishing vessels. They soon came close to the Japanese fishing vessels. And, then S. Korean crews greeted Japanese crews by saying “How’s your fishing going today?” They just passed by and stopped nearby, watching the Japanese fishing vessels.
As soon as Daiichi Daihou Maru began pulling fishing net up, the S. Korean vessels (in fact disguised as the fishing vessels manned by military personnel, etc.) at the distance of 30 meters from the stern of the Japanese fishing vessels opened firing automatic rifles at Daiichi Daihou Maru. Two Japanese fishing vessels were trying to escape their sudden and vicious attack on them but both of them were soon captured by 8:30 a.m. since the South Koreans were intensely and fiercely firing at them.
One of chief fishermen was hit in the head with a bullet fired from one of the automatic rifles and fell unconscious. Then, they told Daiichi Daihou Maru and Daiini Daihou Maru to head to Jeju Island. They arrived at Hanlin port, Jeju Island at 11:30 a.m. The Japanese crews were transferred to the S. Korean police authority that soon confiscated private belongings, properties, equipment, etc. When at the police authority, the Japanese crews told them that one of their crews was seriously injured. He was then taken to a hospital which one could hardly call "hospital" since it had no wards, equipment, instruments, etc. A Korean doctor just refused to extend any medical care to him. The Japanese fishing crews requested the police authority to find a hospital for him but they just rejected their request by stating “We are just carrying out our duty in accordance with an order given by the military. Therefore, we have no responsibility.” Then, they requested the military to extend necessary medical care to him. However, the military again refused to do so.
They repeatedly requested the military to hospitalize him at the military hospital. They even told them that they would pay for medical expenses. Then, they pretended to accept their request and told them “They would soon transport him to the military hospital by car.” However, he was just left alone there. He died at 23:00 p.m. on February 6.
The Japanese crews requested the police authority to cremate dead Chief fisherman. However, it was turned down. They had to improvise his funeral service and materials to cremate him all by themselves.
On February 9, they were transferred to an air defense facility in which they were confined in a small room whose floor area was 8.25 square meters. 18 crews were confined there with no food supplied by them. They had to survive on limited foods they had with them.
During police interrogation, the S. Korean police authority insisted that two Japanese fishing vessels were captured 9 nautical miles from Hanlin, Jeju Island. On the other hand, the Japanese crews pointed out not only inaccuracy of navigational compass but also speed of the Korean vessels and then insisted that it was 30 nautical miles at the time of capture. Then, the South Korean police authority forced them to accept 13 nautical miles close to halfway between the Japanese claim and the Korean claim. According to a navigator of Daiini Daihou Maru separately questioned by the South Korean police authority, two Japanese vessels were 30 nautical miles from Jeju Island when they were captured.
At 23:00 p.m. on the same day, they were transferred to the police station at Jeju city and were jailed at the prison cell without any meal at all. The prison cell was only 8.25 square meters. 18 crews were jailed together with Korean inmates at a very small cell. However, some meager meals were served there.
The Japanese crews were again interrogated by the Jeju police. The Jeju police charged the Japanese crews with violation of Syngman Rhee Line. They refuted the South Korean claim by telling them that installation of the line encompassing the island of Takeshima and a large area of water with fisheries jurisdiction was a unilateral act in contravention of international law.
The police prepared an investigator’s record of oral statement in Hangul, in which the police falsified the statement as saying that the Japanese crews violated Syngman Rhee Line. The police told them to sign the falsified statement written in Hangul and informed the Government of Japan to the effect that they admitted violation of Syngman Rhee Line.
However, it was so obvious that two Japanese vessels were captured in international waters since the South Korean police fabricated a story of violation by the Japanese fishing vessels. A U.S. Navy representative met with South Korean pres. Syngman over the incident. Syngman expressed his regrets over abduction of the Japanese fishermen in international waters. Two fishing vessels and crews were returned home guarded by U.S Navy Frigate ship on February 17.
When leaving South Korea, the South Korean police stated “We are very sorry for death of your crew. Since our country is at war, we couldn’t afford to give you foods even if we wanted to. Please do not say anything bad about the police.”
Major Issues of the Incident described above:
Installation of Syngman Rhee Line encompassing the island of Takeshima and a large area of water with fisheries jurisdiction is a unilateral act in contravention of international law.
Firing at the civilian ships without warnings in international waters is a crime.
Premeditated criminal act committed by the government of South Korea to pursue its military purpose of illegally occupying the large area of water and Takeshima as evidenced in the fact that each Korean vessel was staffed with 1 military police, 1 specially trained soldier, 1 information officer, 4 police officers in addition to 12 crews.
Serious human rights violation by abusing the Japanese crews during interrogations. ex. Refusal to offer medical care, Refusal to supply foods, Refusal to carry out funeral service and cremation, Confinement of the Japanese crews at overcrowded cell whose floor area is less than 8.25 square meters, etc.
The above is just a beginning of brutal killings and abduction of the Japanese fishermen by the government of South Korea.
During the period of January 18, 1952 (date of unilateral installation of Syngman Rhee Line) to June 22, 1965 (signing date of Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea), 328 Japanese fishing vessels were captured and 3,929 fishermen were abducted by South Korea. And, 44 Japanese fishermen were brutally murdered by South Korea.
It is well known that the government of South Korea advantageously proceeded its negotiations with Japan over Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea signed on June 22, 1965 while keeping Japanese fishermen as hostages whom the government of South Korea used as a bargaining chip.
A Japanese fisherman abducted and tortured by South Korea in 1950s. No information on his whereabouts has been given to Japan by South Korea.
@jakeadelstein Your recent article "Yasukuni Shrine: The Nation’s Pacifying Shrine That Angers Other Nations" has been written to offend Japan, although your brief preamble states "neither opposed to the existence of Yasukuni Jinja nor does it support the views of the group currently operating the shrine or Japanese nationalists." as it chiefly defines "Yasukuni Shrine from the American perspectives. It is quite offending and disturbing.
Since the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1853, U.S. invasion into Japan has begun, eroding the Japanese culture and tradition. And U.S. has been often destructive. Japan lost the Greater East Asia War in 1945; however, ultimately Japan helped them gain independence with sacrifices paid for freedom. It was a major struggle for freedom in the Greater East Asia.
Japan's modern history and colonization of Asia by the west are inseparably related to each other. There are three major points we should consider as prerequisites for describing a history of modernizing Japan.
1. At the starting point of Japan's modernization, Japan was faced with growing military threats from Great Britain, Russia, France, Netherlands, U.S.A., Germany, etc. while nothing but their battles for domination in Asia prevented them from fully and easily colonizing Asia. Therefore, they were still fighting for supremacy in Asia while Japan was going through a process of modernizing herself, so as to maintain her own independence. ex. Great Britain completed her control over India just 10 years before Meiji Restoration in 1868, Burma in 1886, and Malay Peninsula in 1909. France took Vietnam by force in 1887. Netherlands officially colonized Indonesia in 1904. U.S.A. annexed Hawaii in 1898, and seized Philippine the same year. Russia was posing a great threat to Japan in those years.
2. As shown in the above, Japan was completely surrounded by the western militaristic nations who had strong belief in colonialism for their own benefits. Even China was struggling with difficulties to preserve her own lands since China was in a deteriorating state resulting from its excessive bureaucracy. Korea was just a vassal state of China. Japan vehemently desired that Korea would soon become independent from China and would quickly modernize herself, thereby strengthening Japan's defense against the western aggression. Either the western powers or Russia would have colonized the Korean peninsula if nothing done. The only option left for Japan was to help Korea become independent from China. Japan had much stronger awareness of risks since Japan had experienced long-lasted Samurai period.
3. China and Korea were powerless and helpless. However, they had harbored ungrounded superiority complex over Japan. Ex. Sino-centrism. They tended to regard Japan's modernizing efforts as a disturbing factor to Sino-centrism.
Without keeping three points in one's mind, one must not see a history of Japan in relation to what China fabricates and what both Koreas fabricate.
A Note:
Hundreds of thousands of lives were suddenly and deliberately ended by evil, despicable acts of atrocity. B-29 bombers flying at very low altitude above Tokyo, dropping incendiary bombs and napalms on the innocent civilians. Exploding -- not only burning a huge -- a huge number of houses but also suffocating and incinerating a huge -- a huge number of humans have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and unyielding anger. It was just a huge -- a huge gas chamber and a huge incinerator --the largest ever created in the history of mankind. It was just intended to demonstrate their superiority over the Asian races. But they failed. Many Asian nations gained independence from the white ruled nations after the war.-Ted Yokohama.
日本国沖縄県石垣市登野城- Tonoshiro, Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Over 70,000 Chinese (possibly instigated by the Chinese operatives) engaged in anti-Japan protests in 28 cities across China have been vandalizing and looting Japanese supermarkets, restaurants, factories, etc.
Japan has extended to China the full-scale official and private assistance to help China secure freedom from poverty in the last decades since Japan's decision to normalize diplomatic relation with China on September 29, 1972. Japan has continued to assist China in the name of Official Development Assistance even after China surpassed Japan in terms of GDP last year.
Chinese government has upheld a policy of not fully disclosing and publicizing those facts, so that the public has been largely ignorant of Japan's contribution in modernizing China while spreading and emphasizing fabricated stories of the past historical events before, during, and after the Greater East Asia War. It is said that a majority of Chinese population does not even know "Senkaku islands" in the East China Sea. Some young Chinese, although limited in its number, are beginning to realize that their vandalism has thus reduced their job opportunities.
Mr.Tetsuya Watanabe, a novelist, economic critic, and CEO of a company (whose name is not disclosed) says on Twitter that "Japan fully recognizes them as being a Chinese domestic issue; therefore, it is not an issue Japan should interfere with. However, as the Japanese enterprises have been vandalized and looted, we expect that China will arrest criminal suspects urgently and then will compensate the Japanese victims for the tangible and intangible losses they have suffered.
Photos below show Chinese protesters (possibly agitated by Chinese operatives) vandalizing and looting Japanese factories, supermarkets, restaurants, etc.
A Japanese factory under attack by Chinese protesters
Chinese attackers clapping their hands, watching a Japanese factory being engulfed in flames.
Chinese attacking a Japanese supermarket. Just a bunch of vandals and looters.
Unrest has spread to Qingdao Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone.
Chinese attackers demanding a hotel to surrender Japanese guests to them.
A huge mall built by Japan in Changsha under attack. It's almost like a war zone.
Japanese restaurants vandalized by Chinese attackers.
In the early 20th century, the British put up a sign saying "No dogs and Chinese allowed" at the entrance to a public park in Shanghai. Chinese were infuriated by the British but they were obedient to them.
However, ever since Japan suffered a major defeat in the Greater East Asia War in 1945, the British have been very successful in "buck-passing" or shifting the responsibility for degrading Chinese citizens in Shanghai and placing them on the level of "dogs" to Japan and her people, as evidenced in Bruce Lee's movie "Fist of Fury", in which Japan and her people are treated as if to say Japanese are solely responsible for the misdeed in fact practiced by the British during their dominance in China.
Mr. Kazuhisa Ogawa, Japanese Military Analyst and President of Strategic Research Institute of International Change (SRIC for International Peace and Japan's Security)
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"No Japanese allowed to patronize here" (written in Japanese characters) on Japanese national flag at the entrance of two "Zenshutoku" 全聚徳 resturants in Beijing, well-known for Peking Duck since 1864. "Zenshutoku" 全聚徳 has two restaurants thriving in Ginza and Shinjuku, Tokyo; therefore, Chinese government must order, without fail, its headquarters in Beijing not to allow Japanese patrons to come in. Or else, Should they write "No Chinese allowed" on Chinese flags and hoist them? They have been fully patronized by the Embassy of China, though.
Una breve storia - Takeshima Invasa dalla Repubblica di Corea: Durante il periodo dal 18 gennaio 1952 (data di applicazione unilaterale della linea Syngman Rhee) al 22 giugno 1965 (data della firma del trattato sulle relazioni di base tra Giappone e Repubblica di Corea), 328 navi da pesca giapponesi sono stati catturati e 3929 pescatori sono stati rapiti dalla Corea del Sud. E 44 pescatori giapponesi sono stati brutalmente assassinati dalla Corea del Sud. Inoltre, i pescatori del Sud Corea del rapiti utilizzati come merce di scambio per negoziare con il Giappone relativo al trattato e ha chiesto l'assistenza ufficiale allo sviluppo e il dono di denaro (miliardi di dollari) per congratularmi con la Repubblica di indipendenza della Corea.
Un pescatore giapponese, rapito e torturato dalla Corea del Sud. Nessuna informazione sulla sua sorte è stato dato al Giappone dalla Corea del Sud.
Une brève histoire - Takeshima Envahi par la République de Corée: Durant la période du 18 Janvier 1952 (date de la mise en place unilatérale de Syngman Rhee Line) pour Juin 22, 1965 (date de signature du traité sur les relations de base entre le Japon et la République de Corée), 328 navires de pêche japonais ont été capturés et 3.929 pêcheurs ont été enlevés par la Corée du Sud. Et, 44 pêcheurs japonais ont été sauvagement assassinés par la Corée du Sud. Par ailleurs, la Corée du Sud utilisé pêcheurs enlevés comme monnaie d'échange pour négocier avec le Japon sur le traité et a demandé l'aide publique au développement et le don de l'argent (en milliards de dollars) afin de féliciter la République de Corée sur son indépendance.
Un pêcheur japonais enlevé et torturé par la Corée du Sud. Pas d'information sur son sort a été donné au Japon par la Corée du Sud.
A Brief History - Takeshima Invasion by ROK: During the period of January 18, 1952 (date of unilateral establishment of Syngman Rhee Line) to June 22, 1965 (signing date of Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea), 328 Japanese fishing vessels were captured and 3,929 fishermen were abducted by South Korea. And,44 Japanese fishermen were brutally murdered by South Korea. Besides, South Korea used abducted fishermen as a bargaining chip for negotiating with Japan on the Treaty for billions of dollars as ODA (Official Development Assistance) and money gift to congratulate The Republic of Korea on its independence.
The article "Why Japan and South Korea Are Feuding Over a Cluster of Rocks" recently published by The Newsweek shows some understanding, although basically limited to mere enumeration of banal facts of the territorial issue, of the historically significant irritant created during the U.S. occupation of Japan. It has failed to reveal and describe the differences between Japanese and Western perspectives of Japan-Korean relations in the historical context of the substantial and imminent Western threat to the existence of Japan, China, and Korea in the late 19th century and in the early 20th century.
Japan has constantly and consistently maintained low posturing on Takeshima for decades, mainly due to her deep concern that apparent re-surfacing of Takeshima issue in the Sea of Japan would only aggravate Japan-South Korea relation, consequently jeopardizing fragile security and stability during the Cold War and now would weaken Japan's most important alliance with the United States in the face of the growing threats from China and North Korea.
Japan has been extremely patient and calm despite a number of outrageous deeds done and words uttered by South Korea against Japan on many occasions. It is fully recognized here in Japan that South Korea has often behaved rude to Japan, obviously reflecting its definite anti-Japan policy Syngman Rhee, the first president of South Korea began to implement for the first time in the history of Korea in 1948, with due attention paid to the directives from U.S.A. , weathering storms in the Sea of Japan and in the Yellow Sea. His anti-Japan policy has been uninterruptedly handed down, one after another, even to the incumbent president Park Geun-hye whose father was Park Chung-hee, president of South Korea who ruled South Korea under his dictatorship from 1963 to 1979.
Notwithstanding their rudeness and delinquency, Japan has resolutely and calmly sought to establish mutually beneficial relationship with South Korea by technically and economically assisting the country for its path to the economic development in hopes that Japan would fully achieve peace and prosperity for all in the region.
In other words, South Korea has defined Japan as its enemy and has accordingly brainwashed its population into thinking that Japan had destroyed the Korean culture and had often stolen the Korean natural resources during 35 years (Koreans often claim that the annexation lasted for 36 years for unknown reasons) of Japan-Korea annexation. Therefore, a term "frenemy" used in the Newsweek article seems quite misleading to its readers.
By passing the buck to Japan, both North and South Koreas, and U.S.A. , including the Japanese leftists and/or the Koreans shamelessly still residing in Japan despite their clear manifestation of resentment toward Japan and her people are trying to find their justification for the rights to either militarily or non-militarily occupy Japan.
Japan was neither a colonialist nor an invader. Japan-Korea annexation treaty of 1910 was internationally recognized as a lawful one over which no western powers have ever cast any doubts. Unlike many Asian nations colonized by the West, Korea was neither colonized nor exploited by Japan during the period of 1910 to 1945. The entire procedure was carried out in a peaceful manner since Korea was a party who requested Japan to annex Korea lest it would be colonized by either Russia or the western powers.
Moreover, 70 million Japanese population was fully exploited by Koreans in a sense that they had to bear the tax increase that had generated JPY 20.7897 billion (JPY 63 trillion at the current value) from 1907 to 1944, all of which had been spent on modernization of the Korean peninsula. These figures do not include the budget required for the Japanese personnel, military forces, including weapons, etc. Besides, Japan fully paid for the natural resources imported from the peninsula.
South Korea has continued to deceive the whole world by publicly blaming Japan that Japan brutally exploited Korea during Japan-Korea annexation while in fact still benefitting from Japan's achievement in the country. To show a few of data indicating how much Japan contributed to improvement of Korea after annexation, Japanese private companies constructed 11 hydroelectric dams whose total generating capacity was 1,470,000 kwh. In 1912, Korea had only 27,525 households who used electricity. By 1939, the number of households using electric lights increased to 2,063,708.
In the area of education, Japan placed greater emphasis on the primary education because practically no school existed in Korea before annexation, quite contrary to what South Korea teaches children at schools now, using the textbook saying that Korea had already 5,000 schools in 1905. In fact, Japan established 4,271 elementary schools throughout Korea by 1943 and some high schools and one national university now called "Seoul University".
Japan's past achievement in Korea ranges from rice cultivation to the industrial complexes considered highly sophisticated in those days, including promotion and popularization of Hangul writing system, etc. Simply speaking, Korea was such a backward country as brutally ruled and oppressed by China before Japan defeated China in 1895. Koreans were in fact fully deprived by China of its right to live like humans. No historical evidence shows that Japan has caused grievances as much as the Koreans believe entitled to defame Japan and her people by making vulgar remarks on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. Rather, Korea was highly motivated to propose annexation to Japan since she showed off power said to be stronger than China and Russia before 1910.
Watch this video showing Korea before and after Japan-Korea annexation in 1910
Read a note below for the written information on the video
The Newsweek article treats Japan and South Korea as the same frenemies, almost like classifying Japan into a group of rogue states such as both Koreas. It further offends Japan and her people by suggesting that Japan has done something quite offensive to Korea in the last 100 years.
Since Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Repulic of Korea was signed on June 22, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan has technically and economically assisted South Korea whenever the country has faced difficulties. By concluding the treaty, Japan decided to extend technical and economic assistance in the form of ODA (Official Development Assistance) and of money gift (to congratulate The Republic of Korea on its independence) to South Korea designated as one of the poorest nations in Asia in those days. Aso, Japan finally had to waive Japan's right to the national assets estimated by Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to be USD 5.3 billion (not at the current value) and Japanese private assets left in the Korean peninsula because they had been found already confiscated by both the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union.
Most importantly, every evidence including the San Francisco Peace Treaty signed in 1951 storngly supports Japan's assertion that Takeshima has been historically an integral part of Japan. Besides, she has never given up Takeshima islets before, during, and after the negotiation of the treaty of 1965 between Japan and a newly born country, South Korea. And, South Korea neither mentioned nor brought up "Comfort Women" issue before, during and after the negotiation. However, it was 1982 when Yuto Yoshida (better known as Seiji Yoshida in Japan), a Japanese writer and former soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army, published his memoir, admitting that he was involved in forcing the Korean women into comfort women which later was confirmed to be false by both Japan and South Korea through detailed investigations. No evidence has been produced to substantiate South Korea's claim that the Imperial Japanese Army had actually forced them into "Comfort Women".
It has to be emphasized here that Koreans have become habitually disrespectful of bilateral agreements with such a highly respected nation as Japan once they have secured material benefits from the agreements.
Finally Japan should propose to the U.S. government that both countries, if the U.S. truly and faithfully regards Japan as a full-fledged independent nation, sit together and discuss major differences between historical perspectives as seen in the Greater East Asia war vs. the Pacific war.
Notes: A notorious example depicting the Korean diplomats' behavior as being incomprehensibly rude is that as soon as Japanese diplomats unexpectedly brought up Takeshima issue during the diplomatic talk, the Korean diplomats suddenly stood up and actually turned the table upside down. Suppose you are working as a diplomat. How will you react if your counterpart all of a sudden stands up and turns a negotiating table upside down?
A Brief History - Takeshima Invasion by ROK: During the period of January 18, 1952 (date of unilateral establishment of Syngman Rhee Line) to June 22, 1965 (signing date of Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea), 328 Japanese fishing vessels were captured and 3,929 fishermen were abducted by South Korea. And, 44 Japanese fishermen were brutally murdered by South Korea. Besides, South Korea used abducted fishermen as a bargaining chip for negotiating with Japan on the Treaty.
Before annexation 1. Seoul was almost like nothing but some poor villages.
2. Korean women wore traditional clothes with their breasts exposed. Only women who gave birth to a son were permitted to wear the special attire. Those women were so proud of wearing this attire with their breasts sticking out in the public.
After annexation 1. The city of Seoul was modernized with street cars, department stores, electricity, sewage system, railway system, dams, industrial complex, etc.
2. Japan placed much emphasis on education by establishing thousands of schools throughout the Korean peninsula. Japan developed text books in Hangul and popularized Hangul in Korea because only a few percents of the population was educated.
The above is only a small portoin of Japan's contributions to the development of the Korean peninsula which both South Korea and North Korea have so far denied.
With what you have just watched in your mind, read what's written below and you will have some idea of what is true and what is not.
Mr. Kim Man Cheol (金満哲) stated about his own country and people is True? This is a question being often asked by many Japanese bloggers, which I recently came across. I will tentatively translate his statement into English since a large number of the Japanese bloggers have shown a keen interest in his description of South Korea and its people.
South Korean Critic Mr. Kim Mǎn Zhe 金満哲 says:My people, South Koreans are all liars. I feel so ashamed of this fact and find it regrettable.
South Korea has been modernized all by itself? Don't be stupid! The modernization of South Korea has been achieved by Japan with an input of enormous investment and human resources into our country.
South Korea resisted the Japanese administration during 36 years of annexation? You must be kidding! My people South Koreans have willingly submitted themselves to the Japanese administration like donkeys. That is how it really was. Although there was very small resistance, everyone from top to bottom had admired Japan and had tried to become Japanese.
I was so shocked and became speechless to know that South Koreans believe in the achievement of South Korea's independence all by itself. No Koreans desired to be independent from Japan but the United States of America forced us to become independent. It is a truth.
"Hangang Miracle!" Don't make me laugh! The economic development of South Korea has been achieved with an enormous amount of economic and technical assistance extended by Japan under the name of compensations. Any uncivilized people would have achieved economic growth if assisted as much as we have.
The Japanese culture has grown out of Korea? You really must be kidding? Just remember that we had no culture at all before Korea was annexed to Japan! Before 1910 annexation, our peninsula was filled with the people living like beggars.
The present Korea is a house built on sand not even built by us but built by others. And, the house is full of vainglory, hypocrisy, distortion and arrogance. All we can see here are mimic, dependency and distortion.
Without realizing what the true qualities of Korea are, it seems that Koreans both in South Korea and in Japan must have lost their minds. I have to admit that the whole thing is nothing but shame.
The following is a description of South Korea and its people in Japanese by Mr. Kim Man Cheol (金満哲) .
Note: The economic growth South Korea achieved in 1970s is called "Hangang Miracle". The above article is subject to change whenever the author finds it necessary to add, correct, delete, etc.
Cinq mois avant le Japon et la République de Corée signé "traité sur les relations de base entre le Japon et la République de Corée" le 22 Juin 1965 à Tokyo, M. Ichiro Kono du Parti libéral-démocrate, le Japon et M. Chung Il-kwon, le Premier ministre de la République de Corée ont tenu une réunion secrète, où ils ont discuté question Takeshima par rapport au traité et conclu un accord secret sur la question Takeshima comme une condition préalable à la conclusion du traité.
L'accord stipule que le Japon et la Corée du Sud interpréter question Takeshima comme ayant été réglées sans solution, rien ne sera donc mentionnée dans le traité pour la réalisation de la normalisation des relations diplomatiques entre le Japon et la Corée du Sud, mettant ainsi de côté et ignorer question Takeshima pour toujours.
Toutefois, la République de Corée a renforcé le contrôle sur Takeshima, soit violer ou de l'abandon de l'accord secret comme une pré-condition pour la conclusion «Traité sur les relations de base entre le Japon et la République de Corée". Et, même ROK président Lee débarqué illégalement sur des îlots Takeshima sur Août 10, 2012, afin de démontrer le contrôle de la République de Corée au cours Takeshima, ce qui pourrait invalider unilatéralement le traité.
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Pendant les 36 années d'annexion Japon-Corée, M. Chung Il-kwon fièrement servi comme officier de la police militaire (Kenpei =憲兵将校 ) de l'Armée Impériale Japonaise Grande après avoir terminé ses études à l'Académie Impériale Japonaise Armée à Ichigaya, Tokyo où Internationale Tribunal militaire international pour l'Extrême-Orient a eu lieu en 1946. Il a ensuite travaillé pour Walton Harris Walker, un officier de l'armée américaine et le premier commandant de l'armée américaine huitième lors de la guerre de Corée et a servi comme Premier ministre de la République de Corée sous le premier président sud-coréen Syngman Rhee.
AUne photo de l'Académie impériale japonaise Armée prises lors fondée en 1907
１００年前の日韓併合は、現在の朝鮮民族にとっては耐え難い不名誉なことだろうが、しかしそれは仕方がない。朝鮮民族の先人が選んだ道なのだから。 Tweets: The present day Koreans might find a true historical event "Japan-Korea Annexation in 1910" unbearably dishonorable, however, that's something they can't do anything about it. The predecessors of the current Korean race chose that way.
Five months before Japan and ROK inked "Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea" on June 22, 1965 in Tokyo, Mr. Ichiro Kono of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan and Mr. Chung Il-kwon, Prime Minister of ROK held a secret meeting, in which they discussed Takeshima issue in relation to the treaty and reached a secret agreement on Takeshima issue as a pre-condition for concluding the treaty.
The agreement says that as both Japan and South Korea interpret Takeshima issue as ”having been settled without any settlement”, nothing will be therefore mentioned in the treaty for achieving normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and ROK, thereby putting aside and ignoring Takeshima issue forever.
However, ROK has strengthened control over Takeshima, either violating or abandoning the secret agreement as a pre-condition for concluding "Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea". And, even ROK president Lee illegally landed on Takeshima islets on August 10, 2012, so as to demonstrate ROK's control over Takeshima, thereby possibly unilaterally nullifying the treaty.
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During the 36 years of peaceful annexation of Korea by Japan, Mr. Chung Il-kwon proudly served as a Military Police officer (Kenpei=憲兵将校) of the Great Imperial Japanese Army after finishing his education at The Imperial Japanese Army Academy in Ichigaya, Tokyo where International Military Tribunal for the Far East was held in 1946. He later worked for Walton Harris Walker, an American army officer and the first commander of the U.S. Eighth Army during the Korean War and served as prime minister of ROK under the first South Korean president Syngman Rhee.
A Photo of The Imperial Japanese Army Academy taken when established in 1907
Regrettably, Japan-U.S.-ROK relations have been on the verge of collapsing since South Korean pres. Lee illegally landed on Takeshima islets on August 10 and at the same time insulted Japan and her people by making outrageous remarks on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
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