Président sud-coréen Lee aurait diffamé le Japon et son peuple à nouveau quand il a rencontré le secrétaire d'Etat américaine, Mme Clinton à Vladivostok, en Russie le 9 Septembre. Un gouvernement sud-coréen de haut rang officiel révèle la déclaration de Lee a fait lors de sa rencontre avec Mme Clinton comme disant que le Japon est en direction de l'extrémisme de droite et, par conséquent, le Japon devrait abandonner l'extrémisme de droite pour la paix dans le nord-est Asie.
On s'attend à ce que son double face diplomatie approfondira encore la préoccupation du Japon sur les relations futures avec le pays dirigé par un dictateur Lee, ce durcissement son attitude envers le pays. Il est à noter ici que les PM Noda et président Lee accord sur la promotion de la relation tournée vers l'avenir entre les deux pays au cours de la brève réunion informelle de l'APEC juste avant Lee a rencontré des États-Unis secrétaire d'État Clinton.
Lee semble tellement désespérée de trouver un execuse pour rejeter la demande du Japon pour le règlement pacifique des Takeshima question à la Cour internationale de Justice à La Haye.
South Korean president Lee has reportedly defamed Japan and her people again when he met with U.S. Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton at Vladivostok, Russia on September 9. A South Korean government high-ranking official reveals Lee's statement made at his meeting with Mrs. Clinton as saying that Japan has been heading toward "right-wing extremism"; therefore, Japan should abandon "right-wing extremism" for peace in the northeast Asia.
It is expected that his double-faced and double-tongued diplomacy will further deepen Japan's concern over the future relation with the country ruled by a dictator Lee, thereby undoubtedly hardening Japan’s attitude toward the country. It has to be noted here that PM Noda and president Lee agreed on promoting the future-oriented relation between Japan and South Korea during their brief informal meeting at APEC just before Lee’s meeting with U.S. Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton.
Lee seems so desparate to find any execuse for rejecting Japan's request for the peaceful settlement of Takeshima issue at International Court of Justice in Hague.
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.
According to the Korean English newspapers, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will try to mediate heightened diplomatic tensions between Japan and South Korea through separate meetings with both leaders. Japan has not done anything offensive to ROK. U.S. should tell South Korea president Lee to apologize to Japan for his extremely rude and vulgar remarks on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, not to mention his illegal landing on Takeshima islets, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. PM Noda's party will lose majority for sure when general election is held within a year due to his failure to act for Japan's interests. This is what a majority of the Japanese voices on the diplomatic tensions between Japan as a peace-loving nation and ROK as a rogue state. If U.S. voices a word in favor of ROK, the Japanese public may not withstand U.S. double tongued or double faced diplomacy any longer.
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
Christian Today reports that United Church of Christ in Japan has requested South Korean counterpart to search for 6,500 missing Japanese women who participated in mass wedding ceremonies held by Unification Church in South Korea. Both have agreed to exchange information on their whereabouts and have established consultation desks.
Le rapport d'aujourd'hui chrétiennes qui Eglise unie du Christ au Japon a demandé homologue sud-coréen à la recherche de 6.500 disparus femmes japonaises qui ont participé à des cérémonies de mariage de masse organisées par Eglise de l'Unification en Corée du Sud. Tous deux ont convenu d'échanger des informations sur leurs allées et venues et ont créé des bureaux de consultation.
Informes cristianos de hoy que la Iglesia Unida de Cristo en Japón ha solicitado homólogo de Corea del Sur en busca de desaparecidos 6.500 mujeres japonesas que participaron en las ceremonias de boda masiva en poder de la Iglesia de Unificación de Corea del Sur. Ambos han acordado intercambiar información sobre su paradero y se han establecido mesas de consulta.
News source: http://www.christiantoday.co.jp/article.html?id=2848
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.
Note:
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
日本国沖縄県石垣市登野城- Tonoshiro, Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
The First Tokyo Metropolitan Government Senkaku Survey Team has left Ishigaki island tonight September 1, aboard a salvage ship named Kouyou Maru (2,474 tones) to carry out various studies in the waters surrounding Senkaku islands from the early morning to the evening of September 2 and is expected to come back at night of the same day.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government considers the survey as a preliminary step toward another detailed survey in October, to be accompanied by Governor Ishihara. According to Ishihra, he met PM Noda on August 19 in the presence of Mr. Sonoda, Chief Secretary of The Sunrise Party and told him to complete construction of at least a ships emergency shelter, radio relay station, and weather observatory as one condition for his withdrawing a bid to buy the islands from the Japanese owner who promised not to sell them to anyone else but the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
If accepted, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will hand over to the Central Government JPY 1.8 billion donated by individuals supporting the project of purchasing Senkaku islands.
At the press conference, Mr. Ishihara stated that he would not mind establishing a new party as his last work, and that he would willingly sign and seal, even with his blood if necessary, a memorandum of mutual obligations related to Senkaku islands with PM Noda.
Mr. Eiji Kosaka, a member of Arakawa Ward Council, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
before landing on Senkaku Islands on August 19, 2012.
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.
If Koreans wish to ban hoisting of our Rising Sun flag just because Koreans hate to see our Rising Sun flag flying high, South Korean flag shouldn't be banned as well? South Korean flag really makes me disgusted just to think of it. I don't know why I get the chills just looking at the logo of Pepsi.
The above is not Rising Sun Flag but it looks similar to it. It is in fact company flag of Asahi-Shinbun (a well-known newspaper company established on January 25, 1879.) , and many believe that Asahi-Shinbun has been quite critical of Japan since 1945 when it was ordered to suspend reporting activities for a few days by General Douglas MacArthur after it reported on U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the U.S. occupation. Many wonder how Koreans will react to the flag, considering the fact that Asahi-Shinbun is one of those responsible for fabricating a story of "Comfort Women" in collaboration with leftists (mostly Koreans) in Japan.
Those who, although possessing Japanese citizenship, have been engaged in dragging down Japan, must be thoroughly condemned. I am not proposing witch hunt but I am reminding you that Japan's rights have been infringed on by anti-Japan witches for long time. Ex-Chairman Ms. Takako Doi, Japan Socialist Party (now reduced to a minor party called the Social Democratic Party) strongly asserted that no Japanese had been abducted by North Korea. And, her successor Ms. Mizuho Fukushima, now Chairman of the Social Democratic Party fabricated a story that the Imperial Japanese Army forced Koreans into "comfort women".
Ceux qui, bien que possédant la nationalité japonaise, ont été engagés dans glisser vers le bas le Japon, doivent être soigneusement condamné. Je ne propose pas la chasse aux sorcières, mais je vous rappelle que les droits du Japon a été porté atteinte sur par les anti-japonaises sorcières pour longtemps. Ex-président Mme Takako Doi, le Japon Parti socialiste (maintenant réduit à un petit parti appelé le Parti social-démocrate) a affirmé qu'aucun japonais avaient été enlevés par la Corée du Nord. Et, son successeur Mme Mizuho Fukushima, aujourd'hui président du Parti social-démocrate fabriqué une histoire que l'armée impériale japonaise en esclavage les femmes coréennes comme femmes de réconfort.
Ex-Chairman Ms. Takako Doi, Japan Socialist Party who strongly asserted that no Japanese had been abducted by North Korea.
Ex-président Mme Takako Doi, le Japon Parti socialiste (maintenant réduit à un petit parti appelé le Parti social-démocrate) a affirmé qu'aucun japonais avaient été enlevés par la Corée du Nord.
Does she look like a witch? If not a witch, she is at least a socialist. Est-ce qu'elle ressemble à une sorcière? Si ce n'est pas une sorcière, elle est au moins un socialiste.
Ms. Mizuho Fukushima, now Chairman of the Social Democratic Party fabricated a story that the Imperial Japanese Army forced Koreans into "comfort women". Mme Mizuho Fukushima, aujourd'hui président du Parti social-démocrate fabriqué une histoire que l'armée impériale japonaise en esclavage les femmes coréennes comme femmes de réconfort.
Does she also look like a witch? If not a witch, she is at least a socialist. Est-ce qu'elle ressemble à une sorcière? Si ce n'est pas une sorcière, elle est au moins un socialiste.
La Corée du Sud a rejeté une proposition faite par le Japon de déposer conjointement une action auprès de la Cour internationale de Justice sur les îlots Takeshima illégalement occupés par la Corée du Sud depuis 1952.
Beaucoup s'attendaient à ce que la Corée du Sud se comporte comme une nation adulte en rompant son lien avec le passé, où il avait souvent pratiquement déchiré documents d'accords bilatéraux dès qu'ils ont atteint les objectifs de l'obtention d'avantages matériels en provenance du Japon.
Toutefois, la Corée du Sud a agi comme d'habitude, en réfutant la proposition du Japon de déposer conjointement une action auprès de la Cour internationale de Justice pour un règlement pacifique du différend sur les îles Takeshima dans la mer du Japon.
Ce comportement a seulement servi à approfondir le vandalisme infâme pratiquée par la Corée du Sud et entacher l'auto-revendiqué mondialisé Corée, pour laquelle la Corée du Sud a récemment dépensé des millions de dollars.
Lorsque officiellement rejeté, la Corée du Sud n'a pas indiqué ni les raisons ni les alternatives concrètes. Toutefois, on croit que le Japon continuera à rechercher des mesures appropriées conformément aux lois pertinentes, y compris une option du dépôt de la plainte devant la Cour internationale de Justice seul.
South Korea's rejection to jointly file a suit with International Court of Justice over Takeshima islets illegally occupied by South Korea since 1952.
Many expected that South Korea would behave as a grown-up nation by severing its link with the past, in which it had often practically torn up documents of bilateral agreements as soon as they achieved objectives of securing material benefits from Japan.
However, South Korea has acted as usual, by refuting Japan's proposal to jointly file a suit with the International Court of Justice for a peaceful settlement of the dispute over the Takeshima islands in the Sea of Japan.
This act has only served as a propellant to deepen its infamous ruffianism and to taint self-claimed "Globalized Korea", for which South Korea has recently spent millions of dollars.
When officially rejected, South Korea failed to indicate neither reasons nor concrete alternatives. However, it is believed that Japan will continue to seek appropriate measures in accordance with relevant laws, including an option of filing the suit with the International Court of Justice alone.
A Japanese fisherman abducted and tortured by South Korea in 1950s. No information on his whereabouts has been given to Japan by South Korea.
Breaking News: Censure motion submitted today at the Upper House, the Diet (Japan's National Legislature) against Prime Minister Noda has just been approved. 129 for the motion and 91 against the motion. Although passed, it has no legal effect on prime ministership held by Noda. However, it has demonstrated to Noda that the elected parliament no longer has confidence in his leadership. On July 14, 2009, then Prime Minister Aso faced the same plight and dissolved the Lower House 7 days later.
With the passage of the censure motion against PM Noda at the Upper House, no matter what they discuss at the Lower House, no bills will be approved at the Diet, thereby practically closing the current session. By October, they run out of appropriations. Logically PM has to either dissolve the Lower House or to decide on resignation of Cabinet en masse.
I believe that South Korea should appear at International Court of Justice as repeatedly requested by the Government of Japan. Particularly when South Korea is confident about the ownership of Takeshima islets, nothing and nobody will prevent South Korea from contesting the case of Takeshima in the court. South Korea should face justice without further delay before the relations between Japan and South Korea further deteriorate.
TheKoreaHerald
Japan’s old textbooks show Dokdo as Korean territory http://bit.ly/PnQ9B7 #southkorea
Regardless of the negative impact South Korean pres. Lee's illegal entry into Takeshima islets, Japan's intrinsic part will probably have on both economies, and particularly on regional stability and security, Japan shall never find legitmate reasons to forget and to forgive his outrageous and absurd behaviors including his offensive remarks on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
It is the time that Japan must firmly stand up against injustice South Korea has promoted based on the stories fabricated in collaboration with leftists whom U.S. has covertly and often overtly encouraged to grow up in the post war Japan.
If one were asked to summrize U.S. occupation policy through Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP), the title held by General Douglas MacArthur during the Occupation of Japan from September 2, 1945 to April 28, 1952 in a simple equation, one would formulate either one of equations below.
1. "Japan suffered defeat in the Greater East Asia War"
Defeat=Weak=Evil
However, there is another equation.
2. "Japan suffered defeat in the Greater East Asia War"
Weaker than U.S.=Defeat=Justice
Whoever has taught Koreans a history of Japan-U.S. relations from the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1853, they support the first equation, upon which they have cooked up their own history of Japan-South Korea, thereby mythologizing that Japan forced Korea to agree on the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910, during which Japan practiced brutal rule over Korea and Koreans.
For readers' better understanding, read the story below.
Japan in East Asia: Unpromising and Discouraging Future in 19th Century
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.
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.
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.
China and Korea were powerless and helpless. However, they had harbored groundless 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.
The article I've just finished reading describes why South Korean pres. Lee decided to land on Takeshima islets on August 10 and later made insulting remarks on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
The article focuses on five reasons; 1. Failure to achieve Japan and South Korea cultural exchange project, 2. Higher recognition of a theory of declining power of Japan and U.S. within South Korea, 3. Imminent arrest of president Lee for bribery charges, 4.Possible violation of a decision on so-called "Comfort Women" made by Constitutional Court of South Korea, and 5. Failure to improve economic conditions.
South Korean president Lee has been afraid of ending his presidential tenure with no achievements. To avoid either the imminent arrest or being called incompetent president after he steps down as president of South Korea, he dared to brake a promise to keep status quo of Takeshima issue with Japan and at the same time insulted Japan and her people by making vulgar remarks on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
The article concludes that Japan should be better united with Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Mongolia, India, etc. by giving up an idea of emphasizing friendship with Seoul, and that Lee will be remembered as the president who has achieved the worst diplomatic relations ever recorded with Japan in the history of bilateral relations.
The return of Japan PM's missive addressed to South Korean pres. Lee is totally undiplomatic or just a childish prank regardless of the worsening relation between two neighbors geographically situated next to each other.
Taken by surprise, Japan and her people have no idea of what to comment on the lowest quality of diplomacy ever seen among the civilized nations. Japan as a leader of the East Asia has repeatedly expressed her displeasure over the outrageous and absurd reaction by South Korea to Japan's recent action to take a case of Takeshima to International Court of Justice, raising a question of whether South Korea has lost its mind or not. Japan seems determined not to further aggravate the diplomatic row with South Korea over South Korea's ostentatious act of returning the letter back to Japan simply because Japan has already handed over a note verbale to South Korea, seeking reference to International Court of Justice on Japan's sovereignty over Takeshima islets.
Japan has so far made too much political concession on the issues which many believe unnecessary and historically baseless because of Japan's consideration given to the importance of the military balance in the Far East.
Stopping flow of money and capital goods from Japan into South Korea, the Korean economy will not last any longer. After all, South Korea is only a cormorant used for cormorant fishing. No feed will be given if it gets to be roguish to Cormorant Fishing Master. The country depends on Japan for money, foods, and oil. Our key words here are "keep ourselves cool".
The above translation is provisional and subject to change.
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