Some suggest that defacement of about 300 books (The Diary of a Young Girl and other related books) seem almost impossible at libraries across Tokyo where quietness is required unless someone inside is involved. Defacing of the particular books seems to be very systematic, possibly indicating involvement of a well-organized group and/or some international plot to impair the image of Japan by intentionally relating Japan to the Nazism although Japan has consistently denied the Nazi’s racial discrimination practiced against Jewish people before, during and after WWII.
In the recent years, South Korea has employed every possible means to fabricate a story that Japan was as brutal as Nazi Germany during Japan-Korea annexation despite every historical evidence denying such a Korean claim as being non-sense. Therefore, many regard it as “grave distortion” of historical facts and dismiss it just as a huge political manipulation.
Related Story: Destruction of books at Nishi-Funabashi Public Library, Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
107 books (written by members of Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform) were destroyed by librarians not in accordance with discarding criteria set for the public library by the city of Funabashi but based on their own political thinking during the period of August 10, 2001 to August 26, 2001.
On July 14, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that destruction of 107 books infringed the authors’ moral rights, thereby ordering five female librarians to compensate for the damage caused by their illegal act. This particular case is also related to deprivation of the authors’ rights in connection to the public library, freedom of expression, and denial of the users’ right to know.
In an area of Funabashi city, Chiba Prefecture, some concentration of Korean population is seen along with branch office of South Korean Organization.
Nishi-Funabashi Library has been closed since it was seriously damaged by multiple quakes that occurred on March 11, 2011
百度Baidu(a Chinese search engine for websites) allows Chinese internet users to open web forums for such topics as "Will China win against Japan if the war breaks out between Japan and China? , "What will you do if we win the war against Japan?", etc.
Typical responses found in the thread "What will you do if we win the war against Japan?" are as shown below.
1. Tokyo massacre
2. We kill every man, leaving girls alive so that we can solve our shortage of marriagealbe aged women.
3. We force every Japanese to work in the concentration camp until they die.
4. We enslave every Japanese and force them to work for the Great Western Development Strategy (The policy covers 6 provinces (Gansu, Guizhou, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan), 5 autonomous regions (Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, and Xinjiang), and 1 municipality (Chongqing). This region contains 71.4% of mainland China's area, but only 28.8% of its population, as of the end of 2002, and 19.9% of its total economic output, as of 2009.)
5. We force Japanese to work at our coal mines, so that nobody will pay attention to the accidents that may occur in our coal mines in the future.
6. We force every Japanese girl to engage in the sacred work of producing our off-springs.
Although the above is only a few of the responses to the initial message posting, it shows that China instigates anti-Japan moves by reporting on its false claim that Japan has been tilting toward extreme nationalism and that the war against Japan is imminent.
Here in Japan, almost all Japanese do not entertain even the slightest idea that there exists the possibile breakout of the war between Japan and China over Senkaku islands.
Deeply impressed with well-defined analysis of U.S. anti-Japan maneuvering in Asia before and after the Greater East Asia War (or the World War II or the Pacific War called in the Western Hemisphere; read The Greater East Asia War" VS. "The Pacific War" ) in the blog post I was recently exposed to, I have decided to devote my time and effort to writing a brief English summary of the post whose title is "Why the Republic of Korea has turned against Japan? 韓国が「反日」になったわけ ".
Syngman Rhee (born on March 26, 1875 and died on July 19, 1965) had forced the Korean population to deny anything Japanese by nurturing hatred toward Japan among the Korean population as soon as he became the first president of the Republic of Korea in 1948 ( Read When S. Korea Gained Independence? August 15, 1945 or August 13, 1948? ).
He was actively involved in fabricating a story that Korea before Japan-Korean annexation in 1910 was the most ideal state in the East whereas denouncing falsely Japan as the most barbaric nation and in spreading it throughout U.S. via such mass media as newspapers published by William Randolph Hearst, thereby trying to seek and secure assistance from U.S. (Read Koreans Return Evil for Good ).
His fabricated story of Japan as "evil" undoubtedly served as a basis for U.S. to determine its political intervention in the Far East. A majority of Koreans who actually lived happily during the 35 years of annexation had to accept his fictitious story, knowing it was untrue because anyone who publicly stated "The Great Imperial Japan was good or Rhee's government was bad" was arrested, jailed, tortured, and executed by Rhee.
He further strengthened his anti-Japan policy, so as to detruct people's attention from the serious crimes he committed soon after he sworn in as the first president. Just to list a few of his atrocities in South Korea, Rhee was responsible for Bodo League massacre of 1950 (South Korean civilian organizations believe there might have been up to 1,140,000 victims,representing 6% of the 1950 population of South Korea. ), Jeju Uprising of 1948 in which 14,000 to 60,000 individuals were killed in fighting or execution, and National Defense Corps Incident of 1950 in which some 50,000to 90,000 soldiers starved to death or died of disease on the march and in the training camps because the National Defense Corps Commander Kim Yungun (Kim Yun-keun) (Kim Yoon-keun), son-in-law of Defence minister Shin Sung-mo embezzled funds allocated to foods for the recruited soldiers.
Thus, the direction of Japan-South Korean relationship was basically determined when Rhee became the first president of the Republic of Korea, well assisted by the U.S. government. His anti-Japan policy has been uninterruptedly handed down, one after another, to the current president.
A Japanese fisherman abducted and tortured by South Korea in 1950s. No information on his whereabouts has been given to Japan by South Korea.
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.
Below is the disturbance caused by the South Korean citizens pretending to be Japanese rightists while Japanese nationals were staging authorized peaceful demonstration against Fuji TV on August 21. Fuji TV is a Japan's private television network said to be functioning as a South Korean propaganda organ and is biased against Japan and her people.
The sole purpose of the pseudo Korean rightists is to undermine the image of Japan and her people.
The pseudo Korean rightists shout through loud speakers:
North Koreans! Get out of Japan! Defeat crushingly the Democratic Party of Japan! Smash up PM Kan!
While Japanese demonstrators shout at the pseudo Korean rightists:
Don't come here! Go away!
Below is the post published on August 25.
08/25/2011
Believe it or not!: Who's supporting the Democratic Party of Japan?
It is often observed that those exposed to the cultures of the nations who fought against Japan during the Greater East Asia War tend to habitually regard “the people driving around in the black-colored vehicles with loudspeakers and with Japan’s national flag hoisted high” as the Japanese rightists.
To describe better some realities in Japan by pointing out one crucial flaw quite possibly resulting from biased views commonly found in them, the following paragraph is taken from “ Japanese Right-Wing Lunatics ” written by Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers :
Some who visit Japan say that leftist and rightist groups are everywhere. So what's new? The big difference? The leftist clowns drive around in big white buses and vans with loud speakers blaring out some sort of nonsense about this or that. The rightist clowns drive around in big blue buses and vans with loudspeakers blaring out nonsense about that or this. The funny part is that both groups hire the same people to drive their vehicles. You will often see a huge bus screaming down the street blaring out some message that the emperor should be restored to head of state or that Japan should re-militarize the Rhineland, er, I mean, re-militarize the four small islands north of Hokkaido that the Soviets "stole" at the end of World War II. I chuckle every time I see these buses because even though the bus could ride 60 people, there is usually only one inside; the driver.
As pointed out in the paragraph, there is no big difference between “leftists” and “rightists”. However, one must recognize one important flaw in his paragraph above; that is, “leftists” are not just the clowns driving around in white buses and vans screaming nonsense but they are those who organized “Democratic Party of Japan” whose members are mostly ex-members of “Japan Socialist Party” (reduced to a minority party), now renamed as “Socialist Democratic Party”. Democratic Party of Japan has been the ruling party headed by Prime Minister Kan and former Prime Minister Hatoyama since September, 2009. The ruling party has been closely connected to the Korean peninsula in a number of ways. And, “Rightists” are mostly Korean citizens living in Japan.
Therefore, there is no big difference between them in a sense that both harbor an ulterior motive of politically influencing Japan and her people, so as to restrain them not to seek any hostile moves toward the Korean peninsula while generating cash for promoting their propaganda against Japan and for developing missiles and nukes on the Korean peninsula.
In the video, you will find Japanese Rising Sun flag and South Korean flag being hoisted on the vehicle with banners saying “Promoting and Strengthening Friendship between Japan and South Korea” and “President Chun Doo-hwan! Welcome to Japan!”
“Pseudo Rightist groups” have been organized and have existed here in Japan for the purpose of undermining an image of Japan and her people. They have been quite effective in having planted distorted image of true Japanese rightists in the minds of not only Japanese but also of foreigners.
The video describes a case (reported by a weekly magazine “Shukan Shincho” on July 20 , 2006) in which a Sumo wrestler named Asa Shouryu (Mongolian Grand Champion) was asked by a South Korean if he had ever experienced discriminations in Japan and if they had been severe.
Asa Shouryu said: No, nothing at all.
South Korean said: Don’t hide it. Just say it.
Asa Shouryu said: No, nothing particular at all.
South Korean said: By nothing particular, you mean you have experienced some?
Asa Shouryu said: I told you "Nothing at all". You! Kimchi f-cker! (Kimuchi is a Korean pickle)
“You! Kimchi f-cker!” angered “rightists” in Japan. “Rightists groups” began their protests against him. They tried to pressurize Japan Sumo Association, the Ministry of Education and Science (in charge of sumo wrestling), his Sumo stable, Prime Minister’s Official Residence, Japan-South Korea Parliamentarian group, etc. into punishing Asa Shoryu.
A Chinese digital newspaper Southern Metropolis Daily reports on China's first luxury liner for Parcel Islands in Quần đảo Hoàng Sa ( or South China Sea), starting on April 28.
According to the paper, a travel agent in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, responsible for organizing the first tour to Parcel Islands has been recruiting the healthy Chinese tourists aged between 18 and 60, excluding foreigners, and Chinese residing in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao.
This outrageous action initiated by China will certainly invite harsh criticism from the international community and particularly from VietNam as the tour is obviously designed to strengthen Chinese territorial claim over Parcel Islands in defiance of the serious concern over the Chinese invasion into its neighbors, now being shared by the international community.
tweets as follows: Once a south korean citizen living in Japan was trying to pick a fight with me. I told him "If you really hate Japan that much, why don't you go back to your own mother country?" Then, he told me "Who wants to? You've got to be kidding! You, stupid! As long as I stay in Japan, I can evade the mandatory military draft and can receive welfare money from the local government here. You, Japs! Just keep your mouth shut!"
Then, I said to myself, "This is what koreans really are.
Mr. Kenhi Aoyama stated on TV tonight "North Korea would really use nukes if and when cornered. It is not just a threat. They have developed miniaturized nuclear warheads and intercontinental ballistic missiles for their actual use."
Mr. Kenhi Aoyama (pseudonym of the ex-North Korean operative born in Osaka, Japan in 1939 whose true name has not been disclosed yet. Many Korean nationals living in Japan disguised as Japanese with pseudonyms, often with criminal intent.) left Japan for North Korea in 1960 under North Korean repatriation scheme initially requested by Kim Il-Sung, agreed on August 13, 1959 and executed between Japan Red Cross and North Korea Red Cross from December 14, 1959 (the first repatriation ship left Niigata, Japan for North Korea) to 1984 since no diplomatic relations between Japan and North Korea existed. He later became a North Korean operative. However, he defected North Korea with his family in 1998 as he felt danger of being purged by Kim Jong-Il who succeeded his father Kim Il-Sung. The Embassy of Japan in Beijing, China helped him and his family safely return to Japan in 1999.
A majority of Koreans smuggled themselves into Japan during either Jeju Uprising or the Korean war after the Greater East Asia War (called either the Pacific War or the World War II in the western hemisphere). None of them was forced to move to Japan.
Below is a Japanese news film reporting on North Korean repatriation scheme, in which North Koreans express joy over returning to their motherland while South Koreans sabotaged in every possible way North Korean repatriation scheme.
Watch this video at 41:55 saying that a Japanese woman allegedly raped by two US servicemen in Okinawa is a naturalized Chinese working as an operative trying to damage Japan-US relations.
Ted Yokohama 桃太郎@TedYokohama
愛国者必見 ４１分５５秒：沖縄のレイプ被害者とされる女性は、中国帰化人で工作員との報道です。日米関係の悪化を狙う工作。2/3【討論！】中国の「日本直接・間接侵略」の実態[桜H24/11/3]: http://youtu.be/0yiaQYs6n3Q via @youtube
October 28 (Sasebo, Japan)- A United States Navy sailor was found dead on the railway platform of Japan Railway Co. Haiki station, Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan and later identified as Samuel Lewis Stiles (25), Petty Officer 2nd Class of United States Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan.
At around 5 am on October 28, he was found dead, bleeding from his forehead. According to the Japanese police authorities, the fact that part of his windbreaker was burnt suggests possible electrocution after he somehow climbed up to the roof of the train car stopping at the station after the operating hours. The police also reportedly discovered a few empty cans of alcoholic drink called "Chūhai" nearby his body.
The discovery of his body at 5 am strongly suggests that he may have breached a recently implemented curfew on US service personnel, requiring them to stay at bases, personal homes, or hotels between 11 pm and 5 am. The curfew was put into place after two US sailors were arrested on accusations that they raped and robbed on October 16 at between 3:30 am and 4:20 am a young Japanese woman in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
The Japanese police authority is now investigating the case to determine the cause of his death.
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).
日本国沖縄県石垣市登野城- Tonoshiro, Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
The Japan Coast Guard rescued 64 Chinese crew of a Chinese cargo ship (12,703 tons) named "Ming Yang" 150 km southwest of Okinawa Islands on October 21 as The Japan Coast Guard noticed heavy smoke coming out of stern of the Chinese cargo ship. The Japan Coast Guard Patrol ship named "Awagumo" then rushed to rescue all of them. Only three Chinese have reportedly suffered minor burns. The Japan Coast Guard has been questioning the Chinese crew over the causes of fire.
However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of China repeatedly emphasized at its regular press conference that we coordinated with the Japanese side and took the necessary measures to rescue them. No appreciation has been expressed over Japan's rescue efforts extended from the humanitarian viewpoint despite the fact that Chinese are trying to invade Japan.
Related story in Japanese: No appreciation expressed over Japan's rescue efforts of the Chinese crew シナ外務省、日本側に謝意示さず 海保のシナ人救助で
Nobel Peace Prize does not prevent wars at all. Even South Korean president Kim was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. However, two Koreas seem to be still either on the verge of or on the brink of killing each other at any time. Nobel Peace Prize should be given to anyone only when eternal peace has been achieved.
Just look at the list of "List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates" and find out that only those in the western hemisphere had received it until Lê Đức Thọ a North Vietnamese revolutionary, general, diplomat, and politician was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1973 although he declined it. It sounds like none in Asia had been peaceful until 1973. Actually the first Asian Nobel Peace Price laureate is Prime Minister Eisaku Sato of Japan who received it in 1974 for his dubious work of introducing the Three Non-Nuclear Principles on 11 December 1967, which means non-production, non-possession, and non-introduction of nuclear weapons.
Very surprised to know that even Cordell Hull who gave Japan an ultimatum (so-called Hull note, a trick), so that Japan had to enter the war against the United States of America, received "Nobel Peace Prize" in 1945.
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.
Un drapeau rouge indique "AUDI en Chine a décidé de tuer tous les Japonais, peu importe ce qui nous arrive! Nous ne laisserons pas les prendre sur les îles Senkaku!"
A red banner says "AUDI in China has decided to kill every single Japanese no matter what happens to us! We will not let them take over Senkaku islands! "
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.
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.
日本国沖縄県石垣市登野城- Tonoshiro, Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Amid mounting tensions between Japan and China due to Chinese greed for its territorial expansion into Japan, Japan has been wondering why Chinese officials and state media have remained silent on the status of Xi Jinping, China's would-be leader for 12 days.
When NHK World (an international news program of Japan's broadcasting corporation) was trying to report on Xi Jinping last night in China, TV broadcasting was blacked out for the unknown reason. However, TV viewers saw the headline shown on TV for a second, from which they could easily guess what happened.
When NHK was about to report on his mysterious disappearance from public view, considered quite attractive to China watchers in the world, NHK international TV broadcasting suddenly became blacked out. That was a second after a headline beginning with his name had appeared on TV.
In China, any information related to death or health condition of its leaders is designated as a national secret. “Black-out” has only fueled speculation about his health condition.
@AFP @FRANCE24 Breaking News: Nouvellement nommé ambassadeur japonais en Chine, M. Nishimiya a été retrouvé inconscient dans la rue à Shibuya, Tokyo. Selon les témoins, il s'est effondré tout d'un coup tout en marchant. Il a été immédiatement transporté à l'hôpital. Cependant, ses conditions n'ont pas encore été divulgués.
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.
In response to a request by the Metropolitan Police Department, Canadian court in Toronto has reportedly decided to extradite to Japan a Chinese man (aged 41) wanted in connection with a brutal shooting of a Japanese woman and two teenage Japanese girls dead at the supermarket in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan during a robbery attempt.
The extradition is considered extremely exceptional because Japan has neither extradition treaty nor agreement with Canada.
Hyun-Joo,Jun @palgye
@StateDept 죽어도 박근혜는 지지못합니다. 내 아버지를 죽인 인간에게 면죄부를 발행하는데 그리고 살인자와 아주 반갑게 포옹을 하시네요.더이상 뭔가를 하는것은 무의미하다고 생각합니다.빚만 늘어나고 몸만 자꾸 다치기만하고 정치적 탄압만 늘어나네요.
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.
Note:
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
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.
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