Feb 26, 2013

Korea must apologize

South Korean media like to commend Germany's of their apology and compensation for the World War II in order to accuse Japan like "See Germany still apologizes for the war crime, but Japan doesn't!" Korean media often ask Japan to express more apoligy and pay more compensation as if Korea was a victim from Japan. But it's totally a wrong idea. Why? Because Korea was a part of Japan, and fought with Japan. Korea was involved in the war, took part in what Japan did during the war. So, Korea had same responsibility as Japan. Korea should apologize instead of accusing Japan.

To understand Korea's position during WWII, it helps to compare Korea with Belguim. Belguim was also merged to Germany during WWII and faught together with, very much just like Korea during WWII. What Belguim has done after the war? Let's read the following news article.

Belgium’s PM apologizes for state’s Holocaust-era complicity - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Belguim apologized for what they did with Germany during WWII. See what Korea is doing now. Korea has not apologized at all. Korea has always asked Japan's apology and compensation. Even worse, they have faked stories of comfort women to exaggerate what Japan did during WWII.

What do you think?

Feb 24, 2013

Racism In Japan?

Washington Post reported an article: American teacher in Japan under fire for lessons on Japan’s history of discrimination

The video in question is here.



After watching the video, I started feeling like headaches, because the video is ugly. The message of the video comes across totally wrong images. I bet those people who are not familiar with Japan will believe his opinions and think that many Japanese people do such terrible discriminations day to day after watching this video.

Using the too wrong video image


In this video, Jame Elliott's lesson is cited and a teacher says "I mean that today the blue-eyed people are the better people in this room."


Don't you think that such bad discriminations exist in Japan after watching the video? It's a wrong misapprehension.

Teachers generally do not tell such things at their classes, because we've built a consensus on the fact that we should not side with racism and discrimination. If teachers do, students or their parents report to the school at least and such teachers are heavily accused. In Japan, left wings have strong influence in educations at schools. Left wings ever do not allow such statement at any cost.

In this video, Mr.Dezaki says that when he asked Japanese students "Please raise your hand if you think there is racism in Japan" only two or three students raised their hand. I think vast majority of students actually had not ever faced racism before. This is not surprising, because Japan is a homogeneous country. It's not a question here that why Japan is a homogeneous country or whether it's bad or good. It is the fact due to historical reason. If they do not face other races in person, it's difficult for them to be aware of racism near themselves.

Can you imagine what students thought after watching the Elliott's lesson? The students had not seen racism close at hand. The teacher showed the anti racism video in US. Then, it's perfectly natural such student happened to think "Racism is an American problem." The teacher led the question.

So, this is a wrong question from the beginning.

Misconception of "Baka Chon"


He explains that "Chon" is a ridiculing term of Korean people. But this is a misconception.

Actually, there is another term with same pronounciation "Chon" which has same meaning as what he says. (This is just like Koreans call a Japanese person as Jjokbari.) However, the original meaning of "Chon" in "Baka Chon" is not "Korean people."

"Chon" is a term orignated from a sound of strike clapper after a theatrical show. The term means immature or half-baked. "Baka" means idiot, stupid or fool. So "Baka Chon" is a term which means "so easy to use that even idiots or inmatured (amature) people can use."

His misconception is a famous mistake that lots of Japanese people also do. However, "Baka Chon" is censored word in Japan, because the term had lacerated mistaken Korean people even if it was a misconception.


He might have not know, but "Chon" is not a term limited to ridicule Korean people, but used other contexts. For example, samurai's heair style was called "Chon Mage". This "Chon" doesn't mean Korean people at all.

I also mention that "Baka Chon" is an old term, which young people do not use recently. Young people do not know the term because the term has been censored for long time. I bet most of his students in Japan didn't know the term.

Burakumin


Burakumin is also an old problem. As he says in the video, it's difficult to distinguish Burakumin from others. It's not really a problem recently. I didn't know the hand sign.


I don't know why he brings on such old problem when he is talking about discrimination in the current Japanese society? Burakumin is not a fiction, but is not an on-going problem either. His opinion sounds as if the problem is still continuing and let us think Japan is a discriminative country.

While he introduces Hiromu Nonaka's case as an example, but it's not a common case, but a special case. A man who wants to be a prime minister should not be a usual case. It was really unfortunate that he decided not to be a prime minister, but it was his decision. He had another choice and was able to fight against discrimination aggressively. But he didn't. It was his decision and should be valued anyway.

The hand sign is not common in Japan.

By the way, when he explains about "caste system" which was made 300 years ago, whether it's intentionally or not, he misses an important point. The system actually defined four classes, samurai, farmer, craftsman and merchant. Samurai was the highest ranked, and farmer was second, craftman was thired and merchant was forth. You may wonder why merchant was the lowest ranked. This was because they were rich and they had power. (Farmers were the poorest people.) So, the system was not "caste system" actually, but a political strategy established by the government of the time (Edo bakufu). The system was aimed to reduce power of merchants. It was not a religious system.

There were yet other two classes which were not defined by the system; one is noble (the president of norbles was Emperor), the other is "Burakumin". In Edo age, Japan was dominated by samurai (the president of samurai was called Shogun), and nobles did not have sufficent power. Neither the emperor did.

If people hear "there was a caste system in old Japan" without explanation of its background, they might think that Japan is such a discriminative country. This is totally misleading. Do you understand why I think the video is so ugly?

He might have learned about Japanese historical discrimination, but doesn't know about the real situation.

Apartment In Tokyo


It's not appropriate or fair to show a single example as if it is commonly done. If his friend experienced such discrimination, his friend should sue the apartment owner. People in Japan are sometimes face the rejection from apartment owners due to various reasons such as credit decisions, but it's not discrimination.

When we talk about this kind of topics, we should discuss based on statistics, not on individual cases.

Conclusion


I won't say that there is no discrimination in Japan. There actually is! By the way, do you know any country which is free from discriminations? I do not.

The problem is that points in this video are totally wrong.

Dear Mr. Dezaki, please note that you are spreading wrong messages. You should take responsibility for what you said. If the messages are wrong, you are blamed as a consequense.

Reaction against Takeshima Day ceremony

On Feb 22, Takeshima Day ceremony was held in Shimane Prefecture, where Japanese government regards that Takeshima belongs to. As an reaction against the ceremony, an outraged South Korean man threw his crap into Japanese Embassy in South Korea. (News article: '다케시마의 날'에 분노한 40대 日대사관에 오물투척)

I'd say only one word... Don't do such thing again!

Feb 20, 2013

Endangered Japan (Book 2): Sex, Lies, and Comfort Women

If you are a citizen of US and happened to see any Korean political advertisement about "comfort women", then turned out to consider as old Japanese people as such cruel people, watch this video before blaming Japan. At least you have to understand what was really happening first. Since letters in the video are small, I recommend you to visit YouTube and watch it in large size.



The following text is cite from this video around 16:23.

It was not only Japan which introduced the same system. The South Korean Army and US Forces introduced the same system during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Sex-trafficked women can be seen in prostitution establishment for the U.S. troops in South korea still now. Accusing others of some problems when they have the same problem is called "hypocrisy" normally.

Yes, I agree with this statement. If you are a Korean citizen or US citizen and you think "comfort women" system is inhumane, please blame the government in your country first.

By the way, army of China, German and ex-Soviet had the same system as "comfort women" too. In my personal opinion, they were the same system but some of them seemed much worse than Japanese one in humanistic point of view. None of these countries compensate comfort women later. (While you may be surprised, but Japan did.)

If you are not native to English, please find the best one from the following translated versions:

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Feb 19, 2013

Story of Japanese refugees raped in Korea

While Korean people blame Japan as if Koreans didn't do anything wrong in the past, however, reality was not just what they say. You can find what they had done to Japanese people in the following Youtube video.



Feel sad? No matter how much Koreans cry out against Japan, it's not possible to sweep the whole thing under the carpet. We will never forget!

Feb 16, 2013

Olympic Is Defiled

It is really disappointing that International Orympic Committee issued a bronze medal to Park Jong-Woo. Park's demonstration regarding to Dokto thing is clearly a political act, because Takeshima, the Japanese territory, is under conflict. Doing any political act is of course incompatible with core principles of the Olympic Charter. The committee should ban Park from Olympic games forever!! Otherwise, people will start demonstrating political act aggressively upon Olympic games for the sake of small penalty, then Olympic games shall lose trust in the future, and will be less popular than it is now.

Feb 12, 2013

Japanese Communist Party Urged Negotiation For Comfort Women Problem

Shinbun Akahata, a political news paper provided by Japanese Communist Party reported that Mr. Kazuo Shii, the head of Japanese Communist Party, urged Japanese government to negotiate with South Korea about comfort women, according to Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea: 「慰安婦」問題/日韓請求権協定にもとづく交渉による解決を/志位委員長

This is a Japanese news post on Feb 10, 2013. For those who cannot read Japanese, I pickup the most important (and funny) thing in this post. That is, Mr. Shii says that "A comfort women problem became a political issue in the 1990s."

As you know, World War II ended in 1945. According his claim, it had not been a problem at all before 1990. Such a long time! Why? Because the story was faked on May 22, 1991 by Asahi Shinbun, a left wing news paper in Japan.

Asahi Shinbun, Japanese Communist Part and anti-Japan country, Korea, shared a mutual interest at that time. Now, it has been continuing yet.

If you support South Korean's comfort women campaign, it will benefit Japanese Communist Party. Please consider what it really is. It's an insidious political act!

By the way, Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea was concluded like this: With the Treaty, the agreements between Japan and Korea concerning the settlement of problems in regard to property and claims and economic cooperation was also signed. By this Agreement, Japan conducted a large-scale economic cooperation, including cooperation huge amount of money to Korea and problems in regard to property and claims between Japan and Korea has been settled completely and finally.

According to Mr. Shii's logic, comfort women problem should be come up, because the problem became a political issue in the 1990s, it was after 1965, conclusion of Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea. What a ridiculous logic! He's clearly ignoring the law! Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea was signed in 1965, it was 20 years after the war. If Koreans really think that the comfort women problem should be compensated, they should include the topic in the treaty, as they had much time to do so! It was Korean government responsibility to do so. Why didn't they do so? Because no such problem really existed at that time. Why? Because it's a fake! It's an insidious political act!

Link: The reasons why I am skeptical with Korean comfort women

See the great write up: The reasons why I am skeptical with Korean comfort women

If you are blaming Japan regarding to comfort women based on an image that comfort women were mostly Koreans and they were sex slaves just like dogs, please read this post and correct your image. Comfort women campaign led by South Korean activists is an insidious political act. Please do not deceived by fake stories.

Feb 9, 2013

Country Of Theft

On January 30, South Korean thieves are arrested in South Korea, they stole two Buddha statues from a temple in Tsushima, Japan. The thieves once brought statues into South Korea successfully, because two statues are identified as "fake" at customs inspection in Busan harbor. Surprisingly, clearance inspection isn't functioning at all there.

It is known that one of the statues was made in Korea in 1330, as paper inside the statue records it. With this record, South Korean people say definitively that the statue was stolen by someone in Japan. Of course, there is no such evidence that the statue was stolen at all. The fact which is only known is that the statue was made in Korea. We don't know how the statue came to a temple in Japan in what circumstances, however, it is the fact that the statue had been there for ages! The statue is 100% legally, absolutely, definitely a property of the temple in Japan at this moment, at least in modern law. South Korean people shamelessly make a definitive statement like "The statue is a property of South Korea, because it was stolen by Japan" without exhibiting any evidences. Then, South Korean government has not return the statues to Japan yet. Aren't they going to arrogate the statues??

What's the f@ck!!

Again, the statue is 100% legally, absolutely, definitly owned by the temple in Japan, so South Korean government should return to Japan immediately. If they won't, it's another theft! It's not simple theft, but theft by the nation! South Korean people even say the statue should be treated as a national treasure. What shameful people they are! By the way, the statue value over 1 million USD. The statue is indeed valuable. Japanese government recognizes these statues as important cultural properties. The known fact is that the statues were stolen by South Korean thieves, then illegally arrogated by South Korean government! Since any records are missing, we don't know how they came to Japan!

However, South Korean say they should have been stolen from Korea to Japan. No evidence!! Are they paranoid!?

See this news article: Thieves steal ancient Korean statues from Japan-INSIDE Korea JoongAng Daily

Cite:
Korea had lost track of the two pieces. It’s not known when Japan stole them from Korea.

See they decide prematurely that Japanese thieves certainly stole statues from Korea, and they say that only "when" is uncertain. Such that terrible insult!! Were the statues really "stolen"? Why don't they think about any other possibilities such as "sold" or "given"? Even if they were stolen, but by whom? Why don't they consider about possibility that they were stolen by Korean thieves (then sold to Japan)?

South Korean people say "Japan stole the statues", but the 100% certain fact is opposite. South Korea stole the statues. They should stop telling a lie!!

You know what they say "A liar is worse than a thief." However, in South Korea, they do both.

Feb 7, 2013

Whale Catching Country

If you think that Japan is the country which catches whales the most in the world, it's a wrong image, so please revise it. I know the country where fishers catch whales far more than Japan. It's South Korea!

As you know, Japanese government allows whaling for research. They targeted 900 whales, but only caught 267 in 2012 due to bad weather and interruption from activists. Plus, Japanese fishers accidentally catch approximately 100+ whales in their fixed net per year. It's an unfortunate accident, of course. Even if research whaling is done successfully, they catch only approximately 1000 whales per year in total.

By contrast, in South Korea, they caught 2350 whales in 2012! (News source, KBS World News, Japanese) They say whales are ACCIDENTALY caught in their fixed net, but can you believe?! I totally cannot. In South Korea, fishers caught 656 whales in 2009, 656 whales in 2010, 1098 whales in 2011 (News source, Joongang Ilbo, Japanese) and 2350 whales in 2012. It's rapidly increasing! Even if it's by unfortunate accident, at least South Korean government should make some efforts to mitigate such accidents. But nothing's done, it's increasing!

If you are an activist opposing to whaling, please target South Korea rather than Japan. South Korean fishers catch whales far more than Japanese fishers!

Feb 5, 2013

Fake Photo

A Korean news wrote an article to criticize Japan as fake massacre following an earthquake in 1923. The ugly article is: Released photos appear to show Korean victims of past Japanese massacre

The photo is totally a fake! Of course, so the story is!

The photo has several odd things which we Japanese can clearly distinguish.

Firstly, the photo has a date at the top of frame as "大正十二年九月一日". This is totally odd. In old days, Japanese hardly wrote letters horizontally. They wrote vertically in most cases! Even if they wrote letters horizontally, they wrote from right to left, it's different from what we do. (We usually write from left to right.) So, it should be at least 日一月九年二十正大. Jeong Seong-gil should not know the fact.

The second, how can we determine people in the photo are Koreans? In the article, they say "dozens of corpses are on the ground, with their lower bodies exposed." He shouldn't know the fact that Japanese people didin't wear pants in the era when Great Kanto Earthquake happened! Lower bodies exposed? It's not surprising at all!

Finally, the article says Jeong Seong-gil released this photo recently. It's so funny! The photo has been in the collection of the following recearch center's archives for long time: Tohoku University Of Art & Design - Tohoku Colture Research Center Archives

This photo is known as a photo for victims of the fire at Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in old Japan. You can see that the photo in the research center has some area around which the fake photo doesn't has. It's impossible to draw imaginary picture in spaces around the original photo seamlessly like this. Thus, it's absolutely clear which is a fake.

Please do not be deceived by Korean fakes!

Even tough, Jeong Seong-gil is still insisting that his photo is the original photo! What does this mean? I have never heard that there is an original thing for a photo. Photos can be printed using films. Does he have the film?

This fake photo should be published by Korean media in order to back up the Korean fake story of massacre during Great Kanto Earthquake. Koreans shamelessly insist that Japanese government massacred Koreans in Japan during Great Kanto Earthquake. Certainly, it's a fake story. Koreans say Japanese government or people killed innocent Koreans, so Japanese were cruel! This is not true. Actually, some Koreans are killed. But it was because Koreans became a mob after the earthquake. Koreans firstly killed Japanese people, raped young Japanese girl, torched buildings and ravened stuffs.  They did this when Japanese people were suffering due to the quake. This was a abhorrent terrorist act! All of Japanese news papers reported this painful affair at that time. Korean government is eager to rascally deny this disadvantageous fact by faking lots of stuff.

Again, please do not deceived by Korean fakes!

Feb 2, 2013

Comfort Women Were Not Slaves Like A Dog On A Leash

You can see why we think comfort women are not sex slaves by watching the following youtube video. Please watch this video if you have not. Before you think about comfort women problem, this video is a must!



Two former comfort women appear in this video. First case is 金学順, or Kim Hak-sun. She was sold to sex parlor by her mother for 40 yen. She was not kidnapped by Japanese military! It was of course unfortunate, but it was not a responsibility of Japanese military that she became a sex worker.

The second case is 文玉珠. I don't know how to write her name in English. She earned amazingly 26000 yen in two years, when she was a comfort woman. At that time, a house in Tokyo costed about 5000 yen. She was able to buy 5 houses! We should not regard such a sex worker as a sex slave. She got rewarded well for her sex job. By the way, a soldier, rank-and-file, earned 15 yen per month in the same period. How rich she was!

Please do not deceived by those activists who blame Japan for comfort women. They have a political intent, which is evil for Japan. Hear voices of both sides. Fairness is the most important. Don't be an accomplice in such an activity, which is based on statements which are totally different from truth. If you do, it will be a shame for you.

Worth Of Apology

In my opinion, apology is worthy only when the target knows what apology is. A person who knows it shall express apology when he/she does something wrong.

Have you ever seen that Korea expressed any apology? I have never seen before!

According to by SCAP, also known as GHQ, those Korean people who lived in Japan killed more than 4000 Japanese people after the World War II. They reviled Japanese people like "Japan was defeated. Korea won the war!" Right after the war, Japanese police were disarmed and there were only women and children. Thus, Korean male riots easily killed the weak people. I'm really angried about this affair. I have never heard Koreans express any apology for it before.

Why so many Korean people were in Japan? Because Japan and Korea were a same nation due to Japan's Annexation of Korea. Korean soldiers faught within Japanese military, killed lots of enemies, had sex with comfort women. While Japan was defeted on World War II, Korea also had a part of responsibility for the war. Have you ever heard that Koreans expressed apology for World War II?

After the World War II, Korea passionately attempted to extend their activity sphere. When Japan was disarmed, Korea declared Syngman Rhee Line unilaterally. Due to this lawless affair, 3929 Japanese people were arrested, of whom 44 were killed, and 328 Japanese ships were seized! This was not a war. I have never heard Koreans expressed any apology for this affair! What is even worse, they still claim sovereignty over Takeshima. Syngman Rhee Line is of course void in the current international law!

When we talk about Korea's responsibility for the war, "Lai Đại Hàn" is a must topic. See what Korean soldiers did during the Vietnam War! Have you ever seen Korea expressed apology to Vietnam? I have never seen before.

Conclusion: Koreans do not know what apology is at all. Before blaming Japan for comfort women (they were sex workers, not sex slaves), Korea government should express apology against what they did in the past. It's not worthy to express apology against those who do not know what apology is.