真相箱 真相はこうだ "Now it can be told" (Truth Box): Voice of Japan via Tweeting
mainly focuses on the Japanese tweets which non-Japanese individuals may find interesting.
Twitter becomes a wonderfully effective tool only if you understand what’s tweeted.
The Dong-a Ilbo reports on rampant abduction of more than 100 Chinese girls by Korean swindlers (those agents engaged in recruiting personnel) from villages in Mukden, Manchukuo on August 31, 1939. Police investigators have been immediately dispatched to Mukden from Busan, Korea. Notes: 1.The Dong-A Ilbo (literally East Asia Daily) is the leading newspaper in Korea, established in 1920, 10 years after Japan-Korean annexation. 2. The Great Empire of Manchuria was established in 1932 and continued to exist until 1945.
Regarding some girls cheated into "comfort women" by some swindlers, Mr. Hiroo Onoda states; I often heard that on the Korean peninsula there were swindlers triking girls into prostitution. I really feel sorry for those girls who were scammed by those swindlers. Some frauds cheated girls into working as prostitutes by telling them that they would become"war nurses" while some girls cheated soldiers and non-commissioned officers into paying "surcharge" by telling them "I am a graduate of girls high school." There were quite few soldiers who trusted what those girls told them.
War Nurses serving the Great Imperial Japanese Forces
We should respect every custom and tradition in any particular nation because there should be reasons behind why they keep and nurture them.
Photos above (taken before 1910 Japan-Korea annexation) show Korean women proudly
exposing their breasts out in public. Korea had enjoyed, for centuries, the
custom of granting a special privilege of "public breasts exposure"
to the women who gave birth to their first baby boy.
It
seems that Koreans still remember a bitter experience with Japan who prohibited the long-lived traditional
practice in a process of modernizing Korea after Japan-Korea annexation was
agreed on in 1910.
Japan
may have to repentantly admit that she committed the most inconsiderate violation of forcing (?)
the Korean women (recently proven to be the most decent in the world in numerous movies, etc. produced by the Republic of Korea. ) to refrain from
pursuing their cultural cultivation, for which Japan may have to make reparation
in any possible way.
Ex. To help both ROK and DPRK revive their lost traditional
practice of exposing breasts out in public by showing the old photos to the
Korean population quite oblivious not only to their history but also to the way
to appreciate generosity and kindness extended by others.
The
photo below (recently discovered) is a front cover of the book titled “Korea” Zwischen
Krieg Und Frieden published in 1954, meaning Between War and Freedom, showing a Korean woman
still maintaining the traditional custom of breasts exposure believed to have
been lost during the 35 years long Japan-Korea annexation from 1910 to 1945.
Before
discussing a major discrepancy between Japan and South Korea in terms of how
they have interpreted 10,000 rounds of ammo to ROK force in South Sudan from Japan
“hypothetical enemy”, readers should get acquainted with a brief historical background
to better understand why Japan and S. Korea differ on their views.
Not
many know that S. Korea has long viewed Japan as its hypothetical enemy from
its inception when S. Korea was established as a new state whose first leader
was a Korean authoritarian dictator Syngman Rhee known as a U.S. puppet for his
brutal policy of forcing the Korean population to deny anything good about what
Japan had done during the 35 years of Japan-Korea annexation by nurturing
hatred toward Japan as soon as he was sworn in as the first president of the
provisional government of S. Korea in 1948 a few months before Tokyo Trial was
concluded.
Park Chung-hee, Dictator of ROK
Park Chung-hee, the Great Imperial Japanese Army and the article reporting on his strong desire to join the Great Imperial Japanese Army
Park Chung-hee and her daughter incumbent president Park Geun-hye
His
anti-Japan policy has been uninterruptedly handed down, one after another, to
the incumbent president Park Geun-hye whose father was Park Chung-hee (president of South Korea from 1963 to 1979) who begged The
Military Academy of the Great Imperial Japan to accept him as a cadet by
submitting a petition written in his blood and who later became Lieutenant of
the Great Imperial Japanese Army.
In 2005, the 9th president of
South Korea Roh Moo-hyun actually proposed to U.S.A. that both ROK
and U.S.A. should designate Japan as a “hypothetical enemy”. In 2012, Prime
Minister Noda was fully prepared to ink “the General Security of Military
Information Agreement (GSOMIA)”, however, S. Korea made a last-minute decision
to delay the signing of the military watershed pact.
The decision
was made by ROK president Lee Myung-bak (whose Japanese name is月山明博Tsukiyama
Akihiro)born to Korean parents at Shimada dairy farm, Nishinari
ward, Osaka, Japan in 1941. His father had been employed by the farm since
1929. They left Japan for S. Korea by means of crossing the Sea of Japan aboard
a migrant smuggling boat in October, 1945 when Japan was in turmoil after her
first defeat in the 2,673 years long history of Japan.
Now, turning back to the new dispute over “10,000 rounds
of ammo”, S. Korean army participating in U.N. peacekeeping operation in S.
Sudan requested, through the embassy of S. Korea in Tokyo and U.N., the
Government of Japan to urgently send the required ammo of 15 rounds per soldier
to ROK soldiers protecting safety of refugees from rebels, that was revealed by
the Japanese Government Spokesman Mr. Yoshihide Suga.
However, S, Korean spokesman stated that ROK force only
requested for 10,000 rounds of ammo through UNMISS not due to the lack of ammo
and never made a direct request to the Government of Japan at all, so as “to
secure the supplemental supply of ammo”.
Coupled with the statement clearly denying Japan’s
efforts for the benefits of international community and Japan’s cooperation with
S. Korea who persistently regards Japan as its hypothetical enemy, the
government of S. Korea has never expressed any word of appreciation to Japan
for Japan’s immediate action in response to the intrepid request from the
humanitarian viewpoint of protecting “refugees” in S. Sudan and S. Korean
soldiers, even making an exceptional case to Japan’s self-imposed three
principles of arms exports, over which the ruling party Liberal Democratic
Party may respond to the leftists’ demand for accountability and transparency
even though the Government of Japan made the response even that anti-Japan U.N.
chief Ban Ki-moon considers reasonable in every respect.
This sort of S. Korean practice is nothing new and is not
any surprise to Japan. If S. Korea had any decency the international community
has nurtured overcoming many mishaps and hardship, it would not look a gift horse
in the mouth.
Why the Republic of Korea has turned against Japan? 韓国が「反日」になったわけ
日本国島根県竹島 Takeshima, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
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. His infamous anti-Japan policy is best demonstrated in the invasion into Takeshima islets in 1952 by unilaterally establishing Syngman Rhee Line on January 18, 1952 in defiance of international laws (Read Takeshima Issue: Unforgivable Atrocity Committed by the government of South Korea ).
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.
When S. Korea Gained Independence? August 15, 1945 or August 13, 1948?
日本国島根県竹島 Takeshima, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
via jackassk.web.fc2.com
@perfumekawaee「韓国が独立したのは韓国の手によるものだ」にいたっては呆れてものも言えない。誰も日本からの独立など望んでいなかったのにアメリカに強制的に独立させられたというのが真実だ。 tweets "South Korea gained independence all by itself! " That's utterly fabricated and absurd! No one desired to be independent from Japan in those days. South Korea was forced by U.S. to become independent from Japan. That is a truth! A true history tells us that: On August 15, 1945 when Japan decided to end the Greater East Asia War, Governor of Korea, Great Imperial Japanese Army General Nobuyuki Abe and Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant General Yoshio Kouzuki lowered "Rising Sun flag" and hoisted "South Korean flag", thereby initiating the establishment of Korean Nation Preparation Ccommittee and granting Korea autonomy. In other words, South Korea never gained independence from Japan but was granted "Autonomy" by Japan on August 15, 1945. However, the autonomy granted by Japan did not last long. On September 8, 1945, the United States of America advanced its forces into Southern Korea (now called South Korea or Republic of Korea), the U.S. forces nullified "autonomy granted by Japan" and pulled down "South Korean flag" and hoisted "Rising Sun flag". U.S. forces proved that Southern Korea was a part of Japanese territory, therefore, placed under administration of U.S. forces after September 9, 1945. On September 9, 1945, a day after U.S. forces advanced into Southern Korea, General Douglas MacArthur declared that Southern Korea would be placed under administration of U.S forces. And, "Stars and Stripes" was flown over the sky in Southern Korea. Therefore, August 15 is not the day South Korea became neither independent nor liberated. Three years later August 13, 1948 is the day when South Korea was established after becoming free from administration of U.S. forces. Above all, Korea never fought against Japan to gain independence at all before and during Japan-Korea annexation because Korea asked Japan for the annexation in those days lest Korea would be completely controlled by either Russia or the western powers. The annexation of Korea was internationally fully recognized as being lawful. It was done in a peaceful manner. The current education in South Korea has unjustifiably denied an apparent historical fact that Japan had long helped South Korea rebuild its nation even after it was devastated during the Korean war and that Japan had earlier developed Korea into a civilized peninsula during 35 years of annexation after Koreans vehemently sought help from Japan before 1910. Before Japan defeated Qing Dynasty (the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912) in 1895, Korea was a complete vassal state of Qing Dynasty who had practiced brutal rule over Korea.
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 current president Lee Myung-bak born in Japan.
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 36 years 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 still blames Japan for her exploiting Korea while 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 a 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
The above video contains historical pictures ranging from the retarded Korea to the modernized Korea with Japan's technical and financial assistance funded by the tax money collected from the Japanese taxpayers.
Read a note below.
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, 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.
Note: 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 sudden stands up and turns a negotiating table upside down?
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 Mǎn Zhe (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.
"Hangan 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 Mǎn Zhe
(金満哲)
.
Note:
The economic growth South Korea achieved in 1970s is called "Hangan Miracle".
The above article is subject to change whenever the author finds it necessary to add, correct, delete, etc.
January 18, 1952-a date which will live in infamy-Japan was suddenly and deliberately invaded by the South Koreans under the command of South Korea president Syngman Rhee, so as to illegally occupy Takeshima islets by making a groundless and irrational territorial claim over those islets almost three months before San Francisco Peace Agreement (signed on September 8, 1951) became effective on April 28, 1952.
The invasion of Takeshima and its continued occupation has been one of the major irritants often regarded as a causative factor largely responsible for deterioration of relations between Japan and South Korea in the last decades despite Japan and her people’s deep sympathy expressed in the form of economic and technical assistance toward the Korean population for its unfortunate plights often indirectly and directly resulted from Russian and Chinese interferences with the Korean peninsula.
The invasion of Takeshima began with unilateral establishment of Syngman Rhee Line on January 18, 1952. 1. Syngman Rhee Line (李承晩ライン) unilaterally established by South Korea in defiance of international laws and U.S. warnings. http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/takeshima/installation.html - Installation of "Syngman Rhee Line" and Illegal Occupation of Takeshima by the Republic of Korea.
The invasion and continued occupation is a clear violation of San Francisco Peace Treaty in which Article 2 of Chapter II Territory stipulates that (a) Japan recognizing the independence of Korea, renounces all right, title and claim to Korea, including the islands of Quelpart, Port Hamilton and Dagelet. In (a) of Article 2, Quelpart Island (Jejudo, 제주도, 済州島), Port Hamilton (Geomun-do, 거문도,巨文島), and Dagelet (Ulleungdo, 울릉도, 鬱陵島) are specifically mentioned. It is so clear to anyone that Takeshima islets have never been included in a list of the islands when Japan renounced all right, title and claim to Korea. http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/takeshima/sanfrancisco.pdf -Treaty of Peace with Japan, Chapter II Territory, Article 2.
Today, I would like to focus on one of the unforgivable atrocities the government of South Korea committed in a futile attempt to distort a number of historical facts related to Japan’s unalterable position over Takeshima islets.
On January 22, 1953, two fishing vessels respectively named “Daiichi Daihou Maru and Daini Daihou Maru of Taihou Fisheries Company left Fukuoka, Japan for fishing operations. By February 4, they arrived at No. 284 fishing zone in international waters near Jeju Island.
When two Japanese fishing vessels operating in the designated fishing zone at around 7:00 a.m. the same day, two S. Korean fishing vessels (第一昌運号제 2 장운호and第二昌運号제 2 장운호) were spotted approaching the Japanese fishing vessels. They soon came close to the Japanese fishing vessels. And, then S. Korean crews greeted Japanese crews by saying “How’s your fishing going today?” They just passed by and stopped nearby, watching the Japanese fishing vessels.
As soon as Daiichi Daihou Maru began pulling fishing net up, the S. Korean vessels (in fact disguised as the fishing vessels manned by military personnel, etc.) at the distance of 30 meters from the stern of the Japanese fishing vessels opened firing automatic rifles at Daiichi Daihou Maru. Two Japanese fishing vessels were trying to escape their sudden and vicious attack on them but both of them were soon captured by 8:30 a.m. since the South Koreans were intensely and fiercely firing at them.
One of chief fishermen was hit in the head with a bullet fired from one of the automatic rifles and fell unconscious. Then, they told Daiichi Daihou Maru and Daiini Daihou Maru to head to Jeju Island. They arrived at Hanlin port, Jeju Island at 11:30 a.m. The Japanese crews were transferred to the S. Korean police authority that soon confiscated private belongings, properties, equipment, etc. When at the police authority, the Japanese crews told them that one of their crews was seriously injured. He was then taken to a hospital which one could hardly call "hospital" since it had no wards, equipment, instruments, etc. A Korean doctor just refused to extend any medical care to him. The Japanese fishing crews requested the police authority to find a hospital for him but they just rejected their request by stating “We are just carrying out our duty in accordance with an order given by the military. Therefore, we have no responsibility.” Then, they requested the military to extend necessary medical care to him. However, the military again refused to do so.
They repeatedly requested the military to hospitalize him at the military hospital. They even told them that they would pay for medical expenses. Then, they pretended to accept their request and told them “They would soon transport him to the military hospital by car.” However, he was just left alone there. He died at 23:00 p.m. on February 6.
The Japanese crews requested the police authority to cremate dead Chief fisherman. However, it was turned down. They had to improvise his funeral service and materials to cremate him all by themselves.
On February 9, they were transferred to an air defense facility in which they were confined in a small room whose floor area was 8.25 square meters. 18 crews were confined there with no food supplied by them. They had to survive on limited foods they had with them.
During police interrogation, the S. Korean police authority insisted that two Japanese fishing vessels were captured 9 nautical miles from Hanlin, Jeju Island. On the other hand, the Japanese crews pointed out not only inaccuracy of navigational compass but also speed of the Korean vessels and then insisted that it was 30 nautical miles at the time of capture. Then, the South Korean police authority forced them to accept 13 nautical miles close to halfway between the Japanese claim and the Korean claim. According to a navigator of Daiini Daihou Maru separately questioned by the South Korean police authority, two Japanese vessels were 30 nautical miles from Jeju Island when they were captured.
At 23:00 p.m. on the same day, they were transferred to the police station at Jeju city and were jailed at the prison cell without any meal at all. The prison cell was only 8.25 square meters. 18 crews were jailed together with Korean inmates at a very small cell. However, some meager meals were served there.
The Japanese crews were again interrogated by the Jeju police. The Jeju police charged the Japanese crews with violation of Syngman Rhee Line. They refuted the South Korean claim by telling them that installation of the line encompassing the island of Takeshima and a large area of water with fisheries jurisdiction was a unilateral act in contravention of international law.
The police prepared an investigator’s record of oral statement in Hangul, in which the police falsified the statement as saying that the Japanese crews violated Syngman Rhee Line. The police told them to sign the falsified statement written in Hangul and informed the Government of Japan to the effect that they admitted violation of Syngman Rhee Line.
However, it was so obvious that two Japanese vessels were captured in international waters since the South Korean police fabricated a story of violation by the Japanese fishing vessels. A U.S. Navy representative met with South Korean pres. Syngman over the incident. Syngman expressed his regrets over abduction of the Japanese fishermen in international waters. Two fishing vessels and crews were returned home guarded by U.S Navy Frigate ship on February 17.
When leaving South Korea, the South Korean police stated “We are very sorry for death of your crew. Since our country is at war, we couldn’t afford to give you foods even if we wanted to. Please do not say anything bad about the police.”
Major Issues of the Incident described above:
Installation of Syngman Rhee Line encompassing the island of Takeshima and a large area of water with fisheries jurisdiction is a unilateral act in contravention of international law.
Firing at the civilian ships without warnings in international waters is a crime.
Premeditated criminal act committed by the government of South Korea to pursue its military purpose of illegally occupying the large area of water and Takeshima as evidenced in the fact that each Korean vessel was staffed with 1 military police, 1 specially trained soldier, 1 information officer, 4 police officers in addition to 12 crews.
Serious human rights violation by abusing the Japanese crews during interrogations. ex. Refusal to offer medical care, Refusal to supply foods, Refusal to carry out funeral service and cremation, Confinement of the Japanese crews at overcrowded cell whose floor area is less than 8.25 square meters, etc.
The above is just a beginning of brutal killings and abduction of the Japanese fishermen by the government of South Korea.
During the period of January 18, 1952 (date of unilateral installation of Syngman Rhee Line) to June 22, 1965 (signing date of Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea), 328 Japanese fishing vessels were captured and 3,929 fishermen were abducted by South Korea. And, 44 Japanese fishermen were brutally murdered by South Korea.
It is well known that the government of South Korea advantageously proceeded its negotiations with Japan over Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea signed on June 22, 1965 while keeping Japanese fishermen as hostages whom the government of South Korea used as a bargaining chip.
Interviewer said: I understand that you have uploaded a video letter yesterday, saying that you intended to visit South Korea in a peaceful manner. And, you certainly did not expect that the visit triggered turmoil at all. What do you think of the Korean nationals’ reaction to your visit with two others to South Korea although you believe that there must have been some misunderstanding on the part of the government of South Korea?
Shindo Yoshitaka said: First of all, I am so disappointed to know that some people have felt aggravated over our visit or protested against our visit. However, from the beginning, we have been explaining that our visit is designed neither to stir up turmoil, nor to carry out any activities related to the territorial claim over Takeshima islets while waving our national flag there. In other words, we never intended to stress our territorial claim in anyway there. But rather, we truly wished to actually see and feel with our own eyes the South Korean territorial claim over Takeshima by visiting Ulleung Island where South Korea has a museum displaying articles related to their territorial claim and its location to where Takeshima is situated at. Therefore, I feel so disappointed at and shocked over the incident. The government of South Korea should have secured our safety and free travel normally given to the Japanese tourists.
Interviewer said: What do you think of the treatment given by the government of South Korea? I understand that you knew that your entry would be banned by the government of South Korea before visiting there.
Shindo Yoshitaka said: Japan and South Korea regard each other as friendly nations, sharing the same values of freedom and democracy and recognizing each other as law-abiding countries. However, the government of South Korea unilaterally decided to ban entry of the fully law abiding Japanese lawmakers with no intention to carry out any special activities, who represent Japanese nationals. We believe that the action taken by the government of South Korea is completely incomprehensible. Here is what the government of South Korea informed us when executing their ban on our entry. First, we cannot secure your safety. Second, your visit will not have any positive impact on our bilateral relations. These are two reasons the government of South Korea cited for banning our entry. Then, we inquired them about their legal basis for ban on our entry. They replied that their legal basis is Article 11-1-3 of Immigration Control Law of South Korea. It stipulates that it is applicable to those who will execute activities harming national interests and public safety of South Korea. This means it is applicable to the criminals and those who commit violent acts. It should not have been applied to us because we intended to do nothing to harm their national interests and public safety of South Korea at all.
Our safety had been threatened because South Korean nationals were protesting against our visit. It is their responsibility that they should remove any threats to our safety. However, they blamed us for visiting South Korea while neglecting their primary responsibility. I told them that their ban on our entry is construed as being illegal as practiced in dictator nations since the government of South Korea neglected their own national laws simply because of differences of the territorial claims and because they just don’t want us to come in. I then asked them to show us any cases to which the law has ever been applied. They said we don’t know. So, I asked them if the law will be applicable to us, restricting our political activities in the future even when visiting South Korea on an official business and even to our private travel to South Korea with our families. Again, they said we don’t know. A South Korean officer in charge just left us alone after he said I don’t know as I do not have capacity to answer such a question. In midst of dark clouds hanging over our visit, they representing a law-abiding country never asked me about our visit (purpose, itinerary, etc.) in detail before they finalized ban on our entry. South Korea as a law-abiding nation should have directly asked us questions over our visit. Based upon results of questioning, they should have processed our case, so as to determine what to do with our entry. They maintained a position that they just execute an order given even before our arrival. Because I found it totally impossible to accept their decision as the one produced through a law-abiding process, I told our embassy staff to convey our request to the government of South Korea and to demand them to give us full explanation of their decision to ban our entry. We just can’t decide to accept their decision unless they give us full explanation.
Interviewer said: You were just waiting for their full explanation for hours, weren’t you?
Shindo Yoshitaka said: Lots of things we had to do. They didn’t even have South Korean Immigration Control Law Article 11-1-3 with them and didn’t show it to us when executing ban on our entry. So, we asked them to show us an article for us to understand their decision. Then, they brought it to us, however, written in Korean. We asked them to translate it in both Japanese and English. But they declined to do so. Our embassy staff translated it into Japanese. After having exposed to the fact that they did not prepare anything at all conceived necessary for execution of the law and to the fact that they believe in exercising their rights just by declaring they do so, I hardly believe that the action taken by South Korea is the one by the country sharing the same values of democracy and freedom with us but also with those nations whose national principles are based on “freedom and democracy” at all.
Interviewer said: Why did you decide to visit South Korea?
Shindo Yoshitaka said: We have observed a lot of things going on in relation to Takeshima after the Democratic Party of Japan took over the government. When we were in power, we had taken a number of actions to prevent anything serious from happening, thereby restricting the government of South Korea not to take any major actions.
South Korea has just completed a large scale construction of structure on Takeshima islets, which took them one year. They will hold a completion ceremony on Takeshima islets on August 5. However, more than ten years ago, they had a completion ceremony on Ulleung Island but not on Takeshima islets, honoring an agreement for the high-ranking officials not to step into Takeshima when they completed a light house on Takeshima.
Japan and South Korea agreed not to unnecessary irritate our relations by constructing any structures. Immediately after the Great Tohoku earthquake occurred, they resumed construction of a helipad after 30 years of suspension. It will be soon completed. And, they even started constructing a 15 story high marine research center nearby Takeshima, whose superstructure is now being assembled in South Korea. KAL airline flew its new Airbus 380 airliner over Takeshima island chain without permission from Tokyo. They even announced that they would hold a special committee of South Korean Parliament with attendance of cabinet members and parliamentarians on Takeshima on August 12.
Every time South Korea takes any actions related to Takeshima, Japan protests the government of South Korea against their actions. However, I believe that the government of South Korea can no longer control itself.
As far as the government of Japan goes, it keeps saying that it has taken appropriate measures against South Korean actions. I have submitted question prospectus to the government of Japan a number of times, thereby requesting the government for its official views. The statement reads that the government has taken appropriate steps to fully deal with the South Korean actions. The government maintains a position that the government sends its official messages to the government of South Korea and that due to diplomatic considerations, disclosure of individual cases should be withheld. The government limits disclosure of the measures even to us. As the government does not make any announcements to the press, almost all media here seem to remain indifferent to what’s happening there; thereby failing to inform the Japanese nationals of what South Korea is doing and is expected to do. On the other hand, the government of South Korea has aggressively taken a number of measures to strengthen its control over Takeshima islets. Exchange of messages between two governments over Takeshima islets, if there is any, has not been backed up by the general consensus in Japan. Only in the last two years, limited transmission or absence of transmission of the public opinion by mass media has been often interpreted as Japan’s tacit general agreement on the unilateral actions taken by the government of South Korea. Therefore, we decided to visit Ulleung Island where the government of South Korea has a museum displaying a number of articles insisting to be substantiating its territorial claims over Takeshima islets and to confirm with our own eyes why the government of South Korea has arrived at the point where it has executed a number of wrongdoings Japan and her people have abhorred and have never accepted at all.
Interviewer said: What do you think of measures taken by the government of Japan?
Shindo Yoshitaka said: Before our departure, the government of Japan officially requested the government of South Korea to provide us with security, and free and safe passage. Even during stand-off at Gimpo airport, the government of Japan (based on statements made by Chief Cabinet Secretary and Minister for Foreign Affairs) through the Embassy of Japan there officially expressed its regrets over our detention and strongly requested the government of South Korea to allow us to enter South Korea.
When at the airport, Japanese embassy staff helped us to carry out a number of things we in fact had to do since our freedom was severely constrained at the airport. Our embassy staff helped us communicate with the government of South Korea through the Embassy of Japan. Therefore, I think we can appreciate that we were all united to send our clear messages to the government of South Korea.
Interviewer said: What do you think of our future relations with South Korea?
Shindo Yoshitaka said: It is not my desire that the incident at Gimpo airport will eventually suspend all relations at every level. Economic issues, etc. should be separately promoted while we must say that a major obstacle is a failure to see Takeshima issue on an official negotiating table, lack of which elicits distortion of Takeshima issue in South Korea while producing indifference in Japan. Once Japanese nationals are exposed to the facts related to Takeshima, they all object the actions taken by the government of South Korea. And, I hope that once South Koreans get to know the facts, they will not resort to such outrageous and unilateral actions as seen in their recent protests against Japan by saying that our islands will be stolen by Japan while totally refusing to listen to what Japan claims.
From now, what we have to do is to help many people recognize differences of opinions over Takeshima claimed by both Japan and South Korea and then to put Takeshima issue on a negotiating table between two nations. In reality, as soon as Japan voiced its opinions on Takeshima issue during a bilateral meeting held here in Japan, South Korean officials actually turned a table upside down we both were sitting at. And, they just left the room in Seoul when we tried to discuss it. As this territorial issue is closely related to historical facts, we both conducted a research on historical facts a few years ago. However, the government of South Korea showed an outrageous behavior as if to threaten the government of Japan to cancel the entire joint research unless Japan agreed to remove Takeshima issue from agenda of our joint research. Recognizing Takeshima issue as a historical issue, the government of South Korea removed Takeshima issue from agenda of our joint research on historical facts. Their attitude has become obstinate as seen in their total rejection of any talks with Japan. As long as they maintain the unregenerate attitude toward Takeshima issue, the same incident will be repeated in the future.
Therefore, as we are firmly determined not to settle for any obscure conclusions, we regard the incident as a turning point to improve the prevailing situation particularly in South Korea. I was told that one eccentric cut his finger off and other poured kerosene over his body and ignited it in protest against Japan when they went off the deep end during demonstrations. In this relation, it is my wish that South Koreans will not harm themselves over my unjustifiably blocked visit to South Korea. Due to the failure to recognize facts, these undesirable incidents have occurred. I truly believe that it is the duty for both governments and politicians to resolve the failure.
Interviewer said: Would you like to visit South Korea again?
Shindo Yoshitaka said: Of course, I would like to. To fully analyze their territorial claim over Takeshima, our visit to Ulleung Island is indispensable in terms of our exposure to display items at the museum on the island and to landscape features, etc. However, I don’t believe that the government of South Korea will accept our visit if we try it in the same manner. Thus, the visit must be carried out in a friendly and peaceful manner. To realize this, we propose that we the Liberal Democratic Party should hold “Symposium on Takeshima Issue” with the South Korea, only if the government does not initiate this action. It should be held alternately in Japan and South Korea. We really want South Korea to hold “Symposium on Ulleung Island” and to extend invitation to us. Our party will prepare for the action at our special committee and then propose to the South Korean side as early as possible.
Interviewer said: What do you think of the foreign policy the Democratic Party of Japan has so far implemented?
Shindo Yoshitaka said: I will give you an example of South Korean parliamentarians’ visit to Kunashiri Island to better describe the foreign policy pursued by the Kan Cabinet. South Korean parliamentarians visited Kunashiri Island of Japan with approval from the government of Russia and entered Kunashiri Island through a Russian route. As far as reports made by South Korean media are concerned, their visit to Kunashiri Island is strictly private. However, South Korean parliament allocated budget to their visit and South Korean Foreign Ministry officially requested the Russian government to accommodate them during their visit.
Immediately after we were exposed to their planned visit to Kunashir Island, we staged a fierce protest against it. At the very moment when they arrived at Karafuto (Sakhalin), pres. Lee was in a meeting with Prime Minister Kan before his trip to the disaster stricken areas in northeastern Japan. However, Prime Minister Kan never said a word about their visit to Kunashiri Island to pres. Lee, just shaking hand with Lee, and showing lots of smiles on his face. I really wonder what kind of message Prime Minister Kan must have given to South Korea.
As we are readily accessible to the reports made in Korean, we came to know the planned demonstration flight by KAL over Takeshima Islets even before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed it. I contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and informed the Ministry of our finding. The Ministry told me “We have no knowledge of it.” And, we then requested the Ministry to protest the government of South Korea against KAL demonstration flight over Takeshima islets. The Ministry decided to protest it against South Korea at its own discretion. Only recently, in the last three months, the government of Japan started to give the press very short press release describing its protests. The Ministry officials have been heavily influenced by the Kan Cabinet whose political judgments are believed to be misleading.
Therefore, I believe the Democratic Party of Japan is guilty of political misjudgments for which the party should deserve a heavier punishment than death since it has committed the most serious crime against Japan and her people ”Banshi ni ataisuru=万死に値する。”
Note: The above is subject to change whenever Ted Yokohama finds it necessary as it is provisional.
For your reference, read an article published by The Japan Times, most probably based upon the above interview with Mr. Shindo Yoshitaka, one of the three Japanese lawmakers banned to enter South Korea based on a questionably inappropriate application of Article 13-1-3 of Immigration Control Law of South Korea.
Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011
Lawmaker defends attempt to observe disputed Takeshima isles
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