The Japanese rightist

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2007-05-06T07:01:00.000-07:00

Since I moved to Japan, the food is quite good. Drinking coke much less since it's $1 per can. Instead, I've been drinking tea. Can't believe the days with 2 cans of coke a day.

I met my family. They are fine.

The view out the window is not bad. A steep slope bothers my walking and bicycling though. Fortunately my neighbor turned out to be a family of noble race. Wow, I got a pretty nice garden view for free!

It's going to take another one week for the next upload due to delayed phone line. It's "golden weenk" in Japan, so many offices have been taking sloppy days off these days.

I'm going to Japan

2007-04-30T17:20:00.000-07:00

Going to Japan! Yeah!!!! I'm already there, though.

Please be patient for the next upload.
The internet set up takes a long time.

The mayor Nagasaki assassinated by Yakuza

2007-04-17T07:48:00.000-07:00

The criminal, Tetsuya Shiroo (城尾哲彌 59), was arrested.

The mayor of Nagasaki.

I'll upload the upcoming information later on.

4/17/2007 11:00(EST) People in 2ch started to claim the criminal may be Korean, but there's no report from media. Didn't they blame everything to Korean? Just because the shooting ranpage in Virginia Tech was made by a Korean yesterday, it doesn't mean every murder is executed by Korean. Regardless of the fact, Yakuza won't move unless money is involved. CNN reported that the statment of the mayor referring to the Emperor's crime in WWII angered rightists, but I am negative about that. It smells something about money. Since the major was running for his fourth consecutive seats as the mayor of Nagasaki, complicated collusion may have been webbed.

4/19/2007 0:30(EST) The ex-wife of this criminal stated at the interview that the mayor is to be blamed because he didn't give any grant, public projects, to the criminal's group just because of Yakuza. Hmmm, my suspicion, something about money, may be true.

The faces of Japanese

2007-04-15T20:14:00.000-07:00

If you're currently staying in Japan, take close looks at faces of Japanese. Typically it is possible to categorize them into two:

The hairy face in the left is called "Jomon" face while the flat one "Yayoi" face. The terms you're going to remember are just two this time.

We tend to think that Japan is a unified country composed by a single race. However, Japanese people have been formed after thousands years of racial mixture between two, Jomon and Yayoi.

How about him below? He is a typical kind of Jomon people. He was a popular leader of Kagoshima prefecture, southern part of southern island (Kyushu).

Then how about the woman below? Please notice her characteristics such as thin eyes or big front teeth. Yes, that's a Yayoi face.

It is found from recent studies that the Jomon was a conquered race after the Yayoi gradually spreaded to the entire Japan (about B.C. 300 to A. D. 300). However, you can easily find the native Japanese, the Jomon, if you'd have a chance to visit Okinawa or Hokkaido. Of course there are a lot of people with "jomonized" features in the main island, too. But the pure Jomon are already almost extinct in the places where the traffic has been great. (The figure below indicates that the Jomon came from the south. However, there's another perspective that they came from North through Sakhalin. Either way, the history of the Jomon must have been quite old.)

Recently, Japanese have been suffering from a huge identity crisis: although they are identified by their Yayoi faces, the wintry-looking, mongol-oriented face tends to be repelled. Especially, plastic surgery for eyes, cutting "Mongolian fold", is getting popular. The mongolian fold functioned to protect their tear duct with the thick eyelid, but the physiological need has disappeard. High cheekbone is another hated property the Yayoi have.

Look at the picture above. Can you believe that's the same person? The main magic is cutting the "folds", the eyelids, that cover a large portion of your eyes. This process exposes his lacrimal glands. The inclination to the plastic surgery we see these days was said as yearning for European. Regardless of which type they are craving for, European or Jomon, it's sure they have many complaints about what they inherited from their ancestors.

Another annoying part they hate is their teeth. Many Japanese have uneven teeth. Funnily, Korean or Chinese sometimes distinguish themselves from Japanese by the teeth. They have better evenness! The uneven teeth is a result of the race mixture as you might suspect. The size of the jaw from one race doesn't match the size of the teeth from the other race. My case by the way is OK. I have a combination of a big jaw and big teeth.

The above picture visually shows the difference of jaws and teeth between the Jomon (left) and Yayoi(right). If someone inherited a small jaw and big teeth as a result of blood mixture, they end up having very uneven teeth.

Visit Spooky Osaka (1)

2007-04-09T19:37:00.000-07:00

The second largest city, Osaka, is known to be very unique with its friendliness and open mind. The strongest dialect also characterizes the people in Osaka to the level that "only people from Osaka never want to adopt accents of Tokyo." The humane city, however, has been burdened with its shameful issue, casual workers and home-less people. (This article is borrowing pictures from a pioneering website "Osaka Minkoku damepo tour".)

Normal international visitors won't pay a visit to the district, Kamagasaki, located in the south part of Osaka since places for sightseeing are mostly in the northern Osaka. So are high-income residents.

Incredibly, Kamagasaki is pretty near the center of Osaka. As soon as you get off the train at the station and make a breath, you'd know something wrong is happening in this town with strong irritating odor of ammonia.
(Kamagasaki is in Nishinari district, Osaka.)

You may see the blue sheets like the picture above here and there. Yes, this town is full of homeless people who seldom take a bath.

It used to be an energetic town since way before WWII with casual workers. It was good as they were young. They enjoyed their freedom in spite of their poverty. However, they got old now. The town has become a ghost town with so many old people who are living under the blue sheets with skinny dogs.

The unsavory administration in Osaka has been pointed out. The welfare policy for the poor is neglected while the fake socially vulnerable, Buraku people, have grown with a parasitic aspect. It is said that Osaka has spent $1.2 billion so far for compensation for Buraku people. But apparently the money has been taking a huge detour. Osaka administration has also invested in huge public projects of buildings or bridges which by the way are not needed so much. The money is not used correctly especially in Osaka.

Although they are already old, they are willing to work to lead a life. The nearby job-placement office (the picture above) has a long line of such workers every day.

This video clip from youtube vividly tells you how insane this town is. I just couldn't believe there was still such a place in Japan.

Identifying the cancer of this problem was the most difficult to me. Looks like many of those workers have created multiple certificates of residence and sold their right of vote. The buyers can freely relocate their residence certificates to anyplace they like. Some political party is known to be very powerful when it comes to election. I'd want to assert you that a political party is very fishy about this, but I won't say the name here due to no evidence. But now you see the trick, don't you? Just because of those workers who have sold their right of vote, the election in this district cannot reflect the workers' will.

**Never get close to this town even if you got interested. It's not safe! **

日本の生きる道(2)

2007-04-03T22:03:00.000-07:00

最近は慰安婦問題などでずいぶん反米の雰囲気が盛り上がっているようです。イラクの失敗でアメリカの後退がちらちら見え始めたのも原因の一つかもしれません。これは正着手なのでしょうか。米在住の人間として、アメリカを考えるにあたり、「ヒスパニック」という変数を考え、ちょっと違う視点を提言したいと思います。

それは「ホンダ議員らの人権運動はアメリカ破壊活動である」という視点です。

アメリカに旅行に行ったくらいでは気付かないかもしれませんが、南部に行くとメキシコ系が多いことに気付きます。彼らは気さくでいい人たちなんですが、現在は様々な問題を引き起こしています。

ものすごい人が行進をしている写真は、2006年3月26日にロサンゼルスで起こったメキシコ系によるデモです。50万人の行進だったそうなので、いかに多いか分かると思います。彼らは何を求めているか、知っておられる人も多いと思います。彼らは「虐げられている」と主張して、人権を求めているわけです。不法入国者だと福祉を受けられないのは当たり前なんですけどね。

こういったヒスパニックの人たちは、主にメキシコから流出しており、カリフォルニアなどを拠点として人権活動に邁進しています。上の写真は「もともと私たちの土地だった」と主張していますね。アメリカが無理矢理併合した歴史から目をそらすな、というわけです。Chicanos（米国で生まれたメキシコ人）とメキシコ生まれのメキシコ人のものだ、と急進派は主張するのです。

上の写真は何気にすごいですよ。注意して地図を見ると、メキシコの国がちょっと現在より大きめです。実はカリフォルニア州やアリゾナ州などがメキシコの領土だとしているわけで、これを堂々とアメリカで行うわけです。アメリカ破壊行動にほかなりません。

この回復すべき失地を彼らはAztlanと呼んでいるようです。その昔存在した文明Aztecを思い出させる言葉です。私はこのAztlanをgoogleで調べたのですが、日本語のサイトは全く検索されませんでした（2007年4月現在）。ブログの数は世界一というニュースが最近飛び込んできましたが、日本人の知識は偏っていることが分かります。

さぁ話を元に戻しますと、こういうデモがあるということは、逆に言えば、それを良く思わない人たちがいるはずです。
このヒスパニック系の進出をよく思わないのは、共和党です。共和党はメキシコとの国境封鎖に手を焼いています。

ここでちょっと考えてください。「歴史を振り返って自らを反省しろ」とか、「人権侵害」だとか主張するもう一つの勢力が存在していることを。いうまでもなく中国韓国系ですね。日本にそれを突きつけています。しかし、これはアメリカに突きつけていることにもなりえます。マイクホンダ議員が人権を唱えて日本を攻撃することは、将来的には急進的な民主党を成長させ、人権派を増やし、アメリカの歴史を問いただし、50州の存在を否定することになります。

話をまとめますと、中国－韓国－ヒスパニックは人権を要求する癌としてアメリカ内部で見事に繋がるのです。

中国韓国系とヒスパニック系にはもうひとつ面白い共通点があって、彼らは移住先の土地に忠誠心を誓わない、ということが挙げられます。ヒスパニック系の米軍人の高官を一人でも挙げられますか？私はノーですね。私が無知なんじゃなくて、彼らが信頼できないのです。彼らは国に尽くすよりも、彼らの生活が大事なのです。ローマは蛮族の流入で滅びましたが、アメリカは似たような歴史を歩みそうですね。だからこそ現在ローマ史の勉強が流行っているわけで、アメリカ人はバカなわけじゃありません。知っていながら防げないことに苛立っているのです。

共和党はアメリカを守りたいから、歴史や人権などくそ食らえなのです。リベラルなど要らないのです。NYTimesは従って嫌われています。日本はこの「歴史をベースとした人権意識」を良しとしない「現状維持派」の共和党と組む利点を有していると思います。

こうやって眺めると、マイクホンダ議員による慰安婦問題の運動はまさしく日米両方に打たれたくさびであることが分かります。日本はアメリカ不信に陥り、アメリカは人権問題の高まりによって逆に自らの分裂を招いてしまうわけです。もちろんこれは中共が裏に居ることは明らかでしょう。

カリフォルニア州のサンディエゴには西海岸で随一の大軍港があります。そこはメキシコとの国境の目と鼻の先です。メキシコが起こす「レコンキスタ（失地回復運動）」が成功すると、間違いなくここはメキシコ領土となります。タダでアメリカの巨大軍港の陥落に成功するわけです。アメリカの太平洋のプレゼンスは下がります。

さぁ、アメリカが太平洋の覇権を失ったら、誰がその太平洋の隙間を埋めるのでしょうか。空いた隙間に入り込む勢力が二つ以上あると、それは対立を生むことになります。日中大海戦が起きるわけです。もちろん中国が台湾を征服した後ですが。そういう最悪のシナリオを考えるのは面白くないですが、必要なことです。

Communists got Manchukuo (1)

2007-03-29T21:07:00.000-07:00

Study of Manchukuo implies a lot of resources to us even now. Historically and geopolitically Japan and US are to cooperate for covering up continental superpowers but conflict for each profit in the continent. The two countries opened fire for the dream land, Manchukuo. Who won that area after all? Japan lost all, the US didn't won, and the continental super powers took all.

My claim throughout this article series is that the WWII between Japan and the US was determined already in 1931 when Japan seized Manchukuo. With a number of resemblances of situations, Japan nowadays have been seeing the future of Iraq or Iran superimposing on the aftermath of Manchukuo. The heartland country Manchukuo failed. So will the plan of Iraq and Iran fail. It's going to take a few articles to reach this conclusion. First of all, let us take an overview of the history and background of the Manchukuo.

The flag of Manchukuo consists of five colors. The base, yellow implies the color of Manchu. Red is assigned for Japan, blue for Hun(China), white for Mongol, and black for Korea. The concept with the five colors was called "五族協和"(five ethnics in coordination), a dreamy slogan.

You might say it's a propaganda. Of course the Japanese military neglected the coordinative cabinet's order. The military conducted assasination of the leader and allegedly obtained Manchuria. The Japanese people and media supported the military's runaway. Since the people permitted the military's dogma, the system of civilian control began to be out of control. There were many other greedy aspects Japan was showing at that time. However, there must be something more than those "evil Japanese" that I have been taught in school.

In order to reveal the circumstances of the period and the puppet country, I went to a nearby library where I found several books focusing on Manchuria. I found a book interesting because it was written by an American but published in Japan. Which country did he write this book in favor of?

"Manchukuo a bird's-eye view", James A. B. Scherer, Hokuseido Press(1933).

I opened the last page and found an intriguing phrase in the end.

She(Japan) made mistakes - what country hasn't? - but she is building a model State as a bulwark between Chinese anarchy and Russian communism, and as an object-lesson to China. She(Japan) is the spear-head of the West thrust between China and Russia, fighting a lone hand. If Theodore Roosevelt's Asiatic policy had been followed, perhaps she could have been spared some of the mistakes she has made during the last quarte-century. She might today be America's best friend in Asia. It is not yet too late to win her back.

What do you think about this? This book must indeed be written for Japan's profit probably with support of a Japanese publisher or supposedly government. The "mistake" he refers to as would be Japanese invasion into Manchuria with all the explosion and assassination of the local leader. And he concludes that America shouldn't become hostile on Japan's policy, and he suggests a satisfactory solution, "international cooperation in the internal reconstruction in China." Obviously his and Japan's plead didn't reach Washington.

When he wrote this book in 1933, he already foresaw occurence of the future war between Japan and the US. Hmm, Interesting. Although the world may look the runaway of Japanese military as dangerous enemy, the author didn't seem to share the same perspective. So what was he claiming as the threat? Firstly he points out China's anarchy.

A report in May, 1931, by General Ho Ying-chin, then leading his fourth campaign against Chinese Reds, estimated that since the middle of 1928 the communists had massacred over 260,000 people, burned 220,000 houses and destroyed about $200,000,000 worth of property, American money. In addition, 1,500,000 people had fled from their homes.

We hardly know that China was in anarchy at that time, and Chinese militaries invaded castles and massacre people inside. In China, massacring civilains inside castles has been historically and widely taking place. There's even a term, "屠城(slaughter castle)". In such situations, it was not desirable to continue or expand economical activities from European and American point of view.

Secondly, he notices the threat of Sovietism, prevailing into a south province of China and northern states, Manchuria, as shown in the map below. The shaded areas denote the places where Sovietism was influential. It is interesting that Sovietism or communism grew their strong influence along the railroads in Manchukuo (see the map). As written above, 260,000 people were already massacred by communists. Therefore, the author regards the invasion of communists as "nightmare of Japan".

Espionage, terrorism or propaganda by Soviet communists must have been a piece of cake in Manchukuo, for there's already 70,000 Russians living in Harbin. Manchuria was slowly leaving from Japan's hand.

Pachinko industry

2007-03-27T09:02:00.000-07:00

I'm sure most of you have seen gorgeously decorated buildings like the pic below in front of every station or along every wide road if you have travelled to Japan. This article today is about Pachinko, an infamous gamble that Japanese newspapers or massmedia never report but is responsible for $300 billion underground industry.

Pachinko is the only illegal gamble you won't be arrested with, and it's widespread since the end of WWII. It's a very simple game. You enter the building, buy metal balls which you call "pachinko", flick them with a lever, and drop the flying balls in jackpots. Yes, it's a pinball machine. The actual style is a miniature and upright one. One pachinko parlor shop have more than 100 of machines. The only difference from pinball mahines is that you can retrieve more balls and afterwards change them into cash. Of course you can make your life only if you are very good at it, and indeed, there are those ones.

The lure of this game is outstanding enough to cause tragic accidents where babies are died of heat stroke in the car while their parents are carried away in pachinko parlors. Leaving babies for only 10 minutes is already dangerous! These days those parents tend to be sentenced to a heavy punishment for what they have done. These cases have been seen many times since I was small. It's not rare. Plus it's a waste of money and time.

Aside from most of Japanese anxiety on the prevail of this infamous gamble, the industy has grown to achieve $300 billion dollars. FYI, the medical industry is comparable, $300 billion, and car industry holds $410 billion dollars in Japan (as of 2006). Pachinko industry is a gigantic industry you never thought to be. For example, consider a man spending $100 for 30 minutes game and he played 2 hours. He would lose $400 if in bad luck. Of course he can win $2000 a day, but rarely happens. Those who line up to the door of the parlors in the morning before its open to get a good seat for so-called easy machines NEVER get surplus statistically.

Then why don't massmedia report this fact and alert people? Actually, I personally haven't seen ANY articles or programs that invoke discussion on the pros and cons of pachinko. If nothing is coming out of massmedia, there's a taboo inside it. That's the theme of my blog. In this case as well, the mastermind is zainichi again! In case of pachinko, the structure of the collusion looks to me enigmatic, a manifold among police, zainichi, politicians, North Korea, and mass media.

Finally I found a TV program that barely penetrate the kernel of pachinko industry. "Move" from TV asahi reported that this industyr consists of 50% South Korean owners, 30 to 40% North Korean owners, and 10% Japanese owners.

There was a valuable interview with a president, Han Chang-Woo (韓昌祐) of the biggest pachinko chain shops "Maruhan". He was ranked 584th among world richest people according to Forbs in 2006. The interview is uploaded to Youtube but held in Japanese, so I'll briefly summarize his speech. His brother, a brick maker, smuggled him into Japan in 1945 just after WWWII because their life was economically hard to continue. He graudated Hosei University in Tokyo, but at that time (1952) the economy in Japan was not in a favorable situation even for Japanese student who graduated from university. He lived from hand to mouth even after graduation. Finally he met pachinko industry and got inclined to enlarge this business. In his interview, he defines pachinko industry as "discriminative occupation". Since no banks were willing to lend money to Zainichi Korean, people like him had to take a job like pachinko that handles money as close as possible.

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The US must not have overlooked this loophole for North Korea's money. The problem of pachinko industry was reported to sanate by Larry M. Wortzel, Ph.D. from The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute in 2003. It goes:

Japan’s 18,000 Pachinko gambling parlors, some 30 percent of which are owned by ethnic North Koreans, bring in annual sales of $280 billion a year. Some of this money is also funneled into North Korea, although Japan is now tightening up on that practice.

LA times also points out the connection to North Korea in Decdmber 2006.

Comfort women? No, they are prostitutes (2)

2007-03-11T18:41:00.000-07:00

The reason more and more Japanese get rightish after they become adolescent, as far as I can tell, is due to flood of books or internet. On the contrary, those who only watch TVs tend to have an opposite historical perspective.

Here's a case in point on the issue of "comfort women" or "sex slaves" alledgedly accused by South Korea. They have been condemning Japan for Japanese military forcing Korean women to have sex with soldiers during WWII. Abe made an objection in March 2007 with support of silent majority of Japan, stating "no coercing them into sexual conducts". Why is he so confident? How have Japanese been getting a "wrong" idea of justifying its atrocities? Were those comfort women really prostitutes? I'll show one of the most influential books written by Kobayashi Yoshinori, who is known to be a right-winger. Actually it's a comic book, which by the way you may guess was very influential. I cut two pages out of his book on the description of the "prostitutes" he calls, so please enjoy it with my translation.

I learned a valuable lesson from him this time. The prosecutors against Japanese government is stunningly hiding those facts:
1) The pimps were Korean.
2) Japanese military brought whorehouses under control to protect human rights of comfort women from pimps. , which I have never heard from the accusing side. Why don't we take them into consideration and discuss this matter again?

The auther, Kobayashi, asked, for an insight, a note, 武漢兵站 (Bukan Heitan), written by an assistant manager of one of the controversial facilities. Wnen the assistant manager was dispatched to Wuhan (a city of central china), he found pimps who entered the castle and were coercing Korean women into sex slaves with no payment(↓).

He brought the pimps under control and made them pay to the Korean women so they can pay back as Japanese pimps did to Japanese comfort women. Those Korean women had debt of 6~7 thousand yen on average. Therefore, he set the payment to 4~500 yen a month, which would allow them to be released in one and a half year at the most. He also instruct the pimps to let the women work if they want even after their debt is gone so they can earn profit before going back to their hometown. (↓)

Kobayashi, the glassed rightist points out that the engagement by Japanese military was to improve human rights of those women who used to be literally "sex slaves"(↓).

Kobayashi secondly picked another private note, Kankou Ianjo(漢口慰安所), which describes various episodes about what was going on in the same city, Wuhàn. The command center of logistics the auther worked at not only kept the facility under control but also protected those "comfort women" from undue exploitation by pimps. He founds several brutal cases made by Korean pimps. When they collected Korean women from poor villagers, they didn't make any documented contract for those women. In other words, they freely used the women and threw them away as a slave. This means the women never get to have chance to go back, but they didn't seem to be aware of the fact. The doctor Fujisawa, the author of the note, ordered the pimps to create due bills for them and made a system in which the women can be free as soon as they pay it back. (↓)

A comfort women, who was named Keiko as her professional name, was very popular and made 30,000 yen at once. This amout corresponds to $400,000 nowadays. Her dream was to earn 50,000 and run a restaurant in her hometown, Keijo (Old name for Seoul). "What an admirable woman," said Chief Ikeda, and he handed her a testimonial.(↓)

The thirty fourth Division landed on Wuhan in 1939. Suddenly the busy days have come for those women and they started to earn a lot with the soldiers lined up. (↓)

When soldiers were about to take off their shoes, women urge them to come soon, "Don't take off your equipment and come on now." (↓)

So, the soldiers walk on their knees and do it anyhow with their shoes and leather leggings on.(↓)

The ball was in women's court. Soldiers typically squeeze out their little savings.(↓)

The women worked hard saving time for cleansing their virgina. When the doctor checked them, their labia were swallen. He ordered them to take a rest for three days, but the women ...(↓)

But the women started to protest against him instead of being relieved! Their logic was as follows: "Recently we were leading pretty dull days with few customers. Now that we are finally having a perfect chance to earn a lot with a big division passing this city, we have to earn as much as possible. It's very cruel to force us to overlook this opportunity."
The rule defines the fee as 1 yen for thirty minutes, but the women changed the rule: they kick the customers out with 2 and a half yen for 10 to 15 minutes. (↓)

Kobayashi now questions, "so, the true story was like this, and how can you conclude that rapes were going on or they were slaves?"(↓)

It's just universal. There are women to earn money and horny men to buy women.(↓)

"Those soldiers should be blamed anyway, those Japanese soldiers!" Such people yelling like this are typically military segregationists. They just don't like whatever Japanese military do. I (Kobayashi) hate "leftists" who hate Japan, government, and military, even though those "leftists" are Japanese. They are pleased when regarding Japan as evil. I hate it.

So, what do you think?

日本の生きる道

2007-03-06T18:45:00.000-08:00

最近、従軍慰安婦の問題などでマスコミが総出で安倍首相叩きをしていますね。それが全く論理に基づくものではなく、「まわりが謝れと言っているから謝れ」という類のもので、だいぶフラストレーションが溜まっている方も多いのではないでしょうか。

こんな窮地のときにどうするか、ですが、日本人の悪いところは「謝るか」と「開き直るか」の二択に選択肢を縮めてしまうことではないかと思います。ハルノートを突きつけられたら二択しかない、これではいけません。

私たちにはまだ選択肢はあります。そして、今回はすぐに戦争になる、といった類のものではないのです。選択肢を考えてみましょう。

雑誌のTIMEに投票するのはあまり感心が持てません。本当に効果があるでしょうか。ホンダ氏にメールを送るのはどうでしょう。それもダメですね。政治家は金で動きます。メールで動くわけがありません。

英文サイトを作って理解を求めるのは次善の策でしょう。他には、nikaidou氏が、ホンダ氏に敵対する議員への献金を言っていました。彼は口が悪いですが、言うことは当たっています。

私は「プロ右翼」を創るべきだと思います。プロサヨクは活動的ですよね。プロですから一日中政治活動ができるのです。プロ右翼を育てれば、さぞかし強力になると思いますよ。対馬で何が起こっているか知りたい人、たくさん居るでしょう。信濃町の裏で何が行われているか知りたい人はたくさんいます。反日政治家の身元を知りたい、皇室の裏側でうごめく存在を知りたい、などなど需要はたくさんあります。それを取材して公表するメディアがあればさぞかし日本の正常化に役立つことでしょう。需要はあるのです。取材をすれば、その広告収入、書籍化して印税が手に入ります。今こそ誰かが立ち上がってプロ右翼の情報屋、そして新しいメディアを作るべきでしょう。

今、日本の大衆右翼に欠けているものは、力を集中させて大きなパワーを出すシステムです。今は残念ながらTIMEに投票するくらいの情けないことしかできないのです。

私は外国に住んでいるため、あまり目だった活動ができません。英文サイトを空いた時間に作るくらいの微力な存在です。しかし、英文サイトを作ってから、だんだんとリンクが集まり始め、今では南京大虐殺を英語で検索すれば、30番目くらいに出てきます。"zainichi"を英語で検索すれば、5番目です。"Uyoku"に至っては4番目です。十分発信力が出てきたと実感しています。日本には変な右翼がいて、私たちとは違うことを知ってもらう必要があります。また、在日差別が実は逆差別であるものだと知ってもらわなければなりません。そのためにも、せめて検索順位4、5番目でもキープしておくのは効果があります。他にもあります。"Malaysia WWII"と二語でgoogle検索してみると、このブログが1番に来るんです。「日本軍がマレーシアに虐待した」という断罪的、一方的な歴史をもう一度見直してもらうのに、非常に効果的である、ということになります。

私のブログでさえ一番初めに検索される、ということは、逆に言えば、それだけ『私たちが世界に知ってほしい情報』がまだ伝わってない、ということでしょう。ちょっとした発信で、十分な威力があるのです。わたしはプロではないのでこのブログに費やす時間に限界がありますが、やらないよりはマシです。日本では日本のブロガーが、外国では外国の日本人ブロガーで世界を挟み撃ちをしていきたいと思ってます。

もっと考えれば、雑誌TIMEに投票するよりも、まだまだいい方法があるはずです。みんなで考えて知恵を集中させれば、もっとパワフルな方法が生まれるはずです。

英文での情報発信力を高めるために、私のブログの内容をコピペして丸ごと使って頂いても結構です。英文を書けない人にオススメ。日本に味方する情報量を増やさねばなりません。質より量です。（著作権は放棄しませんが、非営利の目的であり、かつ日本の良いところを知らせるための内容であればご自由に。）

まとめ：
プロ右翼をつくろう。
英文サイトを作って相互リンク。英文を書けない人はこのブログの内容をコピペ。

分かる人だけ分かるオオニシ(Onishi Norimitsu)情報：
哲光　Chul-Gwang 철광（チョルグァン）　本当にありがとうございました。
(「哲」と「光」の組み合わせは聞かないが、「哲」は非常によく使われる。怪しさ満点。)

Heightened tensions between Zainichi and Japanese

2007-03-03T21:01:00.000-08:00

If you are an enthsiastic reader of this blog, you know what zainichi people are. The conflict condition between Zainichi and Japanese rightists has caused intolerable strain these days. A half of zainichi in terms of ideology, pro-DPRK clan, held a big rally March 3rd 2007 at Hibiya, Tokyo, to protest against pressure onto them, claiming abolishment of discriminative treatment. It's funny. I feel like they have discriminated Japanese on the contrary. It's also shocking to know the fact that they can hold such a rally right in the center of Tokyo. (Hibiya is a walking distance from Tokyo station.)

The rally and a demonstration march were reported by a number of rightish bloggers. That day was over without any violent conflict.

It looks to me just a hostile demonstration against our state power.

There already was a conflict between Tokyo prefecture and Zainichi before this rally. Tokyo led by Ishihara asked court for cancellation of use by Zainichi prior to March 3rd. The reason for their appeal is "Public facilities in Tokyo should be for public open to everybody, not for specific party. But they are apparently taking place an exclusive rally." The court, however, dismissed the appeal and permitted the usage. Mass media seemed to stay neutral as to this issue.

Here was another plan to be held March 4th for DPRK's similar activity near Shinjuku. Yoyogi district in Tokyo cancelled the usage of a facility for Zainichi 2nd March because the symposium was intended to exclude Japanese. Hey, Debito, why don't you come out and yell at zainichi? They were about to keep out Japanese. That's discrimination you always mention.

Comfort women? No, they are prostitutes

2007-02-28T22:36:00.000-08:00

I guess you already know what "comfort women" means; sexually abused women by Japanese military according to activists from Korea. Of course this is an alleged issue. Let me discuss the truth hidden behind this condemning from a perspective of a typical Japanese who once regret it already in 1980s and changed one's mind these years after a lot of personal investigation on the so-called "comfort women".

(1)Are these testimonies really reliable?
If testimonies have absolute reliability, I have another testimony from a Japanese side. When a Japanese lady was washing vegitables in the river, two Korean comfort women passed by her and laughed, "why can you do such a dirty work while you are beautiful? Why don't you look at us dressed with these beautiful outfits and change your mind? You are going to lead a happy life like us!"

(2) What about Korean?
Why don't Korean regret their own history of world-class prostitute industry? Not only US soldiers but Korean residents took advantage of comfort women along 동두천〔東豆川〕tongduch'ŏn in the Korean war. Depriving of women from their family and sell them as merchandise, that's their history.

(3)Comfort women pimps were mostly Korean
The problem of so-called "comfort women" (Ianpu) was severely discussed in Japan since 1980s. As a representive of Japanese government, Kono made a statement and apologized in 1993 for their physicological loss as comfort women. He was pursuaded by a number of protesters at that time, and said "they had to work as comfort women at that time and Japanese soldiers used that system." Since this statement was announced, a lot of research has been implemented. As the truth have been unraveled, however, people's interest has been lost due to small involvement by Japanese military. It turned out that Korean comfort women were torn apart from their family by Korean traders (for details go to (2)). It's their own karma. Kono lately admitted that he made a decision with only testimonies he heard at an interview with former comfort women. No evidence in literature was found after then although it turns out critical discripancies were found in their tenstimonies. The term "involvement of military" is very tricky. Japanese military at that time prepared facilities to house comfort women and have doctors see them to prevent them from VD (see (2) for details). If somebody forcefully dragged their hands into the salons, it's Korean public dealers. Of course there were a lot of applications to become comfort women on account of extraordinary sallery. They ought to have been paid that much since they provided their body far away from their home town.

Anyway, foreign newspapers typically know few about the lowdown of the disputed issue. Onishi Norimitsu at New York Times should investigate it more and present solid evidences if accusing Japan's response. Otherwise people are now gossiping about you, suspecting you may be zainichi(Korean).

For those who still doublt about me, I'll cite a material. Please confer:
Report No. 49: Japanese POW Interrogation on Prostitution.
UNITED STATES OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION
http://www.exordio.com/1939-1945/codex/Documentos/report-49-USA-orig.html
This investigation clarifies the definition of so-called "comfort women".

A "comfort girl" is nothing more than a prostitute or "professional camp follower" attached to the Japanese Army for the benefit of the soldiers.

(4)There's no freedom of speech in Korea
(Sep.6 2004 from Chosun Ilbo)

Professor Yi (李栄薫) at Seoul National University, apologized to the comfort women for sating "they were prostitutes" after avalanche of criticisms. Totalitarianization doesn't allow academia to make a free speech. Note that there are lots more scholars who were criticized because of their interpretations in favor of Japanese rule before 1945.

(5)What about their current disaster in North Korea?
The culture of "comfort women" can be seen in North Korea, too. They are collected from all over the country and used as sex slaves to satisfy insatiable sexual appetite of Kim Jong Il. Working as sex slaves and serve to him is taught as honorable. Condemning Japanese is thus effective to avert other's attention onto their own countries and overshadowing their own current discrepancy.

Now the police is doing their job

2007-02-23T20:13:00.000-08:00

They say frontline officers had been frustrated with high-handed methods by zainichi from North Korea. Every time before they raid on the buildings, they got an order to stop them from raiding. However, the top official appointed by Japanese PM Abe pledged a hard-line attitude toward North Korea. The succesive raids defenately reflect their policy. One of the arrests included a remarkable result, capturing a big scientist who learned Engineering at Tokyo university. He was a representative figure on development Taepodong. Other arrests on Koreans may not be related to North Korea, but I listed them.

I wanted to describe the details on each raid, but it's so many! Let me just make short comments: See this article or this for the past raids. You may see how terrific zainichi's reactions are. It's like Yakuza. Well, they are indeed Yakuza if you get to know the truth, though.

2006 Dec. 5th
An arrest on 河英哲（36）in Kobe. I posted this once. Click here for details.

Dec. 25th
Eight member group was arrested on "It's me" fraud. 李貴信(28) and the other 7 members have defrauded 250 people of $250,000 by promising.

Jan. 10th Kobe, Hyogo
金滝夫（44）performing tax services without license.
The raid mobilized 100~300 members of police vs 100 members for DPRK.

Jan. 24th in Tokyo
曺和秀(71), arrested on unlicensed plastic surgery at Ebisu Clinic.

Jan. 28th in Shiga
全達守（68）and 金定雄（63）were arrested on fraud registration for vehecles.

Jan. 29th in Kanagawa
Two Korean were arrested on unauthorized personnel-service business. But it was aimed at arresting a scientist, 徐錫洪(74), who had something to do with development of missiles, Taepodong. He is known to have flown to DPRK once in August, 1998 and last year when the missiles "Taepodong" were launched. He was an expert in rocket engineering in Tokyo university. After graduation at Tokyo University, he continued his study on propulsion device at a nearby institute.

Feb.1st in Aichi
金在七 (48) was arrested on theft of Budda statues from shrines on August 3rd 2005. The rest of two member of the gang flew away to Korea. They stabbed a dagger into the dweller of the temple.

Feb. 1st in Fukushima
史明順(32) was arrested on selling fake Chanel.

Feb.5th in Hokkaido
A restaurant was raided in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
金和秀 and two other were arrested. The police cracked down on tax cheats a hundred million yen (~ $ 1,000,000). They've got two Orders of First-class National Flag from DPRK. Probably they contributed a lot to the government by cheating tax.

Feb. 6th in Kobe, Hyogo
A raid was executed collecting 600 members of police.

The new trend of their canpaign is use young ladies in front and let them shout. I just wonder from where they appeared.

According to a Japanese blogger who ran into this raid, it was a never-seen-before melee with huge roar.

Feb. 15th in Kanagawa
曹守夫(62) was arrested on murder while drunk.

Feb. 22nd in Fukuoka
白行雄(45) was arrested on assistance in robbery into Pachinko shop in Jan. 27th 2003.

One of the purposes of those raids is of course cutting money source for DPRK. Since their tax declaration had been free from inspection by their local tax office, cheating was pretty easy. They send money to DPRK in part due to their loyalty. Investigation of organized crime, abduction, by zainichi groups is another reason. The abductions were well-planned crimes carried out by spies with support of local zainichi civilians.

I've found more more crimes by Koreans during this past three months, but I'm out! So tired.

Takeshima or Dokdo

2007-02-21T17:33:00.000-08:00

No one would be interested in discussing a territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea unless their countries are either one of the two (Takeshima: Japanese name, Dokdo:Korean name). You know that both sides may have each reason, so I'm not insisting this time; in fact, I already did it in this article, reminding you of an incident where South Korea carried out abductions and massacre on Japanese in 1952 after WWII. Koreans may defend themselves, taking up a period under Japanese rule as an exploitation . Considering both claims would be needed by all means for a neutral opinion.

What I'd like to focus on in this article is the apathic attitude of Japanese on this issue, which partly makes a contrast with that of Korean. First of all, Japanese citizens are not eager as well as government and mass media. Only one prefecture, Shimane, seems desperate, though. Some rightists including me or 2ch(message board) have been the opinion leader. The reason for the apathy surrounding almost entire Japanese is partly because this issue is barely described as a significant one in history textbooks, spending only several lines. Korean(zainichi)-polluted mass media would never agitate people. So, most of the Japanese got surprised to see the extraordinary reaction of Korean, who insanely cry out for their legitimacy. Asahi newspaper once said, "why don't we give it to them?", and this newspaper hasn't retracted the remark. Some of the readers got disgusted, but it's not far from a taboo.

On the other hand, South Korean people are very different; it's like the whole country moves forward without any exception.
Oi, look at the photo above. They teach chidlren as if it's must be an eternal truth no one can reverse.

I ran into a blog, written by lostseouls.com from England, writing an interesting experience, a conversation with a boy. He was asked by the boy if he's known Dokdo(Korean's name for the disputed island) issue. It's very funny. Let's see other pics I found:

Wow, that's .... Yikes!

The woman is stepping on a Japanese soldier.

Sorry if you like dogs as a target of love! Dog heads are aligned with name tags of pro-Japanese members. In South Korea, nothing else sounds scarier than someone points you as pro-Japanese. Gee, Korean really are different from us.

I'm obliged to show Japanese rightish aspect on Takeshima. Here's one of rare photos of Uyoku vans protesting against Korean about Takeshima. This Uyoku group, "Minzoku seinen doumei", turned out that a Korean (金Kim 教換Gyo-Whan) is the head. As I mentioned, many Uyoku are already taken over by Korean to become "fake Uyoku". But in this rare case, they seem to be still anti-Korean.

You can dig more fun pics in occidentalism:
flag biter
Friendship year

This one is admirable!
http://www.occidentalism.org/?p=319

Whitewashing history? ---- truth of alleged Nanjing massacre (2)

2007-02-18T17:20:00.000-08:00

This time I'll focus just on Japanese propaganda carried out to inform that the Japanese troops helped Chinese people in 1937 after fall of Nanjing. (Note that I'm not negating all those incidents around that time. I'm just giving another perspective here.)

I hated those pictures a while ago because those pics were after censorship, and you never know what had happened behind those pictures. Look at the picture below. With a close look, you'll find a Chinese kid wearing Japanese flag around his left arm. That obviously stinks! Needless to say, Japan attempted to artifically produce a good mood.

(Dec. 20th in Nanking within a week after fall of Nanking.)

However, my opinion has changed affirmatively due to the following reasons:

1)Japanese troops allowed many Japanese camera crew to enter Nanking; it indicates that Japan knew Kuomintang started negative canpaign activities in US. The Japanese in Nanking were desperate not to let Kuomintang government do it.

2)Those pictures decorated headlines in newspapers in Japan after fall of Nanking, saying "do not hate Chinese" or "Japanese troops have a warm relationship with Chinese people." Although those phrases would arouse criticisms or evoke disgust, those attitude by newspapers contributed to cultivating humanity in Japan. Moreover, it must be a good education to soldiers who go on the warpath. Japanese people still held the concept of human rights even after they were hurt by a brutal killingfield, Tongzhou Incident in 1937 near Beijing (Japanese civillains were killed, and it indirectly triggered full-scale war). At least it seems that general opinion in Japan didn't accept a radical opinion, "You can do whatever to Chinese."
Anyway, it was evident that information war for morality was very significant to obtain support from people. Kuomintang got to be known to have killed very brutaly in China mainland throughout the war. It led Kuomintang to be defeated by Communist party in a long run.

(Dec.20 or 23 where a Chinese kid was treated by a Japanese medical troop.)

(Dec. 17th, some restrants were already open in the safe district. A japanese soldier is eating dumplings.)

(Dec. 16th, cf. Nanking fell at night on Dec 12th.)

(Dec. 19th, a kid is adored by Japanes soldiers.)

(Feb. 26th, Japanese women walking in the street in Nanking.)

Do you totally believe after seeing those pics that Japanese troops really gave good administration? I don't think so. I don't want you to think so, either. But I just want yout to agree that the world 70 years ago was just like Iraq where visual information plays an important role in shaping international opinion.

(made in spring through summer in 1938, a postcard of a market sold in Nanking. A careful check allows you to read "Sino-Japanese blur blur" in the banner. If the order was "Japan-Sina blur blur", it would have hurt people's feeling. )

(This pictures reached Osaka Oct.15th 1937 before fall of Nanking. The bombardments by Japanese bombers destroyed buildings. These pictures were not permitted to appear due to censorship. The red stamps say it.)

In essence, all those pictures I have shown shouldn't have much value although they are effectively appealing more than writings. I'm just showing them just for giving another perspective.

Here's a link to my first article:(1)

Fake Uyoku - obscure clans (4)

2007-02-17T12:11:00.000-08:00

An arrest of zainichi (Korean) taken place February 16th 2007 made me deeply ascertain my speculation, Fake Uyoku, which are ultra-nationalists acting vandalisms, may be mainly composed of Korean. (This car is the very starting point of my speculation.) More investigation unraveled one mystery after another and reached a horrible mastermind, North Korea. The Uyoku (rightist) turned out not Uyoku (rightist) but Sayoku(leftist)!

Police arrested Li Kazuo, 이일웅 (63) on a charge of extortion of his company, Trust Japan, to domestic companies, selling books of "History of Buraku discrimination" and "Japanese northern territory deprived of by Russia." for $4000. They have earned 1.8 billion yen ($18,000,000) in three years.

At a glance of this news, I sensed that this must be a job by Koreans, not knowing the suspect's name. There's two reasons:
1)Fake Uyoku eagerly claim Japanese northern territory againt Russia while their activities against South Korea (an islet Takeshima) have been lacking spirit. Rumors say this gap is owing to the fact that a number of Uyoku (rightists) members are not Japanese rightists, but Fake Uyoku, disguised by Korean.
2)It is well-known that zainichi(Korean) have a tight relationship with Buraku people who have been discriminated for more than 100 years. People say many Buraku people are already taken over by Korean, and getting more and more aggressive.

My guess was right. They have extorted contributions as a book expense with a threat "otherwise Uyoku cars will barge in."

I drew an illustration for better understanding. Zainichi founded a vender that sells books. Of course the price of the book is extraordinary. However, the company can compulsively sell those books to nearby companies once everyone knows Uyoku cars may stroll for obstruction of business. In order to avoid sucha an extortion, they make an easy compromise, paying $4000 for 5 books.

What is interesting to me is that Trust Japan, Inc. has a connection to Uyoku cars. They let Uyoku cars exist to exert their power. Citizens regard those Uyoku as ultranationalists dragging imperialism from prewar era, but now you know why I am calling them Fake Uyoku? They are no more than extortion groups who have no faith in country.

The past three articles, (1) (2) and (3), deal with three remarkable incidents accompanied by those Uyoku groups, and they are of course Fake Uyoku, having a relation to Korean.

Since Koizumi and Abe regimes, those clans have been severely monitored by police and prosecution. In other words, they were never be arrested just because they could cast the magic spell, "Don't you ever discriminate people like us."

The problem of Fake Uyoku is one of the major dark sides of post-war society.

Appendix added on 2/24/2007
Part of the money TrustJapan earned turned out to be donated to a lawmaker, Wada Shizuo (80), who was a big member of Socialist Party of Japan (Pro-China, USSR, DPRK). "He was also the president of TrustJapan," the Hiroshima police announced. He went to DPRK in 1999 from August 12 to 19th as the representative of Japan-DPRK Friendship Center. I say he is a so-called fellow traveler of North Korea. He went to DPRK in 1997, too, so there's no doubt about that. (Due to lack of diplomatic relations between DPRK and Japan, going to DPRK are rarely made unless you have a special occasion.)

We sometimes say an irony about leftists: just because they claim too much liberty from nation, Japan now has no protection against spies, other threats, or crimes. This incident means a lot to me. The mastermind was a fellow traveler of North Korea. He had a friendship with DPRK, utilized Korean, made them disguise themselves as Uyoku, threatened people to extort money, and created a mood that rightist were dangerous.

Ready for nuke-armed alliance with Taiwan

2007-02-14T20:36:00.000-08:00

2ch is very interesting. It's just a gigantic message board, yet you'll know how general opinion has been swinging but leaning to consolidation. After a series of the six-party talks, the silent majority seemed to have come to a resolution, "make nukes and ally with Taiwan" as far as I can see in 2ch.

Apparently the six-nation pact on dismantling North Korea's nuclear program sounded nonsense to Japanese people. But what made them more scared was the undependable attitude of US, giving up confrontation with North Korea.

"Another almost-abondoned nation shouldn't be overlooked," say a number of right-wingers in the message boards, namely, they now think about the alliance with Taiwan.

Their points are as follows:
1) US has been retracting their troops to the second defense line (see up figure), that connects Phillipine, Guam, and Hawaii. They let enemy have nukes while don't let allies do the same thing.

2) Korean peninsula is unfortunately controlled by communists and will also be.

3) Taiwanese old people who remember Japanese rule are thinking favorably of Japan. If some action should be taken, it's now, or they'll die.

4) Stronger coordination with Australia and India is essential. Letting US fight a proxy war against China in Middle East, Japan can defend chokepoints such as canals together with Australia.

5) Develop nukes and share them with Taiwan. Then tentative peace should be protected.

East Asia watchers who only rely on conventional media such as newspapers may still misunderstand that Japanese are pacifistic, but no. Don't forget many of them got money from Chinese communists and mislead readers.

The six-party was very huge to Japan. It determined her future with a span of a few decades.

Fake Uyoku - obscure clans (3)

2007-02-05T19:07:00.000-08:00

Who is always behind terrorisms in Japan?
The Fake Uyoku (fake rightists) series now counts three (see series 1 and 2) because otherwise you don't understand the mechanics of the nation Japan. Here I will dare to approach to the kernel of the power of Japan, focusing on an incident, an arson attack, back to August 2006 when an issue was annoyingly disputed: Yasukuni shrine. The conclusion of mine derived this time about the criminal of this incident after close investigation has once again ended with ambiguous thoughts. This time, a possible mastermind, Korean, is introduced and discussed. The mastermind who requested a Uyoku member to commit this arson was most likely Korean smelled ultra-rightists. The clientele may also exist who gave money to the mastermind. To facilitate understanding the complexity of the political rivalry, I drew a map below. In the following I'll explain the incident with this map.

*Arson attack to pro-Chinese politician after Koizumi's Yasukuni visit*
At that time, mass media was fomenting TV viewers about Yasukuni shrine and casting a question about Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni shrine. One of China-friendly politician, Kato Koichi, showed himself frequently on TV programs and expounded his theory against Koizumi and Abe. He was the de-facto main spokesman of various objectors.

Koizumi visited the shrine against mass media's impedance after all, and I thought the dispute would be over until the next year. However, another headline came just after his visit: Kato's mother's home was alledgedly set on fire. A suspect was arrested but no Japanese knew his name until ChosunIlbo, a Korean newspaper firstly exposed the suspect's name, Horigome Masahiro(65). All of Japanese mass media reported this arson attack except his name and the group he belonged to. This simple fact indicates that no mass media was allowed to report for the sake of some impotant indivisuals or groups in Japan. Asahi or Mainichi newspaper usually attacks Koizumi or Abe with an extreme obsession. Note that criticism to the Prime Minister is even allowed. But there seems a scarier taboo than the PM. I was all puzzled.

*Yakuza(mafia) and its dummy rightist group*
The group, the criminal belonged to, turned out to be a descendent of Sumiyoshikai, a big Yakuza (mafia) group from Tokyo area. The Yakuza used a dummy Fake Uyoku (rightist) group and had the criminal pretend to belong to the dummy. The criminal, Horigome insisted he did it himself, but it was apparent that he was just a rogue who does anything for money. He once was arrested for extortion several years ago. So there's no way he did it for his own noble belief. Did he go to Yasukuni shrine and report his achievement to war deads? NO. He doesn't worship Yasukuni shrine at all. There's got to be someone who ordered him to do it.

Koizumi, Abe, Ishihara, Mori, or other conservatives are likely to be the clientele
Finally I found a connection of Sumiyoshikai (mafia) to the mastermind candidate. Sumiyoshikai was closely seeing Kishi Nobusuke, the grandfather of the current Prime Minister, Abe. There's therefore a strong possibility that Abe requested Sumiyoshikai to burn Kato's house. Since nobody can object Sumiyoshikai, the perfect crime is done.

While investigating these relations, I found a strange paradox. Abe claims liberation of abducted Japanese from North Korea. He strongly insists on economic sanction against NK. On the other hand, Sumiyoshikai is well-known for its underground business, drug smuggling with North Korea. How can we corner NK if Sumiyoshikai is still set free from Abe? If Abe doesn't want to be blamed for this, he ought to pursue true criminal for god's sake. Well, but it's never going to be possible to eliminate Yakuza group completely as well as Koreans. All Abe can do would be to put unsaid pressure on Yakuza groups not to deal drugs any more. So did Abe or Koizumi send the criminal? Wm, I don't know. Koizumi and Abe are known to be very careful about using Yakuza groups. Their positions are not as tough as their titles sound once they are blackmailed for this reason. My point is, they wouldn't dare to do it just for threatening. They would even erase Kato if they wanted to sanction him. Firing a house is what a cheap one does. (Erasing a politician costs a lot of money.) Although Koizumi and Abe could be still the chief suspects, I'll refrain from asserting it.

Let us take a look at another aspect of Abe. His grandfather, Kishi, established a group in rivalry with communists. At that time, CIA, Japan, and South Korea collaborated underground very actively. Abe's grandfather had a strong connection with South Korean's military government. So was Abe's father. He had big pipes with political arena of South Korea. Abe's wife, Akie, speaks Korean very fluently. I don't know how come his family are so close to South Korea. Anyhow, I can smell a strong anti-communism from their family history. It's only his family. Nothing smells like that from Koizumi or other's families. From this standpoint, the arson against Kato, China lobby, makes sense.

Ultra-rightist Zainichi(Korean) got money and sent the criminal
Now let us go on to the next hierarchy, ultra-rightist Zainichi(Korean). This is very probable from my point of view. We can note the presence of those nationalistic zainichi who in part are typically anti-communists while the other are pro-North Korea, trying to undermine Japanese government for the past 50 years. The anti-communist side has attacked China or USSR, communists. But the are a little tickler because they may form a united front with Japan(see series 1). They protest against communism, yet they are conciliatory toward North Korea which is a communist's country. I haven't seen many incidents like this arsons attacking North Korean agencies (General Association of Korean Residents) in spite of communism. It indeed happened(see series 2) when it comet to against China. Perhaps two clans share sense of common bonds as Korean. Look back at my past two posts here and here. Always Korean are coming out.

Since Sumiyoshikai (Japanese mafia) is already known to have plotted this arson attack, there seems no need of discussion on Korean. However, the things are not that simple. Let's see the address of the dummy group made up by Sumiyoshikai. It is located in Northern Shinjuku, Tokyo. This place is also famous for Korean Town, and you'll see many Korean shops or offices here and there. For example, the map indicates the locations of Korean restaurants by red circles. The dummy Uyoku office is smack in the middle of this Korean town. More interestingly, there's an office of North Korea (General Association of Korean Residents) that is one of the bases for internal maneuvering.

Why Korean again? I also obtained information on this dummy fake Uyoku group. Several years ago, they once attempted landing on a disputed island between Japan and China. Looks like they have used this Shinjuku office for a long time. So I can't see the case of Sumiyoshikai borrowing this address without a permission from Korean town. All I can suspect is Sumiyoshikai is already infilterated by a number of Korean members, gets too familiar with drug business with North Korea, and commits crimes for money.

The victim of this arson attack, Kato, shouldn't have a connection with these ultra-rightists. So I don't think Kato played his own work, nor did China. This incident is therefore interpreted straightfowarly as a message to Kato, "Don't get close to communists ever again."

(the title used to include only "Uyoku", but it has been changed to "fake Uyoku" because "Uyoku" only means "rightist", and in this case they are not considered true rightists.)

Japanese girls are stupid. Am I sexist?

2007-01-30T21:15:00.000-08:00

Many Japanese girls are stupid. It is no doubt they are thought very open about sex from visitors' point of view. Sometimes they even look like they desire to be stared at by men. Decorating themselves too much, wearing girly and short skirts, and purring like a cat are manifestations of such a desire. But why only Japanese women?

Some non-Japanese people may say that it's because of stubborn sexism in men's psycology. Others would point out the society are not suited for women's development. They typically criticize Japanese men and try to elucidate a plausible theory that continuous encouragement for women's careers and rights is necessary to achieve a good society for women.

Well, respectfully desagreed.

Before giving a solution, diagnoses are pretty important. Let's take a look at the pathology of the society. What is the reason for this degradation in Japanese women?
1)tradition
2)liberalism
3)education system

I would like to push 2) for the right answer. Why liberalism? Well, the hint is all condensed into the the cartoon magazine shown below.

The cartoon magazine is biweekly, and titled "Shoujo comic". Let's open it.

A "horoscopic swirling game" and "rainbow pen" are attached to the magazine?! Wmmm, the comic magazine must be, say, for 13 to 15 year old girls. So, what's wrong with this? And you turn the pages..

What the hell is it??? The book should be for thirteens to fifteens! It shouldn't be right. And I pick up another cartoon magazine, "Cheese".

Friends are talking about Takashi, but he looks like a PC geek to Madoka. She doesn't think he is hot.

Here's Takashi.

In fact, Takashi and Madoka have known each other since they were very young.

Madoka just doesn't understand why he's asked by girls for fixing PCs in the PC room. "Why do other girls hit on him so much?"

"Gosh! my PC froze. I have to call for someone, but there's only him. And here he's come! But I don't know why my heart races like this?"

"Before I know, he grew so big. He used to be so small as child. He's just wrappig me now..."

"It's possible to turn of the power, but the data will be gone."

"So, be true to yourself, your mind, and your body...."

Oh my god! What a magazine!
So now you see why 2)liberalism is correct?
What I'd like to prosecute is the morals of the publishers and us. They shouldn't have right to make a sell to kids with primitive judgement.

The publisher says the magazine "Shoujo comic" sells 300,000 copies biweekly. The statistics indicates in 2004 that the population of 13 to 15 years are 1,800,000. Roughly speaking, 1 of 6 subscribes to it! And consider "Cheese" sells as many. I assume that girls read those magazines in school, too. Of course they would circulate them because I used to do it with "Jump (for boys, including Dragon Ball etc.)" among classmates everyweek at puberty so I don't have to buy them!

Some parents of those school children noticed the publishers' infamy, finally. In Osaka, the municipal government started restricting the sales of those harmful books. But most of parents still don't know the fact and just wonder why their children suddenly become so much sexually aware.

There's so much correlation of the recent spread of teen prostitutions through cell phones to those harmful magazines. I won't have courage to call strangers and have sex out of curiosity let alone I was 15. It is the magazines that drive them to be sex machines. The pic below was so nasty that a right-wing blogger uploaded it and warned the danger of too much "liberalism".

It needs a consideration when plotting to eliminate those magazines because the publishers are just in compliance with market principles; they make what customers want. So now we know that just worshipping the invisible hand of god alone doesn't work well. Sometimes our lust is way above Adam Smith's head, not to mention kids' lust like an animal.

We have to know how to control the aggressive capitalism and wipe out such liberalism out of society. Women originally have a lot of positive potential to become rich, thoughtful, responsible, and active. I want Japanese women to realize there's a lot more in the world than just a girly life with a lacy skirt.

Girls don't have take any responsibility for that. We should be blamed.

Buraku, the biggest taboo

2007-01-28T19:47:00.000-08:00

Ever since I have written a number of taboos that exist in Japan, an essential social structure has been emphasized in this blog: "Taboos are created and maintained by concession hunters."

The taboo I'll discuss today is "Buraku" segregation, which was created hundreds years ago (1600s) when Japan was barely depicted by Marco Polo's story. At that time, citizens were classified into four, but there's another class below the lowest class. Their life was determined as they were born.

That system was abolished by law when Meiji restoration occurred around 1880 as they acquired Western civilization. Of course those who were discriminated had a hard time to cope with the society firstly because others drag the old system. The system of national census register enabled employers to investigate the origin of employees, and they would cut them off due to humble origins. An organization, "Buraku liberation party", was established in 1922, declaring human rights, which we can recall as the first and broadest scale movement (This is not a political party, so they have no seats in diet.). Many gathered under the flag shown above and demanded their life as a human being.

It sounds like a beautiful story isn't it? Before we know, however, this party substantially turned into a greedy concession hunters. The following is the core part of this article. They threatened and manipulated mass media not to criticize the party because it's "problematic" enough to induce more fierce discrimination if criticizing suffered people. They support specific politicians in diet, and the politicians pump cash into public works whose orders are by all means received by Buraku people. At first, those politicians used to do it as a moral policy to protect Buraku's livelihood otherwise it was hard for them to get a job. Now that they got power, they were free as beasts. No matter how they parked their cars on the street, the police cannot touch them because the raid is regarded by Buraku liberation party as discrimination. They are said to compose 50% of total Yakuza members in Japan (it's 60% according to Sugawara, a former member of National Public Safety Commission). Buraku people are needed by a surprising entity. It's banks. Banks use Buraku people for money collection. Hearing a collection from Buraku people, threatening effect is outstanding. With tight relationship with zainichi, they have controlled the underground up until now. We now see a very odd phenomenon where it is indeed Buraku people who want the discrimination to last since they've got money sources to live in a mansion.

This scheme suddenly collapsed in 2003 due to a political downfall of Nonaka Hiromu, the big boss of LDP (Liberal Democratic Party). I thought he was a very good politician as mass media favorably reported him as a fighter for justice and a good advisor of talentless prime ministers. Before Koizumi got power, Nonaka nominally was the leader of the ruling party as of 2000. What Koizumi did first in office was to squeeze Public Prosecutor's Office. After dreadful political conflict inside LDP party between two politicians, Koizumi finally made him resign the seat. People gossiped that Koizumi rocked Nonaka with his fatal scandal.

No political battles, no reformation.

News on arrests of corrupted yet well-known backroom fixers followed one after another. Before Koizumi, Japanese watchers from Western societies shrewdly observed the rigid society ruled by Yakuza and other giants, saying "It's the limit of Japan. There's no self-cleansing capability left there."

Let me make divulgences to you as to incidents related to Buraku. Well, it's not divulgences any more since everyone knows them. But keep in mind that I, too, never imagined until a few years ago that such a people ruled this society this much.

One of the most famous ones is an arrest of "Meat king", the president of a meat company. With a tight relationship with Nonaka, he made a million. People in Osaka city said no one doesn't know his name, Asada Mitsuru.

The picture below takes a raid scene into another king, and look at that gate!

The battle against Buraku people has been still continuing nationwide. Liberal Democratic Party was successful to wipe out the Buraku liberation party, but some of their parasites still reside in Democratic Party, the biggest opposing party. In fact, the Buraku liberation party donated to the two biggest political parties. No wonder there was no one who could accuse them. Since this Buraku liberation party strongly protest Abe's regime, I guess Abe is going to suceed Koizumi's policy. Although this may be a start of another collusion from Abe's side, we can't neglect current corruption.

Rousseau in 18th centry knew direct intervention is essential for democracy. Japanese people finally discovered it 200 years later.

経済政策は命綱

2007-01-06T21:44:00.000-08:00

ネット右翼たるもの、経済を知らねばなりません。日本に金がなければ、ただの弱小国であるのは誰も否定しません。特亜叩きは必要ですが、それだけでは彼らと一緒になってしまいます。

ネット右翼のみなさんにはリバタリアンになることを是非オススメしようと思ってこのコラムを書いています。私はネット右翼で、しかもリバタリアンです。リバタリアンとは、徹底して政府の経済への介入を嫌う人を言います。単純化すると、公共事業を悪とみなします。

リバタリアンの政策は「格差を生む」なんて言われていますが、そうでしょうか。インターネットの規制が撤廃されたら、急にネット接続代金が安くなりましたよね。長距離電話だって昔は3分300円だったのが、いまや3分10円になったりします。NHKだって公共事業です。政府による「押し付け」の公共事業である放送を減らし、民営の要素を取り入れて、NHKのスクランブル化や、多メニュー化の制度を取り入れれば、もっと良いサービスが手に入ることは確実ですよね。ざっと考えただけで、私たちは必要以上にお金を取られていたことがわかります。月に一万円家計が浮くことの大事さを分かる消費者にとって、やさしい政策、それがリバタリアンの唱える政策なんです。

ネット右翼は、既得権益でがんじがらめになっている社会への痛烈な批判をしなくてはいけないと思っています。そして、それがネット右翼の存在意義なんです。私を含めた若いみなさんに、既得権益なんかどうやっても転がってきたりしませんよ。権益を他者に取られていることは、逆を言えば自分たちが社会で搾取されていることを示しています。搾取される側が決まっている社会よりは、チャンスが多く、トップが転がり落ちる可能性がある社会のほうがいいと思いませんか？

公共事業にはいい面もあります。公共事業を否定するリバタリアンらしからぬ意見ですが。第二東海道路線を造る公共事業は必要でしょうし、原子力潜水艦や航空エンジンの開発にももっとお金を使っていいと思います。新しい産業を生み出したり、富の再分配としての役割はもちろん公共事業に求めてもいい、という意見を切り捨てたりはしません。要はメリハリ。でも、意味の無い湖岸工事、道路工事などばかりにお金を費やすと、逆に富が偏ってしまいますし、国の借金は増えるばかりです。

これからの将来の日本の経済は、小さい政府と大きい政府で揺れ動くことになります。いままで日本は大規模公共事業ばかりやってきましたから、しばらくはリバタリアンの小さい政府でうまくいくことでしょう。アメリカは今、大きい公共事業をしてますね。それがイラク政策です。大きな公共事業する大きい政府から小さい政府への収縮を繰り返すのが常なのに、アメリカはレーガン時代から赤字を垂れ流すドバドバ大量公共事業体質から抜け出ていませんね。こういういびつさは将来大きな失敗を呼ぶことになります。

ではこれからQ and A に入ります。
これから歩むべき正しい経済政策のために、巷で流れる間違った噂を徹底解剖したいと思います。

Q1.これから国の借金は増えていくばかり。どうすればいいの？
Answer.確かに国の借金は問題ですが、一つ視点が抜けています。例えば政府が国債を乱発して国民から100兆円借り、それを諸外国に貸し付けて、三年かけて130兆円になったら、それは一年あたり10兆円の収入になりますね。

な～んの問題もない。

国民が、政府の国債発行に厳しくなりすぎると、逆にこうした運用を政府ができなくなります。だから、政府の国債発行額ばかり見ても意味がなく、その中身が重要なのです。国債は利益を生んで帰ってくるのかどうか。もちろん下手をすれば、政府は意味のないことにお金をつぎ込むことだってあります。

Q2．小泉は郵貯や銀行など会社をユダヤに売り渡したんでしょ？
Answer.「ユダヤに売り渡した」と聞いて「やられた！」と思考停止をする人が多すぎます。これも名解答があるわけじゃなく、複雑に絡み合った事情のせいなので、一口にそう表現するのは間違いです。

私は2000～1年（日経平均12000円あたり）に株を買ってあったので、だいぶ財産が増えました。株の名人から見ればド下手ですけど、それでも利殖には成功したわけです。まだ持ってますから、それだけで日本の株を守っていることになります。国民のタンス預金は1500兆円。ものすごい量です。世界的に見ても、日本人の民間は恐れられているでしょう。資金力があるのだから、他の外国人よりは有利に仕掛けることができるんです。安いときに買っておかなかったのに、高くなったあとで「ユダヤにやられた」はちょっと情けないですね。
　
日本は米国債を大量に買い、円安をキープしました。そのおかげでEUや米国への輸出が増えたというメリットがあります。この円安基調を守る日本に対抗し、米国のいくつかの投機筋が仕掛け、日本銀行が守りきったために、それら投機筋は倒産してしまった、なんて話があります。彼らだって大失敗することもあります。日本はまぁまぁうまくやったと思いますよ。韓国は逆にウォン高で、商売上がったり。韓国銀行は介入に失敗して借金漬けになっていますから、IMFが近いです。投機筋の勝ちでしょうね。すでに韓国銀行の債務が雪だるま式に増えています。私たちは財務大臣だけはまともな人を選ばなければなりません。
　

ユダヤなどの投機筋のよく使う手の一つは、株を狼狽売りさせ、タダ同然の株をその後にゆっくり買い戻すというものです。まずは相手の手の内をよく知ることが大切です。日本にはまだお金はあります。「ユダヤにやられた」と取り乱すことが一番よろしくないことだと思いますよ。

彼らはインサイダーのようなズルイことも出来るので、「小泉はユダヤに売り渡した」というのを完全に否定する気はありませんが、せめて上記のようなことも頭に入れておいたうえでの批判であってほしいです。

Q3.これから消費税は上がるしかないの？
Answer.私はこれには断固として反対です。消費税というのは現在の状況を見るに逃げの一手。国民は気が付かないところに財源を持っています。例えば電波。電波法によって、格安で民放が電波を占有しているのをご存知ですか？これは携帯電話の会社が払っている額（449億円）の10％以下という破格の安さ（たったの35億円）です。電波帯域は国民の財産なのに、それをタダ同然で借りてお金を儲けている人がいるわけです。こういう点をマスメディア自身が報じるわけありません。私たちに気付かれないように実に巧妙に問題点を隠しています。

他の財源はいくらでもみつかります。例えば宗教法人。宗教人たるもの自分の身を削ってでも人々の幸せを願うのが当然なのに、税金をかけようとすると猛反対するのです。おかしいと思いませんか？もちろん宗教団体ががっちり自民党と公明党を固めているので、ハードルはかなり高いです。民主党の岡田党首はこういうことを訴えていれば小泉首相に勝ったかもしれません。

私はリバタリアンだからこそ、税を上げるのに反対している、ということもあります。政府は私たちの経済活動に対して放任する、そうすれば、なんにもしない政府にお金を払うのは最小限でいいはずです。

消費税値上げに反対の私ですが、消費税は実はかなり公平な税だと思います。誰だって払わなくてはいけない。自営業の人がちょろまかすこともできないし、宗教法人だってなにかを消費するときは払う。特権を持つ在日の人だって払うわけです。ごまかしが効きにくい課税方法です。だから消費税は悪ではありません。良い面も持っています。

Q4.米国の保険会社とか、最近日本は外資ばっかり。もうダメポ。
Answer.　Alicoなど、米国の保険会社が日本に進出してきてますね。これは米国による経済侵略と捉えられますが、言い換えると米資本の日本参入によって、日本での経済活動をしているわけですね。この経済活動による税収や雇用を日本は得ることが出来ます。中国はこの手を使い、諸外国の資本を受け入れて、ドル、つまり外貨を溜め込んでいます。逆に日本の大手の車メーカーは、日本での雇用や経済活動をせずに、現地生産をし、現地での潤いに貢献し、日本にはスズメの涙しか入ってこない、なんて表現することもできます。外国に進出したから安心、ではなく、逆に日本を衰退させている面もあるわけです。よって、日本資本の外国進出は勝ち、外国資本の日本進出は負け、という見方はちょっと単純すぎです。

もちろん外資ばっかり優遇すると、国内の産業が育たない、というデメリットもあるわけで、まさに中国がそれに当たります。中国内の彼ら自身の産業は全くダメです。外資を受け入れるメリットとデメリットをそれぞれ知っておく必要があります。

Q5.米国方式の競争社会を取り入れたばっかりに、日本の良い終身雇用システムなどが失われたんじゃないの？
A.これも言葉が独り歩きしています。ある企業の人事課で、この即戦力、競争システムを取り入れたのだが、全く意味がなかった、なんて聞きます。人事課でどうやって競争原理を取り入れればいいんでしょう？じっくり育てればものになる若手を採用したい人事課の人も、自分の成績がほしいばっかりに、すぐに使える即戦力の人ばかりを採用する、なんて愚かなことが起きます。

逆に、メーカーの開発部などでは、5年くらいかけてやって気付かないことは何十年かかっても気付かない、という法則があります。人材が流動的であれば、中途で入った人材により、思いがけない知恵があっというまに手に入ることがあるわけです。

どっちのシステムが良いかなんて、一口で説明できるはずがありません。

政府にできることは、終身雇用だろうが、流動的な雇用だろうが、どっちでも生きていけるような制度を整えることです。つまり、会社側に選択肢を与えればいいのです。選択肢が一つしかない社会よりは、二つあったほうがいいに決まってます。それぞれの会社が自分たちにあった制度を取り入れれば良いのです。会社は自分たちの命がかかってますから、正しい選択ができるはずです。政府はやはり介入しなくていいのです。

Q6.最近外国人ばっかり増えて困る。なんとかなんないの？
Answer.アメリカの例を出しますが、米企業、研究所でひっぱりだこなのが、高学歴の中国の女性です。彼女らの特徴として、「絶対に文句を言わない」「まじめ」などがあるからです。中国は高学歴の女性という財産をアメリカに引っこ抜かれていることになります。アメリカはタダで良い人材を手に入れることになります。

反面、アメリカの重要情報をスパイが抜き取るなんていう事件も多発しています。実際に、去年FBIが急に私の職場に来て、私の同僚の中国人男性を調べていました。スパイである可能性を疑っていたのです。彼は幸い無実でしたので、今も元気で働いています。スパイという、こういう負の効果もあります。

一番最悪なのが、単純労働者として外国人を日本に呼ぶことです。彼らはよく働くかもしれませんが、彼らの子供は単純労働者として働きたいと思いません。当然権利、学歴、良い職業を求めるわけで、労働者不足は30年経ったらまた同じ問題が起きることになります。

こういう事柄を総合すると、負の側面が多い気がします。今の日本では敵性国家である中国からの労働者ばかり増えており、あまり歓迎したくありません。中国人は華僑を作ります。彼らはインドネシア、フィリピン、タイなどで大きい政治力を握っています。今は在日コリアンが叩かれていますが、将来は在日華僑が恐ろしいまでに肥大する、そんな時代が来るかもしれません。

今まで私は「政府は介入するな」といい続けて来ましたが、そうではない場合もあります。実はリバタリアンが政府に要求することは、治安なんです。政府は無節操な企業が単純労働者を海外から集めてくることに懸念を示し、治安を守ることに全力を尽くさねばならないのです。国防、治安、これらがリバタリアンの定義する「政府の仕事」なのです。

The last figure of conscience, Emperor Hirohito

2006-12-15T19:10:00.000-08:00

When discussing Emperors in Japan, it's enough to just remember the representative one, Emperor Hirohito, the most hatred and beloved Emperor holding throne throughout WWII. This article today will not discuss whether he was guilty or not of being defeatd in WWII. Such a dualism doesn't make the discussion profound. This time I'd like to focus on his personalility, and try to get the lowdown on the mystery: why did he survive?

I came across the reason, when I saw a videoclip from 1947 in Hiroshima, just two years after the atomic bomb. A small man with a hat gets out of a black car, being surrounded by refugees and neighbors who gathered up to see him. He may as well being killed there because people experienced such a devastating defeat just because of believing him. It was natural at least to see a scenery of people throwing debris at him as he was the symbol of Japanese unification.

The reaction people showed, however, was completely incomprehensive, sobbing all around with him. He took off his hat, bowing lightly, and speaking to orphants. When he went to Tokyo (1946) for consolation after air bombardment and surrender, people raised their both hands and shouted "Bansai (means viva!)" to him with no one forced them to do it. They pushed away GHQ (US soldiers) and ran toward him.

To tell the truth, people had never seen real Emperor Hirohito standing on ground because of "deification campaign" by government before the end of WWII. A picture of Emperor Hirohito on a white horse was the only him people could glimpse at. But note that the typical depiction that he was the god may convey a little misunderstanding. In European world where monotheism is the standard decipline, "the god" sounds the absolute entity. Here in Japan, we use that word indeed frequently; gods are everywhere. Dead people can even become gods after death.

Since his decision of surrender and proclamation as a human, it was the most radiative period for him until the government and massmedia made him a taboo again a decade and put him behind the curtain later. (He didn't have effective power on the cabinet because even he couldn't stop the cabinet from going to the war. It was a democratic country Japan was!)

I once thought that he would be guilty if other ministries were. But the more I get to know him, the more I want to let him be alone. Just hearing his numerous episodes, Japanese never be able to logically think about him or look him as one the the rest of ministers.

He had survived 1411 places of his consolation visits until his death. He regretted that he lost chance to visit the last place, Okinawa, where the fircest combats were taken place; he wasn't allowed to conduct this plan because of cancer.

An episode reminds me of "samurai" spirit in him: when greeting MacArthur for the first time, Hirohito begged him to save as many Japanese civilains as possible using his personal assets. MacArthur was strongly moved by his attitude. (The details are only written MacArthur's reminiscences since Hirohito never wrote about his biography. MacArthur is known to decorate his reminiscences. I am doubtful if the greeting was that beautiful. Let me know if you happened to know anything.)

People may have seen the real self-sacrificing and frugal "samurai" spirit in him, overlapping the old leaders, "samurai" who were downfallen just because they were thinking of helping poor people.

During Emperor Hirohito studied abroad in his youth, he took part in a dance party in London. Looking at Duke of Atholl dancing pleasantly with a wife of a cattleman, he mumbled, "this is the way people should be!" His character and "samurai" spirit may have been developed with such an obedient learning style from developed societies in Western Europe.

Literally, he was the last conscience for starving people.

Raid again! I'm full already.

2006-12-06T19:30:00.000-08:00

Hey, Raid again! Following the raid last month, the police in Hyogo prefecture (near Osaka) arrested Ha Yung-Chul(36) December 5th for unlicensed tax accounting. His office, an affiliation with North Korean organization (朝鮮総連), was subjected to a search as shown in the photo below. The prosecutors that this office may have been committing tax shelters and illegal cash remittances.

Just because we have been frequently seeing raids by the police these days doesn't mean North Korea has been recently conducting considerable destructions of Japanese society. Probably this regime led by Prime Minister, Abe, is just earnest and aggressive on North Korea. Investigating whether this raid can be justified doesn't make sense. Now that the guard of those organizations has been declining because of cry for surveillance, the police has finally started to work with further crimes in their mind.

Yet I want you to find North Korean's unnaturalness with these following vidcaps. First all, they often are pretty prepared for the raid, which is readily understood by placards or banners. Also they are very organized when protesting. Are they well traind? The protestors look like normal Japanese, and men, they are young (see below)! They are demanding return of confiscated goods with their fists up. I can't just believe the fact that those people, who are very familiar with doing protest, still live in Japan.

Looks like they are hanging a picture of Kim Jong-Il up the wall (see pic below).

Ehh, I'm so tired of uploading those Korean photos.

日本語メッセージ１

2006-12-05T11:26:00.000-08:00

こんにちは。「英語で発信する右翼の会」で会長をつとめております、yellowpeepです。会員は他には誰も居ません（笑）。実は本当は笑えないところで、「日本のナショナリストたちが、危険な行動に出るんじゃないか」という恐れは常に外国の人にはつきまとうものです。それを分かってもらうには、大きな口を開けて叫ばなければいけないのです。黙っていたら、「何か良からぬ事を考えている」と思われる。それが世界の厳しいところなのです。

このブログの大きなコンセプトは、親米保守です。アメリカのやり方が気に入らない人は居るでしょう。私もそう思います。本当に腹が立つときもあります。しかし、日本の人口はこれから減る一方。アメリカは３億人以上います。大東亜戦争のときよりパワーバランスは悪化しています。たぶんこれから200年間はこのままでしょうし、復讐して原爆を落としてやろうという日本人になってもいけません。もっと崇高な理念を掲げることに脳を働かせましょう。じゃあ自力の核保有をしないかというとそれは話が別ですがね。自立は賛成です。

アジアに目を向けますと、復讐に燃える特定アジアの面々が居ますね。彼らの草の根は実は発信力がそれほど高くありません。外国人に一番読まれるのは、海外在住の特定アジアの人々が発信する文章です。よく把握されてないかもしれませんが、私の住んでいるアメリカでは、中国語やハングルの現地新聞が発行されており、コミュニティは発達しています。特亜向け英語新聞もあります。東海岸は、Epoch timesが強く、中国共産党を攻撃しているので日本に対する風当たりは弱いのですが、西海岸は最悪です。バンクーバー、ロサンゼルス、サンタクララなどなど。
　英語しか話さない中国人も、いまだに「一つの中国」を叫び、日本の戦争責任を追及するのです。海外に住む華僑は、現地の人と混ざらないのは今も昔も一緒です。インドネシア、マレーシア、タイ、どれも華僑が政治力を握ってませんか？それがこれからアメリカで起こるのです。

だから社会から疎外され、特亜人に対する嫌悪感になるんですが。そうすると、彼らの卑屈感、連帯感を生む、悪い連鎖が始まります。現地に溶け込み、経済レベルの高い日本人に対して、「自分たちは日本より文化的に優越しているはずなのに」という劣等感の裏返しが、この強烈な日本叩きを生んでいます。彼らはこれによって彼らの相対的地位を上げたいのです。彼らの社会的地位が日本に比べて圧倒的に高くなるまで続く、恐ろしい現実があります。

　では、現地の日本人はなにをやってるんでしょうね。私たちはすぐに拡散しますから、あまり結合力がないのはご存知でしょう。Front Lineという日本人向けの有名な現地新聞が幅を利かせていて、日本食料品店などでタダで配っているのでよく貰って帰るのですが、これはバリバリの憲法九条＋侵略史観なんです。そうやって全体を眺めて見ると、アメリカは、もう完全に取り込まれてしまっています。

だからこそ、奮起して作ったブログなのです。

このブログの内容の特徴：
１）私の記事の中には変な投稿がいくつかあります。日本で問題になっていることなどをわざわざ知らせるようなことがあります。しかし、長い目で見れば国益につながることだと思っています。彼らは得体の知れない存在を不気味がりますから。問題を抱えていても、前向きに解決しようという意思を知らせれば、それは対日不信感の払拭につながるんです。

２）特亜叩きはほどほどにしています。やりすぎは嫌悪感を生むようです。コリアンが日本叩きをしていますが、あまりに酷いので、アメリカ人が日本を弁護する、という面白い現象が起きることがあります。日本人は「言論の自由を守って両方の意見を聞きながら議論をしています」といえば勝負がついたりすることもあります。

３）突っ込んだ詳しい内容のブログをこころがけています。これは、アメリカ人の大衆に人気が無くともよい、ということです。しかし、たまに日本のことに非常に詳しい人が議論を求めてやってきます。そういう人々は、日本を研究する立場であることがあります。ターゲットは、そういうオピニオンリーダーなのです。トップの行政や学会、記者などを啓蒙するという点で効果がある、と信じています。

最近良い傾向があります。アジアのニュースや歴史を扱う英文での議論のブログがいくつかあるのですが、始めは軒並み日本に対する露骨な敵意の書き込みが多いのですが、特にこの数年、少しではありますが、日本に対する理解と同意が増えているようです。私の貢献は低いのですが、他の日本人で頑張ってらっしゃる人も居ることを忘れてはならないと思いました。

この情報戦は、今の特亜の若い世代が老いるまで何十年も続きます。覚悟しないといけません。

(Caption: A bronze statue of the late historian Iris Chang, who wrote the first English account of the "Rape of Nanking", was unveiled at the Hoover Institute of the Stanford University on Feb 1, 2007. Mother Ying Ying Chang (張盈盈) kindly touched her daughter's statue. CNS Photo)米国のスタンフォード大学に銅像をこしらえる中国勢に対し、黙って良いことをやっていれば分かってくれる、という日本勢。ほんの何十年か前に同じ事をやられたのに、また同じ歴史を繰り返す民族はもうおしまいだぽ。

またたまに日本語ページを書きたいと思います。
日本語のコメントも受け付けておりますので、どうぞ気兼ねなく。

個人的親交連帯ブログ：小林少年の「フィオリーナの以心伝心」もよろしく。

Fed up with multicultural society

2006-12-02T12:02:00.000-08:00

Japan is not ethnically homogeneous anymore. Foreigners who are registered as they are in Japan exceeded 2 millions as of 2005, accounting for 1.6% of Japan's total population.

This tendency has been accelerated under the open-door policies by Koizumi, the former Japan's Prime Minister. It is inevitable for us to accept more foreigners to cover up lack of workers because of aging society.

The article today presents the difficulty of this "easy solution" to the lack of workers. There is no doubt about Chinese and Korean are the most largest groups coming into Japan although their government totally hates Japan.

I'll focus my attention on China this time. European or American people tend to think "Asian people share a lot, so they easily merge. Let alone China and Japan since they are from East Asia both." No way! We are currently having such a problem caused by Chinese due to their incomprehensive habits.

The picture above was taken in a street in Osaka, the second largest city in Japan. No matter how you know Japan is a crowded country, this street is insane. Plus it's in the morning. The reason is, Chinese people are opening their shops in the street. They say it's a Chinese habit to shop and eat at street restaurants on Sunday morning, and probably they are just doing what they used to do in China. Needless to say, customers are mostly Chinese. They can obtain special groceries or fresh vegitables that are hardly found in normal Japanese supermarkets.

The pic shown left is a scene where a couple of Chinese are selling meat under sky. Not keeping meat in a refrigerator may not sanitary, but it's not my business. But they are doing it on the street, chopping pig heads or chicken legs (Eww...) into pieces. People need to walk through the street, and there's a family living behind the shops. If I had such a situation every Sunday morning, I'd freak out. Of course the households who have been suffering from the shops keep demanding that they leave, but the Chinese have no ears to them. "The morning market has been since 10 years ago, and it's getting bigger and bigger," one of the neighbors is crying over this headache.

The base descipline of Japanese is the "spirit of give-and-take". Yielding is greatly respected in our culture, and sometimes people give in very much until their tolerance is acknowledged. Since Japan used to be a very closed society, outlaws were just repelled by the society. That has been heavy shackles for those who were tempted for crimes from long time ago. On the other hand, this rule doesn't seem to apply to Chinese people. Once you yield to them, they take one step further. Outlaw-ridden society is thus formed due to massive power. Residents should have more courage. It's a crucial flaw of Japanese people; they are too docile until they snap. Japanese tend to avoid argument and keep silence, hoping some day Chinese regret their fault. Keeping silence is a sign of OK to Chinese, ironically.

Selling vegitables or meats is not only their merchandise. One of their special skills is selling pirate products with a lot of nerves. CDs, DVDs, or liquors. In Japan you need a license to sell liquors in the first place. Pirate CDs or DVDs are of course prohibited. There's no license for pirates :-).

All the details of such behaviors were aired only once through a TV program very recently, making us realize it although 10 years already passed until broadcast. But I put credit on this program because it took courage against the taboo that bans anything would give rise to Japanese nationalism. They even secretly filmed a scene, with mosaic, of a Chinese peeing in back street. Now I know why Chinatown in New York smells pretty bad. It smells by all means if you pee in the street.

There's a section, between shops, demanding freedom from dictation by communism (see picture below). Falun-gong members are freely demanding their rights here in Osaka. It is totally understandable that those people had to take refuge into Japan, abandoning their beloved hometown. I concluded that they are such a people who don't have room in their heart thinking about what they have to obey when living in a foreign country because their mind is just occupied with their desire to live and nothing more.

As far as my tiny web-based network, similar invasions of Chinese immigrants can be seen in Greece, Solomon islands, Russia, and Italy. In Italy's case, a town known for textile industry rivived thanks to cheap labor supplied by Chinese immigrants. However, their technology has been stolen at the same time. After Chinese rushing into this town, they retreat as soon as they acquire skills, setting up a new business the way Italian don't welcome. The new Chinese company is of course run by all Chinese with cheap labor, so it's threat to traditional italian industry. This town ended up with raising their rival.

Open agitation against Chinise is not my intention, but the idea of cheap labor popping into companies' head must be accused of. They won't take any responsibility for this conflict any way. As an evidence, I have never seen companies tackling of this issue as their own challenge.

Some of Japanese like me are already fed up with multicultural society due to the said reasons. How about your country? I've heard Netherland is finally got tired of it. But may be it's too late.

A blogger ZERO kindly took up my article here. He is alerted by the threat of Chinese, too. However, he also says that his town is getting along with many Chinese. Well, I agree. In my hometown, which is very small, my friend plays in a soccer team in which several Chinese take part. The entire team is bonded with a very close friendship, regardless of their nationality, due to their effort to learn Japanese and its culture. Just remember most Chinese are pretty good while a little others disgrace the others. Ironically, the minor latter Chinese play a decisive role in determining the reputation of Chinese.

Links: Arudou Debito's homepage. He is living in Japan seeking "foreigners' rights". You'll see the opposite point of view from American. Very interesting.

Raid on North Korean Science Agency again

2006-11-28T18:49:00.000-08:00

The raid again! The police raided six agencies, including Tokyo head office, November 26th, for exporting 60 packs of amino acid (IV fluid) over the amount limited by law (see picture below). They say it can be used for cultivation of viruses in order to produce biologic weaponry. This type of medicine smuggling is not the first time, but the police knew 8100 packs were already gone to North Korea in June. The reason for the raid supposedly it's a series of organized crimes all over Japan. The pic below is a capture of the moment, and the men apparently yelling at police are probably from the members from North Korea.

For those who are not very familiar with the activities of North Korea in Japan, I'll simply discuss the history. You know many Koreans are living in Japan, right? Many of them got away from Korean penninsula to Japan up until now. Japanese rule (1904 ~ 45), Korean war(1950), or Jeju massacre(1954) are the major era. After WWII, they built schools for children and taught them as they like, such as communism, Korean history, and worshipping Kim Il Song (Father of Kim Jong Il) of course in their language. Therefore, they have raised so many children in such a way that their character formation is completely far from that of Japanese. The number of those "zainichi" is now almost 600 thousands. If you wanna know how many schools they have built, just do the math. Of those taking an oath of loyalty for Kim Il Song, some have operated in secret like abductions as you may know. The agency, North Korea Science Agency became widely known very recently as an industry spy group infilterating Japan's various organizations and companies.

Well, now that I'm mature, this incident won't make me furious any more. I'm just calmly watching this. As a matter of fact, the raid on North Korean Science Agency is not the first time recently; see this article one year ago when the suspect was conducting illegal sales of medecine online. This raid later revealed the agency obtained military secret on SAM(Surface-to-air missile), besides just a illegal medecine sales or a charge of money counterfeiting. It's a typical arrest someone on a holding charge. Wmmm. It's an evidence of Japanese police working fine. So I'm not too worried.

Another reason making me calm is the number of members coming out of the building to resist against police was fewer than last year. It indicates that the organization has been weakened due to probable members withdrawal from this agency. It is now famous for members infilterating into Japanese self-difense force, police, or technology companies to absorb scientific technology. Yet people are well alerted these days.

However, I'm not fully satisfied. What makes me uncomfortable the most is the reaction the mass media show. NHK briefly reported this news with a scene of just the police entering the building although there was an interesting, big struggle.

NTV is worse. After reporting this, a news conference to media by North Korea Agency pops up, and he accused of the police. Well, as usual, TVs always favor Koreans. The case of TV asahi was very hilarious. A commentator gave a comment, after the report, defending North Korea, "These days, people in Korea are very conscious of their healthy, so it's inevitable for them to need more medicine as the consciousness spreads." Very funny! Aside from this obvious LIE, they ought to stop attempting false declaration when through customs.

Bury your sentimentalism in Iwojima

2006-11-15T21:27:00.000-08:00

Because US is wounded, they look Japanese soldiers as a better enemy.
Why Iwojima now? That's a typical response of Japanese who have almost forgotten it until a pair of movies are about to come. We discussed it and defined the current US citizens. The result of our diagnosis is "They(americans) are very sentimental these days!"

In spite of incorporating RMA (Revolution in Military Affairs), the situation in Iraq is still not clear. Italy is not on the side of US any more before you know. Shiite, Russia, and China are having a gloat over the stranded US in the middle east. It's like "This is not what we thought it would be!"

Looking back to the recent history, US hasn't experienced enough amount of clear success in wars. Black Hawk Down, air strike of Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, and so on. Although US may as well claim their moral approach in any cases these days, a threshold comes up from nowhere and wreck the completion of the mission. It is guerilla or citizens' feelings, which meddles in all the time and make the reputation of the US worse.

And you would think, "Although it traumatized us once upon a time, the battle at Iwojima against Japan made us forget about those discomfort which is not necessary in wars. It was just a pure battle like a sport where no others are involved. After the war, we handshake each other like now."

I'd say it's not a coincidence that a movie made in US is trying to depict also the figures of Japanese soldiers in detail. US citizens don't want to see a didactic movie where a hero beats evil like we saw a lot in 2001 and 2002. "After the six soldiers hoisted the flag, no resentment is left. Japan fought very well, and we decently treated Japanese POWs after that," you may say. Now US citizens know there are full of evils who use kids as a wall. It finally seems that people in US began to yearn toward Japanese soldiers because US has seen worse enemies too much these days.

This trend is actually welcome to me because we wish the rehabilitation of honor of Japanese war dead in WWII. First of all it's my principal standpoint in this blog.

Japanese soldiers were acually better opponent.
Let me take up a story to represent MY feeling about Iwojima. I came across a website that opens a diary written by a Japanese soldier who fought till end in Iwojima and was rescued by US military. I learned several interesting facts that were overlooked. Here are some of war stories he left: Since the island is a volcanic island, soldiers couldn't have enough sleep because of sulfur gas and heat. His superior officer ordered him to crash into tanks with 20kg of explosives, so he couldn't help thinking about his family at that night. His officer did it first and showed an example. Before the night, what they discussed for the significance of this suicide attack is if they hold as much as possible, Japan can make better peace with US. Well, as a descendent of them, I found no reason to disgrace them. They had a very clear purpose!

What surprised me the most was that he describes the opponent as "Mr. opponent". I don't see the correct reason, but I guess he wanted to think the opponent was also human being. Otherwise he couldn' keep himself under fiercest bombardments.

The last part of his diary writes how better he got due to proper care and food provided by US. Yes, at least you have an example of the pretty good treatment of US to Japanese POWs.

Such a war never comes again.
You may want to watch the movie, and after that you may not be as proud of US soldiers as other movies. But that's OK. Everyone knows it was a mere fight in a good way.(Keep in mind that this movie is not a simple hero movie. Nevertherless, they faithfully executed their mission, purely fought against their enemy, and weren't stigmatized as civilian killers.) In other words, don't simply anticipate satisfied victories or pure battles from now on. Israel also had to retreat for the same reason with an infamy of "killing innocent civilians". Bury your sentimentalism in Iwojima if you still imagine, at the back of your mind, that Iraqi people some day become to happily wave their hands to US military for liberating them from a dictator. There's no way to satisfy both Sunni and Shiite to begin with.

Perfect duplicate, Super Z1

2006-11-11T23:24:00.000-08:00

This article today is not a thinker. It's just North Korea's counterfeiting. Let us follow a TV program aired Nov. 11th from TV asahi. (A big TV network, "TV asahi" was introduced here. It once showed irrational attitude on an argument of going nuclear. But as you will see, even TV asahi has to suck up to viewers whether they like North Korea or not. I guess TV asahi has learned programs on North Korea can win audience rate these days.)

The TV crew flew to Yanji, a town in China close to the border between China and North Korea. They are trying to find counterfeit bills, receiving news of money laundering in this town.

An antique dealer agreed to film this scene with masking their faces. He was about to sell $100 bills for Chinese yuan.

The crew probably bought some from him and turned in them to a pioneering researcher, Matsumura, who is famous for his differentiation machine.

He found the bills are fake in a second because the texture of the paper was too hard, and the hologram was coarse, too. Those bills with bad quality are said to be manufactured by underground private groups away from North Korean government.

However, the crew had obtained another bill from some other route. Matsumura got very shocked to examine this bill. "That's almost the same as a real one!" He concluded it was fake with a slight difference of ink bleed. He pointed that this newest version of counterfeit bill has been recently improved from the last one, Super Z, so it is named Super Z1. The hologram, which looks green or black according to the angle you are looking with, is of course perfect.

In the first place, we don't know much about transition of North Korea's counterfeit bills. Let us get it straight about Super Z and Super Z1. Super Z was the newest one which was perfect except for one small difference in the hand of the clock.
The hand is sticking out in the real one whereas the fake one is within the circle. That's amazingly the only difference we can easily find in Super Z. The newest version, Super Z1, has overcome this defect. "Very frequent checks and improvements have been done by the counterfeiting group," said Matsumura.

I have no comments today since US government has already taken an action. Of course Tokyo can't be an idle spectator. Counterfeit bills of Japanese yen made in North Korea are very cunning, too!

There's one thing I want you to know about Japanese mass media. These TV programs generally report the facts as calm as they can, not the way they arouse viewers' nationalism. Plus, knowing Japan's mass media all suck, there's information you can get only from TVs. So we have to count on TVs to some extent, and they will survive while internet becomes prosperous.

Fake Uyoku - the obscure cult (2)

2006-11-03T18:26:00.000-08:00

What's an "fake Uyoku" (fake rightists)? If you already read the previous post, it's a dull question. They typically stroll in a scaringly decorated car like the pic above, and make loud army songs in the street. Although most of normal Japanese wonder what the heck they are, mass media won't take up their real face. If you have a Japanese friend and may want to dare to ask him/her about them. But I'm pretty sure your friend just don't know much about it in spite of being intimidated.

My previous post was a venture; I condemned that a number of Korean(zainichi) have been slipping into those organizations. Recently, I was very alerted about incidents around Uyoku: one of the suspicious ones was taken place April 23rd 2004, making me feel that Koreans are involved with an evil intention. But my investigation ended up with vague findings. This article is about how I had investigated this incident and what I got as the conclusion. Let me sort the backgrounds around it chronologically.

Around that time, there was a cronical and controversial argument flaring-up between Japan and China about their territory issues, Senkaku islands and Okinoshima island.

THAT incident happend in the middle of those arguments. An fake Uyoku car slamed into Chinese Consulate in Osaka, ending up with burning and destroying their main gate. Needless to say, Beijing issued a strict warning to Tokyo to keep an eye on those radical groups. Penalized for this, Japan consequently made the negotiation unfavorable.

The criminal, Nobuyuki Nakagama (34),was immediately arrested, and newspapers the next day reported this rather briefly. His motivation was to claim that Senkaku islands should belong to Japan. He was from an Uyoku party, Nihonkoumintou (日本皇民党), which means "Japan Emperor's Citizen Party".

The story develops rapidly. A Korean zainichi, Ko Chong-Su (高鐘守) (40), was arrested two days later for supervising this din. Many hardly noticed his arrest; newspapers barely reported it with a very small headline. Bingo! Korean again.

But I really don't know why Koreans are frequently involved. Some might say that way they can undermine Japan's reputation and scare ordinary people away from being rightish. I might agree to that.

After this incident, public trials over 11 times are disclosed online on the criminal, Nakagama. Reading this, I sensed that he is a pure Japanese who is just radical. More investigation revealed that this fake Uyoku group, Nihonkoumintou (日本皇民党), regards Chinese communists as an fatal enemy. Their activity has been based just for aggressive act against Chinese communist. The reason for their hostility is that their will is to unite all Asia, which won't be realized with communists, I guess. Since those Uyoku parties typically wish they live within Great East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, they are assumed to be inevitably generous to Korean new comers. There's a rumor that some fake Uyoku parties have been already taken over by Koreans because of the generousity of Uyoku to Koreans. But for the case of this party, Nihonkoumintou (日本皇民党), it's not realistic to determine this party is anti-Japanese manipulated by Korean.

Sorry that I have to conclude this story like that. It's like there's no concrete conclusion! The Uyoku issue is so complicated that it's very hard to get an access to their core part. Anyway, I don't support Nakagawa's reckless act although it may reflect his "noble" belief against communists. Hate to say it, but it ooks like Chinese communist has a right to blame Japan by all means this time.

Mass media exist to expose those mysteries to people per se, but they keep silent probably because fake Uyoku live on intimidation. They don't want to run a risk of having intimidation by them.

Here's a link to another post:
Fake Uyoku - the obscure clans (3)

Leave Israel alone and turn back to backyard

2006-10-26T19:40:00.000-07:00

What most of Japanese have as an impression on recent strategy of US around middle East would be "apparently they are wasting money and getting burnt out."

The most unbelievable fact for us is that news of dead US soldiers have been frequently reported, which never happens in Japan where soldiers' life are extremely enhanced since the end of WWII, subscribers of a message board, 2ch, say.

While US mass media appeal that those patriotic soldiers protect citizens from terrorism overseas, cameras are totally apathy toward the urgent crisis in East Asia. Here Japan and Taiwan are confronting three big tyrants, China, Russia, and North Korea. Plus South Korea is almost swallowed and colored with red by to-be the same country.

Meanwhile curiosity seekers in Japan found out US mass media are so influenced by jewish people. Controlled by Israel, it isn't like the country holding hegemony over the world. Now you know US has more enemies these days than ten years ago. Make up another enemy and Bush is OK with it because the approval rate rises up.

This situation is like, US is doing a high-pitch dancing themselves to burn out while others are gaining power. One of only a few countries, Japan, is today highly worried about this, knowing that US showed its moderate attitude toward North Korea after the news of nuclear test.

What is worse is that North Korea will bolster their self-confidence and never stop developing nuclear weapons. Some in Washington are hesitated by the threat "Seoul to be sheet of fire". In this sense, it's correct to retreat US military from Seoul. However, I anticipate a black future: this threat will develop to "Seoul, Tokyo, and California to be sheet of fire" 5 years later and they are going to withdraw much more grubstake that would cover their military expenditure first.

Bush and white house must take immediate actions to pressure more on Pyonyang such as point attack on Pyonyang and nuclear facilities. The reason they are stuck is they don't see the ultimate goal in East Asia; it has to be set as "regime change from inside North Korea into a democratic country, propagating to China". That way, US and Japan can appreciate the safety of Pacific Ocean with minimum effort. The wave of democracy must arise inside its body, and a counter-example evidence is clearly shown in the case of Iraq. They never get together for co-existence with support of America. However, we can bring democracy to North Korea with a bit of booster shot.

As a matter of fact, many polemicists in Japan already predicted the particulars of Iraq. Since Bush pictured the fantasy, "bring democracy to Iraq as we did on Japan and Germany", a misconception is to be lead to a disaster. He should have known that Iraq composes several peoples.

The best way is thus leave Israel alone and turn to East Asia with the same slogan, "Bring democracy to North Korea." In contrast to democratic Iran, it would be much easier to change this country only if US has wisdom not to put the critical problem on the back burner.

TV Asahi, Way too judgmental to nuclear argument

2006-10-20T19:54:00.000-07:00

TV Asahi is one of the most major TV networks. There's a pretty limited number of countrywide TV networks, 6 or 7 of them. Therefore, it's easy to imagine that they have secretive deals all the time among them and decide what to report and what not to. The information we can get is therefore filtered by their arbitrary codes.

As I continuously insist, all of the TV networks have exposed distinct aspects as traitors to Japan except Sankei group. Since their wish is to overthrow their government, they never fail to try to undermine their government on any issues even if it's not for our development.

The reaction they showed to "a careless statement" by Shoichi Nakagawa is a case in point. He suggested that the argument whether we have nuclear weapons is allowed or not could be resourceful, and mass media pounced on him as expected.

I'll show you what I recorded Oct. 16th 2006, broadcasted by TV asahi, which I refer to as one of the "traitors".

It reported first the nuclear test executed by North Korea several days ago. They spent 9 minutes for this.

And here it comes. The above newscaster initiated a spark with a skeptical face and comment, "This statement provoked an immediate reaction from China, America, and parliament in Tokyo." The ticker says "causing significant ripples beyond Japan".

Well, from now on, you don't wanna see a lot of redundancy; TV asahi just tries to display many authorities to warn his statement. This guy shown in the above pic is from Democratic party, the second largest party that has never got their regime because they are survivors of Socialist Party that was very friendly to China, Soviet and North Korea. Japanese citizens have encountered a serious dilemma whether we choose Democratic party or not just because Democratic party can't read our mind since forever.

The next guy above is from Komeito, which is the incarnation of Soka Gakkai International. Although they are in governing regime, they don't even try to help him, and they repeat criticizing him. Komeito is known as a quick-change artist and you know why.

The man above is the person amid charges, Shoichi Nakagawa. If you carefully listen to his statement, he doesn't say anything about hurrying over getting armed with nuclear weapons. He is just saying that "since this is a democratic country, there's no reason to stop the discussion." Well, everyone knew that he secretly wants nukes, though.

Wow, there's so many people coming out to leave comments in this program. Next is an old man who is a representative of a victims group in Hiroshima. Those antinuclear groups are outstanding when protesting actions by America or Japan while they are silent when China or North Korea did the same thing. Well, just think about the money source. The fund for their movement has been supported by Social Democratic Party (North Korea side) or Communist party (China side). If you are American, that's what you really have to think about. If you want to pursuit peaceful Japan without nuclear weapons or regretful Japan about WWII, it is equivalent to bolster anti-Americanism as I told before. If those evil parties supported by China gets power, Japan will turn their face to China and be colored with anti-Americanism. (*please be advised that the group of this old man is not supported China or North Korea. There's other radical groups.)

The host of this program is also showing his doubt about Nakagawa's statement.

A commentator in the right is tricky. He is once interrogated during this program several months ago by Abe (current prime minister) whether he has a spy by North Korea as a close friend. Yep, this commentator is a sympathizer of North Korea.

I'll show you his close-up pic above. As a clear evidence, he didn't leave any important comment on North Korea in the previous news. But in contrast, he was very shrill when it comes to Nakagawa's statement. To begin with, which should be blamed first, one who actually did a nuke test or one who did a statement on beginning a discussion on building nukes? Sadly enough, we have only this news program during 10:00 to 11:15 in the night, so many of us can't help watching this biased TV news program.

After all, they spent 9 minutes just to criticize Nakagawa's statement. Althouth I didn't take a vidcap, they also reported the reaction of China and America in the middle of this news to lead us to a conclusion that the world is very concerned about Japan's atomic armament. Nine minites they spent is exactly the same length of time as they spent on North Korea. Is "a comment by a person about a proposal of argument of atomic armament" really supposed to be blamed spending so much time?

Good news is that liberalization of TV networks is going to be enforced five years later and more than 50 of other TV networks will be allowed to compete with those existing and corrupted ones.

Naive antinuclear movement

2006-10-17T08:02:00.000-07:00

As a democratic country since 120 years ago, Japan must have appreciated freedom of speech. A bad habit, however, is they tend to form "a mood" in which a different opinion may be coldly looked on.

A LDP (Liberal Democratic Party, the governing party.) member and a cadreman, Shoichi Nakagawa, suddenly became famous these days because of his 'careless' statement, "Japan may be armed with nuclear weapons." Some of you may know this issue has been a taboo in Japan after WWII. Several years ago, a cabinet member resigned his job due to his similar statement on nuclear weapons; citizens and mass media didn't allow him to remain a cabine member at that time. But I suppose this time Nakagawa would be survive although he also is a cadreman (not a minister).

Obviously the general opinion in Japan has been changed at least among young people below 40. Older people, on the other hand, don't seem to allow such an opinion because they have fewer opportunities to get away from TV. In other words, TVs are typically dragging anti-war sentiment, that is, they can't let this opinion exist. (One of the evidences how TVs are irrtional about nucler weapons, go to this article.)

A funny thing is that they protest nukes very loudly when it comes to Japan or America while they seem indifferent when China or North Korea does the same thing. To begin with, Japan didn't even started discussing it while North Korea is actually done with experiment. Why didn't they freak out when North Korea did it?

Furthermore, the antinuke movement attempts to shut out different opinions. They never say "let's talk, and we'll know it." What they want to do is cast a slogan and make people follow it. I'd sarcastically confess that's very funny.

If we discuss it throughly, and even if we reach an conclusion that not having it is our way, that should be respected. What I can't stand is I'm a citizen of an immature country where a variety of opinions is avoided!

Several years ago when a cabinet member resigned as mentioned above, I was teaching math to high school students. We were talking about the news. And I asked, "You know there are some people who insist that we should have nuclear weapons, right? Their reason is 'Japan was attacked by nukes because we didn't have ability to attack them with nukes.' How do you refute this logic?" They looked very shocked and frightened to hear that, and I can't forget the faces they showed to me. Probably they have never discussed such a touchy issue in their history class although that's the principal one for Japanese. Well, looks like teachers in Japan have been mass-producing students who don't know what 'thinking' is all about.

A boy ! you know what I mean.

2006-09-05T17:25:00.000-07:00

As a skeptic watcher of Imperial family of Japan, I'd like to say, "Gees, what a luck, Princess Kiko."

A 2558-gram boy was born September 6th early morning after C-secion on Princess Kiko, who was not going to be the Empress. The to-be-Empress was suppoosed to be Aiko, but this plan may be overthrown thanks to this happy news.

I drew the family tree above, so it helps you overlook the situation. It really was a crisis of extinction. Just click on the image for an enlarged picture.

Although all the Japan should welcome the long-awaited male heir, one of the five major TV channels, TV ASAHI, reported this news with a comment, "We'd have to congratulate the birth," by the commentator. He also made another couple of incomprehensible comments, "If a member from the family were to marry a foreigner, we'd feel a bond with them," and "it'll make us think about a cost of bringing up the baby."

This inadvertent statement has angered some of the viewers, especially old (>70) and young(20~30) people as far as I guess. Old people were raised to worship Emperor, so there's no doubht. Very young people are on the other hand very skeptic about mass media, which makes them support the Imperial family, in contrast to mass media. Anyhow, it's not necessary for TV ASAHI to say such a thing on the very day even if they don't like imperial family.

I wrote some other articles on the family, so visit them if you'd like. It will be a tad tough marker.
*We all are pissed off with Princess Masako
*Quagmire of imperial family

Anyway, Banzai!

What Japan did in WWII - Thailand

2006-08-23T19:13:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite bloggers posted another episode of "what Japan did in WWII" for Thailand version. This blogger came across a local TV program shedding light on the bright side of Japanese military while it's a taboo for most of the major TV channels in Japan.

The TV program aired only in Kyshu island goes with the outbreak of WWII near Thailand:

The onset of amphibious landing on Kota Bharu started December 8th, 1941, an hour earlier than Pearl Harbor. Japanese military advanced their troop to the south of Malay peninsula where it was governed by Britain. Japan occupied Singapore within 2 months.

The main battlefield shifted to Burma (Myanmar), and allied Japan with the volunteer army formed by the local Burmese soldiers occupied Yangon, the capital in March, 1942. It is said that the citizens welcomed the triumph of allied force when marching into Yangon.

Wu Denyo joined the volunteer military, and was trained by Japanese troop for their independence.
Wu Denyo "I am grateful for the support of our independence from Japan even now."

The TV coverage crew was headed to the next battlefield, Mandalay to chronologically trace the trail of Japanese troop. This city is the important hub to the eastern city of India, Imphal.

The war situation was suddenly deteriorated in 1943 after Burmese proclamation of their independence. They had few food supply for only three weeks, and they were forced to continue the battle. This operation ended up with a defeat, leaving hungry Japanese troops in retreat. Many Japanese soldiers crossed the border to Thailand to evade the pursuers.

One of those members, Fujita, lives still now in a northern town of Thailand, Lampoon. His unit left him due to his leg wounded during Imphal operation.

Fujita "When retreating from Burma, I saw a lot of dead Japanese bodies lying along the path. Many of those bodies didn't have their heads on it. You go fetch water to the valley and you find the heads in the basin. Predatory beasts take only those heads away and eat them. I often saw those horrible bodies on our way."

This trail was later referred to as "bones trail" after the Japanese defeat with 50,000 of war dead.

Fujita collected little fingers of dead bodies to ask somebody to send those fingers to Yasukuni Shrine for commemoration. But he lost the two cans of fingers from hundreds of bodies. After the war, he again visited the battlefield, and he buried the bones in his backyard.

(This pic is the gravestone.)

There's a veteran who published a book of his experience in Burma and Thailand. The staff flew back to Japan to hear his talk.

Inoue, the veteran carried a camera to South East Asia as taking photos was his hobby. He took more than 500 photos during the war. He turns back the miserable defeat.

Inoue: "British military advanced 10 steps forward daytime and 3 steps backward night time. They are careful enough to deploy tanks and made them ready for opening fire after they retreat. Our infantry make a night attack, but as I said it was a trap. All of sudden they lightened the place to see us and make an assault on us with the tanks. "

He couldn't stare at dead bodies of his friends. But he left in this book dozens of pictures with smilings of them. He also collected the photos of Burmese peoples' livelihood.

Inoue: "When entering Thai from Burma, villagers there were very kind to us. They even reduced their meal to share with us. I'd say they saved my life."

We found Thai army has an archive on Japanese military in Bangkok. Here's the Japan's government proclamation to its military for the treatment on Thai.

(Translation of the paragraph: Thailand is the only independent country and the ally of Japan. As the brother's country, proceed together toward the operation of the battles and the propagation of the great east asia co-prosperity sphere. Kenpei, the military police, therefore must be very aware of their moral and attitude to Thai military police to demonstrate a good example, etc. Other directions include how to deal with their religeon or traditions.)

There was a demo in front of Thammasat University: Students are holding up a flag, "We don't want to be a slave of anyone." (yellowpeep: I don't quite know who they are claiming this to. Please give me a comment if you know the detail about this demo.)

Japan placed several logistic bases in Thailand. This poster above was what they saw in their bases, saying "Shaking hands with Japan will make Thai develop."

We found an old man, in Khun Yuam, Thai, who knows the village during WWII.

Thala (99): "Japanese military were friendly to us. Since we had 10 elephants at that time, we let them on the elephants to transport wounded soldiers to Chiang Mai for 500 baht. We brought rice and other food on our way."

"There was not few who died on their way to the hospital in Chiang Mai," says Thala. Soldiers with rather healthy condition had to walk to the hospital beyond the border for 400km(~250 miles).

Inoue: Since we were running low on everything, we gave our belongings to the local people for food. It was like, "Tri, Tri? (how much?)" and if I need rice, I respond, "Ta. (rice)" They wanted my shirt, so it's a negotiation.

The next destination we set was Chiang Mai, the big city with the hospital and Japan's logistic base.

We heard an interesting story and artifacts from Chu Chai(65), a retired police chief in Chiang Mai. He has owned canteens and clothes of Japanese soldiers and gave us a talk:
Chu Chai(65): "I was working in Khun Yuamn, and heard an astonishing story from the people. They kept those canteens and clothes of Japanese soldiers. (And he showed them to us. Probably he got some of them as a gift from the village people when he was discharged there.) Not only them did they stored, but look at those military clothing, cooking pots, cloaks, and hats." (Remember that the village Khun Yuamn was the one where the village people gave soldiers rides on their elephants to the hospital.)

Chu Chai(65): "Plus, what surprised me a lot was that the people remember those days as a sweet memory. I think some of them may still own those artifacts. What if those belonged to your grand parents? You leave them alone?"

We came back to Khun Yuam where the people used elephants to transport wounded Japanese soulders. We found a small museum in the small village. That was founded after Chu Chai encouraged municipal government to preserve and memorialize the warm interactions.

Chu Chai(65): As a kid, I knew the Japanese miliatary had been staitioed in places. But knowing better about it as a chief of the police, I became to think strongly to build something for peace.

The artifacts desplayed in this museum have been increasing in number year by year.

It is said that the Japanese sodiers started working as farm helpers to manage to live. They healed themselves after defeat.

Kom soam (74) played with those Japanese stragglers in his youth.
Kom soam : We played a lot doing chasing each other in the river. They taught me how to dive.

Baan (80) used to be a hawker who sold sweets. She often went to a shrine where Japanese were staying to sell them. She sang a Japanese song taught by them.
おててつないで　のみちをゆけば ♪ (you go up the trail holding hands)
みんなかわい　ことりになって ♪ (Everyone be-comes a chirping bird)
うたをうたえば　くつがなる ♪ (Clang clang you hear the steps when you sing)
はれたみそらに　くつがなる ♪ (Clang clang you hear the steps seeing the sky)

There was a time when Baan's family let 5 Japanese stragglers stay. She barely speaks Japanese even now.

We drove up north to Faan county taking 3 hours from Chiang Mai. There we found a Japanese, Inami, who didn't realize his homecoming back to Japan. Inami (86) was born in Okinawa and came to this land. Unfortunately, his main unit left him with no money. He had to survive without any aid.

Inami: I started a business, with a Chinese entrepreneur, of dealing pump machine to pump up water from underground to feed water to farms. At that time, the nearby farmers had never seen those pumps. Our business was successful and contributed to steady crops in this area.

He says he never regrets not going back to Japan now that he has a wonderful wife and many children here.

One of his daughter went to Japan for study, and she is still living in Japan.

Inami: The war was just unnecessary and troublesome. I hope such a war never happens again whether we win or not. I don't recollect those days. If anything, I may try not to remember.

narator: We never thought that we had a history with Thailand although both countries never fought.

The other seires of "What Japan did in WWII":
What Japan did in WWII - Malaysia (prologue)
What Japan did in WWII - UK
What Japan did in WWII - Myanmar
What Japan did in WWII - Indonesia
What Japan did in WWII - Taiwan
What Japan did in WWII - Palau
What Japan did in WWII - Korea
What Japan did in WWII - Thailand
What Japan did in WWII - (epilogue)

Or go to main page?
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2005/08/whole-contents.html

Korean cult leaders - Here comes again

2006-07-28T21:36:00.000-07:00

Hey! It's Korean cult again! I was so stunned to see the newspaper yesterday because Korean cult leaders have been revealed one after another. Japanese Police has placed Jung Myung Suk (鄭明析(61)) on the wanted list 2006 who founded a religious group called "Setsuri" or "Morning star" in 1980s. (I wrote 'he was arrested' last week, but I had someone who pointed out that was a mistake. I appreciate it and erased the wrong part.) Indicted for rapes by Seoul, he has been on the lam to Japan since 1999. The action of police in Japan was after his over 100 cases of repeated rapes on his believers. The news also reported that he commited a number of rapes also in Taiwan and Italy against Taiwanese and Western women.

This incident reminded me of a similar incident by a clergyman, Kim Tamotsu (金保(62)) because they are Korean although Kim is zainichi(Korean born in Japan). This news of his arrest was brought last year, causing over 30 victims including female children until 2005. Starting from raping adult women since 1991, he gradually shifted his sexual interest to children. After raping, he imposed silence on the young casualties with a simple threat, "open mouth and you deceive god." He even lures children into his house for atopy curing with his "god hands" at times.

I want to remind you that the leader of SGI (Soka Gakkai International with a zainichi leader) was accused of a rape at court in 1996. I'm not sure what was the verdict, but ordinarily speaking, Korean religions are somewhat dangerous.

A funny thing is that no mass media directly tells that Korean cults are dangerous. TV programs or newspapers are very talkative and aggressive to other foreigners' crimes such as a rape a men from Peru committing on a child last year. If you'd suspect this is because of zainichi's power on mass media, I'd say you are now very acquainted.

Soka Gakkai - High possibility of North Korean

2006-07-11T20:31:00.000-07:00

Here comes again! Soka Gakkai International. Known as the largest Buddism sect in Japan, Soka Gakkai International (SGI) has gaind its victory (it's their favorite phrase) over 190 countries. Of course the religion was born in 1937 in Japan as a normal religion, worshipping Budda. However, Some of Japanese rightists say it's a Korean religion and there's a lot of chances of takeover by Korean since after WWII. Let's see how those Japanese get to have such an idea.

For those who already read my articles about SGI, it's easy to grasp how SGI has been undermining Japan. Drug bootlegging from North Korea into Japan is one of a good examples to depict its deed. Keeping 8% of Japanese parliament seats, it exerts huge power to control Japan's politics. Of the massive power scattered in every authority, Ikeda Daisaku --the leader since 1972-- was said to be the "king of Japan", superior to the past Japanese Prime Ministers except Koizumi. The acme of him was until recent: Prime Minister Mori (2000 - 2001) hadn't been born until Mori got Ikeda's permission. Just after Mori's period started, he angered Ikeda because he made a careless comment on Japan as "a gods' country". According to Ikeda, Japan should be a Budda's country. Mori reluctantly made a correction after receiving lots of accusing by mass media which was controlled by SGI.

The code of conduct of SGI is very similar to that of evil zainichi network, and they are very confident to make it convincive about this. (Zainichi is Koean living Japan. Many of them are good, but some exceptional groups have been trained to spy on Japan.)

The pics are all SGI related flags. The left is the same as Romanian, but it's a SGI s flag. The middle is for a school of SGI, and the right is for a French branch. The distinct three primary colors looks a bit deviated from normal sense of Japanese. The kite below is by the way made by a Korean, using the same combinations.

Apparently Korean people have liked those vivid primary colors. This is just a first step, though. I know it's not guaranteed that SGI is Korean polluted. I also obtained a pic of Ikeda Daisaku with his wife in a typical Korean outfit in May 1998. Ikeda had never allowed to visit South Korea because he is for North Korea. But he did visit it because of the historical reconciliation around that time between South and North Korea led by Kim Dae Jung. Note that South Korean SGI was publically designated as an incorporated foundation in 2000 by Kim Dae Jung. In response to this development, SGI has been tightening the bond also with South Korea. Japanese rightists are very concerned about the recent relationship because it actually led to anti-Japanese movement: visiting Yasukuni Shrine has been extensively accused of by SGI and South Korea. Koizumi was very frightened since the opponent is inside his ruling coalition partner(SGI officially support New Komeito).

I got tired of typing English, so let me list many circumstance evidences:

SGI also likes mass game which North Korea often likes to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOoeXIYjcHE&search=soka

A magazine published by SGI in March 2000 cites an interview to Ikeda. "I have a memory of my father teaching me Korean," he says in the interview.

I came across a pic of Baggio, a famous soccer player in Italy. Look at his tricolor arm badge! Let me know if you have any information on him. (He may be just a good believer, so I'm not the one who attempts to disgrace him.)

*** CAUTION ***
SGI officially negates the suspicion of Ikeda being zainichi(Korean). So please be advised that my article this time is not reinforced by reliable evidences.

North Korean missiles to Hawaii

2006-07-06T14:57:00.000-07:00

OK, remember where the missiles including Taepodong 2 landed in with the picture below. Memorize the shape of Hokkaido, a northern island of Japan if you are not familiar with the geography there. The missles landed around Hokkaido island.

And then, take a look at the pic below:

Woops! Kim Jong Il sees Hawaii!

Following many bloggers, I also agree with the expectation that he is just a wuss and the military is the talker this time. North Korea withdrew an aid for the developent of nuclear factories in 1990s by launching a missle, so they are scrounging again. (After writing this, I read an opinion about how well Kim Jong Il is handling the military. That opinion seemed convincing. So I'd refrain from careless conclusion this time.)

It's obvious for you if you're American to cooperate with Japan and let Japan intercept missiles before reaching out to Hawaii. Same discussion can be applied to Australia. I know that Vegemites are very concerned about the missiles, too. France and Germany are such foolish pacifists that they can't acknowledge this fact because they think cold war already ceased entirely. The world is easy if so.

The unique radar "FPX-XX" with a mailed surface is called "Gamera radar" after a tortoise monster in a Japanese movie. With phased array antennas, it was designed to follow the trajectory of ICBMs without swinging antennas, and it has been installed in Chiba prefecture, a suburb of Tokyo. If you're American, just think about maintaining cost for those systems overseas on your own in order to block ICBMs from China or North Koera aiming at the land of America; you can't afford to them unless you are happy to dissipate limited budget. Japan has been doing such a only "soft defense" because of their strict constitution, yet it's an improvement in spite of being surrounded by hysterical anti-war movements which try to undermine the ally between Japan and America.

Anyway, this may be a revolutionary change of the relation between Japan and America. It used to be a one-way protection regime: America protecting Japan. The concept of mutual protection, however, surely promises America that the new ally pays off.

We all are pissed off with Princess Masako

2006-06-23T12:30:00.000-07:00

The "We" here didn't mean mass media, but us who have been discovering what's happening behind the heavy curtain of Imperial family. It's just thanks to blogs or huge message board, 2ch. Besides them, only a few tabloid magazines betray this fact about our cursed Imperial family.

For those who have no idea about Japan's imperial family, I'll write a few beforehand. Our biggest concern is their heir. Only girls are born in the past two decades, so people's hope was concentrated in princess Masako, who has only given birth to one girl. Therefore it's taboo to complain about her because otherwise it would make her nervous and influence her pregnancy.

I have noticed last year that some bloggers began to blame princess Masako's activity with her baby girl and her husband taking a rest and playing tennis on 8/15, anniversary of the end of World War II. Their Emperor and his wife in contrast attended an annual ceremony in Tokyo to commemorate war dead despite their old age. I thought that it's OK because the princess could be very stressed and she may as well have a little more fun than original imperial family since she was an outsider. And I also looked those who are irritable as the very ones who make Masako stressful.

However, I changed my mind this year, and you are gonna, too.
Let me list all the circumstantial evidence occurred recently which never explains that she's just in a depressive phase:

*After tennis in the afternoon at their resort villa, dinner at a hotel on 8/15(anniversary of the end of World War II).
*Mornings of Masako are late around 10 while prince and their child take breakfast at 8. So he takes his child to her kindergarten.
*A typical weekend begins with Prince's jogging around palace, but he's alone.
*Masako is said to attend and eagerly listened to a seminar at UN university on "necessary improvement for developing countries when enacting environmental treaties". Note that this subject is her favorite. She is FINE when doing her favorites.
*Last year the princess and prince went to a classic concert, but she left there in the middle of playing. She didn't seem to be fond of classic.
*She cancelled the birthday party of the Emperor last year.
*Last year when the prince was attending 2005 World Exposition in Aichi as a guest, she was at Tokyo University, auditing a symposium of Harvard University. (That means she sabotaged her job and went to her favorite "auditing speeches by westerns.)

The above behaviors are not enough to explain her all! What I can't stand is she is having a fun while other Imperial families are left to bear the burden. Princess Kiko, who is a sister-in-law with Masako, was witnessed to take an economy-classed seat when flying to Okinawa on official business. The Emperor and Empress even eat away time weekends and performed public affairs. Princess Masako must be tired of humble, busy life of mandatory work of Imperial family. I know it's very boring just listening to be a guest and making a speech surrounded by strangers. But the prince is all alone.

Since criticizing any of imperial family is taboo on TV, very few people knew her spring fever for her own interest and idleness for official business. Last year a huge discussion was made on Masako's behavior in a message board, 2ch, and the opinion was totally splitted into two. I thought it was very controversial. But now, the same discussion almost settled in Masako bashing this year.

The collapse of Japanese imperial family has been taking place from inside. Emperor Hirohito (passed away) and Akihito (current emperor) were great and far from selfish. Historically, Japanese emperors have been very humble; did you ever eat Japanese Emperor's feast? I've never heard of that. (Sushi was used to be for merchants.)
Now the prince is just a husband of "Socrates' wife", she's Ono Yoko. I'm sad.

Now they say that Masako is planning to fly to Netherlands for vacation. She must have forgotten she had a miscarriage due to a lot of wine bottles while staying in Netherland several years ago. (I've got a correction from a blogger that it was Belgium, not Netherland.)

BTW, there's more behind this lax princess: what was she doing in the middle of night with three officers from Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Zennikku hotel last year? They all are single and the members of Soka Gakkai (SGI). Why is Soka Gakkai always tagging on Japan's important affair?

George Wasington refused to become the first king, but I can assure you it was wise of him to do it.

You wanna know more about our cursed imperial family?
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2006/01/quagmire-of-imperial-family.html

Whale and Tuna (1)

2006-06-18T21:31:00.000-07:00

Look at that picture! The meat looks very fresh, and it must be delicious if you eat it raw. I'm drooling, but the dish at the restaurant cost 40 bucks. Unbelievable!

Recently I have found an article reporting DNA tests showing Japan's illegal hunting of humpback whales. The endangered species must be protected or conserved. Feel free to prosecute Japan if they violate the international law. But as long as Japan keeps hunting annually 50 humpback whales, the species is sustainable, and this is what we want. We are in a sense the most caring people about the number of whales because if a species becomes extinct, we can't eat them anymore.

Some other species, minke whales for instance, have gained their population (not acknowledged by IWC, but abundant), and it's reasonable to catch them, keeping them sustainable. What's wrong about that? Those whales, the predators of small marine wildlife, can't get too much larger in population because they may conversely endanger those wildlife such as sardines. Minke whales are sometimes referred to "sea mice" because of their fertility. The drawback of whale fundamentalist is that they don't care about the total food chain. Overpopulated minke whales will end up cornering blue whales due to scrambling krill they feed on. A study has revealed that the comsumption of marine wildlife by total whales outweighs that by human beings by a factor of 3~5.(Sorry, I don't have the source of this information.) Some Japanese researchers have been investigating this food chain and showed the data, but protesters are not willing to be scientific, making creepy screams like greenpeace. Let's just think about the whole ecosystem and stop biased blanket protection.

What I am very afraid of is the doubt you'd bear about Japanese sincerity like: "Japan is a huge fish consumer and they feel nothing about making many spicies extinct. Japan keep eating world's resources for free!"

Do you know southern bluefin tuna? It's also endangered, and the comission for the conservation of bluefin tuna was founded among Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, and the organization began to apply strict quotas to their fishing fleets from 1985. The principal non member nations were Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia. Korea and Taiwan finally joined the commission in 2001 and 2002 after repeated requests. Indonesia is still the one which is reluctant. The case of southern bluefin tuna is just one example, but nowadays Japan is a leading country with a great awareness about sea resources! It seems to me that some other countries are just focused on whales as a symbol of sea resources, but you'd have to think about the entire food chain. The amount of hunting of anchovy is getting less year by year. What do you know about sea creatures except whales? Since we eat so many kinds of fish that we are very sensitive. Think about Tuna and anchovy as well. If small fish become extinct, whales become in danger and you know why. Keeping a good proportion in marinal food chain is of great importance.

Lots of interesting news there, like this:
http://www.oprt.or.jp/eng/e_news_060105.html
"A DNA test conducted by Japanese Fisheries Agency on the 148 tons tuna caught and exported to Japan last Novemeber as Pacific big-eye tuna by a Chinese tuna longliner revealed the false report on the origin. The fish were from the Atlantic,not the Pacific. Japan urged China to investigate the case and also temporalily banned the import of tuna from the vessel.Tighter regulations for Atlantic big-eye tuna have been impopsed than the Pacific."

Seems like it's better to supervise those outlaws.

I created a Q and A section below about whale hunting.

Q1. What kind of whales became extinct?
A1. No whales have ever been hunted to extinction.

Q2. Aren't whales supposed to have a high level of intelligence?
A2. Then why don't you think about protecting crows? They are clever.

Q3. Why isn't your heart hurt seeing cute whales being killed?
A3. Why isn't your heart hurt seeing cute chicken being killed?

Q4. Pro-whaling nations often argue that whales should be culled to protect fish stocks. That's like blaming woodpeckers for deforestation.
A4. Well, why don't you disprove our scientific data with statistics. Don't be emotional.

Q5. Japanese people should be more democratic and listen to our argument.
A5. Yeah, we do. Japanese mass media neutrarily report this, and because of this, 15 % people protest whaling, and 30% think Japan can give in for avoiding international friction. Looks like UK is not a democratic country, excluding neutral way of thinking because thier journalism is already biased:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5093350.stm
Why don't you allow the other opinion to exist in your country? Or BBC is just shortsighted anti-Japanese. I hate BBC ever.

Q6. Do you eat dogs, too, right? I saw a TV program about that. Asian are just cruel.
A6. That's Korean. We are Japanese. Can't you distinguish even this?

Q7. The big problem for me is that Japan doesn't have any need to hunt whales. They have a massive surplus of whale meat from their "research" hunting already, nobody really wants to eat it. It's all about petty nationalism and politics.
A7. You're right even though this is not a question. It's all about petty Anglo-Saxon's nationalism and politics. Reding newspapers from both sides, Anglo-saxon's papers tend to lose their control on emotion while Japan's ones stick to neutrality. So, you know which one is more barbaric; it's the reaction of Anglo-Saxon. I recommend that you doubt your irrational mass media.

Q8. What remains a mystery is why Japan is so obsessed with the resumption of whaling.
A8. What remains a mystery is why Australia is so obsessed with the ban of whaling.

Q9. But your country feed dogs with whale meat, right?
A.9 That is what they call propaganda. Propaganda is usually accompanied with exaggeration, making a teeny aspect look very serious. There's only one company manufacturing dog food from whale meat, and I have never seen their products neighborhood. Since making dog food from whale meat is not bannd by IWC, there's nothing we can do about it and this is what the company can decide. If there was a murder in Iraq by a UK's soldier, do you like newspapers to write "The fact: UK's troop kill Iraqi"?
Read this, and I'm sure you are going to be caved about the brainwashing process by biased mass media :
http://whaling-faq.blogspot.com/2006/05/faq-3.html
This is a website run by a NewZealander, and his discussion is very refined.

Wanna see Whale and Tuna (2)?
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2006/06/whale-and-tuna-2.html

NHK doesn't want American base.

2006-06-14T16:39:00.000-07:00

The largest and the most powerful TV media, NHK, whose english name is Japan Broadcasting Corporation, did it again. It broadcast a totally made-up program on the American base in Okinawa on the 10 th of June. It's a very serious crisis for us; just think BBC or CNN makes a totally biased discussion. NHK is the ONLY public TV media in Japan! The title of this program is "Japan in Asia from now on". The title stinks a little bit.

The program kicks in with the subtitle "What do you think of American bases in Japan?" and I saw several tens of citizens presumably chosen arbitrary from verious generations because the name tag on each one's cloth says their name and occupation, from which no one woudn't suspect they are deliberately chosen.

I've been insisting that almost all the Japanese media are ruled by anti-Americanism, anti-Japonism, and pro-Korea-Chinese except Fuji-Sankei group. And at last I'll show the absolute evidence of it from now on, reportiing it in detail. But let me say my conclusion already based on this wrong incident: "My guess was right. NHK is occupied by someone different from us!"

The TV program started to ask the guests their opinions. One of the guests shown in the left picture apparently is a housewife because her tag says it. After this program I came across an excelent blog in which the author examined every guest invited by NHK. What a leasured blogger! So I know who the hell this housewife is. She actually turned out to be one of the leaders who oppose American supplyment warehouse in Sagamihara(in Kanagawa prefecture). She was very outstanding throughout this program because of her extreme rudeness; she intercepted an explanation from Defense Agency chief about North Korea's missles, and she shouted "I don't wanna hear that!" It's not only her. The next pic with a girl is more evident. She pretends that she can't hear the talk of Japanese Defense Agency chief, who is the head of Japanese military! (He is very famous because he was in Koizumi's cabinet.) Can you behave like that while listening to Rumsfeld's talk?
The camera work annoys me, too. They are doing this on purpose as if the talk of the Defense Agency chief is worth nothing.

The next guest started reading a letter on a recent incident where a girl was raped by three American soldiers in Okinawa. The camera then focuses on an actress who was sobbing hearing that story. The Mrs. who read the letter turned out also an activist of "An organization to keep American base away" in Okinawa. I found the actress, Azuma Chizuru, also riled me up; there was a discussion about the threat by China, and a columnist was trying to take this up, "China is about to invade Taiwan. That's obviously a threat to the peace of East Asia." and she goes, "Why would we have to label it as a threat?"

The three men also are activists: the left one belongs to "Life protect organization in Henogo (Henogo is in Okinawa.)" The middle one's occupation is a teacher in a kindergarten, but he actually is also an activist in a movement of "An appeal of no guard city", and the right one turned out to be involved with "non-nuke city, Yokosuka". I mean, every single gist is a made-up, camera work, guests, and the host. And audience, a bunch of Korean and Chinese, were surrounding the guests although they didn't state anything. It was enough to make an impression that Japan has been a trouble maker for East Asia if you take a glance at their furious face. Don't you think they ought to invite American side, too? Of course several conservative debaters or celebrities were invited, and they pointed out drawbacks if American troops retract. But consider how many other guests sit in the opposite side. The program just needs scapegoats.

The TV program never forget to look neutral; the host introduces several faxes that have arrived in the middle of the program. Many opinions from both sides were read up, but the camera casually focuses on the guests frowning and shaking their head when reading pro-American faxes. Just remember, on the other hand, the camera followed the sobbing actress to induce a serious mood when a rape incident was taken up.

Here's another one: they took a vote. A very predictable result, though. Most of them chose the blue, which is needless to say, No America!

This series of program was similarly made last year in August, and one of the guests was discovered to be an agent form zainichi. Adachi Yoko, a teacher of a high school in Tokyo, pretends she was just a guest, but my allied blogger blew her secret. If you don't know much about zainichi, just jump to my main page and look for "zainichi" section. Ironically "zainichi" has become the most important key word to my blog.

The last vote including all the conference room, phones, and faxes was whether Japan should strengthen the ally with United States. You sure did see the result above, didn't you? The red is for America, and blue represents the opposite opinion, which shared over 60%. It is a good figure to make the vote look democratic, isn't it?

Now you see that Japan is such an developing country behind many other sophistated civillizations. We must take our right back from those manipulative influences since post WWII. However, it seems a tad difficult for the majority of Japanese citizens to penetrate those slick, brainwashing programs. They have been raised to be so pacifistic that they don't realize their democracy remains illusion. They'll hardly get to win their own media to prosecute those propaganda even if they started to feel there's something wrong about mass media.

A opinion from one of the guests in the last five minutes was impressive, "Mass media around us today are all propaganda except for this program." Very funny.

NHK is getting more and more agressive against American, broadcasting similar program the day before this program, too. Since NHK is very decisive and popular among 50s to 60s, which I'm not, the emotion of those people may become worse than the past 10 years.

The source of this information is mainly from this blog:
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/blogger2005jp/37461986.html
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/blogger2005jp/37398619.html
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/blogger2005jp/37377420.html (written all in Japanese.)
Thanks, blogger2005jp!
And I'll take a short time off of this blog for a couple of months. Bye now!

Whale and Tuna (2)

2006-06-09T17:52:00.000-07:00

Since I enjoyed very much discussing with a blogger Japan's whale hunting which has annoyed Anglo-Saxons, I uploaded the discussion as a new article this time. Thanks, Mr.Ballistic. If you don't want it to be open, I'll delete it. See the first article "Whale and Tuna (1)" if you haven't.

Mr. Ballistic:Looks yummy. I too am suspicious about the figures those zealots at greenpeace put out about wildlife populations, a real conflict of interest. However my problems with the hunt are from a more pragmatic approach.

1) Are people really buying whale meat? If the reports about meat consumption are accurate many Japanese have been swayed by the very savvy Greenpeace Media Machine(tm). How many models will parade around Tokyo nude in the name of whale meat? (OH GOD I just had a really BAD vision of a bunch of Jerry Springer Guests doing that.)

I have read the whalers have resorted to making dog food and school lunches out of it.
Deep sea fishing can't be cheap. You the Japanese taxpayer foot the bill if people won't eat it.

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/04/04/woodard/

2) More importantly those research hunts are the barest pretense for commerical harvesting. 1,000 Minke whales for a survey their behavior? I mean Gallup predicts presidents with smaller statistical samples than this.

Instead of trying to engage an honest (albeit probably futile) attempt to change public opinion they violate the spirt if not the writ of whaling treaties. This kind of chicanery really insults the intelligence of any honest mediator.

This is not at time when Japan can lose brownie points with the International Court of Justice.
Norway and Iceland can afford to ignore the ICJ, how many rogue (and or) nuclear powers are attempting land grabs off their shores? What do you want to bet that when Dokdo/Takeshima comes before the ICJ by 2009 that some Korean lawyer is going to tie Japanese whaling in with this?

For your information crows are Federally Protected Thanks to the wonderful 1972 Ammendment to the Migratory Bird Act. You can't even sell the meat from those feathered rats, though I doubt it would look as good as that dish you have.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/crowfaq.htm#legal

yellowpeep:Thanks to acetous comments.

1) I've never heard that the whale meat is about to be used for dog food. They say it tastes iron when eaten as it is, yet the fries or the stew could be amusement. What I can assure you is the demand won't be as high as tuna because of the strange taste.
The rumor of "dog food" may be just a rare case which is taken advantage of because it can be a catchy headline. Or, If they utilize the bones, grind it, and mix it with dog food for calcium, it could be the material for criticizing.

It's important to serve whales to school to teach the culture of whale eating. School people are not obsessed with whales, just once a year or around. Anyway, the demand won't be high enough to endanger the population. We should be more concerned about tuna.

2)Hunting thousands of whales under the name of research sounds weird to me, too. They should comform to the agreement at ICJ or whatever about the number of huntings, and I hope Japan has been adhering.
Korean always do what Japan didn't want them to do, so I don't care. Japan once tried to have an agreement between Korean's dog eating and Japan's whale eating, but they are a kind of people who break a rule and demand something instead.

From my point of view, the protesters' point is not clear and sounds kind of sly. Rarity value, their intelligence, or the cuteness in turn becomes their excuse once one was refuted.

Tokyo prefecture, e.g., has been killing thousands of crows these days and I've heard no objections from Anglo Saxon. Greenpeace should send their butt and beg crows' life at trashboxes (crows scavenge them!). You know your heart won't hurt as much when a crow was killed. So "intelligence of whales" can't be the reason.

Mr. Ballistic: If the economics of whale hunting turn out well, then more power to Japan. I am neither a Logistics or Marine ecology expert. Hunting whales might pay.

What I find disappointing is the real lack of "soft power" over getting whaling legalized. Compared with the deft approach to the Japan Bashing era of 1988-96 in the USA, the Whaling is PR mess. If someone bribes the jury they at least sit through the trial and pretend they are worried about the verdict.

Making bold unilateral steps are part of being a "normal nation" as Akira Chiba would say. Yes the US still ignores the near-universal Kyoto treaty, but then polar ice caps aren't as cute a s whales.

I am just worried about Japan winding up in an Iraq-like scenario where all of the purchased allies pull the rug out from under Japan at the first sign of scandal. Europe and Russia are content to let Iran become a nuclear ICBM nation just to gain vengence on Bush over Iraq.

Japan can't use the ethic angle IMHO. Japan is seen as a wealthy country full of salarymen, cosplayers, samurai and ninjas. Japanese eat eels, squid, pufferfish and all manner of ugly creatures Westerners could care less if extinct. You tell even the most dedicated otaku in the US that you eat cute whales and they would cry.

Westerners' hearts truly melt for starving big-eyed children living in ethnic (read POOR) villages. Japan should best outsource the ethic angle and hire impoverished Inuits South American Indians and Poleynesians. I hear many of those regions such as Tongo has about 90% unemployment. Well fed & wealthy greenpeace activists would be helpless against their "impoverished ethnicness." Considering Japan's financial influence campaign in the S. Pacific they may have already hit upon this.

I must say Japan's diplomat at the IWC is good, Greens describe him in terified awe as if Morishita were Darth Vader.

http://csiwhalesalive.org/csi05301.html

On another note entirely,

Have you ever tried to link to Japundit.com? It is largely just a bunch of white expats covering a lot of tabloid crap about japan. However the core audience is pro-koizumi Japanophiles who take a narrow view
of some of the events in Korea and China. Defenses of Japan's actions in WWII aren't treated unjustly either. It is fairly high up in the Blog Ecosystem, which would put you very close to where big paper jounalists pay attention. Being a true japanese gives you a credibility factor others writing about Japanese politics lack.

yellowpeep: I've found a recent article from Washingtonpost: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2006/06/01/
AR2006060101684_pf.html

As quoted, I nodded a lot about the typical opinions of Japanese: "Why are whales only focused on in this manner? Beef, pork, chicken are all animals; people eat them" and "To be ruled by the cultural preferences of the Anglo-Saxon world would be very difficult."

As well as Anglo-Saxon may feel very doubtful about Japan's ethic, Japan thinks the same way on that of Anglo-Saxon; Westerners had endangered whales for oil until the end of 19th century and it proves that they didn't historicaly cared whales. Their efforts up to now just look full of hypocrisy to us. The reaction a girl showed to you could be a real sympathy, but it may come from a transient ethic not built on thoughtful principles which your grandpa doesn't share.

As you told, I agree that the claim of Japan is not based on its ethic; it's just about food. Eating marine creatures is how we are, not for bragging or curiosity. I hope our activity doesn't look sin of gluttony.
So Japanese want to eat them as part of daily life whether they are rich or not, appreciating the gift from gods.

If someone asks benefit of catching whales for the world, I would say that letting only predetors alive also jeopardizes entire food chain, and this claim seems to have gained a certain understanding with repetitive statistical research. Plus, I'm optimistic about the fact that this controversial issue doesn't develop to a serious damage to the relationship between Anglo-Saxons and Japan. And it surely indicates that Japan became almost as mature as Westerners.

When it comes to other subjects, Japan has been doing well: disarmament and nonproliferation, environmental conservation, etc. Please also keep in mind that an aid in Darfour, Sudan has been supported partly by Japan. You know this aid is obviously not for vote. Japanese are getting more and more cooperative about world concerns although Western would look down on Japan as a geeky and greedy thing. And Japan already know that Anglo-Saxons have keen eyes in terms of entire world affairs, so Japan will follow Anglo-Saxons if Japan found themeselves wrong.

Whale hunting is one of few issues Anglo-Saxons could be defeated on, and because of this they show overreaction from other races' point of view, and it typically characterizes alarmist Anglo-Saxons. Just think of a situation where you are surrounded by six big allied countries whose language is French. How can you insist on your legitimacy with broken French? I'm pretty sure you never feel this loneliness. Japan is always alone.

If you really want Japan to quit whaling, you can still hang on that hope; 15% of Japanese think like yours and they have strongly protested to whale hunting.

After the discussion, I happend to run into a pic of a gravestone for whales in Usuki, Oita, a southern western island of Japan. Those gravestones have been erected since very old time to commemorate the killed whales. According to Japanese shamanism, every creature would curse you if you don't eat it with gratitude because the spirit of the creature then didn't have to be killed and its death is regretful. Requiem prayer after proper usage is thought the only way to let people alive from gods. It's a little bit related to Yasukuni Shrine, and strange Japanese behavioral pattern is sometimes based on their shamanism.

You wanna see the article of Yasukuni Shrine?
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2006/01/yasukuni-shrine-and-princess-mononoke.html

日本のみなさんへメッセージ

2006-05-31T21:24:00.000-07:00

こんにちは。yellowpeepです。私は海外に住んでいて日本をウォッチしています。将来は日本に帰って暮らすのが夢です。ですから日本のことは大変気になります。もっともっと良い社会であってほしいと思います。

私は日本の戦後についてよく考えます。戦後はいったいどんな時代だったのか、と。
戦後は経済が復興した、という意味で物質的な成功の時代だったかもしれません。実は、精神的な意味でもっと重要なことがあります。それは「共産主義に対する民主主義、資本主義の勝利」の時代だったということです。一番重要なのに歴史教科書に書かれていないのが不思議です。「戦後」は混沌の時代ではありませんでした。二者択一の時代でした。そして、私達は正しい選択をした、という輝かしい歴史があったのです。

それと同時に、日本の戦後を省みて、何がおかしかったのか考える必要もあります。

私がそれを言うのは、日本の皆さんを蝕む者が未だにうようよしているからです。それは何でしょうか。北朝鮮や中国と言う人がいます。賛成です。アメリカという人もいます。もちろんアメリカも全面的に信用はできませんよね。外国とはそういうものです。

ここから本題です。

では、皆さんの生活を内側から脅かすものはなんですか？それは「批判されない権力」です。日本では総理大臣が最高権力者ですね。しかし、歴代の総理大臣は長く続きませんね。批判されるからです。批判される者は、批判が恐ろしいから、権力を振り回して勝手な真似はできないのです。

じゃあ、「批判されない権力」とは何でしょう。

批判されないもの、それは権力者の裏側に巣食う者、それと、既得権益がひっくり返らない者なのです。マスコミはどうでしょう。マスコミは戦後、同じ勢力が続いていて、全く淘汰されませんね。そういうものが「既得権益がひっくり返らない者」なのです。

戦後の日本史とは、どの権力をも信じないために、かえってこういった「批判されない権力」を増長してきた歴史ともいえるのです。

それを防ぐために、私達は「権力」をしっかり自分達の手元において、いかなる権力の暴走にも目を光らせる必要があります。そのために、「より正しい勢力」に権力を集中させ、「批判されない権力」をガラス張りにシステムづくりをしなくてはいけません。

じゃあ、なにが「より正しい勢力」なのでしょうか。

小泉総理大臣は、総理大臣を国民投票で決めるシステムを提唱しましたね。これは権力の国民への委譲です。国民に権力を与える者は、私達の味方です。彼は暴力団とのつながりなどいろいろ囁かれていますので、完全には信用できません。しかし、それでいいのです。彼の次の総理大臣の時に、小泉総理大臣と癒着していた勢力を叩き潰せばいいのです。

いずれにせよ、私達は戦後の反省に基づき、誰かに権力を集中しなくてはならないのです。

その集中すべき人物は、われわれが決めなくて、誰が決めるのでしょうか。

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上の事は私がどうしても言いたかったことですが、このyellowpeepのホームページは、日本の意見を外国に発信しなくては日本が孤立してしまう、という考えを基に作られています。日本の中も敵だらけなのに、外も敵だらけではどうしようもないですからね。英語が読めない方でも、ぜひこのホームページをリンクに貼ってください。

Behind the terrorism by Aum Shinrikyo - North Korea

2006-05-22T17:41:00.000-07:00

As a prosecutor of Japanese underground world, I'd have to focus on the most infamous disaster in 1995, a terrorism in subway stations by Aum Shinrikyo, a sect of Buddhism. Although the guru of the religious cult was arrested just after the terrorism, there are still unsolved mysteries around that incident partly because mass media can hardly report the truth. When the cult was broadcast on account of the terrorism, I was a high school student. The terrorism seemed very horrible to me, but nothing was hard to understand to me. They were just a terrorism group which produced chemical weapons. I thought the guru drove the believers crazy, saying "wrath of god is about to distroy the world unless the human beings are punished" as TVs say. However, I felt something dangling in my mind when a murder by Korean occurred although this is now dismissed by TVs as a trivial incident.

I'll tell you what happened. At that time, I was so curious about the consequences of the cult, so I kept watching TV. I happened to witness on TV that a top spokesman of the cult was stabbed and killed by a Korean Uyoku (rightist) in the middle of the interview. Everyone in front of the TV must have seen it, and commentators began to discuss who is behind it since then. It was not so hard to imagine that the spokesman was killed because he almost disclosed a secret about the cult beyond what he is supposed to announce. He also said in the interview, "The chemical used in the subway attack was not sarin. Probably american institutes can prove it later on." and he went on, "The assets we can use is 100 billion yen (1 billion USD)." Those shocking information he presented probably seemed to a bit over his duty. Another spokesman who was a little careful wasn't killed; the murderer overlooked the careful spokesman and pounced the talkative one. What is the most enigmatic was that he was not killed by his colleagues, but a Korean having nothing to do with Aum Shinrikyo. Why would Korean Uyoku (rightist) have to kill him? Did uyoku have some secret with Aum Shinrikyo? After police arrested the criminal, the statement he made about his motivation was "resentment at the cult." But you know, it's a bluff. It made me more confused that the guru completely didn't know why his spokesman was assassinated.

Let's get it straight from now on. I can't say where I got the following information from, and I have something more that I can't say 'cause I don't want to be killed!
The followings are sorted chronologically.

*The relation between the guru and SGI(Soka Gakkai International, another cult of Buddhism having 8 millions of believers in Japan. SGI is North Korea friendly.) was originally close. The guru's two brothers were believers of SGI. Note that many zainichi are the believers of SGI.

*The guru wanted to collect more money to make the sect bigger.

*Around 1991, he happened to meet with a couple of believers talented in collecting money, who now turned out to be imposters from SGI and Unification Church, another Korean religious groups.

*Note that SGI and Unification Church are Korea friendly religions, and those gurus are both Korean. (SGI's leader, Ikeda Daisaku is zainichi, a korean staying in Japan.)

*Aum Shinrikyo started the refinement of drugs according to the imposters and produced a lot of profit.

*The raw product of the drug was bought from North Korea, and the underground business contributed to the maintenance of the regime of North Korea. Gotogumi, one of yakuza, was involved in this smuggling. At that time the police couldn't inspect Gotogumi or Aum Shinrikyo because Gotogumi had been exploiting weakness of the head of the police.

*Aum Shinrikyo had also been collecting nuclear secrets around Japan's nuclear plants, sending many spies to electric power companies. The spies sent those information to North Korea for the development of North Korea's knowledge on nuclear power.

*In 1993, North Korea encountered a crisis due to the conflict with Clinton on nuclear inspection and seceded from IAEA in 1994. At this point, Kim Jong Il needed to cover up all the relationship with the spies in Japan's nuclear plants, and decided to make Aum Shinrikyo a scapegoat.

*The imposters of SGI in Aum Shinrikyo instigated the guru of Aum Shirikyo, and they began to plot a terrorism in Tokyo.

*The terrorism was brought about by several criminals with bags of chemical substances, causing over 5000 casualties in subway stations in Tokyo (March 2o 1995).

*The president of Tokyo metropolitan police was sniped at by someone on his way from his house. There were intentional personal effects of the criminal. Believe it or not, guys, they were a badge from North Korea and a coin from South Korea (March 30, 1995). This is obviously interpreted as the plot by North Korea (SGI) and South Korea (Unification Church). Remind that the victim was the president of the entire Japanese police! Everyone including me thought that it must be something to do with Korea, but nothing beneficial was found after the investigation. The pic of the badge is from the website of Tokyo police(Japanese), and the mark with the red star is a symbol of Workers' Party of Korea, the only political party of North Korea. The reason for the snipe was said that the president was intended to raid some important facilities. I can't know the true reason since no suspect was arrested!

*Meanwhile, the guru thought he was safe because SGI was trying to cover up everything.

*TBS and Mainichi, two Japanese major mass media which by the way are subject to SGI, stroke up only Aum Shinrikyo, making watchers attention away from North Korea.

*The spokesman of Aum Shinrikyo was murdered by a Korean Uyoku, and murderer was arrested on site. I'll skip the details because I already did it in the beggining.

*The guru of Aum Shinrikyo was arrested by riot squads in one of the cult's facilities. (May 16th, 1995)

*The refinement factory is yet to be disclosed by the police.

*All massmedia couldn't reveal the sequence around SGI because ALL of them are afraid of the revenge by SGI.

*The health condition of the guru was all fine and his brain was sharp when arrested, but now he presents a symptom of addiction to drug to the extent of enteruria control disorder.

*The rumor says that the correctional officers were sent from SGI, and drug was mixed with food and provided to the guru in order to shut his mouth. The guru was supposed to be the only person who can possibly testify the truth behind Aum Shinrikyo. And the truth has gone.

Soka Gakkai - the cult rules Japan

2006-05-22T11:47:00.000-07:00

You don't know anything about Soka Gakkai? Don't worry about that because this website is for those who don't know much about Japan.

A sect of Buddism, Soka Gakkai, is referred to as Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in the world, so I'll call SGI from now on. Surprisingly, this cult has been prevailing in over 100 countries all around the world. You live in America? Oh, yes. it has even two universities in california, giving birth to a lot of believers. On the other hand, it was designated by French parliament as a cult, so the article I'm writing may have something to do with your life even outside Japan. (Recently I've heard a rumor that SGI attempted to steal nuclear weapons from France. Please give me any information on this.) By the way, I've heard that SGI was accused by France because it attempted to steal nuclear bombs from France. Let me know if you know furthermore about this.

The weiredness of the cult can be vividly seen when you go to a town in Tokyo, Shinanomachi, where it's located several stations away from Tokyo station; it's as the center of Tokyo. As soon as you get off the train, you'd see a weired ambient with tricolored flags here and there, at the shops or electric poles. They're SGI's flags! As you walk through into the district, suddenly you'd feel you are watched by someone. You turn back, and there's someonee keeping on the track of you. He has a transceiver and doesn't even hide it. You got scared so much. And what would you do? Going to police? Well, it's not gonna work because it's called "Soka heaven" here, and of course the police is "Soka police". The above pic I borrowed from a website is a very precious; the blogger was surrounded by a couple of guys and asked what he was taking pictures for. He ran away and posted this pic. The town of SGI is THAT dangerous to snooping around.

Here I uploaded a map of SGI's territory around the town in which oranged and grayed buildings belong to SGI. Just imagine that one whole town is occupied by a cult. It's so scaring. There are many shops recently built dealing with SGI stuff although they are not shown in the map, and of course they are run by the practitioners.

Let me explain why they are called "a cult". One aspect is that they don't allow to be critisized at all. The map I got is originally published by "Weekly Diamond", which featured SGI several years ago, but it resulted in buy-out by SGI, not letting many readers to purchase this number. Those buy-out usually is followed by a successive defamation suits against the publisher regardless the quality of the article. They are OK because they have plenty of money sucked from the earnest believers.

No matter how I insist, you're not going to believe it, aren't you? I happened to run into a video clip from Youtube, and this will convince you. It's a censorship of NHK, the only public TV company and therefore the principal channel.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gsw3EwL98S8&search=sokagakkai
Even if you don't know Japanese, you could barely hear the woman said "Komeito" and "Soka Gakkai". Komeito is a political party SGI has, and it's taboo on TV although everyone knows it. Since the constitution prohibites any reliigilus group from forming a political party, it's not allowed to even imply the relationship between two. Japan is still not a country with freedom of speech.

Fake Uyoku - the obscure clans (1)

2006-05-12T20:27:00.000-07:00

This story is going to be very deep into Japanese underground but significant to unravel Japanese post war culture. Let me get started with my memory almost 10 years ago about fake Uyoku. When I was a high school student, I often saw cars painted in black like the pic below with a noizy old martial song.

Being so noizy and scary, that the cars are far from appealing, making me very disgusted. I happened to found their flyers posted on electric palls after they are away, and look how ugly the posters are! And I got to think that those people, who want old Imperial Japan back, would put Japan's future in huge jeopardy.

Then let me tell you the identity of those people. Many of them are not Japanese, but Korean (zainichi). When I heard about this, I could hardly believe it. Why would they have to disguise themselves as Japanese rightists, e.g., pure Uyoku?

It was not until recent that investigations on those groups have revealed the truth behind it. I'm going to follow the unnatural points the researchers found if we consider them as Japanese:

*Recently, the abductions by North Korea is one of the biggest political interests. When the families of the victims are making speech in the station plaza, the cars appear out of nowhere, and strange people gather to collect donation. Of course, the families of the victims never invited them.
*Look at the pic of the black car above again. You could see the flags of Korea and Japan below the chrysanthemum, which is the symbol of Imperial family. Why would they have to paint Korean flag next to Japan's? (An anonymous blogger found the Korean flag was upside down. I don't know if they did it on purpose.) If you can read Japanese, you'd notice the letters saying "Korean-Japanese friendship" on the van. I feel again very unnatural about this because "Japan-Korean friendship" is the right order without exception unless those letters are written by Korean sided people.

Here I listed information on bosses of fake Uyoku or Yakuza who are also Korean. Surprisingly, many Korean bosses were found:
group・・・・・・・・・・・・family Name given name
極東会・・・・・・・・・・・・曹圭化
松葉会・・・・・・・・・・・・李春星
双愛会・・・・・・・・・・・・申明雨
松葉会・・・・・・・・・・・・李春星
酒梅組・・・・・・・・・・・・金在鶴
山口組系極心連合会・・・・・・姜弘文
会津子鉄会組長・・・・・・・・姜外秀 (He usually uses a Japanese name, 高山登久太郎)
山口組系天野組組長・・・・・・金政基 (arrested Aug. 2006 for extortion)
双愛会系谷戸一家山武組・・・・鄭武男(killed 12/8/2006)

You don't know how to read Kanji? No problem. Usually the family names -- coming first followed by the given name -- consist of two or three characters. Korean's family names, on the other hand, require only one character to express. If I pronounce those family names, "Soh", "Lee", "Shin", "Lee", and "Kim". Those are obviously Korean names without exception. By the way, do you know what typical Japanese names are like? I bet you already know it: "Honda", "Toyota", "Suzuki" and so on. It's always sticking to a rule: consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel-... It's something to remember if you are majoring in something related to Japanese. Let me get back to the point. The point is that those fake Uyoku groups have quite high chance that they partly consist of Korean people. Since those Korean people can speak Japanese and born in Japan, I'll call them "zainichi", meaning "staying in Japan".

So, what is their purpose? Just focus on the nature of zainichi people to find it: they are educated in Korean schools independent of Japanese municipal administration to grow to hate Japan. So it's now obvious, isn't it? They have been doing this in order to implant an idea into Japanese that "Imperial Japan used to be hideous and tyrannical." That way, Japanese get to feel guilty about Japanese rule until 1945 in Korea, and they would apologize with compensation so that zainichi can make life much easier. If zainichi people claim that they were forced to come Japan and there's no job with them, Japan would pay for them. That's the idea. Actually 90% of them smuggle to Japan during Korean war, though.

I'm very troubled to see those fake Uyoku marching in Yasukuni shrine because I don't know those weird people! I picked the pic from a Chinese newspaper, and obviously this pic drives Chinese people scared.

There seem to exist several other kinds of fake Uyoku that is not for Korea. Nevertherless, it's still true that zainichi holds a big power in these world.

There's one episode recently I got around a Sumo wrestler Asashoryu who was from Mongol. As the strongest champion as of 2005, he's got many cameras and reporters surrounding him as usual when the incident happened. He got furious at a reporter from Korea (she enrolled in a university in Japan and became a reporter in Japan after graduation), and yelled at her, "Kimchi Bastard!" The rumor says that most reporters knew that Asashoryu got happy news of having baby at that time. According to the tradition of Mongol, he was supposed not to announce it because it is believed that daemons would kidnap newborn babies if their existence come out. Apparently the reporter broke the promise with Asashoryu and write an article about the baby. This is how he yelled at the reporter.

This is not what I want to say, the subsequent news makes me feel interested in Uyoku. Hearing the news of Asashoryu, Some fake Uyoku groups made huge protest against the behavior of Asashoryu, threatening several organizations such as Sumo Kyokai, and they even made a complaint to the Prime Minister. (The Prime Minister at that time, Mori, was also the president of Japan-Korea legislator friendship federation.) I just don't know why "Kimchi Bastard" irritates fake Uyoku. But now it makes sense.

I came across a video in youtube that reports an arrest of a yakuza leader in East Osaka. The name of the leader happened to be one of them I introduced to you, "姜弘文". His family name "姜" is a typical Korean name and never used in Japan. (He was arrested June 8, 2005 and indicted for extortion.)

Here's a link to Uyoku- the obcure cult (2)

At last we'll see Yakuza's agony

2006-05-08T19:46:00.000-07:00

For those who have no idea about Japan's "Yakuza", I'll briefly write about what Yakuza is. Yakuzas are Mafia groups running shady jobs covering everything. 40% of them being "zainichi", Korean originated people, they are so talented in collusion with media, politicians, or police, that we hardly observe their activities unless you get to know the underground world in Japan. You may know an ultimate fighting tournament "PRIDE",which is often broadcast, collecting fighters from all around the world. It is for example run by a Yakuza group, "Gotogumi". Of course no one tells that this is sponsored by GOTOGUMI, so I was one of those who recently realized about this. You're gonna be astonished to know how Gotogumi has been one of the biggest parasites of Japan. Let's get started with the recent big headlines: Headquarters of the Gotogumi including its boss were arrested May 8, 2006, for illegal resaling of buildings. Getting valuable because of the drastic reformation in the past 5 years, the buildings in Tokyo have been an easy targets for them to make quick money, and they apparently did it loudly to police. Although the boss let his company do such dirty works, he seemed to screw up somehow, resulting in arrest of himself, his group members, and the company.

A huge message board called 2ch, however, pointed that this is not only about the illegal resaling but "chickens come home to roost", the observers say. Up to one month ago, Japan was feverish to find "the behind the scenes" in Livedoor's incidents, where a rookie of an internet portal was arrested involving a murder. Although some magazines took up the dark relation between the livedoor and Gotogumi, we hadn't heard any news since then, which was very disappointing.

The arrest today seems to be brought about because they angered prosecutors about this livedoor incident or they angered biggest powers, Koizumi and Bush, due to their dark connection with North Korea. I'd have to mention the worst feature of Gotogumi, the connection with North Korea. They have smuggled drugs or fake notes from North Korea, contributing to prolonging Kim Jong Ill's life. Believed or not, the Ohm's terrorism taken place in Tokyo's subway stations in 1995 is closely related to Gotogumi; they guided Ohm to North Korea to obtain chemical weapons. Gotogumi is literally the cancer of Japan.

Then why not arrest them soon? No, no. It's not that simple. The thing is that Komeito, a political party supported by SGI (Soka Gakkai International) is the sponsor of Gotogumi. Keeping almost 8% of seats in Japan's parliament (as of 2006), Komeito has been the potential decision maker and giving LDP stable regime since LDP's seats barely exceed the absolute majority. In other words, Komeito can exert enormous power in politics more than its percentage (two thirds of the total executives are taken over by Korean related people or zainichi). We almost abandoned our hope for examination on the incident, but the news today was very shocking and encouraging to me. Some bigger power must have acted against Komeito. It's big news.

I'm very looking forward to seeing a weekly news program in Nippon TV because the rumor says the good looking newscaster is a lover of a member who was arrested this time. I'd have to say something about this newscaster or celebrity. She is a campaingn girl or a company held by Gotogumi, and there occurred a raid May 9th just after the arrest of Gotogumi's members. Graduating from Tokyo university, she has been winning many commercial contracts as a clever woman last year (Unlike in America, being on a commercial is a proof of popularity in Japan). It was famous that she was a lover of the president of the suspicious company, but no one expected that he would be arrested. His name is Nishioka, and I uploaded his pic. I can do this now because he was arrested as well. Gotogumi is notorious for erasing people.

It is evident that you'd think why Japanese citizens won't stand up. One of the reasons is that media is already frightened and manipulated by Gotogumi and Komeito. We rarely hear the criticism of those groups although we hear cursing words to Koizumi everyday. I bet very few people have heard the name of Gotogumi because I was even one of them until I got internet. There are many who still think Yakuza could be a necessary evil, which can't be! Japan may be thought as a fantastic country filled with people who make good products, but actually filled with stupid morons who don't know anything but making products. In this sense, Europe and America are very sophisticated in terms of "true democracy" or "healthy spirit".

(Gotogumi, consisting of 1500 members, is a branch of Yamaguchigumi, the biggest Yakuza. Gotogumi is also notorious for murdering a movie director who made a Yakuza movie.)

I'm jealous of Korean's life without frustration

2006-05-02T17:33:00.000-07:00

Calling himself a very patriotic apiarist, Ann, dived into the Japanese flag with thousands of bees, which is supposed to be a strong message to the world by stinging the flag with thousands of bee needles. You know what? I'm getting a huge fan of Korea! They are just unpredictable. By the way his perfoamnce is made to claim that the disputed island should belong to Korea, not Japan.

Let me say a good word for Korean. I've heard that only few Korean do such a radical performance, and the rest of the Korean are mostly calm down as well as Korean newspapers. Korean massmedia don't even take up those performances while Japanese press tend to report them in detail to imply how much Korean hate Japan. Seeing those scenes, some Japanese really feel sorry to Korea while others are just disgusted. The reason for these stupid performances being able to keep a high audience rating in Japan would be the fact that Japanese are too much concerned about what the world is thinking about Japan. That way, Japanese have been accumulating their stress inside themselves until they suddenly vent their frustration. In a way, being mental like the few Koreans, who seem to release stress, is more constructive way of life.

Let me emphasize one last thing before closing this article. I'm not a Korean hater, but want to be just a careful Korean watcher. Just look at the pic in the left. Don't you remember him? Yes! he's the one ripping a Japanese flag in the third pic in this article! I realized that only few crazy Korean put themselves forward to mass media, while the majority of Koreans are calm, and I even think that Korean don't welcome those stupid performers as a representative. I've found more and more things! He even does a performance against China, too. Then you'd be convinced, wouldn't you? Isn't it sad only his outstanding activities make impressions about Korea and normal people are not even looked at?

This pic below would be one of the true scenes to depict the normal Koreans. Looking like they indulge in supporting a soccer team. Now that they are developed country enough to producing high-tech products, they won't be feeling happy dihonoring neighboring countries.

The end of Koizumi's era

2006-04-27T22:25:00.000-07:00

Liberal Democratic Party, led by Koizumi, lost the election in Chiba prefecture April 23rd, 2006. It should be just a by-election for a seat out of 512 seats, but it seemed enough to predict the near future, the end of Koizumi's power.

Not having big news these days, the small election attracted the press and politicians to make a decision on what voters now think about Liberal Democratic Party and its biggest opponent, Democratic Party.

Democratic Party has replaced the leader, followed by an accused scandal occured to the former leader. And the replacement at least appealed to the voters their desperate attitude toward their new regime. I have to say something about the new leader Ozawa since I posted his pic below in this article, but let me skip him this time and I'll write about Koizumi's party.

Liberal Democratic Party, on the contrary, must have lost their sharpness; they won in the last big election in August 2005, focusing on the reformation of Japan's postal service. People knew what Koizumi wanted to proceed at that time. However, his vision became an old fashon since the bills were passed this month. The people's interest is not about reformation any more, but something new to make them refreshed such as the shock they felt when Koizumi proposed his grand-scale reformation last year.

In addition, I must make a comment on his lack of accountability for his results and plans. For example, abduction brought about by North Korea was one of the biggest issues, and voters know that Japanese and American government work together to tie up North Korea's assets earned from counterfeiting foreign currency. What the voters really want from Koizumi is his report about those issues, but he seems not interested in it in spite of his accomplishment on the abduction. One of his unique pledges is to start discussion on introduction of the system of prime ministerial election to Japan. Even though he has a good view as a reformer, the lack of accountability gradually makes the voters bored. For god's sake let us see his strong speech again.

Almost all of his important members entered Chiba prefecture to support the election, making many speeches, but they ended up making the voters bored furthermore. I think it's just a matter of the lack of topics. LDP's secretary-general even came up with a rhymed phrase and shouted many times to let voters remember the name of the candidate. Getting rather carried away, Koizumi doesn't seem to notice the meaningless performance only lead to make voters disappointed.

The Democratic Party, on the other hand, made rather better impression than LDP by campaigning on bicycles although their vision is not clear either. It's very sad that the politics in Japan is still not mature looking at those scenes. Japanese politicians should appeal what they can do, not what voters perceive.

Standoff over the island

2006-04-20T17:34:00.000-07:00

You heard about the news?
Japan has an everlasting territory issue with South Korea; the island, "Takeshima"("Dokdo" in Korea), in which no one can live because of the size, are a big concern since both countries mainly feed themselves on marine foods.

Koizumi and his cabinet members seem to have silently plotted to make Japanese opinion patriotic who are much less so than Korean. This is a very clever idea Koizumi came up with because if you trace back the history of the island, you are going to find many violations of international laws conducted by South Korea, and you'll find that it should have belonged to Japan. It's a matter of time before Japanese people start to think of Korea as a frequent law breaker.

Too much patriotism
Hearing the news of Japan's maritime survey near the ilsand, which is legal, Korea's backlash against Japan's government can't be avoided. But this backlash may be seen without Koizumi if you are a careful Korean watcher.

The pic above was taken in a class room in Korea where a teacher is using a board and try to have the pupils learn an English sentence, "Where is Dokdo?" The pupils look only 10 years old! That way, the whole Korea instills young children who are going to be strong patriots. Have you ever seen any Korean? They are VERY VERY patriotic, being proud of Korean. Is Japan getting rightish? NO! KOREA is the baddest rightist.

Sometimes they don't forget to appeal for their claim. Look at the pic below. He's apparently a soccer player and he writes "Dokdo is ours" in his T-shirt. Looks like he scored and took off his uniform.

Next pic below is from an international baseball game. It's now apparent since it's written in English. Eww, let's just calm down and forget about territories in a sport match!

What I just don't understand is the fact that Korean have been occupying the island and they are such a yeller. You don't have to shout about your purse being yours because you are the legitimate owner and you know it.

Is Korea allowed to occupy the island?
Just run a search in Wikipedia for Liancourt Rocks which is another name for Takeshima(Dokdo). It writes that "Syngman Rhee's (Peace Line) declaration of January 18, 1952, included the Liancourt Rocks as Korean territory." And it goes on in favor of South Korea to the end.
However, this declaration was taken place by Korean military with a seizure of 3929 Japanese casualties, 2 killed, and 300 captured fishing ships. This is obviously a violation of the international law. Don't count on only Wikipedia! they are full of those in Korea who are desperate to control those sites written in English, or Japanese are very poor at English. And Japanese massmedia, many of which are Korean friendly, can't overlook this when they begin to trace the history of this issue. Only Fuji TV took up this incident or Korea's many violations of treaty, on fishing in that area, which was agreed between Japan and Korea in 1999.

Let me add something about the Wikipedia. That takes up SCAPIN to assure that the island is the property of Korea, but you are never gonna find anything from the context. The Cairo declaration defines the territories of Japan as "the territory gained before 1914." And Takeshima was already Japan's in 1905, which by the way was before annexation of Korea. More explicitly, we have to refer to the final declaration, the Potsdam declaration, and it defines the islands Japan had to give up, jeju do and Ulreung do. It doesn't say anything about Takeshima, so Takeshima is not defined as the island Japan would give up. Please give me any comments if the final decision, the Potsdam declaration, stated that the island belonged to Korea.

I'll take up a link describing Takeshima below:
Dokdo or Takeshima?
This one and mine are written from the view of Japanese. Needless to say, it's best to listen to the other opinion from Korean pages. I don't think territorial disputes are interesting for the other people, though.

Retirement is coming soon - Koizumi

2006-04-14T21:04:00.000-07:00

Keeping unprecedentedly high approval rate of 48%, Prime Minister Koizumi implied his retirement on the coming September 2006 with his full term of 5 years.

He took part in a Hanami party, which is a gathering with food under cherry blossoms, with a bunch of celebrities and handicapped people.

This is not interesting news, but his speech was. He took up a famous poem from 16th century:

"Chirinubeki tokishiritekoso yononakano hanamohananare hitomohitonare"
(Interpretation:
Only knowing the fugacious time, can flowers in the world be flowers as well as human can be human.)

FYI:
For those who know Japanese culture, this is not Haiku. Haiku is shorter than this kind, Tanka. The tanka consists of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables(When counting Japanese syllables, stick to making a consonant and a vowel one syllable.) while Haiku 5-7-5.

Wmmm. It's not easy to translate poems into other languages. But I hope you know what he means. Anyhow, he says that human being should know when to leave.

His will is very valuable in Japan and you know the reason when looking around the past Prime Ministers in Japan. Almost all of them have clinged to power so that they can lead their easy life, keeping away the investigation on them.

In other words, he insists that he has been clean about money etc. so he doesn't have to be worried about after retirement.

It was very surprising to find out this article from ASAHI newspaper because it is well known to be an alternative press. It sucks up only when the majority is for the government. I don't like ASAHI newspaper.

Those who are way too rightish

2006-04-01T12:46:00.000-08:00

I couldn't upload recent articles because I was staying in Japan for a while.
From a view of a Japanese who haven't seen Japan for two and a half years, Japan looked a little changed in terms of politics. Just look at the picture above that is a most rightish magazine, "SAPIO". The reason of "most rightish" is that it covers criticisms about not only China or North Korea, but Prime Minister Koizumi. The cartoon below critically depicts Koizumi, clncluding that "his obsession with America and sofness on North Korea are the cancer of Japan."

It was surprising because I thought that Koizumi was the one who has been hardest on China, North Korea, or America. Just think about the conflict of the BSE (mad cow disease) with America. He is still reluctant to ease the tight leash on the American beef.

I found myself not a righist any more.

Is it a male heir ? - Princess Kiko expecting child

2006-02-08T18:16:00.000-08:00

Priness Kiko in the right turned out to be pregnant this time. Note that the husband is a younger brother of the next emperor.

It is very good news for us. Princess Kiko turned out to be pregnant, expecting a child in September 2006 although we don't know it's a boy or a girl.

As you see in the diagram above, all the recent children are girl, so the child is the only one who can ascend the throne without changing the law unless it's a girl again.
Please see yahoo news for detail.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/japan_imperial_succession_6

I made FAQ for those who are not clear about the situation surrounding the news.

Q. Why can't one of the girls ascend the throne?
A. The law banning this was made only 100 years ago, but it used to be just their untold rule that only males can do and they continued to inherit male's breed 125 times withoug exception.

Q. I heard that several women became an empress.
A. Yes, they allowed some women to reign, but those empress didn't marry or give birth to children. The important fact is that the current emperor can trace 2000 years back to the first emperor via only males.

Q. What did Prime Minister Koizumi did ?
A. He is a thorough realist. He formed a committee consisting of liberalists and made them announce that women need to take the throne to make the breed secured. However, it called a huge dispute, and he dropped his supporting rate by 5% just because of this. I think he was a bit hasty, but someone has to proceed.

Q. Isn't it a discrimination if you don't allow women to be heir?
A. The system of emperor is a discrimination per se. How do you decide the emperor between siblings? Choosing big brother or big sister is also a discrimination, isn't it? Japan's democracy let it exist, so it's not big a deal as long as more than half support this system. First of all, if the breed can date back along female's breed, we are willing to support all the empresses. But they lost the family tree for female's side.

Q. What kind of education is taking place in Japan? Do they have any curriculum in school to make pupils respectful to the imperial family?
A. No way. This is regarded as being a violation of freedom of religion. It's just because old people are still crazy about the family and Japanese history cannot exclude precedent emperors. Asahi newspaper, Japanese communism party, Social Democratic Party, and Komeito seem to be eager to abolish it, though.

Q. What is the family name of them?
A. They don't have their family name. ALL Japanese names consist of a family name and a given name such as "Ono Yoko". But there's only one exception. The imperial family doesn't have their family name such as "Hirohito" or "Akihito", and that's still one of their mysteries.

Giant Jellyfish and garbage

2006-02-02T19:57:00.000-08:00

This must be a very nerve-wrecking phenomenon for fishermen. Vast number of giant jellyfish are recently found to appear in the north coast of Japan. Fishermen are suffered from clogging of fishnets by their heavy bodies ending up with little catch of fish.

BTW, the size of a normal adult reach 2.2 feets.(2m) Wow!

It seems that they drift over from East Chinese Sea. Researchers suspect the increase of the sea temperature is likely to cause this mass generation.
Actually I'm very concerned about those ecology problems between China and Japan. The problem of Yasukuni Shrine just keeps those true problems away from us.

Just because I'm antsy about the sea doesn't mean I'm paranoid. To be honest, we've been having so much troubles with them.

If the territory conflict for gas exploitation development in East China sea came across your mind, you gotta be very good at Asian politics. But it's not what I'm going to tell you this time.

Tsushima, an island through which the ocean current (Tsushima current) carries the giant jellyfish, has been getting a huge trouble about drifted garbages onto the shores. Most of the garbages are pastics, cans, and styrofoams. It's obvious they are from China and Korea because most of the containers are written in Chinese or Korean. It's a huge headache; no matter how they clean the shores, a week after they find so many garbages stacking again on the shore like this pic below. Not that all of them are from China and Korea. Of course some of them are from Japan itself. However, the expense to tidy up those things is not neglibitle, and China and Korea seem not to care about this because of their lack of morality. They are now just desperate thinking about their own economic growth. Increasing recognition about ecology needs to be gradually grown about this problem.

Whitewashing history ? ---- truth of alleged Nanjing massacre

2006-01-24T19:35:00.000-08:00

Let's see how Japanese get rightish.
It is known that Nanjing (Nanking) massacre was caused in 1937 with 200,000-300,000 victims in Nanjing by Japanese imperial military. But do you know that it has still been seriously discussed in Japan? These days, there published increasing number of books claiming that Chinese communism party made up most of the pics to make the incident to look brutal.

Those books seem to come up recently. Up until ten years ago, rarely did I see those books. Only did I see some books, which are written in Japanese, describing just how tragic Nanjing massacre was. Most of the books simply investigated brutality of the Japanese crime.

I ran a search in amazon.co.jp for the books published about Nanjing massacre, finding 176 kinds of copies obtainable online. It's an enormous number.

Surprisingly, only one book out of best sold 10 books considers it positive about the existence, while the rest of 9 are likely to be negative or trivializing it. One of the nine is even titled , "We investigated Iris Chang's book and found the manipulation of information by Chinese communism." (More search on 30 copies revealed that: 5 copies favor the claim by Chinese communists and the other 25 copies cast doubt about it.)

*Don't judge me. Don't judge people. Don't prohibit discussion.*
May be Chinese communism made up pics. May be not. I don't know. But we'll keep an eye on whether Japanese people just want to whitewash the history. Anyway, what I can say about it is that Japan is a democratic country. Let them publish whatever they want, and they'll know what should be believed. Whichever the Japanese conclusion is going to be, I'll respect the general opinions after open discussions rather than the conclusion by a dictated country. There's a scholar who strongly protests Chinese claims and you'll see his book later on in this article. I searched web pages with his name, and what I found at the top in google was a critic site, written in Japanese, about his methodology. Criticism exist everywhere even against revisionists. Japanese ultra-rightwingers are of course subject to being under inspection.

Just as Japan, China must give citizens the right of speech and make them dispute. Otherwise, people lose chance to correct their wrong idea. They were taught that Chinese communism made Japan surrender. Huh? Not China. America did! And the people still believe that. (Recently I got news about CCP admit to accepting the fact, though.) How can they know if they can't access some webpages because of strict censorship.

The big difference is the freedom of speech. Notice that those rightists in Japan finally emerged after 50-year open discussion!

I've got the controversial book!

Look what I got! This is the best seller in Japan on the Nanjing's investigation. Since I'm living far from Japan, I ordered one copy from amazon. The book examines 143 pictures that are supposed to be the evidence of Nanjing Massacre, and explains how those pics are made up by Chinese Communists. The title says "Analyzing the photographic evidence of Nanking massacre."

I'll spend several weeks to read and introduce some of them to you.
I already read some of this, and found it interesting, although I don't think all of his claims are acceptable.

The main point I want to emphasize in this section is the gap of emotions between American and Japanese. Look at the picture below.

This pic was taken just after Nanjing was captured by Japan in Dec. 24th 1937. Tokyo Asahi Newspaper highly publicized the victory of Japan with this pic in which kids are flocking to pick up sweets from Japanese military. The author sets out his investigation of pics with this "TRUE" pic, saying "why would they come out and pick up? Weren't they too intimidated to do it by brutal Japanese military?"

Another pic above is from Dec.17th, so several days after fall of Nanjing. The civilains look very happy together with Japanese soldiers. How can it be possible? I thought that this is totally propaganda from Japanese side. They may have hided dark side of Nanjing and propagated exclusively those superfacial joyous scenes. However, I came to another fact after investigation that Japanese troops were well acquainted with how Kuomintang (Chinese) had been snooping aroud to propagate Japan's brutality. The picture was taken to let the world acknowledge that Japan behaved well. Believe it or not, it was information war taken place already 70 years ago!

I refrain from stating what Japan really did in Nanjing in 1937, but let me tell you something. These are the pics Japanese people saw in 1937, believing that Japanese troops behaved well. On the other hand, Americans saw whole other pics from LIFE with brutal scenes possibly caused by Japan. I think this is what we have to regret very much: looking at history in such different ways. Wars are created that way.

Here's a link to my second article on Nanjing: (2)

Livedoor, Yakuza, and politicians

2006-01-23T21:20:00.000-08:00

Actually I didn't want to hit this news because I am not bright in this Mafia stuff. Many of you, if you are a Japanese watcher, may have seen an internet portal, Livedoor, got raid lastweek, and the president was under arrest yesterday.

The opinions inside Japan have two main streams. As far as I know, it's just a battle between existing power (but corrupted) and the new power (but dirty about money). Since there's no pure justice, it's not so easy to stand for either one.

Although the arrest of Horie, CEO of Livedoor, is nothing but a welcome news, I don't think it will lead to a full settlement; a number two of Livedoor was killed in Okinawa. The mass media look it as a "suicide", but he killed himself by cutting his both rists, abdomen, and neck. How can you think of it as a suicide? Many bloggers including me have been discussing his enigmatic death, and got information from someone that the company has close relation with Yakuza. Kikko's blog, which has a million readers since it has nicked a number of those mysteries so far, points out the close relation of Yakuza and Abe, the promising next prime minister, in this Livedoor incident, and the blog asserts that the truth is never going to emerge.
I' m not sure about the relation with the next prime minister, but I agree with the blog about Yakuza. Since the number two was brutally killed, what kind of CEO would be willing to make a confesssion about illegal connection with Yakuza ?

The stocks has been falling down to 176 yen as of today, and heavy sellings are still awaiting. The stupid thing is that a stock from Livedoor is like fifty bucks, so naive housewives or even students can afford to some. The shock of the drastic drop hit those bigginers. BTW I was safe, holding 6 other brands.

What I don't like about him is that he is too leftish. The other day he mentioned that he didn't want to keep emperor system. The news section of Livedoor homepage is full of news provided by Japanese communism.

I'll add some more comments about his arrest.

Yasukuni shrine and Princess Mononoke

2006-01-18T18:05:00.000-08:00

It is still controversial that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi keeps visiting Yasukuni Shrine. It's obvious that it draws protests from China and South Korea, but the purpose of his stubbornness is not understandable. You may wonder there's something more, so let me discuss two points from now.

1. What makes people support him? newspapers or TV? Neither do they!
Knowing his visit in Oct. 2005, Japanese mass media took it up as a big headline, broadcasted it as a live news, interrupting normal TV programs. On the contrary to your guess, Japan's mass media are VERY concerned that Koizumi visited the shrine.

Looks like almost all of the TVs and newspapers are the one who attempt to undermine Koizumi, except Sankei group. Most of the mass media are supported by companies venturing into China, and we have too many pacifists and Marxists in mass media. Obviously they don't like having a conflict with China.

It's a typical tug-of-war between Japanese press and silent majority.

2. The historical positioning of shrines
A friend of mine at work told me that major Chinese newspapers write the shrine as a war shrine and it worships the war criminals. I wasn't surprised that Chinese media is not mature as well as Japan's, being one-sided tone. I want to trace the historical positioning of shrines and try to explain why they honor the war criminals.

Did you ever watch "Princess Mononoke"? It is one of famous Japanese animes, and you can rent it every video rental shops. The reason I bring it up is you can see the mentality of Japanese people in that movie and it can be strongly related to the Yasukuni Shrine. For those who don't know the gist, I'll briefly follow it here. It's from a very old time when people lived along the nature, Princess Mononoke vowed revenge against human being for the destruction of the nature. At the beginning, a big boar became demoniac and assaulted a village for his injury by guns. The village people killed the boar, and one suggested that they commemorate the boar.

This is what I want to focus on; the way of the typical Japanese is that they can't help commemorate someone who died with anger or sorrow. This is simply because they fear the curse from the dead spirit on the live people. Dazaifu Tenmangu in Fukuoka is one of the typical shrines that were build for such a reason. So was Goryo Shrine near my hometown in Kyoto. I've heard a prince was killed for a power game in ~10th century. Not that he was a great person because he was dead in his youth. It's just because he must be resentful at this world and died. They are so many shrines in Japan, but the more the resentful the honored person is, the longer the shrine tend to survive. People say that they possess more magic power so they need longer time to be calm down in the shrine. I think it's just people believe so.

Let's get back to Yasukuni Shrine. The logic of what people thought was the same. Not only the war criminals, but many dead soldiers are commemorated in Yasukuni because as you know by now, people fear the revival of the dead as a demon. So we can now easily guess what the mundane people think. They vow revenge against China? NO!

I attached simple F.A.Q. in the following.

Q. Why can no one stop him going there ?

A. It's his belief, and his freedom of religeon must be guaranteed.

Q. Why does the shrine commemorate war guilts ? They must attempt to whitewash their crime.

A. Look at the Japanese culture of building shrines. Many shrines commemorate those who died in a poor way. People believe from very old time that death souls in anguish turn to daemon to curse people and the world. Yasukuni shrine commemorates "war guilts" not to turn them to daemons.

Q. Why does Koizumi go to the shrine ? He pledges to avenge a defeat.
A. Yasukuni shrine commemorates many deaths. For instance, a deplomat killed in Iraq is in Yasukuni. His body should be visited by Koizumi because he died while Koizumi was the Prime Minister.

Q. Then why doesn't Yasukuni separate the "war crime" from normal deaths ?
A. It's what Yasukuni shrine can decide, not citizens or Koizumi can do.

Q. Does yellowpeep support his visit ?
A. If I was a Chinese, I don't support it. That way, I can sneak into East China Sea and suck the gas up while grabbing other countries attention. Plus at least Korean remains a loyal. If I was a Japanese PM, I can maintain a high approval rate by just going to Yasukuni, and able to do a drastic reformation as Koizumi did. So I support his visit. If I was from some place else, really don't care.

Quagmire of imperial family

2006-01-14T18:22:00.000-08:00

I'm going to spend a couple of weeks and write a crisis of Japanese imperial family. As seen from the world, the most closed family behind chrysanthemum curtain - called so after the symbol of the family - seems to have fun on their own. But the things can't be worse ever from my point of view.

The suspition arouse in my mind way too ago, but this made me more confident to know the fact that the princess canceled her birthday party among the Emperor's family just before it started. Her parents in law, the Emperor and Empress, are invited, but they ended up with being turned down by the princess. Apparently, we can see the situation that the wife is not getting along with her parents just as normal people.

For those who don't know much about Japanese royal family, let's get it straight with pictures.

The Emperor is already 70 with his beloved Empress, Michiko, who is the same age as the Emperor. It's a bit unrespectful but it's time to think about their progeny.

The prince is therefore not young, 45 years old, and he is obviously supposed to inherite the family. The problem is the next generation, his children. Actually he has only one daughter, Aiko, who is supposed to be out of their direct descendant in the event of her marriage. Plus many suspect Aiko suffers from autism since no one has ever witnessed Aiko's innocent smile although it's high time as she is 4 years old. Furthermore, no one has heard her speak something. (After writing this, I found a video taking Aiko enjoying potato digging December 2005, talking and smiling with her parents.) I'm not fond of occult and very careful about rumors, but I'm not the only one who is concerned about something wrong is happening to her physcological development.

Let us get back to my point. The real problem lies behind Aiko, the relation between the prince and the princess, or among the princess and the Emperor's couple. The princess made the Emperor and Empress stood up December 9th, 2005 due to the cancel of the princess's birthday party. Although the princess showed her cheerful face in the morning, she canceled it because she caught a cold according to Imperial Household Agent.
The princess canceled many appointments for events so far, resulting in increasing burdens to her brother-in-law because his family is subject to filling in for her family.
Tabloid papers didn't overlook this chance, and picked it up with big headlines.
In democratic societies, open discussion with open information must be guaranteed, but what family wants to speak up their own trouble?

I couldn't find the family tree in English, so I translated it into English. Man! it took me a long time. BTW, the current Emperor is 125th. And look at the bottom of the figure. Look how unlucky they are. They have nothing but girls.

Appendix: Okinawa Times, a major newspaper in Okinawa did a survey April 2004 about the Emperor system, and obtained 80% for pro-Emperor, and 13% for anti-Emperor. I am surprised to know that even Okinawa stands for Emperor system. (Okinawa is known to be one of the major places where anti-Japanese movement is actively taking place.)

You want to know more about their scandal?
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2006/06/we-all-are-pissed-off-with-princess.html

What Japan did in WWII - (epilogue)

2006-01-11T23:59:00.000-08:00

So what did Japan do to its colonies until the end of WWII?

Indonesia:
I've heard one story from an old Japanese man from Indonesia. He is not Japanese any more, and decided to live until his futhre death in Indonesia since his marriage to an Indonesian woman. He remembers the time when it was under Japanese rule.
According to his story, some of Japanese soldiers or cops (Kenpei) were disliked by Indonesian due to arrogant attitude; at that time, soldiers were highly ranked and it was common to salute soldiers when even passing by. On the other hand, he did a love marriage to the Indonesian woman, that shows there were some other cases where they got along together. More or less, Japanese looked Indonesian as human being, and that is why conflicts possibly happend.
When ruled by Holland until 1941, Indonesian life was rather separated from that of Dutch settlers. It's up to you whether you think of it as discrimination or the way of coexistence. The rule of Holland over Indonesia is complicated, too. I thought the time was like a hell and the people must had been heavily exploited. But it turns out the population of the Indonesia under Holland increased with the policy of VOC(Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie) and it's not simple either.
We also have to think about East Timor. From their perspective, Indonesia was the one that oppressed the movement of East Timor for their independence.

Korea:
You know that there was a killingfield in Chejudo from 1948 to 1949 by Korean government to suppress their independence movement? The victim was several tens of thousands. If Chejudo were to succeeded in independence, they would have been pursuing Seoul's criminal responsibility. What would Korean say to them then? "We modernized them and made them peaceful now." And Korean would suddenly notice the excuse they used was exactly same as Japanese when they justify themselves. Japan abolished harsh discrimination rampanting in Kin's dynasty, enhanced average lifetime from 24 in 1910 to 45 in 1942. Korean chose to lose their independence for their secured life. Think about executing independence war aginast Japan while being threaten by Russia at the beggining of 20c. I think Korean at that time was realistic.
I also know a lot of Japanese dark side in Korean peninsula, but I found it questionable that no one points out the facts stated above and everyone tends to accuse Japan with only one-sided history. Let's think both and make a moderate decision.

Palau:
I know that Palau supported Japan in WWII. The flag of Palau was originated from Japan's flag. I'm not bragging, but it's sad that a wrong propaganda that Imperial Japan did a huge atrocities in all Asia. At least Palau's people didn't think so.

China:
The TV coverage crew flew to China to report the same way, but the Department of public safety of China told them that it was subject to a censorship no matter what they film. This is why this TV program doesn't cover the series of China.

Links to the whole contents of "What Japan did in WWII":
What Japan did in WWII - Malaysia (prologue)
What Japan did in WWII - UK
What Japan did in WWII - Myanmar
What Japan did in WWII - Indonesia
What Japan did in WWII - Taiwan
What Japan did in WWII - Palau
What Japan did in WWII - Korea
What Japan did in WWII - Thailand
What Japan did in WWII - (epilogue)

What Japan did in WWII - Korea

2006-01-06T20:43:00.000-08:00

Narator: The first place we visited is the war museum in Seoul. It mainly exhibits Korean war occured in 1950. It also has a section of Japanese rule in WWII.
Narator: We asked children at the exit what is their impression on Japan.

Girl A : Japan is a bad country that deprived us of Korea.

Boy : They invaded us twice. The first one is Hideyoshi, and the second was in the 20th century. ( Hideyoshi Toyotomi was a Japanese general who unified Japan in 16c.)
Girl B : I think Japan is a bad country since Hideyoshi invaded Korea and killed people.
Narator: We visited an office in Yeouido, Seoul. There is a grop consisting of 2000 members of history teachers. The cover mainly studying and writing of history textbooks. We talked to the president of the group, Kim.
Teacher Kim : The entire Korea has been discussing how we should face the colonial rule. Some claim that the colonial rule allowed Korea to develop because many novel things were introduced. However, this perspective brings a dispute because the fact was not for Korea but Japan, in other words, they did it for easier rule for Japan, not allowing the nation "Korea" to develop.
Narator : We opened the only Korean history textbook published by Korean government. It writes in page 163 that the most shameful deed Japan did in its colonial time was using women for their war. It also writes some of the women were even used as comfort women for Japanese soldiers.
Narator: We came to Central High School in Seoul. It's a boy's school.
Narator : We got a permission to the TV coverage in teacher Choi's classroom.
Teacher Choi : The most interesting movie I watched about Japan was "Hotaru no Haka (grave of the fireflies)." Does anybody know about it? (A brother and sister die of hunger in WWII in this movie.)

Narator : A few raised their hands.

Teacher Choi : What did you think after watching it? What I noticed was that the Japanese people were also victims of WWII. Before this movie, I never thought that Japanese was also the victim of imperialism. Now I reached my conclusion. We have to separate Japan into two: to be blamed are the military, government, and companies. And Japanese people are on our side, victims. It's jumping conclusion to say that the entire Japan functioned as a whole to make a profit.

Teacher Choi: (After class he's talking to interviewer.) What I talked about is not described in our history textbook. Especially It completely omits descriptions about the circumstances around Japanese people, what kind of life they were leading inside Japan. Although it's of importance to stick to history textbook, I think it's more important for each teacher to construct a firm way of thinking.

Narator : Speaking of history textbook, China and Korea strongly have been protesting against the use of a textbook, Fusosha's textbook. We gathered information at an organization, "Fair collection of Japanese history textbook" in Seoul. Researchers from high schools and universities comprise this organization, studying the controversial textbook.

Narator : We asked the teachers sitting at the desk what's wrong with the textbook.
Doctor of history, Shin: In order to justify Japanese invasion into Korea, it uses the phrase that says Japan modernized Korea.

Narator : Researcher Choi picked up a discription on Rosso-Japanese war. It uses the statement from Sun Wen (Chinese leader) said, "As a result of Japanese win over Russia, the whole races in Asia came to bear a hope for independence."

History teacher Choi : The expression "Great East Asian war"and the part with the necessity of WWII to give independences to Asian countries are what I doubht the most.

Doctor of History, Shin: The problem is that it emphasizes the damage of Japan suffered from WWII. It plots the Japan as a sufferer rather than a perpetrator. It also looks Korean or Taiwanese who fought together with Japan in the same way it looks Japanese people.

Narator : We managed to meet elder people who remember the colonial period in Korean peninsula. Here we are in a meeting place for elderly people. Jo Imho(87) was married to a peasant.

Jo : As a farm family and a daughter of a senior official, I didn't work and all the things were taken care of by my housekeeper.

Staff : Any problem or inconvinience because of living in colony?

Jo : Not at all.

Narator : Moon Jong (79) was a student in a domitory next to school.

Moon: At that time Japanese neglected Korean. I was so frustrated with the lack of Korea.

Narator : Li Sang Man (90) was a firefighter. He didn't want to get drafted and passed an exam to be firefighter.

Li : I never imagined that Japan would be defeated. I was so staggered that I couldn't think of what would happen next. Never did I think that Japan would lose. (He is speaking Japanese.)

Narator : A book written by a Korean became a best seller in Japan, selling 300,000 copies since 2002. The auther Kim Wan Sop completely changed his way of thinking about Japan in favor of Japan as he spent years overseas. (The camera focuses on his messageboard online, full of Korean comments, "Kill you" or "We should kill Chinilpa" (chinilpa is a derogatory term standing for those who likes Japan.) ) He claims that Korean should be blamed for every issue such as history, Yasukuni, or Takeshima. The book he wrote was pointed as a harmful book by Seoul and banned. His concept is "the one who twists the interpretation of the history is Korea, not Japan. And this is the standard observation from the world."
Kim : The education in Korea is completely wrong. On the other hand, Japanese history textbooks write few about Korean developments or modernization even though Korean peninsula used to be a part of Japan.
Narator : Kim also says that many things appearing "History newspaper" used as a sidereader in Korea contains a lot of mistakes. He points out the population of Korea in 1910 didn't reach 10 milions while the side reader uses the headline with "20 millions".

Kim : Japanese lost a lot of lifes in WWII and fed up with wars. The policies of GHQ by America made the Japanese pacifist. Japan used to have many good things in its old time, but they regret all their history as if they brought about a huge invasion into the world. I think it's too much, and the tendency should be relaxed.

Narator : Jo Giyon (78) was a student when the war ended.

Jo : I couldn't receive Korean education, all I got was a Japanese education. I respected teachers. And the society was making an effort to achieve the equality between Korean and Japanese. (My comment: From 1942, Japanese government became less enthusiastic to teach Korean as before. Tokyo thought that adaptation to Japan is the closest way to decrease discrimination. The more Korean learn Japanese, the more they can get easily used to the society of Japan mainland. However, this policy is now a target of dispute by some people as a policy erasing Korean culture.)

Narator : Jun Tae Hi is a Korean born in Dalian (North china). She moved to Beijing for her job. She was teaching excersize to Japanese men.

Jun : The people in China were generally living as they were without much discrimination. In fact, I meet with respectable teachers as well, so I didn't suffer from a discrimination in my school, either.

Jun : When I heard the radio announce the surrender of Japan Aug. 15, I couldn't hear much. But the girls around me began to sob. Everyone. I felt an awkward feeling. We must have a feeling of liberation, but I was young, didn't understand what it was. So awkward that I didn't know if I should cry or not. (speaking in Japanese.)

Jun : We lost to Japan and it's a shame. However, we must teach the history as it is to children. (speaking in Japanese)
Announcers: We've got lots of comments in our website during the series of this program. Let me introduce some them here today.

Comment 1 : I think we ought to teach the significance Japan had, the war to protect our country. Don't be deluded by China or Korea into the masochistic perspective.

Comment 2: We can't help equalize the feeling of the one who stepped someone's toe and the one who was stepped. We may as well think of those who were stepped. History is important, but the heart to think about someone else is more important.

Comment 3 : I'd like to ask a portion of people in east Asia. What do you think we can do to forgive Japan? Japan has been searching for the way for 60 years and entered into 21st century without knowing it. I think it's time to tell me how.

Comment 4 : I don't know what is the truth, but the education to let people hate other people is absolutely wrong. What's the most important is to educate friendly emotion in children's heart.

Comment 5 : Don't glorify the crime Japan did. Regard the mistake as it is, and apologize to Asian countries. Let people remember wars, and we can do it by teaching the fact that killing each other creates nothing, leaving only grief or resentment. I think the start point is to think about people nearest to you.

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You may want to know about Japanese military in other countries:
What Japan did in WWII - Malaysia (prologue)
What Japan did in WWII - UK
What Japan did in WWII - Myanmar
What Japan did in WWII - Indonesia
What Japan did in WWII - Taiwan
What Japan did in WWII - Palau
What Japan did in WWII - Korea
What Japan did in WWII - (epilogue)

What Japan did in WWII - UK

2006-01-02T16:06:00.000-08:00

This series is from a local TV program in Japan to get closer to the real facts of WWII. For more detail, go to the prologue.
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-japan-did-in-wwii-malaysia.html
You may think that it is one-sided history from Japanese perspective. So did I. But actually I've never been taught in school about the fact the TV says. And suddenly I realized that I am the one who only knew the other one-sided history. Let me know how you felt.

The staff flew to United Kingdom.

Narator : Having achieved industry revolution earlier than any other countries, Britain got deeply involved in the world history including asia with its superpower. We've come here London to see how they teach students their complicated history of WWII.

Narator : We met an elder citizen who remembers WWII.

Old man A: The government made us believe the propaganda that looked German and Japanese were all evil. I learned it's not after then.

Old Lady A : I remember Churchill appeared on a radio to boost the morale of ours. Everyone heard him speech. "Since we have all the colonies all over the world, we can collect army from there. So we never surrender," he said.
Narator : The history textbook used in UK gives few descriptions on the war agiasnt Japan. Moreover, we couldn't even find the words "imperialism" or "colonies". Why don't they teach those important words to students ? Mr. Will, who teaches its history in a junior high school, explains that the opinions about the imperialism are not unified even inside UK.

Teacher Will : In our textbook, the incidents that would be shameful to us are deliberately ommitted. For instance, Suez crisis in 1956 is not described, and neither is Amritsar massacre in 1919.

Narator: Not many students learn the war between Britain and Japan. We visited London University and asked students who study Japanese what led both the countries to WWII.

Student A : Actually we were not taught about that. I think Japan felt a lot of pressure from the Western and America. That cornered Japan and made it expand for its interest.

Studnet B : United nations advanced to overseas for their prosperity. Japan did it for its economic profit and raw materials.

Narator : Here we arrived at National Military Museum in London. It exhibits many historical heritages from mediaval to modern age. This museum provides various seminars about the wars according to generations from kindergarteners to university students.

Narator : We ran into a seminar for students from a junior high school.
Narator: Julian is a popular lecturer with his lilting talk. He is giving a talk about WWI (Not WWII !) spending 70 minutes.
Julian : Military service used to be voluntary until January 1916.
Julian : Since then, mens over 18 got inducted into army. Among volunteers, Indian occupied a great percentage; For an example, Indians were the majority in the army in Western French in 1915.
Julian : The picture you are looking at is Caribbean army. At that time, Great Britain posessed a vast territory from which armies were sent to France. Carib, Africa, India, Canada, SriLanka, etc.

Narator : He came to explain what a soldier is about. He has students hold up granades and teaches how long it takes to explode.

Julian : OK. Your name is Sam from now on. Consider everyone else around you is enemy. What equipment do you think is necessary to fight?
Some student: Rifle !

Julian : You can't go on a war naked. Haven't you seen a war movie?

Other student : Pants !

Julian : Pants! (LOL in the class)

Narator: And he went on the ourfits of a typical soldier in WWI. Every thing about underwears, shirts, socks, or even the number of those supplyments is introduced.
Julian : You're going to put everything you need in battlefields. Knife, fork, spoon, razor....

Julian : You need to shot 15 shots a minute to be eligible for a full sallery.

Narator : Now the student is full equipped. He left a comment that everyone should pay a respect to soldiers who went to battlefields.

Stuent A : It was a very intesting seminar. Unlike our daily classes, I virtually experienced what a war is all about.

Narator: After the seminar, students are allowed to touch the equipment from WWI. Next seminar is about WWII. Mainly he is going to talk about the war in Europe.

Narator: We asked Will the key point to teach history.

Will : I want them to understand the history we are learning is a provisional one. History is a subject changing as time goes by because we ourselves are changing. Therefore, it is necessary to look back and assess the history again and again.

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Links to the whole contents of "What Japan did in WWII":
What Japan did in WWII - Malaysia (prologue)
What Japan did in WWII - UK
What Japan did in WWII - Myanmar
What Japan did in WWII - Indonesia
What Japan did in WWII - Taiwan
What Japan did in WWII - Palau
What Japan did in WWII - Korea
What Japan did in WWII - Thailand
What Japan did in WWII - (epilogue)

What Japan did in WWII - Palau

2005-12-31T15:44:00.000-08:00

This series is from a local TV program in Japan to get closer to the real facts of WWII. For more detail, go to the prologue.
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-japan-did-in-wwii-malaysia.html
You may think that it is one-sided history from Japanese perspective. So did I. But actually I've never been taught in school about the fact the TV says. And suddenly I realized that I am the one who only knew the other one-sided history. Let me know how you felt.

The staff flew to Palau.

Narator : After the devastated defeat of Japan in Midway island, Japan was run after from America up North. We've come to small islands, Palau, 3000 km apart from Japan. It used to be one of Japanese territories before the end of WWII. It took us 90 minutes by jet boat from Koror, the capital, to Peleliu island.

Narator : In this town, they had sushi restaurants as well as Japan's southern ocean office to control the Pacific Ocean.

Narator : Kurata Yoji, an oceanographer, was a survivor from the battle of Palau. He lives in Palau now.

Narator : We are getting to Peleliu, a flat island made of shelf of coral.

Narator : America began landing operation September 15, 1944 from Orange Beach on Peleliu island in which Japan built a small airport. Who imagined that this small island ever became a battlefield ?

Kurata : Oh, I still remember this place. The beach has a shallow coastal water with only 200 m (230 yards) , so it was easy for America to capture.
Kurata : Besides, it has the airport and the strip on the hilltop, so they can directly aim at the airport by attacking here.
Kurata : We experienced a fierce battle two days in a row from Sep. 15 to 16, and most of Japanese force was destroyed. So it must be a memorial place for American.

Narator: Japanese troops had only 10,000 strong while America had 40,000. Knowing that Japan would lose, they had to try to defend the island because they can fly to Phillipine within two hours from here.

Narator : The command center of Japan was left on the hill behind the airport.

Kurata : They are bullet marks. They have a room for radio transmission inside. Look at the door. It is made of a thick iron. Very thick.

Kurata : The plane must have done an emergency landing. Let's take a look inside. One seat. So, it's a fighter. It must be a zero fighter. I wonder how they handled those light-armed stuff like this.
Narator : Kurata survived on account of injury in his left arm he's got in the middle of a battle. So he was discharged from the first line of defense.

Narator : Susumu Kato (75) was left inside Peleliu at that time although all of civilians were forced to evacuate by Japanese army to a nearby island before the battle began.

Kato : I was so surprised to hear the sound of fire from gunboats. It was about 3 o'clock. Since I was a friend of a Japanese soldier, I asked what to do. "It has nothing to do with people in Palau. So you've got to escape from here," he said. And he also said that no American would harm you. So I snuck out the island.
Narator: Nina Antonio (75) are looking back to the life in the refuge, and remembering how few the food was left with them.
(She's singing a Japanese song. It writes the life in the refuge. I think this is what they made there. For example, the second part says "Climbing a mountain to see the sunset, it was so glare that it hurt me in the eyes. Looking back to the old memory with my painful heart, I found myself very missing him/her who I saw off with eyedrops.")
Nina : Because we were raised in Japan, (for her, this island is Japan, too.) and because we loved Japan, we reminded ourselves that Japan would surely win.

Kurata : Captain Gotou ordered the rest of the soldiers to do a reckless attack (gyokusai). "Everyone who still has guts, let's get out and fight," he may have said like that.
Narator : Was it his order ?

Kurata : Yes, and at last the final systematic attack against America ended after that.

Narator : Capturing Palau, America set for Phillipine from this airport. The battlefields shifted north, Guam Saipan, and Okinawa.

Narator : The history was made just 60 years ago in such a small island surrounded by this beautiful blue sea.

Links to the whole contents of "What Japan did in WWII":
What Japan did in WWII - Malaysia (prologue)
What Japan did in WWII - UK
What Japan did in WWII - Myanmar
What Japan did in WWII - Indonesia
What Japan did in WWII - Taiwan
What Japan did in WWII - Palau
What Japan did in WWII - Korea
What Japan did in WWII - Thailand
What Japan did in WWII - (epilogue)

What Japan did in WWII - Taiwan

2005-12-30T17:43:00.000-08:00

This series is from a local TV program in Japan to get closer to the real facts of WWII. For more detail, go to the prologue.
http://yellowpeep.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-japan-did-in-wwii-malaysia.html
You may think that it is one-sided history from Japanese perspective. So did I. Actually I've never been taught in school about the fact the TV says. And suddenly I realized that I am the one who only knew the other one-sided history.
Let me know how you felt.

The staff flew to Taiwan.

Narator: Let's take a look at a Taiwanese soap opera currently played by FTV. The title is "Routousha". It depicts the time in Taiwan when ruled by Japan. In most movies or dramas in Taiwan up to now, Japanese have been characterized as heels so far. In this movie, however, Japanese play a normal part, and this soap opera even has a scene of communications between Taiwanese and Japanese in daily life. We flew to Taiwan to ask about it.

Narator: Here we arrived at FTV in Taipei, which creates the soap opera, and luckly we got a chance to talk to the president.
Narator: He looked excited about creating a huge-scale movie that has never been played.

President Chen : Just imagine how faithfully we struggled in reconstructing the days of yore with the careful use of movie prop such as clothes.

Narator: The story of the heroine is based on a real girl in Taipei. Named as Shin, raised in Taipei, and went to a university in Tokyo. (Meanwhile, I can hear someone in the play is saying, "Shin, many boys mess with you because they like you!" Apparently some Japanese has a feeling with her in Tokyo.) Furthermore, the friendship between Japanese and Taiwanese is depicted from time to time.

Narator : (In this scene, a Japanese young man encourages her in Japanese, "A new life is awaiting you in Japan. Take it easy," with Taiwanese subtitles. "Yes", she answered in Japanese with a smile.) After then, she experienced an eventful life in Japan. The gist goes : she studied medical science there to become the first woman doctor in Taiwan.

President Chen: It was not until Democratic Progressive Party took power that those kind of movies are allowed to play. I'd like to make such dramas from now on.
Narator : The change of regime from Kuomintang government to Democratic Progressive Party triggered the change of life around the citizens as well. There was only one textbook for students used to be assigned by the government, but now each school got to choose one since three years ago. Then how about the class ? Can we see any changes about how they teach students the history of WWII? To find this, we went to Taipei and observe a junior high school in which 13 year old students are in the middle of learning the history.
Teacher Lai : Let me ask you one question before the class gets started. Did you see the movie "the love in Pearl Harbor" ?

Students : Yes.

Teacher Lai : Ok. Then we are going to learn how Pearl Harbor day happened.

Narator : The textbook they use spares two pages for describing Sino-Japanese war and WWII. Two soldiers can be seen with the title saying "100 killing with swords".
Teacher Lai : What is the first combat between China and Japan ? (posting papers on the blackboard)

Students : July 7 incident !

Teacher Lai : It took place July 7 in 1937. It is also referred to as Lugouqiao incident.

Narator: The description about Lugouqiao incident covers five lines in the textbook. It writes the episode of a Japanese soldier disappeared in night, which was the onset of the incident.

Teacher Lai : The leader at that time was Chiang Kai-Shek. He made a speech, "Avoid the war with patience as much as possible."

Narator : Furthermore, the textbook writes that Japanese army killed more than 300,000 civilians in Nanking.

Teacher Lai : What did Japan do in Nanking in 1937 ?

Students : The massacre of Nanking.

Teacher Lai : The textbook we are using doesn't place any picture. When I was young, the textbook run a lot of pics with brutal scenes. The reason they don't do it now is we don't want to foment students, and they decided to just write about the fact. This incident is the most heartbreaking one throughout the 8-year war against Japan.

Teacher Lai : Japan suddenly attacked Pearl Harbor in America in 1941. "How come our base got bombed ?" said America, and America declared a war on Japan. And where did the president of America attacked with atomic bombs?

Students : Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Teacher Lai : And Japan accepted an unconditional surrender. The war of China against Japan lasted eight years until the day. In the meanwhile, a lot of lives are lost because of the war. The whole world was in the age of imperialism. Not only Japan, but Western countries and America were among them. Invading other countries and depriving others of their property, can you imagine that the time existed before?

Student A (girl) : I don't have any feeling about Japan when occupying Taiwan. We should forget about the past and get along together.
Student B (boy) : Japan gained power at that time, so it expanded into other regions.
Student C (girl) : War is cruel. Although Japan did things to be blamed, Taiwan must have done, too. I want to think about the future friendship rather than sticking to past things.

Narator : We asked the teacher what she think must be focused on.

Teacher : The current education in Taiwan regards the colonial rule as the modernization of systems such as law, medication, economics, transportation, or water and sewerage.

Narator: In Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, you can find many buildings from colonial time.

Narator : Many Taiwanese young men were sent to battlefields. With what feelings did they go for fight ? Ling Kin-Kau (78) was a volunteer when he was 16 and went to Phillipine as a mechanic along Japanese troops.

Ling : There's no Taiwanese or Korean. Every one was Japanese. It's weired to be asked like that. (I think the staff asked something about his nationality.)

Ling : I was patriotic, so I volunteered. That's it. Of course it's for Japan.

Narator : Sou uki (81) experienced a miserable combat in New Guinea, having almost no decent food over two years.

Sou : It was a war, so there's no discrimination among us. (On Aug. 15 when Japan was defeated) Hearing Japan's defeat, I screwed up like "How can Japan be defeated? " Ling: After the news, three friends of mine blew themselves with grenades, saying "Emperor Banzai ! (it means hurrah for Emperor)" They died together. The young men at that time were so... I can't help crying just thinking about that. (He's choked with tears and everyone was silent. Note that he is speaking Japanese as the interviewers.)
Narator : These several hears, they had more and more customers going to Japan for sightseeing. According to the last year's national survey, the annual tourists to Japan surpassed 1 millions. One millions are a big number considering their total population is 22 millions. Here we arrived at Houou International tourism company and asked questions to the general manager of the company.
Liao (manager) : The reason for many tourists from Taiwan to Japan is different among generations. For elder people, it reminds them of their good old days. Younger people seem to be more interested in fashion or many places with seasonal sceneries.
Narator : "Go Go Japan" is a TV program on air by Formosa TV, and it's been attracting people's interest over one year. As you see in the title, the program picks up travel information on Japan. Taiwan has three cable channels exclusively broadcast Japanese grograms, but this one is made from a Taiwanese point of view, and which makes a different from others. The good feelings of Taiwanese towards Japan may partly be formed by those programs.
(Womens are enjoying a spa that is said to bring them a long-lasted life.)
(She's trying some food in Ryokan, a Japanese hotel. And other scenes with Mt. Fuji or a festival in Tohoku are introduced although they are not captured here.)