October 06, 2020
The following is from a paper by Koji Matsumoto.
The following is from a paper by Koji Matsumoto.
It published in the September issue of the monthly magazine WiLL titled 'Confront Korean lies. Why does Korea continue 'anti-Japan'? Detect historical truth, reveal Korean fiction.'
It is a must-read paper not only for Japanese citizens but also for people around the world.
Without reading this paper, the history of the Far East after the war is entirely unknown.
Koji Matsumoto graduated from the University of Tokyo and joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI).
He posted to South Korea, where he discovered how strange it was and wrote one of the world's best books on Korea.
He is one of Japan's national treasures, embodying the elite's role who enter the University of Tokyo.
I am sure that Saicho would have hung his head on Mount Hiei for his work.
Alexis Dudden, a Korean agent, and incredibly low intelligence dominate the American Historical Society.
The same goes for the United Nations.
The time has come for the international community to be ashamed of knowing their ignorance and inefficiency.
Above all, there are South Korea and China, the land of abysmal evil and plausible lies.
In South Korea for 74 years after the war, China started Jiang Zemin to distract people from the Tiananmen incident.
The fact that the international community overlooked Nazism, called anti-Japanese education, has created a volatile and dangerous world.
China's grow impudent, South Korea's madness (Korean peninsula's madness), Putin's raise impudent, all of which result from the international community's continued neglect of Nazism that China and the Korean peninsula continue to do.
'Korean Tradition' from the modern era.
I would venture to say that Korea is the most similar to Japan in the world.
Since the modern era, it has been adopting Japanese institutions and culture, so Japanese influence has felt in every corner of its society.
Japan fought the Sino-Japanese War and made Korea independent. Still, Korea created by this war has not only gained the status of an independent country, but it has also become a completely different country from the old Korea that existed before.
The core tasks leading to the Korean nation's birth, such as independence from China, the establishment of the Korean language as a cultural language, and Korea's study by modern methodology, were mostly accomplished by the Japanese.
Although it may seem surprising to many people, most of what we now call 'Korean traditional culture' actually emerged or found its significance in the modern era.
It was the Japanese who played a leading role in this process.
Initially, the people of the Korean peninsula were not very interested in their own traditional culture.
The 'Koreanness' was almost non-existent in the world of consciousness at the time.
The mouthpiece of a Korean history textbook shows a picture of a Buddha statue in Seokguram, Gyeongju.
It is a magnificent Buddha statue made in the Silla period.
It was discovered in 1909, before the annexation of Japan and Korea, but it was under the protection of the Japanese government.
A Japanese postman, who had gone into a cave to take shelter from the rain, found the Buddha statue in the shower and caused an uproar.
A survey team was sent to investigate, and because it was so valuable, the Governor General's Office did a great deal of work to preserve it.
Some may think this is obvious, but it should be recalled that Joseon was a rigidly Confucian state hostile to Buddhism. Many Buddha statues were destroyed as soon as they were found and abandoned without any records.
In 1940, a 15th-century book of Hunminjeongeum illustrations was discovered, which describes a 15th-century account of Hangeul production.
It was found in a private house in North Gyeongsang Province, where it was used as a backing sheet.
It is now a national treasure, but in Joseon's time, it would have been treated like a scrap of paper.
It saw the light of day because it was an era when Hangul was regarded as a valuable cultural heritage.
It was the Japanese who discovered the beauty of Korean ceramics.
In the old Chosun, there was not much of a tendency to value old ceramics as treasures, and there was not much of consciousness to cherish traditions. The technique of celadon was also destroyed long ago; no one was able to make it anymore.
However, a connoisseur and businessman, Gisaku Tomita, invested his own money to revive it after ten years of work.
Today's celadon porcelain sold in Korean department stores and souvenir shops is not based on traditional techniques, but rather on Tomita's restored (and generally accepted) methods.
It is an old and new art that the Japanese revived from the ground at the beginning of the 20th century after having disappeared from Korea's land.
Shinpei Ogura is also worthy of special mention.
Initially an assistant at the University of Tokyo, he studied the notation of Manyoshu. Still, he decided to go to Korea and explore the ancient Korean language, especially 'Hyangga.'
Hyangga is a song from the country, meaning it was a song from the countryside, but it transmitted only 25 poems.
Seen from the Korean Confucian, it was like a relic of the insignificant barbarians era.
In the first place, ancient Korean literature is almost non-existent, and they don't know how to read it.
While Ogura worked in the governor's office as a junior official, he began studying ancient languages. It raided Donkey at a recess and went out to a district and gathered a dialect.
An old old-time word is left in the district away from the center far.
It kept an eye there.
He continued his lonely research in the surrounding indifference, in the field which neither the Korean nor the governor's office, no, even the Linguistic Society of Japan didn't have an interest in so much.
It was the result of his devoted efforts that gave Korean the foundation for scientific research.
After Japan's rule, it was the Japanese made it that rediscovered its tradition and revived, in other words, the attempt to discover the value of 'something Korea' that the old Korean person of superior social standing did not look.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Korean nation was born through an 'encounter' with modern Japan.
'The protagonist of colonial Korea in the first half of the 1940s continued to play the leading role in the new country after the promulgation of independence in the second half. Although it should have been those who accepted the Japanese Emperor participated in the US military administration and played a role in constructing the new nation. I have to see that it built a new country in the country '('Contemporary Korean History under the Emperor of Japan' Cheongam Song Gun-ho)
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