SDHF Newsletter No.53 Even First Rate Korean Newspapers

Even First-Rate Korean Newspapers Are Plagued with Anti-Japanese Fundamentalism
by Nishimura Kohyu

December 25, 2012

Nishimura Kohyu, journalist and critic, suggests that the Korean mistrust and fear of the Japanese crosses over into the realm of paranoia. The Korean mindset is characterized as imagining Japanese demons lurking behind every bush and the over-the-top, unreasoned responses to perceived wrongs committed in the past by Japan. Such thinking is characterized by Mr. Nishimura as “fundamentalist,” akin to Muslim fundamentalism espoused by the Taliban. Indeed, Mr. Nishimura suggests that shrill anti-Japanese Koreans are currently engaging in “information terrorism,” comparing past and present Japanese acts, no matter how innocuous, to Nazi atrocities.
One aspect underlying Korean thinking is their previous status as “Small China”. Many Koreans have yet to discard the notion that they are “Small China,” an offshoot of “Big China” but still above all others, which gives them the right to view foreigners, including Japanese, as “subservient” and “inferior”.
One other aspect pointed out by Mr. Nishimura underlying Korean thinking is their cavalier disregard of the facts. Koreans have selectively ignored ugly aspects of their own history. Rather than acknowledge that Japanese annexation took Korea out of the dark ages of the Yi Dynasty and into the modern era, Koreans focus on how the Japanese “destroyed Yi Dynasty culture”. You can read Mr. Nishimura’s paper below;

Summary: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/95_S2.pdf
Full text:https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/95_S4.pdf

Questions are welcome.

Sincerely,

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Secretary General
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact