I LOVE JAPAN. Kazuhiro Arai

Koreans take an extremely hostile attitude when facing a Japanese team in sporting events. A reason is that they have received anti-Japanese education. Then, do they really dislike Japan? The answer is not necessarily ‘Yes.’ So many Koreans visit Japan every year. Very few Korean residents in Japan return to Korea. There are many Japanese restaurants run by Koreans in America and Europe and the owners pretend to be Japanese. Many other Koreans are said to pretend overseas to be Japanese too.               Koreans criticize Japan for the case of ‘comfort women.’ They claim that the Japanese army took Korean women away and forced them to become its ‘sex slaves.’ This claim is based only on a fiction forged by a Japanese writer. This is most puzzling. There is no evidence for such cases. Why did not they examine the cases and offer enough evidence? Korea (has) had actually a widespread culture of prostitution. The cultu...

North Korea is today’s most dangerous country in the world and South Korea is the most risky country since it is weighing USA with China for a friend. The world divided the Korean Peninsula into two and has created two problematic countries. If it had not done so, it would have faced only one problematic country. Only Koreans in the world are unable to unite long after the end of the Cold War. Koreans are the world’s most difficult people to understand. One of the reasons is that they pretend to be under democracy with separation of powers. Another is that their culture is not sufficiently refined and quite childish. Still another is that they have subordinate mind because they have been surrounded by big countries through history. People in the world were dumbfounded by the backbiting diplomacy of the former South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Was the president a primary school pupil? Most South Korean presidents were prosecuted and some were sentenced to death. It is hard to ...

The Cold War ended long ago, but it is only Koreans in the world that are unable to form their ethnically united country. This fact suggests that they are different from peoples of other countries. I would like to emphasize that they are extremely different and beyond our understanding. North Korea is now making threats of nuclear wars against some countries including Japan. Today's world has no other country that issues such explicit threats. It is a communist country in name but is actually a dynasty for the Kim family. Most people there live below the minimum standard of living and do not have freedom of speech at all. North Korea abducted many people in several countries including Japan. Later it admitted this fact and sent the ‘remains’ of a Japanese abductee to Japan. After a DNA test, Japanese government announced that those were someone else’s.               South Korea has broken treaties with Japan so man...

Japan has been criticized for her whaling. This problem has several interesting points. When discussing it, we must recognize first that no animal can live without killing living things. Many animals including most of us need to kill other animals. Whaling is undertaken not only by Japan but also by Norway, Denmark, Russia, and so on. However, only Japan has been criticized. I wonder why the movie The Cove does not criticize Norway which kills more whales than Japan does. There is a similarity between this case and that of comfort women. Anti-whaling groups receive money for their activities from large corporations which compete with Japanese corporations. The former corporations expect the groups to create bad images for Japanese products or to organize boycotts against them. Thus anti-whaling is means for the anti-whaling people to earn a living and for those corporations to meet competition successfully. What is important to them is not whales but money. This suggests one reas...