December 22, 2014
日本を嫌っているのはだれか？
私は19のアジアの国々と，アジア以外の50の国々を訪れたことがある．ほぼ20年に渡って海外に住んで旅をしてきた．
メディアは，世界が日本に背を向けているかのようにほのめかしているが，でも実際には，日本よりも評判の良い国はカナダ，ドイツ，あるいはオーストラリアだろう．（最後は私の推測だ — 知りようが無いので.）
ドイツとカナダはとても評判が良い — 私自身がよく知っている．日本もだ．私が旅してきた国で，日本を嫌っているのはたった二つの国だけだ．中国 — 永遠の情動マシーンそしてどんどん巨大化するグローバルな圧制者．二つ目は非常に理性のない大韓民国だ．
韓国の日本嫌いは度を超している，彼らはにこやかな日本人よりも核兵器を携えた北朝鮮を受け入れるだろう．
私は北朝鮮には行ったことがないが，北朝鮮というのは無力で，国としては全く正気では無い．
メディアのリポートを読むと，まるで日本が近隣諸国から嫌われているかのように書かれているが，実際の所，中国や韓国以外とはうまくやっている．
ここタイでは，人々は日本人に好意を抱いている．日本人は礼儀正しい，親切だ．滅多に問題をおこさない．一方で中国人と韓国人はと言えば，…まぁ，イメージチェンジが必要だ．
香港，台湾，シンガポール，インドネシア，-- 皆，日本が好きだ．
アジアは日本に嫌っていると書いてある記事を見かけたら，それは現地の雰囲気を何も知らずに，また正確な情報を持っていないジャーナリストの記事という印だ．アジアの中で日本人は非常に尊敬されていて歓迎されている．
大体において，私が旅した国々では，アメリカ人も非常に歓迎されている．
Michael Yon
December 22, 2014
Who Hates Japan?
I have been to about 19 Asian countries, and about 50 more countries outside of Asia. That is about 20 years living and traveling abroad.
The media would make out that the world is turning its back on Japan, but in reality the only countries more popular than Japan might Canada and Germany, or maybe Australia. (My guesses -- I have no way to know.)
Germany and Canada are very popular -- that much I know, and so is Japan. Only two countries that I have travelled hate Japan, and those are PRC -- the perpetual emotion machine and growing global tyrant. The other is the very irrational Republic of Korea.
Hatred for Japan in South Korea is so irrational that they would rather see NORKS with nukes than Japanese with smiles.
I have not been to North Korea but we can all see that the NORKS are a basket case, and as a country goes, insane.
Yet when I read media reports, it sounds like Japan is reviled by all of its neighbors, when in fact Japan gets along with everyone other than PRC and the Koreas.
Here in Thailand, Thai people love Japanese. Japanese are polite, friendly, rarely cause any problem. Whereas Mainland (PRC) Chinese and Koreans, well...they need an image makeover.
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia -- all like Japan.
When you read articles saying that Asia has turned against Japan, that is an indicator of an ill-informed journalist who has no idea about the atmospherics here. Japanese are highly respected and welcomed around Asia.
For the most part, Americans also are highly welcomed in nearly all of the many dozens of countries I have travelled.
3 comments:
Who Hates Japan? Korea, China and left-wing Japanese people such as mass media.
Do you know that Tokyo office of The New York Times is in the bulding of The Asahi Newspaper?They have cooperation relations. New York Times writes articles based on Asahi Shinbun which regards that Japan is always evil. Asahi shinbun has something to do with Korea.
Well, one of my relatives was working as a nurse in Japaneses base in Korean peninsula during the war.
According to her, outside of the base, there were so many houses of prostitution. When soldiers went out, many prostitutes swarm around them for prostitution for money. That is why, it was not necessary for Japanese army to go and abduct so many women.
Recently, a new movie on this issue is made up.and it is very popular in Korea, I heard. The movie is that Japanese soldiers abducted women and they were all burned alive. This story will be regarded as facts in the future in Korea and America.
In my opinion, “Hate Japan” policy in China is a political maneuver and “Hate Japan” policy in Korea is addiction.
In 1970s, China was just after the Cultural Revolution and it was a devastated society. Every person around you was your potential enemy… even your wife or husband may betray you and accuse you in a public struggle meeting. Students may revolt against their teachers calling them “class enemy.” It was hell, so to speak. However, China was rather a closed society and ordinary people did not know much about the outside world. Suddenly, the Chinese leader Teng Shao-ping opened China to the outside world in late 1970s. I was in my 20s at that time and remember the reaction of the Chinese people. People in China, both political leaders and ordinary citizens in the street were amazed about the advanced society and pop-culture of Japan. Japan has become a common goal for all the Chinese. Supreme Leader Teng Shao-ping said “Learn from Japanese. They are clever, brave and hard-working.” China loved Japan in 1980s until Tiananmen Square Bloodshed in 1989. In 1990s, facing the ordinary people’s call for democracy, justification of Communist Party Dictatorship has become a serious problem for the political leaders in China. Supreme Leader Jian Zemin chose Japan as their common enemy, because Japan is an easy target in history. Japanese do not complain much. We only smile while they are very angry, saying “You killed 20,000 or maybe 300,000 comrades in Nanking.” It’s a farce. Setting aside low-IQ foolish Chinese (or some western country people fooled by the CCP), they know very much that the Nanking Massacre is a lie and political propaganda for the survival of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party).
Koreans hate and love Japan both. Japan has been their teacher, leader, school bully, class-room first love, parents or their husband. However, Japan has never been their good friend. Invaded by foreign enemies such as Mongols, Chinese or Manchurians 960 times in 2000 years, Koreans have had no good friends. Political rivalry among them is also fierce beyond human imagination. Japan is their common goal, enemy, or both, necessary for their ethnic unification, but more than that, an object they must win over. One analyst said, “Hate Japan policy in Korea was their goal to achieve 20 years ago. But it has become their masturbation in recent years. You feel better to have sex with an imaginary beautiful girl rather than to have sex with your real-world, ugly fat wife.” If the theory is correct, I say Hate Japan Addiction is getting stronger and stronger every year since the days of President Rho Moo-hyeon. At first, they inhaled thinner in their home, then got marijuana, then heroin and now LSD. What will come next? Future S. Korea is a completely broken man who should be put in a lunatic asylum and behind the bars.
I am Japanese and deeply worried about the future our country, having those crazy nations next to us.
Atavism---the tendency to revert to the original type --- is another word to explain today’s South Korea.
Before Japan’s annexation of Korea, Korea was under the rule of Ri-dynasty. The dynasty lasted for 500 years since 1392. Usually, Korea under the Ri-dynasty is called “Choson” in the English literature. When the first king of Choson determined the name of his new country, he asked the Chinese emperor to select from either Choson or Wanei, the latter of which was his birthplace.
As this episode suggests, Korea has been a vassal state of China before Japan’s annexation, and they were even proud of being a vassal state of China. Since Japan has never been a vassal state of China, Koreans often express contempt to Japanese.
Today, President Park shows off its close relationship with China, a dangerous move for Japan-U.S. Security Pact Alliance. She also uses Iganzil, a Korean word meaning a “maneuver to make your supervisor apart from your co-worker --- for the ultimate goal of demoting the co-worker.” She is foul-mouthing about Japan every time she meets a president of a foreign nation --- for the ultimate goal of demoting Japan’s status in the international community. Comfort Women Issue is used as apart of the Iganzil manipulation, as Koreans consider that Japan is a vassal state of the United States.
Irrational, of course, but it is their deep-rooted instinct engraved in their DNA during the period of 500 years. Japan spent 39 years to make Korea a modern nation but failed. Faction fights among aristocrats are everywhere both in North Korea and South Korea. Both Koreas still remain to be an ancient society.
Japan is a country of samurai and its people hate such political manipulation full of ill-intent. Today, the most recent survey shows that a little less than 80% of Japanese dislike or hate South Korea, next only to China.
Today, President Obama often put pressure on Japan’s PM Abe to have a better relationship with South Korea in order to counter for the Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. However, as long as S. Korea continues anti-Japan policies including erecting comfort women memorials in many places in the U.S., we have no choice but to request the U.S. to choose either Japan or S. Korea as its security partner in the East Asia.
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