Remember! The history can repeat itself. The dreadful nightmare of Japanese holy war can happen again. May God save Korea!

Joseph H. Chung, Ph.D. (정희수), Professor of Economics, Quebec University in Montreal (UQAM)

Introduction

The American military government left Japan in 1952 leaving behind the 1948 peace constitutions intended to prevent Japan from ever rising again as imperial military power. But, the irony of the political fate was such that the U.S. had to ask its hated former mega-enemy to give hand to fight communism.

Washington was looking for a leader to fight communism for the U.S. It chose Kishi Nobuske as the post-war leader for Japan. Kishi was known as the "Showa Monster" for his merciless racism, his cruelty, his inhuman way of exploiting Chinese and Koreans to promote the interest of Japan in Manchuria in the 1930s.

He was also right hand man of Tojo Hideki during WWII; he tried his best to kill Americans.

Kishi was A-Class war criminal, but he avoided hanging for his potential utility to promote American interests in Japan. He spent three years in prison and, in 1957, he became prime minister and built the foundation needed for the control of the post-war destiny of Japan.

Kishi and the surviving former leaders of the Japanese empire refused to admit Japanese unconditional surrender and had the dream of reviving the glory and power of Japan.

This dream was inherited by Kishi's grandson, Shinzo Abe and his group which I qualify as the Neo-Meiji Restoration Group (NMRG).

The Japanese hegemonic war in East Asia in the period 1910-1945 is called the "holy war" driven by Shinto nationalism. And it is most likely that the NMRG has been preparing another holy war (holy war 2.0).

This paper is interested in examining the following issues. To begin with, in the first section, this paper examines how Japan is preparing the possible holy war 2.0. In the second section, the paper discusses the impact of holy war 2.0 on neighbouring countries. Then, in the third section, scenarios of holy war 2.0 are presented. There will a short section of conclusion.

• Preparation for Holy War 2.0

• Impact of Holy War 2.0

• Scenarios of Holy War 2.0

• Conclusion

1. Preparation of Holy War 2.0

The following are the strategies for war readiness

• Role of the Nippon Gaigi

• State Shinto

• Further militarization

• Lobbying Campaign

•Washington-Tokyo complicity

•Japanese people's submissiveness

1.1 Role of the Nippon Gaigi

To prepare holy war 2.0, Japan must justify holy war 1.0 which took place during the first half of the twenty's century.

The justification of the first holy war was needed in order to persuade the Japanese people to accept and actively support the second holy war.

The justification of holy war 1.0 has been promoted by the most far-right and the most influential organization known as the Nippon Gaigi (Japan Conference).

Nippon Gaigi is a huge think tank for the NMRG. It was established in 1981 and it has as many as 40,000 members most of whom are parts of the elite group of the Japanese society; it has 47 prefecture chapters and 230 local chapters.

The following amazing figures attest to its power. For instance, no less than 90% of Shinzo Abe's ministers were its members; as many as 50% of law makers are its members. Shinzo Abe was its advisor.

The Nippon Gaigi is claiming this.

•Japan has never surrendered to the allied armed forces; the Pacific War is still continuing.

•The Tokyo War Criminal Court was not legitimate.

•The invasion of Japan into Korea, Manchukuo and Chine was intended to liberate Asians from the West's imperialism and civilize the inferior people in Korea, Manchukuo and China.

•Nippon Gaigi denies the existence of the Nanking Rape and the crime of raping Comfort Women.

If there is any incidence which prevents Japan from justifying its holy war is the crime against the "comfort women".

In particular, for Japan, it is not easy to admit its crime against the comfort women, because it was the most unholy event. Therefore, to justify and glorify the holy war 1.0, the crime against the comfort women should not have existed, at least in the mind of the Japanese people who should fight for the holy war 2.0.

That is why the story of the crime against the comfort women is taken out from Japanese school history text books. The media is also strictly watched to avoid any mention of the crime. In fact, some years, ago a college professor in a college in Hokkaido wrote an article about the comfort women. He was fired on the same day.

The campaign of cover-up of the crime against the comfort women is so effective that the great majority of Japanese people, especially, the young generations are unaware of the crime. This is the result of the cover-up job of the Nippon Gaigi and the NMRG led by Shinzo Abe.

The interesting question is why the war mongering Japanese leaders are so sensitive to and so fearful about the comfort women crime. The answer lies in the fact that the crime was extremely brutal hellish human right violation.

What the world saw was something which can happen in the most hellish hell. What the world saw makes you feel ashamed to share this earth with the people who committed such a crime. When you see the images of young girls buried alive in mass graves, you cry with anger, sorrow and despair.

This crime had the following terrible characteristics.

First, it was most beastly cruel sexual torturing of poor girls ever recorded. In average, the poor girls had to be raped as many as 20 times a day.

Second, the number of victims was beyond imagination; no less than 250,000 women were victims.

Third, the horrible crime lasted during the whole period of the Pacific War. It was the longest collective raping ever recorded in the history of collective raping. (다음 호에 계속)

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