＜書 評＞
『反日種族主義 日韓危機の根源』（文芸春秋社）
李栄薫 編著
書評者：松木国俊
李栄薫ソウル大学名誉教授が所長を務める落星台経済研究所所属の６人の学者が、戦後の韓国の歴史歪曲を糾弾した、画期的な本が去る７月に韓国で刊行されました。『大韓民国機器の根源：反日種族主義』です。すでに１３万部以上が売れるという大ベストセラーになっています。
その日本語訳版が、１１月１５日に発売されました。これも大反響で、３０万部が売れているということです。
李栄薫教授が主張する「種族主義」とは、韓国という国家が未だに近代市民社会を形成するに至っておらず、種族間の敵対感情をベースとする民族主義にとどまっているということです。つまり韓国人の「反日主義」は民族主義からかけ離れた、「反日種族主義」に他ならないというのです。
この価値観を支えるものは、「ウソ」の歴史観であるということです。「慰安婦問題」、「徴用工問題」などはその典型例で、歴史的事実に目をつぶったというより、極度の歪曲した反日を主張しているために、正常な対話が全く成り立たないことを事実に基づき論証しています。
ぜひ多くの人にお読みいただきたい本ですが、まず松木さんのこの書評をお読みいただき、全体像をおつかみいただきたいと思う次第です。
書評日本語原文： http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/Matsuki.pdf
書評英語訳： http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Matsuki-review.pdf
Anti-Japanese Tribalism, Bungei Shinju Publishers Inc.
By Lee Yeong-hoon et al.
Anti-Japanese Tribalism was published in July, 2019 by Miraesa (Seoul) and became a bestseller, selling more than 130,000 copies up to the end of October. The Japanese-translated version was published by Bungei Shunju Publishers, Inc., (Tokyo) on November 15. It also became a bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies.
What Mr. Lee means by tribalism is South Korea’s failure to form a civil society. In other words, Korean nationalism has not progressed beyond hostility between tribes in a world where only the strong survive. Korean anti-Japanese sentiment has no connection whatsoever with healthy nationalism; it is a tribalist sentiment that creates the Japanese as an imaginary enemy. The authors see through this exceedingly unscientific, exclusive ideology that positions Japan as a nation of absolute evil (a “nation of demons”), and Korea as one of absolute good (a “nation of angels”).
Lee Young-hoon writes about a Korean Supreme Court case in which the court ordered Nippon Steel to pay damages to former (allegedly exploited) conscripted workers in October 2018. Lee maintains that this was a civil case, pure and simple, and what really happened was that a Korean dormitory supervisor failed to hand over salary payments to Korean workers.
He adds, “I find it incredible that a case like this went all the way to the Supreme Court! Justices are not historians. They are only jurists who know nothing about the situation during the war.” Furthermore, “It never occurred to them that the plaintiffs might be lying. After all, they’ve been taught nothing but lies since childhood.”
At long last, conscientious Korean historians have risen up to reveal the truth about their country’s past.
Book Review: HTML: http://www.sdh-fact.com/review-article/1440/
PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Matsuki-review.pdf
MOTEKI romichi, Acting Chairman
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact