Mr. Takeshi Nakajima asks conservative politicians to listen to Korea

Interview with Mr. Takeshi Nakajima (political scientist)

The recent “air” of Japan, where protests and criticism of South Korea are noticeable. What is that undercurrent? I asked Mr. Takeshi Nakajima who has been considering maintenance, nationalism and patriotism.

-What do you see the spread of negative speech to Korea?

“I see it as a new type of phenomenon that originated from three factors that occurred in Japan and Korea in the 1980s.”

-Three factors?

“One is that the war-war conservatives who experienced war in their twenties and thirties and hated the wartime system retreated from the main line. The second was Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone, prime minister in 1982. The Japanese government's awareness of history became a political issue due to the Prime Minister's official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, the ministerial remarks about the annexation of Japan and Korea, and the history textbook issue.

--It is a change in Japan.

“The third is Korea since 1987…