What is written on page 169 in “Reality of Postwar History” by Mr. Ukeru Magosaki is as follows:
“As a matter of fact, the two northern
islands, Kunashiri and Etorofu, of the northern territories were given to the
Soviet Union in the final days of World War II by the U.S. in return for its
participation of war against Japan. And then,
after the outbreak of the Cold War, the U.S. opposed the return of the two
islands to the Soviet Union to purposely make it impossible to resolve the
northern territories issue. This is
because the U.S. intended to leave seeds of conflict to prevent the two
countries from building friendly relations.
Are you surprised?”
This is the routine activity of the
U.S. This is justice for the U.S.
Masatoshi Takeshita
English translation of an excerpt of a
Japanese article: We’ll Have a Strong Northernly Wind Soon – August 23, 2012
Secret
Pact on “Northern Territories Issue” between U.S. and Foreign Ministry
Although with regard to the
Senkaku islands territorial dispute, Japan is historically in a weak position,
the talks on the dispute have been kept on the shelf though Japan has effective
control of the islands, which was enabled by bilateral diplomatic efforts for normalization of Japan-China diplomatic relations and Deng Xianoping’s decision.
The U.S.
military-industrial complex, which fishes in troubled waters by capitalizing
the border issue to create tension and conflict between the two countries, made
Japan break international customary practices through Maehara, a student of the
Matsushita Institute of Government and Management.
And now they try to
ignite public sentiment of both countries by escalated breach of practices;
allowing forced landing by Hong Kong activists and tacitly approving of landing
by Japanese.
Basic stance on the Senkaku (Uotsurijima)
dispute
“Northern Territories issue” is the example
in which the adverse party has effective control of the islands.
The two countries have historically
different processes.
This is the same mechanism in which the
U.S. fishes in troubled waters by having Japan and Soviet Union (later Japan and
Russia) conflict with each other.
Interests of the Foreign Ministry are associated with this.
Due to defeat in war, Japan had the Kurile
Islands abandoned under the Yalta Agreement, the Potsdam Declaration and the San
Francisco Treaty. However, in the
negotiations with the Soviet Union after the war, the Soviet Union allowed
Japan to have a chance to negotiate with it under the condition of conclusion
of a peace treaty.
However, in the midst of U.S.-Soviet Union
confrontation, the U.S. started saying “Kunashiri and Etorufu are not part of
the Kurile islands.”
The Japan’s Foreign Ministry was not able
to say “Not part of the Kurile islands” but seized the opportunity to switch
over to “the return of all four islands as a package.”
Appropriate coverage or commentary on this
issue remains to be given. This is because
it is impossible to do so.
Unless a strange quibble “Kunashiri and
Etorofu are not part of the Kurile islands” is acknowledged, “return of the
four islands as a package” is impossible.
Therefore, Habomai and Shikotan issues were
unresolvable.
Thus, “Northern Territories issue” has
become eternally guaranteed job for the Foreign Ministry.
Mr. Muneo Suzuki, who once tried to improve
the Japan-Russia relations with the perspective of “possible chance to have
negotiation on return of the two countries” the former Soviet Union showed, had
his political career lost by the U.S. and the Ministry, and mass media and
prosecutors.
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