The Japan-Korea Tunnel Oita Prefectural Citizens' Conference was held in Oita on June 2015, 6, and Chairman Eiji Tokuno gave a lecture.
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Chairman Eiji Tokuno Commemorative Lecture Title "Necessity of Japan-Korea Tunnel"
Japan-Korea Tunnel Oita Prefectural Conference 27 General Assembly
June 2015, 6 Rembrandt Hotel Oita
Given the international situation, I think there is an urgent need to improve Korea-Japan relations.Japan-US relations have reached a stage close to honeymoon with the efforts of Prime Minister Abe.The vacant stage that former Prime Minister Hatoyama called "trust me" has already graduated, and the United States trusts Prime Minister Abe.
Therefore, there is no problem with US-Japan relations.The problem is Korea-Japan relations.Prime Minister Abe and President Park Kune have not yet had a personal interview.This is very disturbing.
Therefore, I would like to present five measures to you in order to improve the relationship between Korea and Japan.
The first is the activation of exchanges.
It is the activation of comprehensive exchanges such as so-called private exchanges, cultural exchanges, trade, and tourism.This includes parliamentary diplomacy.I would like all prefectural and city council members to have sister kinship with Korean cities.Where does Oita have a sister relationship?Are you Mokpo and Daegu?It is important to further activate such sisterhood kinship and exchange with parliamentarians at the diplomatic and administrative levels.It will revive tourism, culture and comprehensive exchange.This is very important.
The second is mutual cooperation in the Olympics.
The 2002 World Cup was a great success.It's not that Japan and South Korea aren't going well. In 2002, Japan-South Korea relations were good.Remember that, in 2018 there will be the Pyeongchang and Pyeongchang Olympics.Mao Asada finally decided to continue working.I would like to applaud Mao-chan here.If Mao-chan comes out and Kim Yuna comes back again, this will finally be exciting.
Japan supports the Pyeongchang Olympics.Instead, two years later, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be fully supported by South Korea, and both the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and the Tokyo Summer Olympics will be successful. Is one of my imaginations and expectations.I am convinced that mutual cooperation in the Olympic Games is important.
The third is international marriage.
No matter how much Japan and South Korea try to get along with each other, the usual strong ties are blood ties.Korean youth and Japanese youth will somehow increase their international marriage and become relatives by having a common grandchild.That is the simplest, but the strongest connection.Once you become a relative, it is unlikely that you will want to go to war with such a country.I think it would be good not only to see the Korean drama and shed tears, but also to increase the number of international marriages between Korea and Japan in a natural way. How about everyone?
Fourth is a very delicate issue, but it is important to understand the differences in each other's positions.
I have lived in Korea for about a year, so I can understand the feelings of Korean people. We Japanese tend to think, "Why can Koreans not be future-oriented by letting the past go into the water? We are particular about the past."
From the standpoint of admitting the fact that the Japanese ruled the colony as a fact, the Japanese are the perpetrators from the perspective of South Korea.Koreans are victims.The difference between the positions of the victim and the perpetrator is difficult for the Japanese to understand.
Koreans always say, "Why Japanese people simply flush the past and say future-oriented, but Koreans say why they can't do that, but they don't understand our feelings." ..If we take up the past, the Japan-Korea problem will not be solved.The textbook issue, the comfort women issue, and the Takeshima issue are already bogged down.
However, if you do not understand the world of feelings and emotions of the Korean people who are standing as victims and appeal for the future from that standpoint, you will not be able to understand the Korean people.We have to consider the difference in position.I think this is important.If we can do this, we believe that Japan-South Korea relations can truly become future-oriented.
The last is the Japan-Korea tunnel.
Nothing is as easy to understand as the Japan-Korea Tunnel.It will be connected by the road.There is no big project that integrates Japan and Korea so easily.If you connect by road, people, things and culture will come and go.After all, the aorta of distribution is the road.In that sense, it can be considered that creating a Japan-Korea tunnel will be a considerable and decisive opportunity to improve the Japan-Korea problem.
What should we do to realize the Japan-Korea Tunnel?Two major requirements for the realization of the Japan-Korea tunnel.
The first is difficult without the support of Korean and Japanese public opinion.The other day, Korean local lawmakers gathered at the House of Representatives and gave a lecture, but after the lecture by Professor Nozawa, the chairman of the Japan-Korea Tunnel Research Association, many people realized the Japan-Korea Tunnel. When I said that I was hoping for it, a South Korean local lawmaker raised his hand and said, "It's a story on the Japanese side, and some South Koreans agree, but some still disagree. The reason. I think Japan will invade through the Japan-Korea tunnel again. There are still Koreans who are worried about that. "
Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to raise public opinion, that is, the people of Japan and South Korea need a tunnel, and the public opinion of Japan and South Korea should be united.To that end, it is necessary to deepen the ties through the five measures I mentioned earlier.
The other is, after all, the top talks.The Eurotunnel also had twists and turns.In fact, the concept of the Eurotunnel began in Napoleon's time, and there is talk of the English-French tunnel from the 1986s.The Eurotunnel was a dream tunnel with a history of 1990 years.Eventually, in 1994, Thatcher and Mitterrand's leaders reached an agreement in Canterbury.Then the tunnel was completed in XNUMX.Four years later, in XNUMX, a train called Eurostar began to pass. It took eight years for the English-French tunnel to pass.The distance is XNUMX kilometers.
It should be noted that the Japan-Korea tunnel and the English-French tunnel are very similar.It means crossing the border.It is a diplomatic issue.It's different from the Seikan Tunnel.Thatcher seems to have made such a decision at that time on diplomatic issues. "Abandon glorious isolation."And never quarrel with France, never war.I made the decision because I was able to make the final confirmation.Britain and France are also countries that have been at war for XNUMX years.Europe has been at war with Britain and France, France and Germany, Britain and Germany.
In the series of wars, the one that finally reached the Eurotunnel was not a war, but abandoned it.It was this decision that led to the Canterbury agreement.In other words, the Japan-Korea tunnel is not the last technology.Technically, I have heard from engineers many times that there is no problem if you use the technology that Japan has so far, such as Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, Honshu Bridge, Seto Ohashi Bridge, Seikan Tunnel.There is no technical problem.The budget is also XNUMX trillion yen. You can do it with only XNUMX trillion yen.The construction period is XNUMX years.Many people say that they can manage with the technology that Japan and South Korea have now. XNUMX years. If it is XNUMX years, there is hope for those who will be at this venue.You can see it with your black eyes. I want you to live long for XNUMX years. If you live XNUMX years longer, you can see the Japan-Korea tunnel with your own eyes.
The biggest problem is the emotional problem.Like the English-French tunnel, Thatcher and Mitterrand will never quarrel between Britain and France, and as soon as this agreement is reached, a "go" and a go-ahead will be given.The failure of the Korean-Japanese public opinion and the top-level talks between President Park and Prime Minister Abe will never give a go-ahead.Diplomatic issues.Today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea is coming to Japan.Tomorrow June 1965nd is just the XNUMXth anniversary of the restoration of diplomatic relations between Japan and South Korea in XNUMX.That memorable day is tomorrow.
A lecture on the theme of the Japan-Korea Tunnel was held in Oita one day before the memorable day.It is Oita that will open up a new era for Japan and South Korea.It is very significant that the tunnel lecture was held on this day to the extent that such an interpretation holds true.I have a lot of Korean friends, but when it comes to hot springs, Beppu is the best, and Jigoku Onsen is the best in Beppu.There are rumors that you should definitely go there.The other is Yufuin.Hell tour and Yufuin.It is said to be famous in Korea.
Technically, it is possible because we have experience in Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, Honshu Bridge, Seto Ohashi, and Seikan Tunnel.Secondly, the construction period is XNUMX years with the current technological capabilities of Japan and South Korea.The cost is XNUMX trillion yen.The routes that engineers are talking about are from Karatsu to Iki, Tsushima, Geojedo and Busan.The total length is XNUMX km, the core part is XNUMX km, and the underground distance is XNUMX km.The most difficult is from Tsushima to Geojedo, which is the deepest and has the fastest flow.The Japan-Korea tunnel is technically possible as long as this is overcome. Japan will pay the cost of XNUMX trillion yen up to Tsushima.
Split the bill from Tsushima to Geojedo.Half half.Have South Korea take out from Geojedo to Busan.Then Japan will pay 2003% of the cost.If this is the case, South Korea will be fully convinced.We have already dug XNUMX meters in Karatsu.All investigations have been completed.At the government level, all we have to do is take up the technologies and concrete plans we have accumulated and give a go-ahead.As you know, successive prime ministers and presidents have mentioned.On the Korean side, when President Roh Tae-woo visited Japan, he mentioned the Japan-Korea tunnel in his speech to the Diet.President Kim Dae Jung has already mentioned that the Japan-Korea Tunnel is an interesting project, and that if Japan and South Korea are connected, it will be connected to Europe through Siberia.President Roh Moo-hyun also proposed a Japan-Korea tunnel at the Japan-Korea summit meeting in February XNUMX.
I would like to conclude.If the top talks are realized in the Japan-Korea tunnel and an agreement such as the Canterbury agreement between Mitterrand and Thatcher is reached, it will be in 2020, that is, Japan will support the PyeongChang Olympics, South Korea will support the Tokyo Olympics, and Japan at the World Cup. If Japan and South Korea have a good atmosphere after the Olympics, just as Korea has a good atmosphere, it will be a Tokyo agreement or a Seoul agreement like the Canterbury Agreement from 2020 to XNUMX or an agreement between the president and the prime minister. It is not a dream if it can be realized.
As I mentioned earlier, the tunnel itself will be quite good in 2027 years at the earliest.The Linear Shinkansen will reach Nagoya by 2040, and one hour to Osaka in four or five years.To be exact, XNUMX minutes.Further to Hiroshima, and finally to Karatsu.I think it will take some time.If the Linear Shinkansen is realized at a considerable speed like the current Shinkansen, I expect that the Linear Shinkansen will reach around Fukuoka around XNUMX.
The Japan-Korea Undersea Tunnel will be completed between 2020 and 30 years, and the Linear Shinkansen will run from Busan to Seoul.Japan supports me.The most optimistic expectation is that in 2040, the 2040km linear Shinkansen will take four hours from Seoul to Tokyo.You don't have to fly to Incheon Airport or Gimpo Airport, and you don't have to wait. You can go to Seoul while taking a nap for XNUMX hours.It will take at least XNUMX.Let's exercise from tomorrow.If everyone who gathers here pays attention to their health and lives for another XNUMX years, the Japan-Korea Tunnel, which is a dreamlike story, and the linear Shinkansen from Seoul to Tokyo may be possible.I would like to conclude my lecture by talking about my dream that I might be able to experience the Japan-Korea Tunnel and Seoul Tokyo tour with my black eyes.
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