あらすじ
A story of a con artist becomes an internation’s contended issue involving the US, and the issue dangers a diplomatic tie between Japan and South Korea and the security alliances among the US, South Korea, and Japan, involving China and North Korea. Readers: Readers can understand the issue and why the story becomes internationally diplomatic, why the issue is so severe, why statues and monuments of comfort women are erected in the US, and how the presidents Obama and Trump and their administrations have worked on the issue. Target readers: President Trump and his administration, parliament members, professors and teachers of educational institutions, judges and such intellectuals, and businessmen who deal with Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese. States who may have more interest on this issue: California (San Francisco and Los Angeles), New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, Illinois (Chicago), New York, Maryland, and basically DP states (Republicans may wonder why the issue is so popular in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the DP states).
映画・ドラマ版との違い・考察
本作は、歴史の波間に潜む不都合な真実を、緻密な調査で暴き出す極上のノンフィクションです。一人の「詐欺師」の虚構がいかにして国際秩序を揺るがす怪物へと変貌したかを描く、冷徹かつ情熱的な筆致に圧倒されます。情報の信憑性を巡るスリルと、国家間のパワーゲームに翻弄される正義の在り方を問う本作は、読む者の既成概念を根底から覆す知的な衝撃に満ちています。 映像化作品が各地の熱狂をダイナミックに捉える一方、原作はそれらの背後で蠢く外交の深淵を重厚な論理で補完しています。視覚的インパクトを超え、活字ならではの深みで東アジア情勢の核心に迫る本作は、映像と書籍を併せて味わうことで、現代史の複雑なパズルが解けるような快感を読者に与えてくれるでしょう。