Based on Masayuki Takayama’s analysis, this article examines how Kazuo Asami, the reporter behind the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun’s “hundred-man killing contest” story, was protected by China after the war. It connects the execution of innocent Japanese officers, the propaganda surrounding the Nanjing Massacre, China’s long-term political strategy toward Japan, and the later extraction of Japanese ODA, revealing how historical falsehoods were used as instruments of state policy.

April 22, 2020
From 1979 onward, China began drawing ODA from Japan.
In short, China knew perfectly well that if Asami confessed, everything would be ruined, and therefore laid down a line of defense in advance.
Kazuo Asami was a pillar supporting a precious lie.
That is why China took Asami into its arms.
I am republishing the chapter I sent out on February 16, 2019, under that title.
The following is from page 98.
Everyone who read this chapter must have exclaimed, “Takayama is incredible!”
Every Japanese citizen who can read printed words must immediately go to the nearest bookstore and buy this book.
People throughout the world, through my translation, must realize how completely unaware they have been of the truth of things.
● China’s Evil Wisdom in Taking the Reporter of the “Hundred-Man Killing Contest” Into Its Arms
Takayama
The Chinese, like the Americans, are vicious.
They calmly carry out evil schemes that Japanese people could never even imagine.
One example is the movement of Liao Chengzhi in the 1960s.
The Cultural Revolution began in 1966, but before that, Liao Chengzhi learned that Kazuo Asami was among the newspaper people invited from Japan.
In 1937, Kazuo Asami wrote a ridiculous article in the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun under the headline, “Hundred-Man Killing Contest! The Two Second Lieutenants Already at 80,” claiming that Second Lieutenant Tsuyoshi Noda and Second Lieutenant Toshiaki Mukai competed to see which of them would be the first to cut down 100 people with a Japanese sword before entering Nanjing.
After the war, because of Asami’s article, both Second Lieutenants Noda and Mukai were executed by firing squad, though they were innocent.
This “hundred-man killing” report has also been used as supporting material for the lie of the Nanjing Massacre, concocted by China and America.
The man who wrote it was this Asami.
At that time, he was apparently serving as some kind of labor union committee member at the Mainichi Shimbun.
Liao Chengzhi immediately invited Asami and his family, namely his wife and daughter as well, to China, gave him a position under favorable conditions, and had his daughter admitted to Peking University.
Why did he do such a thing?
Because even if all the evidence was gathered, the “hundred-man killing” story was known to be false.
If Asami had been left in Japan, Tomomi Inada actually brought a lawsuit to dispute the facts, and it was obvious that Asami would eventually apologize, saying, “It was a lie,” and “I am sorry.”
If Asami’s lie were exposed, the lie of the Nanjing Massacre would also be exposed one after another.
It would become exactly the small hole made by an ant that brings down the entire embankment.
If the lie of the Nanjing Massacre were exposed, one must wonder whether the ODA, official development assistance, from Japan that flourished in the era of Deng Xiaoping would ever have been possible.
Reading that far ahead, China quickly took the Asami family into its arms.
Kazuo Asami was a pillar supporting a precious lie.
That is why China took Asami into its arms.
When the hundred-man killing issue became a problem in Japan in the 1970s, Asami came from Beijing, testified that it was true, and then returned to Beijing again.
Asami’s daughter graduated from Peking University, and after that the Beijing government properly took care of her.
By chance, I met that daughter.
She was running a teahouse in one corner of a facility for Japanese tourists.
Inside the shop, there was a framed inscription by Liao Chengzhi, addressed “To Kazuo Asami.”
When I asked her about it, she said, “Yes, he is my father.”
I asked her, “Because of your father’s ridiculous article, two second lieutenants were condemned for crimes they did not commit, were they not?”
The daughter calmly answered, “Whether they were innocent or not is something my father knows.”
She also said, “My father suffered, too.”
I pointed out clearly to her, “It is only natural to suffer after killing people,” but she showed no remorse whatsoever.
What I felt was the astonishing foresight of Liao Chengzhi.
Already in the 1960s, he had decided to use this as material.
Japanese people do not possess such evil wisdom.
From 1979 onward, China began drawing ODA from Japan.
In short, China knew perfectly well that if Asami confessed, everything would be ruined, and therefore laid down a line of defense in advance.
All one can say is that it was truly something.