Drawing on Hiroshi Hasegawa’s analysis, this article reexamines the German–Soviet War, U.S. war strategy, and the actual decision-making of Japan’s military leadership. It exposes the falsity of the “demonic aggressor” image promoted by Asahi Shimbun and Kenzaburō Ōe, and reconsiders Japan’s true historical position.

The notion that Japan’s military leadership was a demonic aggressor devoid of intellect or emotion is.
2016-12-15
The following is a continuation of the all-out essay by Hasegawa Hiroshi.
All emphasis in the text is mine.
The period when Harry Hopkins visited the Soviet Union coincided with the time when expectations began to emerge on the American side that the Soviet Union might unexpectedly hold out against the fierce onslaught of Nazi Germany.
If the Soviet Union could endure against Nazi Germany, then a momentum would arise to provide assistance and somehow prevent a Soviet defeat.
If so, could the United States itself not enter the war and attack Nazi Germany from the west, and should it not also hurry to assist its brother nation, Britain, which was in dire straits.
However, Nazi Germany, even while continuing to receive American provocations such as attacks by U.S. destroyers on submarines (U-boats) in the Atlantic, never took the bait.
This passage proves 100 percent the correctness of my argument that at the time the United States was the largest and strongest nation in the world, and that even Nazi Germany avoided war with the United States at all costs.
At the same time, Hasegawa Hiroshi’s genuine essay proves that Japan’s military leadership was even more eager to avoid war with the United States.
The notion that Japan’s military leadership was a demonic aggressor devoid of intellect or emotion is an outrageous fabrication created by the Asahi Shimbun and figures such as Oe Kenzaburo.
It is Senoo Kappa’s masterpiece Shōnen A, a genuine work that proves the true state of Japan at the time, that deserves to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
The time has come to recognize that granting, or attempting to grant, the Nobel Prize to people like Ōe Kenzaburō and his followers—who, with minds shaped by reading and rereading the Asahi Shimbun, possess a kindergarten-level understanding of history, repeatedly engage in conduct tantamount to selling their own country to others, indulge in foolish Western affectations, or continue plagiarizing American writers—has created the unstable and extremely dangerous world we face today, in other words, has halted the progress of the turntable of civilization.