2024-01-07

The following is a chapter published on August 27, 2018, under the title, “The Appalling Treatment of Women in Religious States Where Women Are Described as an Inferior Race Is Hardly Believable in the Twenty-First Century.”
It needs to be reread not only by the Japanese people but also by people throughout the world.
What kind of organization is IMADR?
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However, this organization has continued informing the United Nations that Japan discriminates against the Ainu and Okinawa, making truly outrageous accusations before the UN in order to demean Japan.
Ultimately, it apparently acted as the organization behind having an unidentified woman named Kumi Sasaki—who was clearly either Korean or a Korean resident of Japan and had plainly undergone cosmetic surgery—publish in Paris an utterly absurd and fabricated work claiming that Japan was a country overrun with molesters and notorious for violating women’s human rights, thereby inducing foolish, unintelligent, and racist French people to criticize Japan.
And this was directed against Japan, the country where women are treated most fully as human beings and live the happiest lives in the world.
It was directed against Japan, the country where women face the lowest risk of rape and similar crimes and can live the most prosperous and happiest lives in the world without fearing such victimization.
Several years ago, an article published in Newsweek reported survey results showing that, even in Europe and the United States, which are supposed to constitute the developed world, nearly 50 percent of women had experienced rape.
When I read that article, I thought, “Meat-eating races are terrifying.”
It goes without saying that the appalling treatment of women in religious states whose doctrines themselves describe women as an inferior race is so severe that it is difficult to believe it is happening in the twenty-first century.
People from such countries, calling themselves scholars and experts, go before the United Nations and declare that Japan discriminates against women and violates human rights.
Where could one possibly find a greater falsehood than this?
The appalling conduct of media organizations such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, which joyfully report the recommendations of such people as though they had been eagerly awaiting them, is beyond description.
More than one thousand years ago, when Western European countries such as Germany did not even exist as fully formed states, Japan had Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote The Tale of Genji, and Sei Shōnagon, who wrote The Pillow Book.
Yet people from countries where around 50 percent of women have reportedly experienced rape, and from countries where women are still not even treated as human beings, appeared before CERD calling themselves scholars and experts and issued truly outrageous human rights recommendations accusing Japan of discriminating against women and violating human rights.
Not only historically but even today, South Korea and China rank first and second among the world’s largest exporters of prostitutes.
Discerning people throughout the world should know that Newsweek published an article some years ago reporting that the marked increase in the number of Chinese prostitutes in Paris had become a social problem.
There are many Korean women in Tokyo who engage in prostitution under the guise of operating massage parlors and similar establishments.
I have never seen any report that human rights recommendations were issued against China or South Korea, countries that have historically been major centers of prostitution.
There are few organizations as repugnant as IMADR or CRED, where organizations of this kind operate behind the scenes.
Furthermore, rather than colonizing Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula as Western countries did elsewhere, Japan treated them as fellow nations and invested enormous amounts of money—Japanese taxpayers’ money—to modernize Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula all at once.
In the case of the Korean Peninsula in particular, Japan handed over that vast infrastructure free of charge after the war, in accordance with their unilateral demands, when the Japan–South Korea treaty was concluded.
Not a single Western country transferred the infrastructure it had constructed in its colonies to those territories free of charge.
Anyone with a sound mind who spends an hour examining the historical facts will understand that the allegation that Japan discriminated against them is utterly preposterous.