Using Satoru Nakamura’s essay in Sound Argument as a guide, this chapter argues that the historical falsification campaign surrounding Okinawa is not merely an attempt to strip Japanese people of pride or block independent national defense, but a grave history war aimed at dividing and weakening the Japanese nation itself.
It points to the structure in which Governor Onaga’s anti-Henoko speech at the UN Human Rights Council was prepared not by the Okinawa Prefectural Government but by UN NGOs and civic groups, and criticizes the depth of coordination between media and anti-government activism.

2019-04-22
The other two history wars are being used as cards to strip Japanese people of pride and to block independent national defense, but the propaganda of falsified Okinawan history is being used as a card to divide and destroy the Japanese nation.

This is a chapter I published on 2015-09-09.
Those who had thought that Governor Onaga of Okinawa Prefecture might be a little abnormal.
Those who had thought that the UN Human Rights Committee might be a little strange.
Should buy this month’s issue of the monthly magazine Sound Argument (780 yen).
If one subscribes only to the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, or perhaps the Tokyo Shimbun, and watches nothing but Hodo Station and News 23, one will realize that one understands nothing at all about the truth of things.
A journalist named Satoru Nakamura, born and raised in Okinawa, is doing real work and writing a real essay.
Through his essay, you should be able to understand perfectly the questions raised at the beginning, questions you have long continued to feel.
Or the way in which Hodo Station and News 23, acting in concert, brought a farmer from Mozambique to Japan.
And used him to criticize the Japanese government for trying to resume economic assistance to Africa in earnest.
And the true nature of the so-called citizens’ groups that invited him to Japan and had him protest to relevant institutions.
Furthermore, they invited a truly tottering old man from Norway.
And had him hold anti-Abe lectures in Okinawa and elsewhere, while the news programs merely described the organizers as citizens’ groups.
For the first time, you should clearly understand who the people calling themselves so-called citizens’ groups really are.
And everyone, I think, should shudder at the horror of it.
At the same time, one should be appalled at the vileness of the Asahi and the Mainichi.
Which calmly used such citizens’ groups.
To realize their own distorted ideology.
And to bring down the Abe administration.
Even so, I cannot help thinking.
That Mr. Nakamura is working for what is close to meager pay.
Meanwhile.
Furutachi and Zenba receive annual incomes exceeding one hundred million yen.
And not only do they convey nothing whatsoever of the real truth.
They brandish a sham morality.
They helped create Japan’s lost twenty years.
And now they are helping create an extremely unstable world.
They, and the so-called men of culture who have marched in step with them.
Or Nobel Prize winners, or professors of the University of Tokyo.
I am convinced that they are all the most sinful of human beings, deserving the severest torments at the hands of Enma, the king of hell.

What follows is from the opening of the essay that Satoru Nakamura wrote across ten pages in the monthly magazine Sound Argument.

Having been engaged with the Okinawa issue for about seven years, I now find myself stepping deeply into the huge theme of Okinawan history, something disproportionate and unrelated to my own career.
Japan is being subjected by China and South Korea to a “history war” through fabricated history such as the “comfort women,” the “Nanjing Massacre,” and “forced labor.”
However, in my view, the largest and most important history war facing Japan is the history war over Okinawa.
The other two history wars are being used as cards to strip Japanese people of pride and to block independent national defense, but the propaganda of falsified Okinawan history is being used as a card to divide and destroy the Japanese nation.
And although this issue is the issue of the entire Japanese people and the greatest crisis, I am convinced that it is only when Okinawa’s history is restored and the deep-rooted Okinawa problem is solved that the Japanese people will revive as a strong and united leader of the world.

◎Citizens’ Groups Guide a UN Speech.

The local newspapers of Okinawa reported that Governor Takeshi Onaga would participate in the UN Human Rights Council held in Geneva, Switzerland, from September 14 to October 2, and would deliver a speech on the Henoko relocation.
The relocation of Futenma Air Station to Henoko is a matter of national defense and diplomacy between Japan and the United States.
It is inconceivable, and must not be permitted, for the head of a local government to appeal a national defense and diplomatic issue to the United Nations.
Yet, in a puzzling move, Governor Onaga was said to be giving a speech on the theme of the “Henoko relocation” in order to stop it.
And it was not the Okinawa Prefectural Government that was actively moving to make that possible.
It was a private body called a UN NGO.

(In Geneva, Switzerland, at the UN Human Rights Council to be held from September 14 to October 2, it became clear on the 22nd that Governor Takeshi Onaga would likely be able to give a speech on the issue of the new Henoko base construction.
The Governor’s UN speech had been prepared by the “Island-Wide Council to Realize the Okinawa Petition and Open the Future,” a group working to block the construction of the new base, with the cooperation of multiple UN NGOs.
According to the Island-Wide Council, adjustment of the Governor’s schedule would begin from here, but they were arranging matters so that he could take the podium around September 21 or 22 during the session.
Since his election, Governor Onaga had shown enthusiasm for appealing to the United Nations, and if the speech were realized, it seemed likely to become an opportunity for the Governor to raise broad international awareness about resolving the issue of the new base construction.
This time, the UN NGO “Citizens’ Diplomatic Centre,” which has special consultative status with the UN, had expressed its intention, in response to requests from the Island-Wide Council and others, to lend Governor Onaga speaking time at the Human Rights Council.
It is said that it is both possible and routine for NGOs with special consultative status with the UN to lend speaking time to others.
Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University and representative of the Center, stated, “If Governor Onaga speaks at the UN Human Rights Council, which deals with human rights issues, it will be understood as representing the collective will of the prefectural residents opposed to the new base construction, and it will likely place pressure on both the Japanese and U.S. governments,” thereby emphasizing the significance of the Governor speaking at the UN.
For Governor Onaga’s speech at the Human Rights Council, the Island-Wide Council had also been coordinating with another UN NGO, the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR).
This time, IMADR took charge of schedule coordination with the Human Rights Council, while the Citizens’ Diplomatic Centre was to lend the speaking rights…)
(Ryukyu Shimpo, July 23, photo p. 250)

The rest omitted.

Including myself, surely no one except those who read newspapers in Okinawa had known of such a reality.