This passage examines the reality of the anti-Japan networks centered on Rumiko Nishino and VAWW-NET, focusing on the comfort women movement, textbook activism, Peace Boat, and connections with foreign organizations.
By tracing her statements to Chinese media, press conferences at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, and links with various civic campaigns, it accuses these networks of advancing a historical narrative operation inside Japan.

2019-04-15
The shameless remarks of those professors, flaunting the authority of the University of Tokyo, saying, “We cannot forget the efforts of Mr. Hwang Ho-nam, who opened the way for our acceptance in a truly friendly spirit.”

This is an article I published about one year earlier under the title, “As I was searching the internet just now, I discovered the following article. At this point, it would be no exaggeration at all to say that truth exists only on the internet.”

The… true nature of Rumiko Nishino.

[Press Conference by the Japan Center for War Responsibility at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan]
Representative Yoshiaki Yoshimi of the “Center.”
Research Secretary-General Hiroshi Hayashi of the “Center.”
Rumiko Nishino, director of the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace.
A press conference held by these three people.

I looked into this Ms. Rumiko Nishino.
Reporting on the comfort women issue has been lifted in China.
From Sakurato EX.

Last October, after Mr. Abe’s visit to China, I named the speed of China’s sudden change “Chinese ninja art: the palm-turn.”
And now, the moment Mr. Wen Jiabao returned to China, the mass-circulation paper Southern Metropolis Daily ran a special feature on the “comfort women.”

One staff member of Japan’s Chinese Embassy said to a reporter, “Just as Tokyo has Yasukuni Shrine, which glorifies war, it also has a comfort women memorial museum strongly colored by pacifism.”
The latter comfort women memorial museum he refers to is the “Women and War Peace Museum,” established in August 2005 by Ms. Rumiko Nishino, and this facility is Japan’s foremost museum of materials concerning both victimization and perpetration related to wartime sexual violence.
Ms. Nishino was originally an instructor at the Japan School of Journalism, and from the early 1990s she began work investigating and publicizing the comfort women issue.
Besides serving as director of the comfort women memorial museum, she also concurrently holds numerous posts, including representative of the National Network for Children’s Textbooks in the 21st Century, head of the Violence Against Women in War Network Japan, and board member of the Women and Peace Human Rights Fund, but at present, the comfort women issue already constitutes almost all of her work.
(Author’s note: Violence Against Women in War Network Japan = VAWW-NET.)

If one draws together and summarizes Ms. Rumiko Nishino’s interview remarks to Chinese reporters, they are as follows.
Conservatization has spread considerably throughout Japan.
The Japanese people do not properly understand the facts of the past war.
Japanese newspapers do not report matters concerning peace and friendship.
Japanese reporting says that anti-Japan movements are controlled by the Chinese government behind the scenes.
Japanese reporting says that China lay behind the submission in the U.S. Congress of a resolution condemning Japan over the comfort women issue.
For me, the media exert a certain kind of bad influence in this way, and I am concerned.
The Japanese people do not much take up the matter of comfort women.
What is this “certain kind of bad influence”?
The essence of the activity lies here.
For China, which is desperately trying behind the scenes to bring Japan down, what exactly is a “good influence”? Say it out loud!!

What were the “comfort women”?
From the Chūkiren website.
An independent summary.

The resolution of the “comfort women” issue cannot be discussed without “responsibility.”
To deny the comfort women issue on the level of factual relations and to say that the women’s testimonies contain “contradictions,” thereby denying the entirety of their testimony.
Against the statements of former soldiers saying, “The comfort women were prostitutes, so there was no problem.”
The China Returnees’ Association, hereafter Chūkiren, who after the war consistently continued speaking of their own experiences as perpetrators.
Recently, part of the written statements of 45 Japanese war criminals who were found guilty in war crimes trials held in China in 1956 were made public by Mr. Toshio Arai, who had obtained them.
According to members of Chūkiren, the Chinese side at the time treated Japanese soldiers as human beings, and the written statements were by no means forced out of them through oppression or coercion.
There is slander saying, “They were brainwashed,” but the very fact that Chūkiren people have continued their testimony after the war with unwavering intent is what proves the true value of those confessions.
The 45 people whose statements were made public this time were Japanese soldiers detained at the Taiyuan and Fushun war criminals management centers, and they were people who received fixed prison terms ranging from 8 to 20 years.
Soldiers who returned without becoming prisoners say “they were prostitutes,” whereas the Chūkiren soldiers who became prisoners repeat the Chinese side’s statements.
…This is suspicious!
The Chinese side treated prisoners as human beings??
…What a strange thing to say.
China, which during the war against Japan chained its own common people so they would not flee and made them fight on the front lines, treated prisoners humanely?
…An individual is free to believe that, but to spread it to others is propaganda.

Changes to “Rumiko Nishino” on Citizens’ Activities @Wiki.
From the changes page for Rumiko Nishino on Citizens’ Activities @Wiki.
Report writer, secretary and researcher at the Japan Center for War Responsibility, co-representative of VAWW-NET Japan, navigator for Peace Boat, representative committee member of the National Network 21 for Children and Textbooks.
Ethnic education. Supporter of the joint statement calling for university entrance eligibility and financial measures for all foreign schools.
Postwar settlement. Initiator of the major action, “60 Years After the War: Overcoming the Past and Aiming for a Symbiotic Asia.”
Do not forget the Asia-Pacific War. Testimony meeting of former rōmusha, Malay Malaysians, of the Thailand-Burma Railway, the “Death Railway.”
Initiator of the major action, “60 Years After the War: Overcoming the Past and Aiming for a Symbiotic Asia.”
History textbooks. Initiator of the call for founding the National Network 21 for Children and Textbooks.
Implementation of study meetings and lectures criticizing the Tsukuru-kai textbooks.
“Can You Give This to Children?! Dangerous Textbooks” National Network.
Historical recognition. “History Recognition and Peace in East Asia Forum,” Beijing Conference.
Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Introduction to gatherings and events. Japan Committee in Solidarity with the Beijing Forum.
Fundamental Law of Education. Petition opposing the revision for the worse of the Fundamental Law of Education.
Initiator of the petition executive committee opposing the revision for the worse of the Fundamental Law of Education (Hiroshima).
Hinomaru and Kimigayo. Initiator of the citizens’ appeal opposing the forced use of the Hinomaru and Kimigayo.
Other.
Dangun WHO’s WHO: Rumiko Nishino.
Is Ms. Nishino Japanese?
A simple question.

Violence Against Women in War Network Japan.
From VAWW-NET Japan.
Overview of the organization.
Founded: June 1998.
Organization: Co-representatives Rumiko Nishino and Rokuko Shōji.
Vice representative Michiko Nakahara.
Steering committee, 19 people.
Members: currently about 700.
Secretariat: Wataru Noguchi.

Overview.
From the perspective of women’s human rights, it develops policy advocacy activities both inside and outside Japan.
● The “comfort women” issue during the Second World War.
● Violence against women living around U.S. military bases in Okinawa and elsewhere.
● Violence against women under modern armed conflicts in Asia and various parts of the world.

Organizer of the comfort women “trial in absentia.”
Regarding the “comfort women” issue, in 2000 it proposed and jointly organized the “Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal” together with victim countries and others.
In this “trial in absentia,” with neither defendants nor defense counsel, nine people including Emperor Shōwa were treated as “defendants,” and declared “guilty” in a “judgment” lacking fairness to a remarkable degree and without any legal basis.

Finally…
VAWW-NET, Rumiko Nishino, and Peace Boat.
2005/2/7 (Mon.) 02:38.
From Hiro-san’s diary.

I am ignorant.
I had believed that our beloved Peace Boat was a fair organization clearly distinct from VAWW-NET, the group behind the now notorious “Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal.”
On Peace Boat’s links page, I searched and searched for VAWW-NET, and not finding it, I felt relieved, thinking, ah, thank goodness.
I have no investigative ability.
I did not even know that if one searched for “Peace Boat” and “Rumiko Nishino,” this page, Press Release No. 196, 2004/5/25, would come up.
Because Peace Boat is watched by left-leaning people as a sort of “advertising tower,” I had thought that perhaps they had merely invited her to a seminar by chance, asking, shall we work together?
I was betrayed.
I could forgive it if one of the responsible partners, that is, co-representatives, had merely been invited to a seminar.
But to think that on the ship we love, they had invited Rumiko Nishino as a navigator, that is, a lecturer.
I cannot forgive it.
Those shameless remarks by professors who flaunt the authority of the University of Tokyo, saying, “We cannot forget the efforts of Mr. Hwang Ho-nam, who opened the way for our acceptance in a truly friendly spirit.”
It is truly lamentable.
And that even the pure and courageous young man who on board had said, “Even the Tsukuru-kai textbooks have some good points,” might gradually be shaken in spirit and end up joining the ranks of such youths.
To those in Japan, I ask you.
Please, somehow help them.
This is where Rumiko Nishino and the others will gather next.
If one listens carefully, surely mutual understanding will become possible.
Staff participated in a symposium on historical recognition in South Korea.
People who, in the name of “peace,” mobilize women who know nothing of war and condemn Japan from the standpoint of neighboring countries.
Please… do not be deceived.