This essay examines how population-control policies, the Eugenic Protection Law, the destruction of sexual morality, and the conduct of postwar female politicians were used to undermine Japan’s traditions and national consciousness under the occupation and with the support of the Asahi Shimbun and the left.
Through concrete examples such as Shizue Kato, Takako Doi, and Renho, it develops a harsh critique of a political culture that, in the author’s view, neither understands the language nor the heart of Japan and instead panders to China and the Korean Peninsula.

2019-04-07
Until now, there have been many spiritually ugly women who thought that it was enough for politicians not to know the language or heart of Japan, so long as they flattered China and Korea.
There have been enough ugly women already.
What we need are beautiful people.
I am reposting the chapter I published on 2018-06-26 under the title, Takako Doi had insisted that there was no way North Korea could have carried out abductions.
That claim was overturned.
Masayuki Takayama is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
This week’s installment of his famous column in Shukan Shincho once again splendidly proves that my assessment of him hits the mark exactly.
Readers of his books and columns must surely have been watching the recent NHK and similar coverage.
I had long since stopped subscribing to the Asahi Shimbun, so I had not read it, though I assumed it would be much the same as NHK.
On the Eugenic Protection Law enacted after the war.
They watched reports framed as though they themselves bore no responsibility whatsoever, and as though only the Japanese government had done something terrible.
Many must have thought, “Wait a minute.
Were you not yourselves in agreement with it and promoting it at the time?”
Masayuki Takayama has once again made the truth of this issue perfectly clear.

What We Need Are Better Women.

The Asahi Shimbun worshipped MacArthur as a god.
On the morning he was dismissed and returned to his country, it shed tears in an editorial, saying, “General MacArthur guided the Japanese people onto the bright path of democracy.”
But MacArthur himself knew nothing of democracy.
He aggressively enforced censorship and even banned publication when facts were written, yet the Asahi looked away as though these were merely the playful whims of a deity.
MacArthur also interfered in elections.
He had women convenient to GHQ run for office and got them elected through the prestige of the Occupation forces.
One such woman was called Shizue Kato.
In her autobiography she writes happily about Occupation maneuvering, saying, “A GHQ general suddenly came to my house and urged me to run.”
In what way was she a convenient woman.
GHQ had a major mission.
It was to carry out Franklin Roosevelt’s dying wish, “Confine Japan to four islands and destroy it.”
Thus they imposed a constitution that left Japan defenseless, so that even foolish neighboring countries could easily destroy this nation.
They also worked to reduce Japan to a small-population country that could be blown away by a mere gust of wind.
The idea was to spread the thought, “Liberate women from childbirth and let them enjoy sex,” in the words of Margaret Sanger.
If women do not give birth, Japan’s population declines.
Fortunately for them, Japan had precisely the convenient person they needed in Shizue Kato, a beloved disciple of Sanger.
So they sent her into the House of Representatives and had her push through the GHQ-backed legalization of abortion.
But Shizue proved even more cold and ruthless than expected.
In addition to abortion, she legislated the “thinning out of bad genes” such as mental illness and intellectual disability.
Many Japanese were horrified, but the Socialist Party, eager to curry favor with GHQ, joined with the Asahi, and in 1948 the Eugenic Protection Law was enacted.
Social morals collapsed.
Seven out of every seventeen pregnant women had abortions, and parents of children deemed defective were made to take those children by the hand to sterilization procedures.
And now the descendants of the party that promoted that devilish law, together with the Asahi Shimbun, loudly denounce forced infertility.
They think that if they shout loudly enough, they can disguise the past.
They are a deceitful crowd.
Such henchmen of GHQ also tried to destroy Japanese sexual morals.
Japan had a traditional pleasure-quarter culture.
It refined what would otherwise have been merely a sordid world, provided material for rakugo and joruri, and nurtured many men of letters.
At first glance, this pleasure-quarter culture, which still survives in expressions of today such as “fude-oroshi” and “hitoriyogari,” had, through several reforms since the Edo period, become a woman-friendly workplace, as Hiroshi Sekine wrote in his novel Yoshiwara-shi.
Female politicians came to destroy it.
Ichiko Kamichika, despite being a convicted criminal, cloaked herself in saintly platitudes and at last extinguished the historic lights of Yoshiwara.
Afterward, imported Korean bars and the like spread about in ugliness.
Yet the foolish Asahi Shimbun still says that there is Takako Doi, the model female politician.
One day, the parents of Keiko Arimoto came to see her.
They told her that they had received a letter and photographs from their daughter saying, “I have been abducted by North Korea.”
Takako Doi had long insisted that there was no way North Korea could be abducting people.
That claim was overturned.
Had this woman been a truly worthy legislator, she would at once have announced North Korea’s evil deeds and appealed to the world about North Korea’s violation of Japanese sovereignty.
But instead, she ordered the parents not to speak a word of it to anyone.
By the time the parents could no longer bear to wait, Kim Jong-il admitted the abduction, and then informed them that “Keiko Arimoto is dead.”
The date of death was only two months after the parents had visited Takako Doi.
It even appears possible that someone informed on them and evidence was destroyed.
Renho is a legislator with dual nationality forbidden by law, and she herself said that she has no attachment to Japan and uses Japanese nationality only because it is convenient.
Recently she has also spoken out on the sexual harassment issue, criticizing Japanese men by saying they resort to sexual harassment at once.
Yet she herself said in public of Katsuya Okada, “He really is such a boring man.”
That, on the contrary, is unmistakably sexual harassment itself, with no possible excuse.
Renho says it was a joke, but it is no joke at all.
A law for equal numbers of candidates was enacted in order to increase the number of female legislators.
Until now, there have been many spiritually ugly women who thought that it was enough for politicians not to know the language or heart of Japan, so long as they flattered China and Korea.
There have been enough ugly women already.
What we need are beautiful people.