Published on July 14, 2019.
Based on an essay by Masayuki Takayama, this article records the Korean War, the MacArthur Constitution, America’s posture toward Japan, and the questions on Yasukuni Shrine and the comfort women issue posed to Shinzo Abe at the party leaders’ debate on November 30, 2012.

July 14, 2019
One was whether he would go to Yasukuni Shrine, where war criminals are enshrined.
The other was the comfort women issue.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Questioning LDP President Abe at the Party Leaders’ Debate.
Did he not remember the Korean War while writing this?
At that time, while imposing the MacArthur Constitution that had stripped Japan naked, Dulles came and told Shigeru Yoshida that if war broke out in Korea, you yellow people should fight in place of the white masters.
Yoshida turned away, saying, You were the ones who imposed that strange constitution on us, and 35,000 American soldiers died.
In the Vietnam War that followed, 50,000 were made to die.
Japanese leaders had managed things skillfully in that way.
Since an American intellect was in front of him, he might have asked what he thought of that development.
Well, I have written something rather rude, but this special editorial writer is in fact a great man who created the opportunity to break through the Tokyo Trial view of history, or the self-abasing view of history that Japan is evil, which the United States imposed together with the Constitution.
That was on November 30, 2012, when Shinzo Abe unexpectedly returned as president of the Liberal Democratic Party.
On that day, there was a party leaders’ debate hosted by the Japan National Press Club, and Hoshi asked Shinzo Abe, who had effectively been decided as the next prime minister, a question.
Both questions were based on the Nanjing Massacre and the forced transportation of comfort women, both of which were created by Asahi Shimbun; one was whether he would go to Yasukuni Shrine, where war criminals are enshrined.
The other was the comfort women issue.
An ordinary candidate for prime minister would at this point give an answer that obediently caters to Asahi Shimbun.
This essay continues.