Published on August 3, 2019. This essay introduces a work by Jason Morgan and Michael Yon published in the monthly magazine Sound Argument, criticizing UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye’s report on Japan, Alexis Dudden, the American leftist academic world, Asahi Shimbun, and the anti-Japanese network surrounding the comfort women issue.

2019-08-03
More than that, the report is hypocritical, and it is also something designed to camouflage a political “dirty war” by the anti-Japanese left, aimed from the faculty room at an ally of the United States.
The following is the continuation of the laborious work by Jason Morgan and Michael Yon, published in the monthly magazine Sound Argument released yesterday, under the title “Special Rapporteur Kaye Supported by American Leftist Scholars.”
This month’s issue of Sound Argument proves that if one subscribes to newspapers such as Asahi Shimbun and watches NHK, one will understand nothing of the truth.
All Japanese citizens must immediately take 900 yen to their nearest bookstore and go to purchase it.
A UN report full of points to criticize.
From the very form of the report on Japan that Mr. Kaye submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council in June, a clear strategy can be seen.
Japan was cautioned together with Honduras in South America, Turkey, and Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa.
By placing Japan in the same group as these countries, it is obvious that the report is trying to give the impression that Japan ranks among the lowest countries in the world in freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
Anyone can see that there are mistakes in the report.
For example, paragraph 2 of the report says that “the Special Rapporteur publicly requested submissions from civil society and stakeholders.”
However, what is not mentioned here is that, with the cooperation of Dudden, Wasserstrom, and other far-left anti-Japanese Americans in academia, Mr. Kaye, as a UN Special Rapporteur, simply ignored opinions that did not fit the predetermined result.
Furthermore, the report is full of hypocrisy and contradictions.
For example, in paragraph 5, Mr. Kaye laments “the impact of the Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets on access to information.”
However, Mr. Kaye’s employer, as Mr. Kaye himself was probably aware, flaunts American law in order to protect the specifically designated secrets of Mr. Kaye’s UN report.
In paragraph 6, Mr. Kaye expresses dissatisfaction regarding “access to information,” and in paragraph 8 it says that “states, in this case Japan, must avoid criticizing journalists under any circumstances, even when the content of their reporting is serious or sensitive.”
However, unfortunately, Mr. Kaye and his far-left friends did not recognize our “access to information,” and when we and other journalists were investigating Mr. Kaye and his network, we were “criticized” by that network.
Mr. Kaye mentioned nothing about this point.
Paragraph 10 concerns “comfort women” and Japan’s “historical crimes.”
It would not be strange to regard this paragraph as, for the most part, a report by Ms. Dudden, a comfort-women-issue activist.
For Ms. Dudden, associating with Mr. Kaye is an extremely convenient matter, and precisely because of that, Ms. Dudden has access to UN documents and can write comfort-women propaganda with the endorsement of a major international organization.
When journalists tried to expose this movement, Mr. Kaye did not follow the standard of journalistic openness that he himself advocates.
Finally, the majority of Mr. Kaye’s criticism of Japan concerning “intervention in history education,” published in paragraph 6 and Appendix 1, is based on fake news, just like comfort-women-issue propaganda.
According to several books on Japan-Korea relations written on the basis of careful research by Professor Kimura Kan of Kobe University, for example, the “history textbook controversy” that occurred in the 1980s, which many people in Japan, South Korea, and the United States took as evidence of Japan’s “rightward shift,” has been shown to have had no statistical basis.
The mistaken reporting on something that was not even a problem was carried out by Asahi Shimbun on September 19, 1982.
Since then, up to the present day, Asahi Shimbun and the American academic world have been imaginary dance partners in a “fake news waltz.”
And now it is Mr. Kaye who is deciding the direction.
The cover of the United Nations.
Viewed as a whole, the structure that emerges is extremely problematic.
That is because it appears that a biased person named David Kaye, a faculty member at a recently established and little-known law school, was used by political agents within the American academic world in an operation to create, under the cover of the United Nations, a Japan-bashing report claiming that the Japanese government is regulating freedom of speech.
More than that, the report is hypocritical, and it is also something designed to camouflage a political “dirty war” by the anti-Japanese left, aimed from the faculty room at an ally of the United States.
Furthermore, Mr. Kaye has just published a new book in the United States, and it is also possible to view the timing of the UN report and the publication of his own book as no coincidence.
His Twitter posts are overflowing with content about his new book and photos of himself with readers holding the book.
The astonishing facts do not end there.
The collusion surrounding Mr. Kaye was even larger in scale.
Amazingly, in an email in which Ms. Dudden instructed Mr. Kaye to ignore conservatives inside Japan, Ms. Dudden promised to contact Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from California and now Speaker of the House, regarding the comfort women issue.
Ms. Dudden appears to have connections with the leftist camp in Washington.
It seems that she used her political position to increase her political power in the American academic world and provided the information she obtained to Mr. Kaye.
What must not be forgotten is that Ms. Dudden is a disciple of Ms. Norma Field, professor emerita at the University of Chicago and one of the far-left professors in the United States.
Ms. Dudden is connected, after all, to supporters of the “War Guilt Information Program,” such as the communists Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and E. Herbert Norman, who instilled a sense of guilt in the Japanese people.
In this way, the anti-Japanese network surrounding Mr. Kaye knows no bounds.
We intend to continue expanding the scope of our investigation and explore the background of anti-Japanese activity.
After all, since Mr. Kaye himself highly values freedom of speech, we intend to disclose all information that has been hidden until now and show an example of free speech.