Published on September 5, 2019.
This essay examines the strength of the Japanese Army, postwar brainwashing by the United States, and criticism of GHQ, the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and postwar intellectuals, arguing that the narrative that “Japan fought an evil war” was spread to conceal the true nature of wartime atrocities committed against Japan.

September 5, 2019.
The Japanese Army was simply too strong… that must have been something the military of the United States, then the strongest country in the world and proud of overwhelming material power, felt to its very bones.
The following is a chapter I published on January 25, 2019, but I am publishing it again after correcting one typographical error.
The fact that the twentieth century was a century of war means…
For example, quite unlike the so-called cultural figures who contributed to yesterday’s column in the Nikkei newspaper…
All the people of the countries concerned were involved in war in some form or another.
There is no end to the number of poets who volunteered to go to the battlefield and died in battle…
It is only natural, for there is no such thing as a true poet who is not a patriot.
But the so-called intellectuals and cultural figures represented by yesterday’s writer, the so-called lawyers, and the NHK employees who calmly say that Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula, are different.
The root of their perfectly natural and obvious patriotism is distorted, made distorted, and rotten.
What should be called evil wars are things such as the Nazi massacre of the Jews…
The repeated massacres of their own people by China and the Korean Peninsula…
Or America’s massacre of the Indians.
The Sino-Japanese War was driven into a quagmire by Soviet spies and the Asahi Shimbun…
And the ones who used this as material to form pro-China and anti-Japan public opinion in the United States all at once were the Soviet spies who had ensnared the Roosevelt administration.
If they succeed in sending in five percent of their elements, they always come to control the organization targeted for subversion.
…Because propaganda operations are their supreme mission, and because they have no other kind of intellect, perhaps this is only natural…
At that time, the Soviet Union also planted spies in countries that formed anti-Japan public opinion, Canada for example.
The famous Herbert Norman was one of them…
After all, when Lenin succeeded in bringing about the Russian Revolution, intellectuals throughout the world… because of the top-heavy weakness that intellectuals possess… received a tremendous shock.
So much so that it was even one of the factors in Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s suicide.
For example, Deutscher wrote about how the intellectuals of that time were shocked by the Russian Revolution.
The gifted minds in studies around the world understood the Russian Revolution as if it were an ideal revolution by workers.
It was not unreasonable, because they still did not yet know what communism actually was.
However,
It was Japan’s postwar intellectuals who repeated the mistakes of those intellectuals at that time.
Yesterday’s “Ōiso Koiso” vividly revealed that fact.
Who spread the idea that Japan fought an evil war?
Whose brainwashing was it?
Most of Japan’s postwar intellectuals did not understand a truth that even a kindergarten child should really be able to understand… it is presumptuous even for them to call themselves intellectuals… and giving the Nobel Prize to Oe Kenzaburo was the height of folly.
Who spread the idea that Japan fought an evil war… needless to say, it was the United States.
Whose brainwashing was it? Needless to say, it was brainwashing by the United States.
For what purpose… to divert the eyes of the world from, and to conceal, the greatest act of slaughter in the history of human warfare, namely the indiscriminate attacks on 127 cities throughout Japan with incendiary bombs.
Furthermore, in order to divert the eyes of the world from, and to conceal, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the greatest and worst crimes in human history, Japan was made into the ultimate villain.
However, the facts that Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, has verified truly and disclosed to us are the exact opposite of their propaganda, and show that, if anything, no soldiers were more gentlemanly even on the battlefield than Japanese soldiers…
He reveals that they were people who possessed the aesthetic sense and good sense cultivated by the Japanese over 2,600 years.
In this chapter, I tell the world the truth for the first time.
Why did the United States not stop at indiscriminate attacks on 127 cities throughout Japan with incendiary bombs, but go as far as Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Regarding the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki… there was certainly a factor in the racial discrimination that existed in the world and in the American administration of that time, but…
The greatest reason was that the Japanese people… the Japanese Army was a military force so strong that it may be called the strongest in history.
Even when supplies had been cut off, most of them fought to the death, risking their own lives on distant battlefields in order to protect a faraway country, the country where their own families, their wives and children, lived.
In truth, there had been no such people anywhere in the world in all of history.
Bushido may also have been one factor in this.
The Japanese Army was simply too strong… that must have been something the military of the United States, then the strongest country in the world and proud of overwhelming material power, felt to its very bones.
In every battle the United States fought… the strength and tenacity of the Japanese Army far exceeded their imagination.
The Japanese Army was as strong as fierce gods. …
The Japanese people, the people in human history with perhaps the strongest feeling of love for their country, their families, and their hometowns…
When it came to war, were the bravest people in the world.
In other words, the Japanese people’s love for their country, their families, and their hometowns was so strong that no country anywhere in the world could come close to matching it…
That is the kind of people the Japanese were.
In one sense, this is only natural.
This is because, until Japan was maneuvered into having no choice but to side with the defeated nations in the Second World War by the schemes of Soviet spies, by media such as the Asahi Shimbun, and by the Roosevelt administration that had been ensnared by Soviet spies, and until Japan lost a war for the first time in history and was occupied and ruled by another country, it had been a country that, since the beginning of recorded history, for more than 2,000 years, had never been occupied or invaded by another country.
There is no such country anywhere else in the world.
The ones in whom that feeling is astonishingly thin are yesterday’s writer, the Asahi Shimbun, and the so-called cultural figures…
Oe Kenzaburo and Murakami Haruki are their representative players…
It seems that Oe has strong feelings only for his own family, his hometown, the Korean Peninsula, China, and the like…
And it is a well-known fact that he… toward the real Japan other than those things, toward actual Japan, holds an intense hatred. …
This is surely clear also from the fact that his name is almost always listed among the organizers of movements that openly reveal hatred toward Japan.
In other words, they have minds inferior to those of kindergarten children…
They believe one hundred percent the rumors spread by GHQ… precisely what are, in the true sense, groundless rumors… and they are pitiable infants brainwashed by them… that is the reality of them, the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and the like.
To be continued.
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