2015-12-31

The Asahi Shimbun’s reporting on the comfort-women issue and the reports written by Katsuichi Honda helped spread China’s anti-Japanese propaganda throughout the international community and had serious consequences for Japan’s diplomacy and public finances.
In light of Japan’s approximately ¥3.66 trillion in official development assistance to China, this article examines the Asahi Shimbun’s reporting responsibility, historical perceptions of the Korean Peninsula, and the self-denigrating view of history imposed on postwar Japan.

2015-12-31
The Asahi Shimbun is a vicious company.
Through its reporting on the so-called military comfort women and the many false reports written by Katsuichi Honda, including the story of the “hundred-man killing contest,” Japan was fleeced out of a total of approximately ¥3.66 trillion in official development assistance to China.
According to figures published by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan’s ODA to China consisted of approximately ¥3.3165 trillion in yen loans, ¥157.6 billion in grant aid, and ¥185.8 billion in technical cooperation.
Many people have come to understand this since August of last year.
Yet this constitutes an economic crime—and an enormous loss in terms of reducing the tax burden on the public—that makes even the shipbuilding scandal pale by comparison.
When one thinks about it, the Asahi Shimbun was the newspaper that helped prolong the rule of the Communist Party’s one-party dictatorship.
It published articles that followed Chinese propaganda, caused the world to mistake those claims for the truth, and calmly made the Japanese people pay approximately ¥3.3165 trillion to China.
Among those who seized upon the fabricated comfort-women reporting and made an uproar were Mizuho Fukushima and Yayori Matsui, who had been a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun.
The reality was unmistakable.
Within the prostitution practices long established on the Korean Peninsula, women were sold by their relatives.
For the brothel operators and procurers who received those women, the Japanese military was an ideal source of business.
That is why the women earned incomes many times greater than those of military officers at the time.
After the war, those women lost all the money in South Korea, either because relatives preyed upon them for it or because they spent it themselves.
At that time, Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world and one of the world’s worst states.
It had an endlessly subdivided system of status discrimination, a king, and people known as the yangban, whose defining principle was that they did not work.
Although their actual behavior was that of gangsters, they absurdly called themselves aristocrats.
I was the first person in the world to point out that their way of life became the prototype of Japan’s yakuza, more than 90 percent of whom were resident Koreans.
It was such a country that the United States at the time regarded it as a barren land with nothing there and even withdrew its consulate general.
Russia had been defeated by Japan in the Russo-Japanese War.
However, because the great powers intervened to prevent Japan from becoming too powerful, Russia did not suffer a fatal result and was able to preserve its national strength.
Driven by its ambition for territorial expansion, Russia then showed signs of advancing southward in order to bring the Korean Peninsula under its control.
At that moment, the people of the Korean Peninsula chose annexation by Japan.
This is a historical fact that only the present-day states of the Korean Peninsula do not know, or deliberately refuse to teach their people.
Yet this is a truth of international affairs so obvious that even a kindergarten child should be able to understand it.
The Asahi Shimbun alone has kept this truth from the Japanese people.
It is an organization dominated by people afflicted with left-wing infantilism and by people whose thinking has been thoroughly distorted by sham moralism and the self-denigrating view of history imposed by GHQ.
It also became the prototype of the South Korean mass media.
I have strayed considerably from the main subject, so I will continue in the next article.