2019-10-17
Without even reading the articles written by their predecessors, they simply immerse themselves in the words of brutal and lying Shina people.
Asahi Shimbun does not sell.
Perhaps Mayumi is to blame.
“‘The state government was astonished and apologized,’ Asahi reporter Mayumi Mamoru reported with evident delight.”
I am republishing the chapter that I published under that title on 2019-04-13.
The following is from Masayuki Takayama’s renowned column “Henken Jizai,” published in the issue of Shukan Shincho released yesterday.
It is an indisputable fact that Masayuki Takayama is the one and only journalist in the postwar world…and that compared with the disreputable foreigners who presume to call themselves correspondents for major Western magazines—people whom it is almost an insult to genuine journalists even to call reporters and who dominate the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan—the difference is like night and day.
In this week’s issue as well…readers throughout the world, while marveling at his writing…will realize that he perfectly proves the correctness of my assessment of him.
At the same time, the world will learn that Asahi Shimbun, which you have come to believe is Japan’s representative newspaper…eagerly seizes upon comments that demean Japan, or eagerly demeans Japan itself…in other words, that it is a collection of reporters made up of a self-denigrating view of history and anti-Japanese ideology.
How would you feel if they were the newspaper representing your country?
Even if there may be some problems, you would feel relieved to know that the newspaper company representing your country…is certainly not an organization of employees who, like those of Asahi Shimbun, could without exaggeration be called traitors to their country.
His Majesty the King’s Plainclothes Unit
In late January 1942, when Singapore was about to fall, Asahi Shimbun published a roundtable discussion on the situation in Malaya, bringing together Murotaro Senda of Senda Shokai and other people familiar with the area.
In fact, Shina people had been fleeing into Malaya since around the time of the Opium War, ingratiating themselves with the white rulers, controlling Malay laborers, and selling opium to them.
Senda explained that by the beginning of the Showa era there were “about three hundred” schools for Shina children.
By that time, tensions between Japan and Shina had spilled directly into Malaya, and Shina people there began attacking Japanese companies and Japanese residents.
One such case was that of Yutaka Tani, known as the Tiger of Malaya.
While he was back in Japan, a group of Shina people attacked the town of Terengganu, raped his sister, cut off her head, and carried it away.
It was brutality typical of the Shina people.
After returning from Japan, Yutaka pursued the group that had killed his sister and also attacked an opium magnate, becoming feared among the Shina people under the name Harimao.
The Shina people believed that Britain would win and carried out sabotage and terrorist attacks against the Japanese Army.
The roundtable discussion revealed that the Shina terrorist groups had a central organization, the “China Relief Fund Association” led by Tan Kah Kee, who was connected with Chiang Kai-shek.
This organization became the central anti-Japanese body throughout the South Seas.
Incidentally, Tan Kah Kee was also connected with Mao Zedong, and after the war, when the Communist regime was established, he abandoned Malaya and returned to his native Fujian Province.
It was a foolish choice.
While fighting the British and Indian forces, the Japanese Army also had to remain alert to the presence of these Shina guerrillas.
Even so, it advanced an average of 20 kilometers a day.
The Japanese Army was truly strong.
Although the roundtable discussion did not mention it, Asahi war correspondent Torakichi Sakai reported that in Singapore at the time there was “a fighting force composed entirely of Shina people” organized by the British Army.
This unit was under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Dalley and, with 4,000 men, was easily of brigade strength.
Among its soldiers were Communist guerrillas who had been imprisoned in Changi Prison.
Their distinguishing characteristic was that they had no official military uniform.
In other words, they were a plainclothes unit dressed as civilians, with a yellow bandanna around the neck as their only identifying mark.
After their commander, they were called “Dalforce” or “Dalley’s Desperadoes.”
When urban fighting broke out against the Japanese Army, they pretended to be ordinary civilians while looking for opportunities to attack, and when pursued, they threw away their guns and fled into crowds of civilians.
Combat carried out in civilian clothes in this manner is regarded outright as guerrilla warfare in violation of international law.
If captured, even international law permits the maximum penalty.
During the battle for Singapore, several members of Dalforce were captured, revealing the existence of these plainclothes fighters.
Today, Singaporean Chinese condemn the Japanese Army for the purge of overseas Chinese, but there is no doubt that it was they themselves who created the cause.
Recently, in Alor Star, the first important city seized in the Malayan campaign, “a memorial monument honoring Japanese soldiers as heroes” was restored by the Kedah state government, and a grand unveiling ceremony was held.
In response, local Shina residents began protesting, saying, “Chinese residents were killed by the Japanese Army” and “Why should an invading army be treated as heroes?”
“‘The state government was astonished and apologized,’ Asahi reporter Mayumi Mamoru reported with evident delight.”
During the war, the Shina people fought against the Japanese Army alongside the British forces.
They carried out despicable acts of terrorism and even deployed plainclothes units.
How dare they say that it was unjust that they were killed for doing so?
Incidentally, Sakai, a correspondent and a great predecessor of reporter Mamoru, reported on December 30, 1941, how the Malays in the state gave the Japanese Army an enthusiastic welcome.
He also interviewed Regent M. Dewa, the equivalent of the state’s king, and reported his words of gratitude for liberation by the Japanese Army: “The British have looked down on us and oppressed us. Now at last the dawn of our people has come.”
Without even reading the articles written by their predecessors, they simply immerse themselves in the words of brutal and lying Shina people.
Asahi Shimbun does not sell.
Perhaps Mayumi is to blame.