China Took Kazuo Asami Under Its Wing—The False Pillar Supporting the “Hundred-Man Killing Contest” Report and Nanjing Massacre Propaganda

Based on Masayuki Takayama’s observations, this chapter examines the significance of Kazuo Asami, who wrote the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun’s “Hundred-Man Killing Contest” report, being taken under China’s wing after the war. It connects in a single line the Nanjing Massacre propaganda, the unjust execution of Japanese officers, China’s operations targeting Japan, and even the securing of Japanese ODA, and reveals how China politically exploited historical falsehoods.

2020-04-22
From 1979 onward, China drew ODA from Japan, but in short, it knew perfectly well that if Asami confessed, everything would be ruined, and so it put up a defensive line in advance.
Kazuo Asami was a precious pillar supporting the lie.
That is why China took Asami in.
I am republishing the chapter originally published on 2019-02-16 under that title.
The following is from p. 98.
Everyone who read this chapter must have exclaimed, “Takayama is incredible!”
Every Japanese citizen who can read print must go to the nearest bookstore right now and purchase this book.
People all over the world must, through my translation, keenly realize how completely unaware everyone has been of the truth of things.

●China’s Cunning in Taking In the Reporter Behind the Hundred-Man Killing Contest
Takayama
The Chinese are as wicked as Americans.
They calmly carry out evil schemes that would never even occur to Japanese people.
One example is Liao Chengzhi’s actions in the 1960s.
The Cultural Revolution began in 1966, but before that, Liao Chengzhi learned that Kazuo Asami was among the newspaper people invited from Japan.
In 1937, Asami wrote a bogus article in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun under the headline, “Hundred-Man Killing Contest! / The Two Second Lieutenants Already at 80,” claiming that Second Lieutenant Takeshi Noda and Second Lieutenant Toshiaki Mukai competed to see which of them could be the first to kill 100 people with Japanese swords before entering Nanjing.
After the war, because of Asami’s article, Second Lieutenants Noda and Mukai were executed by firing squad despite being innocent.
This “Hundred-Man Killing Contest” report has also been used as supporting material for the lie of the Nanjing Massacre concocted by China and the United States.
The person who wrote it was Asami.
At the time, he was serving as a union committee member or something at the Mainichi Shimbun.
Liao Chengzhi immediately invited Asami and his family—that is, his wife and daughter as well—to China, gave him a job under favorable conditions, and enrolled his daughter at Peking University.
Why did he do such a thing?
The “Hundred-Man Killing Contest” was known to be a lie no matter how much evidence was gathered.
If Asami had been left in Japan—in fact, Tomomi Inada later brought a lawsuit disputing that very fact—it was obvious that Asami would apologize, saying, “It was a lie” and “I am sorry.”
If Asami’s lie were exposed, the lie of the Nanjing Massacre would be exposed one after another, like pulling up potatoes by the vine.
It would truly become the single ant-hole that brings down the embankment.
If the lie of the Nanjing Massacre were exposed, would the ODA—official development assistance—from Japan that reached full bloom in the Deng Xiaoping era even have been possible?
He foresaw that far ahead and took the Asami family under his control at an early stage.
Kazuo Asami was a precious pillar supporting the lie.
That is why China took Asami in.
When the Hundred-Man Killing Contest became an issue in Japan in the 1970s, Asami came from Beijing, testified that it was true, and then returned to Beijing.
Asami’s daughter graduated from Peking University, and afterward the Beijing government continued to take proper care of her.
By chance, I met that daughter.
She was running a teahouse in one corner of a facility for Japanese tourists.
There was a piece of calligraphy by Liao Chengzhi in the shop, bearing the inscription, “To Kazuo Asami.”
When I asked her about it, she said, “Ah, that is my father.”
I asked her, “Because of your father’s bogus article, two second lieutenants were condemned for crimes they did not commit, weren’t they?”
The daughter calmly replied, “Whether they were innocent or not is something my father knows,” and said, “My father suffered too.”
I told the daughter plainly, “After causing people to be killed, suffering is only natural,” but there was no remorse at all.
What I felt was Liao Chengzhi’s extraordinary depth of calculation.
Even back in the 1960s, he had already decided to use this as leverage.
Japanese people do not think up schemes like this.
From 1979 onward, China drew ODA from Japan, but in short, it knew perfectly well that if Asami confessed, everything would be ruined, and so it had put up a defensive line in advance.
There is nothing else to say except that it was remarkable.