This essay analyzes how Asahi Shimbun fabricated the “comfort women” narrative,
engineered the Kōno Statement, and forced Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa to issue repeated apologies in South Korea.
It traces how this manipulation intersected with U.S. occupation policies and Syngman Rhee’s exploitation,
producing decades of anti-Japanese indoctrination and media complicity.

2016-03-28
When Asahi Shimbun fabricated the so-called “comfort women” issue and spread it across the world,
it engineered the Kōno Statement and had an intentional academic paper written by Yoshimi Yoshiaki, then a professor at Chuo University,
in order to force Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, who was about to visit South Korea, to apologize eight times while there.
This has now been clarified as an undeniable fact.
Yet Asahi’s apology press conference in August two years ago was nothing more than superficial,
and that nothing had fundamentally changed was already demonstrated, as noted earlier,
by TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station and its representative anchor, Ichirō Furutachi.
Their childish and malicious conduct fits perfectly the words traitors and national betrayers.
Meanwhile, in the morning edition of March 25, Sankei Shimbun published the following facts on its front page.
It goes without saying that Asahi Shimbun, which can hardly be said not to have been manipulated by South Korean spokesmen,
the South Korean government, or individuals at home and abroad connected to the CIA,
has completely avoided reporting these inconvenient truths for South Korea.
I have written many times that the creator of the Takeshima issue was the historically despicable dictator Syngman Rhee,
and here again I have reaffirmed that the discoveries I have consistently presented are of immense significance.
Syngman Rhee committed these acts by exploiting U.S. policy at the time, namely the occupation policy.
In other words, Japan was made a political prisoner in international society in order to conceal America’s original sin.
Syngman Rhee, a villain rare even in history, took full advantage of this situation.
The anti-Japanese education he initiated, which is Nazism itself, has continued for seventy years since the war.
Almost all young South Koreans raised under this system are completely unaware that these were Rhee’s crimes,
and believe Takeshima—calling it Dokdo—to be their own territory.
What totalitarianism is,
and what Nazi-style education looks like,
they are proving to the world as living examples.
That Kang Sang-jung, who uses a Korean name rather than a Japanese one while calling himself a scholar,
continues to interfere in Japanese policy and politics in the twenty-first century without correcting these abnormalities,
and that newspapers and television networks continue to give him such a platform,
clearly qualifies them as traitors and national betrayers, a conclusion that requires no further commentary.
Indeed, it would be more accurate to assume that operatives of the South Korean government or the CIA have infiltrated their organizations.
These people relentlessly exploit the remnants of leftist ideology and pseudo-moralism for their own purposes.
The Sankei Shimbun article will be introduced in the next chapter.