This essay condemns so-called intellectuals who have long taken pleasure in spreading falsehoods that denigrate Japan abroad. It examines postwar occupation propaganda, the distortion of wartime history, the role of Asahi Shimbun, and the United Nations’ decades-long acceptance of historical fabrications.

So-called intellectuals such as academics take pleasure in telling lies to the world in order to denigrate their own country.
2017-06-08
Until I appeared, the Asahi Shimbun was believed to be an organization to which Japan’s finest minds belonged.
Yet it relentlessly vilifies the politicians of a nation that suffered the greatest calamity in human history—
a nation whose 127 cities were reduced to ashes by indiscriminate bombing and incendiaries,
and which, due to the ignorance, vulgarity, and racially discriminatory mindset of the Democratic administration of the time,
saw atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It scorns the politicians who, within only a few decades, restored Japan to one of the world’s leading nations despite being a victim,
while continuing to praise politicians of the country that produced Nazi Germany, such as Adenauer, as great statesmen.
This stems from occupation policies initiated to conceal the greatest crimes in human history—
a brainwashing policy that portrayed Japanese as evil people and Japan as an evil nation that committed wrongs against China and Korea.
Japan unified the Korean Peninsula, which the world had abandoned and left in the Stone Age—
an act desired and approved by the international community—
and during only thirty-five years invested 25 percent of its national budget to modernize it,
accomplishing something unprecedented in world history.
Yet the outrageous lie that Japan colonized Korea was allowed to prevail internationally.
The United Nations has, even seventy-two years after the war, treated such lies as truth,
making it a truly incorrigible organization.
Because the world tolerates such falsehoods, wars have never ceased.
The vulgarity and ignorance of the Democratic administration of that era are fully revealed by the fact
that Kyoto was initially selected as a target for the atomic bomb.
The United States under Democratic rule, a country that did not even exist in form when Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji
and Sei Shōnagon wrote The Pillow Book more than a thousand years ago,
nonchalantly decided to drop an atomic bomb on Kyoto.
Moreover, key positions within that Democratic administration, which maneuvered Japan into war against the United States,
were occupied by not a few Soviet spies.
In Japan, Hotsumi Ozaki, a prominent figure at the Asahi Shimbun and one of the country’s leading China experts at the time,
became a key member of the Konoe Fumimaro Cabinet,
and as an undeniable Soviet spy,
he maneuvered Japan toward war with China, exhausted the nation, and successfully plotted its communist transformation.