This essay argues that Japan’s ethical foundations differ fundamentally from those of neighboring regions, emphasizing a 2,600-year tradition of respecting women. Drawing on classical literature and cultural history, it presents Japan as a civilization shaped by female intellect, sensitivity, and moral restraint.

This essay presents Japan as a civilization that has respected and cherished women for 2,600 years.
By referencing classical literature and historical ethics, it contrasts Japan’s moral framework with that of neighboring regions and argues that Japanese cultural identity has been shaped by female intellect and sensitivity.
The article emphasizes how this long-standing tradition informs Japanese ethical norms and cultural self-understanding, positioning respect for women as a defining element of Japan’s civilization.

2017-07-02
It is because Japan is a nation that has cherished women and fallen in love with women for 2,600 years.
I stopped by Yodobashi Camera Umeda on an errand, and I was astonished by the sheer number of people visiting the store.
On my way back after finishing my errand, I was walking while thinking about the following things.
China and South Korea are terrible as nations.
They are utterly chaotic countries.
They are truly peoples of a nation of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
If Japan’s military had been composed of soldiers who, when 20,000 Jews fleeing Nazi persecution from Europe to the border of the Soviet Union and Manchukuo arrived, had turned them away without helping them—soldiers whose commander was Hideki Tojo—then I would have nothing to say to those who have despised Japan through Chinese and South Korean anti-Japanese propaganda or American wartime propaganda during the Second World War.
However, that was not the case.
That Japanese soldiers were not the kind of people you have proclaimed them to be, but rather the exact opposite, was taught to us by Rabbi Marvin Tokayer in his authentic scholarly work.
I learned this for the first time, so there is no way that you would already know it.
If it were men from China or the Korean Peninsula—countries where, among carnivorous peoples and under historically unimaginable systems of finely stratified social discrimination, women were not merely treated with male chauvinism but not even regarded as human beings—then sexual violence might be conceivable.
The so-called “comfort women” issue, an anti-Japanese propaganda campaign they launched by exploiting fabricated articles in the Asahi Shimbun, was dismissed as absurd even by Professor Lee of Seoul National University, who conducted interviews with the women involved.
Those stories of Korean prostitutes were nothing other than the treatment women received in the Yi Dynasty era, when women were private property of the yangban class.
For Japanese people, violating women is among the most loathsome and abhorrent acts imaginable, a moral sense that everyone naturally holds.
That China and South Korea remain countries with high rates of sexual violence even today was reported in a special feature by Newsweek several years ago.
Why are Japanese people completely different from them?
Because Japan is a country where, more than a thousand years ago, women of exceptional intellect and sensitivity—represented by Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon—created works such as The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book, and countless magnificent waka poems.
Because Japan is a nation that has cherished women and fallen in love with women for 2,600 years.
It is inconceivable that soldiers of such a nation would commit sexual violence against women.
This debased world, China, South Korea—enough is enough.
Know that it was you who deserved to have atomic bombs dropped upon you.
For even Enma, the King of Hell, is said to be dumbfounded by your sheer numbers and complains that there are not enough cauldrons to use for punishment.