A continuation of Sakurai Yoshiko’s front-page analysis reveals glaring fabrications in claims about Chinese “comfort women,” exposing state-backed historical warfare and the complicity of credentialed scholars.

2016-05-03

The following continues the major work published on the front page of yesterday’s Sankei Shimbun by Sakurai Yoshiko. Emphasis and the sections marked with * * are mine.

However, this is merely the beginning. In the same book, Mr. Su claims to have recorded testimonies from 102 Chinese comfort women, asserting that 87 were “directly” abducted by the Japanese military.

The book repeatedly alleges that there were approximately 400,000 comfort women in total, at least half of whom were Chinese, and that the Japanese military itself abducted the majority of Chinese comfort women.

It questions the responsibility of the Japanese government by asserting that direct military involvement and cruel treatment of women were defining features of the Japanese army in China. Mr. Su also serves as director of the Chinese Comfort Women Research Center at Shanghai University. Based on statistics from this center, reports have even claimed that 75 percent of comfort women were ravaged by the Japanese military and died—amounting to 300,000 (75 percent of 400,000).

*This shows not only a uniquely unprecedented nation of liars in history—where a bottomless evil and plausible falsehoods are combined with a one-party communist dictatorship whose essence is to call white black and black white—but also raises the question: even if Chinese people have “three thousand layers of skin,” as some Chinese wrote online recently, are those who carry the title of scholar not ashamed to tell such obvious lies?

While confronting them directly would be futile, the real issue lies with scholars at the University of British Columbia, University of Hong Kong, and University of Oxford. Most of those involved are likely of Chinese origin or funded by Chinese sources.*

Mr. Takahashi has pointed out that the research at the same center receives funding from the Chinese government, making it fair to say that Beijing is backing Mr. Su and others’ fabrications regarding comfort women from behind the scenes.

China has launched a full-scale historical war against Japan.

Do the Japanese people—especially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs—truly understand the depth of the dark emotions cultivated through anti-Japanese education in China, and the extraordinary severity of the historical warfare born from them?

To be continued.