Honda Katsuichi traveled through China under lavish hospitality provided by the Chinese government and produced reports that mirrored the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-Japan propaganda.
Asahi Shimbun amplified these reports worldwide, many of which were later proven false, including the so-called Nanjing Massacre narrative.
By aligning with Beijing’s intentions, Asahi helped justify an unprecedented scale of Japanese economic assistance to China, pushing Japan itself toward the brink.

May 18, 2016

The following continues from the previous chapter.

Honda Katsuichi traveled through China while receiving lavish and exhaustive hospitality from the Chinese government.

This was the exact opposite of the fieldwork conducted by Umesao Tadao, who, in far more difficult times, lived for several years across nearly all provinces of China.
It was not genuine academic research, nor could it be called an academic paper; it was nothing more than a composition at the level of a kindergarten child.

Honda wrote in Asahi Shimbun exactly what the Chinese government handed to him—content that followed the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-Japan propaganda strategy as a matter of national policy.
Asahi Shimbun published this as a major scoop and spread it across the world.
Needless to say, most of those articles were entirely false.
Yet, astonishingly, the so-called Nanjing Massacre came to be recognized worldwide as fact.
It is now a historical fact that it began with a fabricated article written by a New York Times reporter.

Events unfolded exactly as the Chinese government intended.
In reality, Asahi Shimbun—an entity that represents an unprecedented concentration of evil directed against the Japanese state and people—acted in accordance with Beijing’s wishes and enabled Japan to provide China with thirty trillion yen in economic assistance, the largest such aid in human history.

Had this enormous sum of Japanese taxpayers’ money been used for the benefit of the Japanese people, the “Japan on the brink” that they now proclaim would never have existed.

To be continued.