The June 1, 2016 Kansai evening edition front page of Asahi Shimbun surpassed even Tetsuya Hakoda’s earlier article in distortion, amounting to an act hostile to Japan itself. By obscuring the role of brothel operators and falsely implying responsibility on the Japanese military and government, the article exemplifies deliberate historical falsification.

June 15, 2016
Putting aside the continuation of the previous chapter for later, the main front-page headline of the June 1 evening edition (Kansai edition) of Asahi Shimbun was no less egregious than Tetsuya Hakoda’s article of May 17, and was something that could hardly be called a newspaper of Japan, amounting instead to a grave crime against the nation.
Hakoda, needless to say, writes articles as if he were Korean.
In other words, he writes from the Korean side, assuming that the claims of South Korea and of one former Korean prostitute are correct.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that everything about it was atrocious, but among the contents there was the following.
At the end of an article that seemed to grudgingly acknowledge that the prostitutes had received considerable compensation, he wrote that there appeared to have been cases in which payments to them were delayed, as if the Japanese military, or the Japanese government, had been responsible for such actions.
Needless to say, among the brothel operators who were the pimps of those prostitutes, there must have been many Koreans and Chinese.
Yet he wrote nothing whatsoever about the reality of those operators who had parasitized the Japanese military, been protected by it, and amassed exorbitant profits, instead writing as if, intentionally, there had been cases in which the Japanese government had failed to make payments.
I found this utterly intolerable.
Who could possibly call this man, Tetsuya Hakoda, a proper Japanese citizen?