This essay argues that the postwar belief that Japan fought an “evil war” was not an objective historical conclusion, but a narrative formed through GHQ propaganda, Soviet espionage and subversion, and the uncritical acceptance of those narratives by Japanese intellectuals and media institutions.
The author maintains that in a century defined by war, true poets and intellectuals should have possessed both patriotism and a concrete sense of historical reality, yet many of Japan’s postwar cultural figures, commentators, and journalists had their moral foundations distorted.
He particularly emphasizes the role of Soviet agents, claiming that even a small infiltration can enable control over an entire organization, and that such operatives helped mire the Sino-Japanese War in deeper conflict while shaping anti-Japan public opinion in the United States.
According to the essay, this process spread the narrative that Japan had fought a wicked war, while concealing the enormous wartime crimes committed by the United States, including the firebombing of Japanese cities and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Drawing on Masayuki Takayama’s work, the author insists that Japanese soldiers were in fact marked by refinement, moral discipline, and an unusually deep love for family, homeland, and nation, which formed the basis of their courage.
He concludes that those who still believe the false image propagated by GHQ — including The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and much of Japan’s postwar intellectual class — remain trapped in a profoundly distorted understanding of history.

2019-03-18
If they succeed in sending in just five percent of their operatives, they will inevitably come to control the organization they are targeting… that is only natural, since propaganda operations are the supreme mission of their work.

The chapter I published on 2019-01-25 under the title, They Are Pitiful Infants Who Beautifully Believed One Hundred Percent in the Lies Spread by GHQ, Lies That in the Truest Sense Were Nothing but Baseless Rumors, and Were Brainwashed by Them — That Is the Reality of These People, of The Asahi Shimbun, and of NHK, is one that all Japanese citizens and the whole world must reread.
That the twentieth century was a century of war means that…,
unlike the so-called cultural figures who contributed to yesterday’s Nikkei column, all the people of the countries concerned were involved in war in one form or another… there is no end to the number of poets who volunteered for the battlefield and died there….
And that is only natural, because there is no such thing as a true poet who is not also a patriot.
But the so-called intellectuals and cultural figures represented by yesterday’s writer, the so-called lawyers, and the NHK employees who casually say that Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula are different.
At the root of their most natural and self-evident patriotism, something has been twisted, distorted, and made rotten.
A truly evil war means things like the Nazi massacre of the Jews…,
the repeated massacres of their own peoples carried out by China and the Korean Peninsula…,
or the massacre of the Indians by the United States.
It was Soviet spies and The Asahi Shimbun that turned the Sino-Japanese War into a quagmire…,
and it was Soviet spies who had won influence over the Roosevelt administration that rapidly formed pro-China and anti-American opinion in the United States by making use of this theme.
If they succeed in sending in just five percent of their operatives, they will inevitably come to control the organization they are targeting… that is only natural, perhaps, because propaganda operations are the supreme mission of their work, and because they possess no other kind of intelligence….
At that time, the Soviet Union also planted spies in countries that shaped anti-Japan opinion, Canada among them.
The famous Herbert Norman was one of them….
After all, when Lenin succeeded in the Russian Revolution, intellectuals all over the world were deeply shocked… because of the very weakness intellectuals possess, their top-heavy cast of mind….
So much so that it was even one factor in Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s suicide.
For example, Deutscher wrote of how intellectuals of that era were shaken by the Russian Revolution.
The gifted men in their studies and libraries throughout the world perceived the Russian Revolution as though it were an ideal revolution by workers.
Since they still did not understand what communism actually was, that was perhaps unavoidable.
However,
the postwar intellectuals of Japan were the ones who repeated the same mistake made by those earlier intellectuals.
That is exactly what yesterday’s “Oiso Koiso” vividly laid bare.
Who spread the claim that Japan fought an evil war?
Whose brainwashing was it?
A truth that even a kindergartener could understand was something that the great majority of Japan’s postwar intellectuals never understood at all… it is presumptuous even to call them intellectuals… and to have awarded the Nobel Prize to Kenzaburo Oe was the very height of foolishness.
Who spread the claim that Japan fought an evil war?… needless to say, it was the United States.
Whose brainwashing was it? Needless to say, it was brainwashing by the United States.
For what purpose?… to divert the eyes of the world from, and to conceal, the greatest act of slaughter in the history of war ever committed by human beings, namely the indiscriminate attacks with incendiary bombs on 127 cities throughout Japan.
And furthermore, in order to divert the world’s eyes from, and to conceal, the greatest and worst crime in human history, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they turned Japan into the ultimate villain.
Yet the facts that Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, has revealed to us through true examination are the exact opposite of their propaganda.
Rather, Japanese soldiers were gentlemen even on the battlefield….
He has revealed that they were people possessed of the aesthetic sense and sound moral judgment cultivated over 2,600 years.
In this chapter, I tell the world the truth for the first time.
Why did the United States go not only as far as indiscriminate incendiary attacks on 127 cities throughout Japan, but also all the way to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
As for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki… one factor was indeed the racial prejudice that existed in the world and in the U.S. administration at the time,
but the greatest reason was that the Japanese people… the Japanese military… were a force so strong that it may be called the strongest in history.
Even when supplies were cut off, most of them fought in distant battlefields, staking their own lives to the very end, in order to defend a faraway country — the country where their own families, wives, and children were.
In truth, there had never been such a people anywhere in the world in all of history.
Bushido may also have been one factor in this.
The Japanese military was simply too strong… and the American military, the strongest in the world at that time with overwhelming material power, must have felt that down to its bones.
In every battle fought by the United States… the strength and toughness of the Japanese military far exceeded anything they had imagined.
The Japanese military was as strong as demons and gods.…
The Japanese, the people who in human history loved their country, their families, and their native places more deeply than anyone else…,
when it came to war, were the bravest people in the world.
In other words, the Japanese people’s love for their country, their families, and their homeland was stronger than that of any people anywhere else in the world….
That was the kind of people the Japanese were.
In one sense, that was only natural.
In the Second World War… through the plots of Soviet spies, the media’s inciting war coverage such as that of The Asahi Shimbun…,
and the strategy of the Roosevelt administration, which had been won over by Soviet spies…,
Japan was maneuvered into having no choice but to end up on the defeated side…,
and until, for the first time in history, it lost a war and came under occupation and rule by another country…,
it had spent more than 2,000 years of recorded history without ever being occupied and ruled by another nation.
There is no other country anywhere in the world like that.
And it is yesterday’s writer, The Asahi Shimbun, and the so-called cultural figures whose feeling for that is astonishingly thin….
Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami are representative champions of that type….
As for Oe, it seems that he alone has strong feelings for his own family, his native place, and places such as the Korean Peninsula and China…,
and it is a well-known fact that he bears fierce hatred toward everything else that is true Japan, actual Japan.…
That is also clear from the fact that his name almost always appears among the initiators of movements openly expressing hatred toward Japan.
In other words, they possess minds beneath even those of kindergarten children…,
they beautifully believed one hundred percent in the lies spread by GHQ, lies that in the truest sense were nothing but false rumors…,
they are pitiful infants brainwashed by them…,
and that is the reality of them, of The Asahi Shimbun, and of NHK.
To be continued.