The reason the author finally ended a truly long-running subscription to Newsweek Japan was an essay written by a former Japanese Foreign Ministry official who had become its principal Japanese voice.
In that argument, which effectively said that one must not deny the “Nanjing Massacre,” the author saw the intellectual decay and excessive deference to the United States that symbolize postwar Japan.
Written from a standpoint of deep respect for America yet firm refusal to accept falsehood as truth, this piece questions the independence of public discourse and the foundations of historical understanding.

2019-03-06
The reason I stopped subscribing to the Japanese edition of Newsweek, which I had truly continued for a very long time, was that the main Japanese writer was replaced by a former Foreign Ministry official, and I read an article he had published.

The reason I stopped subscribing to the Japanese edition of Newsweek, which I had truly continued for a very long time, was that the main Japanese writer was replaced by a former Foreign Ministry official, and I read an article he had published.
He said, “To speak about the Nanjing Massacre is a NO.
In the United States, the moment one denies the Nanjing Massacre…”
The instant I read that article, I felt that what I had thought was a magazine carrying articles never found in outlets such as the Asahi had come to an end.

As readers know, I stand not only at the exact opposite pole from those who dominate watch9 and from anti-American people such as those at the Asahi, but also in the position of loving and respecting the United States more than anyone, because America is not only a country in which the “Turntable of Civilization” is turning, but the true leader of the world.
Japan, too, is a country in which the “Turntable of Civilization” is turning, second only to the United States, and in order to complement it.
But unlike America, Japan cannot become the leader of the world, because through the excesses of GHQ at the time of defeat, it became the only country in the world without a real military, a country in which even the right of self-defense has become a subject of dispute.

But it goes without saying that this does not mean that everything America does is 100 percent correct.
Still less am I a person who would ever say that lies created by America are correct.
Readers know that well.
Black is black, and white is white.

And yet this former diplomat says that one must say nothing against the glaring lie called the Nanjing Massacre, a lie created by America.
That in itself is a symbol of the postwar evils of Japan.
That is why I immediately stopped subscribing to Newsweek.