This chapter, originally published on October 17, 2015, argues that the fiction surrounding the so-called Nanjing Massacre was shaped and amplified through the postwar Japanese media environment, Chinese political manipulation, and the distorted historical consciousness imposed under the GHQ occupation.
Drawing heavily on Masayuki Takayama’s America and China Arrogantly Lie, the author links together the reporting of the Mainichi Shimbun and the Asahi Shimbun, Katsuichi Honda’s writings, Japanese ODA to China, and the UNESCO Memory of the World issue, insisting that the fabrication of the Nanjing incident condensed every form of evil into a single historical falsehood.
The chapter also presents China’s external strategy and the responsibility of Japanese media as interconnected, while praising Tadao Umesao’s conclusions as shining like a monumental landmark even today.
It is an intensely critical piece that reexamines the poison spread through Japan’s postwar discourse and demands accountability for it.

2019-04-22
Speaking of China, where could there be evil greater than this.
The correctness of Tadao Umesao’s conclusion shines like a monumental pinnacle.
The Chinese sphere is a realm of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”

This is a chapter originally published on October 17, 2015.
There is probably no book that conveys the truth of the so-called Nanjing Massacre more powerfully than page 102 and following of Masayuki Takayama’s America and China Arrogantly Lie.
I am convinced…
That there are very few things in which every conceivable form of evil is involved as deeply as in the fabrication of the Nanjing Massacre incident.
In order to make this appear true…
Takayama taught me that Liao Chengzhi confined in Beijing, together with his family, the Mainichi Shimbun reporter who had written the lie, equal to that of Seiji Yoshida, that two Japanese soldiers held a “contest” in killing one hundred people…
And that even now the Chinese government continues to look after the family so that they may live in elegance.
For that alone, it is no exaggeration to call Takayama the greatest journalist of the postwar era.
At the same time…
It also proves that even among Mainichi reporters, the atmosphere for writing such lies was pervasive in postwar Japan.
Japan had been occupied by GHQ…
And thoroughly…
Brainwashed into believing that Japan was an evil country and the Japanese an evil people.
As represented by a writer such as Genichiro Takahashi…
Pathetic men who make their living from Asahi and by currying favor with Asahi appeared in large spaces on its pages as “writers.”
Without even knowing the circumstances of the postwar period, in a way even a kindergarten child should understand…
People claiming to be former soldiers…
Knew that newspaper reporters would eagerly pounce on them.
As ideal material for attacking Japan and the Japanese government…
As supposed proof that Japan had done evil things…
That Japan was an evil country.
And so…
People calling themselves former soldiers…
Began pouring out lies like a flood…
And yet there were those who still took Asahi’s side without understanding even that.
That plagiarizing petty-bourgeois fool…
Not even knowing that he himself was a false image manufactured by the publishing world…
Was from the beginning such a fool that he could say that those who criticize Asahi are merely drinking cheap liquor.
Just as any person, if he seriously does the same thing for three years, becomes competent…
If one spends all one’s life in a profession called writing…
One should know that books read by trend-chasers throughout the world can be written by anyone…
And yet he is too foolish even to know that.
But to return to the main point,
By confining the Mainichi reporter who fabricated the “hundred-man killing contest” in Beijing…
China extorted more than three trillion yen in ODA from Japan,
And before long…
In substance diverted Japan’s ODA…
Used the gap in American attention to present it as aid money to Africa…
Built overwhelming vested interests in Africa…
And created countries that would move as China told them to.
That too…
Is one part of the truth behind the acceptance of China’s Memory of the World application this time.
There are few things in which every conceivable form of evil is involved as deeply as in the fabrication of the Nanjing Massacre incident.
And that China, even now…
That is, even at this very moment today…
Is still receiving more than thirty billion yen in ODA under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs alone…
Most of it in the form of grant aid.
It was almost entirely through the power of the Asahi Shimbun that the government was made to decide on ODA to China.
What evil this is.
Katsuichi Honda of Asahi, no more than a thug like the Mainichi reporter…
Was invited to China…
And perhaps the real person responsible here too was Liao Chengzhi…
And began a serialized piece called Journey on the Silk Road, which was in truth laughable.
There he wrote one lie after another.
The culmination was the century-defining fabricated scoop of “tens of thousands massacred” in Nanjing.
By this, he became a bestselling author and is now a millionaire.
This evil too is terrible.
Asahi is truly unforgivable.
By now, all of them should be charged with treason against the state, given severe punishment, and sent to prison.
The time has long since come when we must know that the poison spread by this newspaper company…
Is the most vicious of all for Japan and the Japanese people…
The time to punish it has long since arrived.
Speaking of China, where could there be evil greater than this.
The correctness of Tadao Umesao’s conclusion shines like a monumental pinnacle.
The Chinese sphere is a realm of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
The evil of the United States, which wanted to camouflage the fact that it dropped the atomic bomb, is also terrible.
To be continued.