Published on April 21, 2019.
Based on a chapter originally published on October 10, 2015, this essay examines the activities carried out at the United Nations by the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism, the UN NGO “Citizens’ Center,” and figures such as Hideaki Uemura in criticizing Japan.
It argues that while most Japanese people remained unaware, a narrative portraying Japan as a human-rights-abusing state was being spread internationally, and raises strong suspicions that this effort was linked to the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, so-called cultural figures, and anti-base activism in Okinawa.
The essay criticizes what it sees as a coordinated domestic and international left-wing network working to damage Japan’s international standing.

2019-04-21
The true nature of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism was this…
it was something carried out by a group no Japanese person had ever heard of, a UN NGO called the “Citizens’ Center”…
and by a man named Hideaki Uemura, who teaches at a university that no ordinary citizen has ever heard of.

The following is from a chapter I published on October 10, 2015.
The framework that sent her to the United Nations was centered on the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism, and within that same framework they are now trying to send Governor Onaga next.
This is because of what I wrote on September 10…
had he not informed us of this matter, we would surely have swallowed their lies whole…
What follows is a quotation from the ten-page labor of scholarship published by Satoru Nakamoto in the October issue of the monthly magazine Sound Argument.
What he first made known to us about the actual nature of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism was this…
that it was being carried out by a group no Japanese person had ever heard of, a UN NGO called the “Citizens’ Center”…
and by a man named Hideaki Uemura, teaching at a university no ordinary citizen has ever heard of.
Judging from its record of activities, there can hardly be any doubt that this organization has close ties with so-called civic groups organized by resident Koreans in Japan, probably with Communist-style organizations, and with the South Korean government as well.
At the same time, there is likewise hardly any doubt that the Asahi and Mainichi, among others, have in substance been supporting it.
And as for the fact that this Hideaki Uemura possessed speaking rights at the UN Council, that was probably made possible through the support of China and South Korea, countries that might as well be said not to pay UN contributions at all…
and through the support of countries with truly pitiful intellectual standards…
countries that took at face value the anti-Japan propaganda that they have been spreading at the United Nations…
in places unknown to us.
What this man proposed…
this scheme to slander Japan and lower its international value…
was, of all things, directed against Japan, the nation that respects human rights more than any other in the world…
indeed, to such an excessive degree that the harmful effects of overprotection have even become visible…
Japan…
a country where even criminals are protected by personal information protection laws.
And yet, of all things, they continued to portray that Japan to the world…
as though it were the worst human-rights-abusing nation on earth.
All this was done where no Japanese citizen knew of it…
But the Asahi and Mainichi knew.
The so-called cultural figures must have known as well.
As for the fact that the committee member reviewing this proposal…
was yet another university professor no Japanese person had ever heard of, a man called Shigeki Sakamoto…
Furutachi of “Hōdō Station”…
surely never imagined that a person like me would be watching that day’s broadcast…
What they had in mind were only the viewers they had been indoctrinating…
viewers who believed their childish…
and therefore vicious…
ideas…
to be correct.
And so, in Okinawa…
together with Communist Party members and labor union people from the mainland…
and with the Asahi and Mainichi, in the same condition as when those papers were at their very worst…
as I introduced the other day, even the Iwate edition of the Asahi Shimbun had been recognized internally at Asahi itself as Akahata…
out of their impatience to make successful the anti-base-relocation campaign being waged by the two newspapers that now monopolize reporting in Okinawa…
the Asahi ended up bringing out into the open a man they had kept hidden…
Shigeki Sakamoto.
As is Asahi’s habitual method…
they prepared the stage as though this Shigeki Sakamoto were a supremely authoritative figure in his field.
But when I searched, it turned out to be nothing of the sort…
as I have already stated, he was simply a highly suspicious man from Nagasaki who had graduated from Kansai University.
That people like this…
were controlling matters bearing on Japan’s international credibility…
what an infantile state of affairs that was…
but because it was infantile, it was also the most vicious kind of state of affairs…
The time has now come when Japan and the Japanese people must engrave this deeply in their minds and know it.
For it would be no exaggeration at all to say that behind the crimes that debase Japan…
there stand the Asahi, and the so-called cultural figures who grew up reading it…
and who make their living by it.
To be continued.