Published on July 15, 2019.
This chapter critically examines historical views concerning Yasukuni Shrine, the Peace Constitution, textbook issues, and Palau through a collection of statements by Kiyomi Tsujimoto.
It discusses the facts of the Japanese military’s battle on Peleliu Island in Palau and the evacuation of local residents, criticizing the Asahi Shimbun and NHK for having consistently portrayed the Japanese military as villains after the war, as a product of masochistic historical views and anti-Japanese thought.

July 15, 2019.
The fact that the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others, who were among the chief culprits who drove Japan toward the opening of war with the United States from before the war through the wartime period, have consistently continued after the war to make the Japanese military into villains is.
The following is an excerpt from an article by Ukiyo Buro.
The blackening of the author’s notes and the passages marked with ＊～＊ are mine.
A collection of Kiyomi Tsujimoto’s statements.
●“It is said that Diet members protect the lives and property of the people, but I did not become one with that intention.
My role is that of a ‘country-destroying Diet member,’ whose task is how to collapse the framework of the state!”
●The Peace Constitution is the only law that can restrain Japan’s military power.
If this Peace Constitution were abolished, Japan would come to commit every kind of lawlessness.
●Yasukuni Shrine was, before the war, an institution that led the Japanese people into war.
My grandfather was conscripted under such circumstances, and later died of starvation on a small island in the Pacific.
I always saw my mother suffering because she had lost her father, and I too suffered.
However, I understand that many people in Asia who lost relatives in the war of aggression by the Japanese military on those battlefields suffered more than I did.
According to local residents of Oyodo Town, Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, where her maternal grandfather lived,
“Died of starvation on a small island in the Pacific? There was no such thing.
Kiyomi-chan’s maternal grandfather was conscripted and went into the army, but he came home safely.
He also received a military pension and did work like parcel delivery.
It was about twenty years ago that he died of illness, I suppose.
Of course, he died here.”
＊That Kiyomi Tsujimoto is a person with the DNA of countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” is clear from this manner of calmly telling lies.＊
●Yasukuni Shrine was the central existence of State Shinto, which became the spiritual pillar of militarism that led many people to their deaths.
Reflecting on that, after the war, separation of religion and state was stipulated in Article 20 of the Constitution, but for the prime minister to visit Yasukuni Shrine, which is a religious corporation, constitutes a violation of the Constitution.
Japan accepted, in the San Francisco Peace Treaty, the judgment of the Tokyo Trial that “Class-A war criminals” were responsible for the war of aggression and were criminals against peace, and returned to the international community.
Internationally seen, the meaning of the prime minister going to bow his head at Yasukuni Shrine, where these “Class-A war criminals” are enshrined, is an act equivalent to visiting Hitler’s grave in Germany, and becomes a message of destroying the present international order.
That is why voices of concern are beginning to rise not only from South Korea and China, but also from the United States and European countries.
First of all, Hitler’s grave does not exist.
Nor was separation of religion and state stipulated with Yasukuni Shrine in mind.
Many heads of state from various countries have also visited Yasukuni Shrine, but apart from North and South Korea and the Chinese Communist regime, those making noise are anti-Japanese organizations of Chinese and Koreans in the United States and elsewhere, yet she says that “voices of concern are beginning to rise from the United States and European countries as well.”
●“I want to realize the reconstruction work of the north-south railway connecting North Korea and South Korea, and have young Japanese people, whose country once invaded the Korean Peninsula, participate as volunteers.” 2005（Heisei 17）.
●“Terrorists cannot be forgiven!! The United Nations should create an institution to sanction terrorists.”
What? Hige-Toda, the city assemblyman in the Tsujimoto faction, will be arrested, won’t he? Or rather, what about her own husband!!
●In 1982, a textbook issue arose in Japan, and the Ministry of Education made textbook writers change “invasion” to “advance,” and also changed the Nanking Massacre to the “Nanking Incident”… Japanese history textbooks contain few original historical facts, and in addition, the government takes the lead in revising history.
How utterly uncool.
Even the Asahi Shimbun, which at the time took the lead in “misreporting” the matter, has admitted that there was no fact that the Ministry of Education（Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology）made textbook descriptions be rewritten from invasion to advance.
The claim that invasion was changed to advance began when a television station reporter in charge of the Ministry of Education misunderstood and reported it.
●Before the war, when there was no voting right, belligerent politicians arbitrarily decided that Japan would walk the path of a military state.
I never again want to see conservative politicians continue and achieve their aims, nor the revival of belligerent laws.
In order to prevent Japan from becoming militarist again, I expect even more voices opposing revision of the Peace Constitution.
Naturally, this includes opposing voices from the Asian peoples who once suffered war damage.
To state the “facts” so that people will not be deceived by Ms. Tsujimoto, Japan had already introduced an ordinary election system from Meiji 22, and the only people who did not have the vote until the war were women.
Women’s suffrage too was recognized after the war, second in Asia, and compared with Europe, at the same time as France and Italy.
When she says there was no voting right, what country is she talking about?
And what country’s people does she mean by the Asian peoples?
●Once, on the Pacific island of Palau, I heard this story from an old woman.
“The Japanese soldiers said they had brought weapons to protect the island, but because soldiers with weapons came to the island, it became a target of attack, was attacked, and many civilians died.”（From Higokoro Tsushin No. 6）.
In fact, Palau may be the most pro-Japanese country in the world.
After all, it is a country whose national flag was decided based on the Hinomaru.
And on the small island of Peleliu in Palau, 12,000 Japanese defenders in the Greater East Asia War, facing an enemy with 14 times the troops, more than 200 times the aircraft, 100 times the tanks, and 1,000 times the heavy artillery, brought the battle into a war of endurance, defended the island for 73 days with absolutely no resupply, and were annihilated after a death struggle.
After the war, Admiral Nimitz devoted a considerable number of pages in his book Sea War in the Pacific to the battle of Peleliu, and concluded as follows.
“To overcome the extremely complex defenses of Peleliu, it was necessary to accept the highest combat casualty ratio（about 40 percent）seen in any other landing operation in American history.
It remains doubtful even now that the U.S. forces, which already possessed sea and air control, should have occupied this island at the cost of more than 10,000 casualties, dead and wounded combined.”
Despite fighting so fierce that it was described in this way, not a single local resident died.
Local residents had lived on Peleliu Island until then.
The Japanese military, out of consideration that residents must not be caught up in the war, evacuated all of them to the main island of Palau at night while avoiding air raids, despite the shortage of ships.
Therefore, on Peleliu Island, the site of the fiercest fighting, not a single islander died.
It is said that in Palau’s national textbook, as many as 36 pages out of 462 are devoted to the Japanese administration period under the title “Under the Flag of the Hinomaru.”
It describes in detail not only the circumstances by which Japan came to govern Palau, but also the school education, industrial and economic activities, and other things carried out by Japan.
Then, in May of Showa 57, Peleliu Shrine was founded by the “Youth Shinto Priests South Seas Islands Memorial Pilgrimage Group.”
The enshrined deities are Amaterasu Omikami and more than ten thousand “heroic spirits who protected the nation” who died in battle.
At present, on the bulletin board to the left in front of the shrine, this purpose is written by Chief Isao Shigeo of Peleliu Island.
And on the bulletin board to the right, the course of the battle is summarized, and, as being recorded in official U.S. war history, it concludes with the following poetic sentence.
“Travelers from all nations who visit this island.
If you should pass through the country of Japan, I want you to tell them.
Tell them of the courage of the Japanese garrison that died defending this island, and of the spirit with which they remembered their homeland……”
The author of this poem is none other than Admiral Nimitz himself.
This is the reason why the country called Palau became the most pro-Japanese country in the world.
＊Even this one fact about Palau perfectly proves the correctness of what I asserted the other day: “The fact that the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others, who were among the chief culprits who drove Japan toward the opening of war with the United States from before the war through the wartime period, have consistently continued after the war to make the Japanese military into villains is a lie created by Asahi and NHK in order to hide their own sins, and because they became possessors of masochistic historical views and therefore anti-Japanese thought, synchronizing with the anti-Japanese propaganda states of the Korean Peninsula and China.”＊