Published on January 24, 2020. While searching for the English translation of “comfort women” in connection with Hideki Wada’s essay, the author was astonished by the wording of Wikipedia’s “Comfort women” entry and criticizes it as matching the English-language messaging of the Asahi Shimbun pointed out by Tetsuhide Yamaoka. The article questions the international information war over the comfort women issue and the responsibility of Japan’s commentators and academic world.

January 24, 2020
However, this English wording is exactly the same as the text that Tetsuhide Yamaoka pointed out the Asahi Shimbun has been disseminating in English.
Just now, while searching for the English translation of “comfort women” in connection with Hideki Wada’s essay that I posted today, I was astonished.
That is because Wikipedia openly contained the following description.
This is precisely what it means when unreasonable claims prevail and reason is forced to give way.
Surely the world is nearing its end.
Even so, as I have mentioned many times, the world is truly irresponsible, ignorant, benighted, and low in intelligence.
However, this English wording is exactly the same as the text that Tetsuhide Yamaoka pointed out the Asahi Shimbun has been disseminating in English.
Japanese people, the time has long since come to make the Asahi Shimbun take responsibility.
There is no way to make them atone to the Japanese nation and the Japanese people other than confiscating all their assets and shutting the paper down.
Even so, what on earth are Japan’s commentators, whether on the left or the right, doing?
What are those who make their living from commentary and scholarship doing?
Comfort women
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Comfort women were women and girls forced into being sex slaves by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during World War II.