Originally published on February 7, 2020. This essay criticizes the fact that as many as 170 lawyers joined the legal team supporting Takashi Uemura in his lawsuit against Yoshiko Sakurai, arguing that this reveals the presence within Japan’s legal circles of lawyers steeped in a masochistic view of history and anti-Japanese ideology.

February 7, 2020
In the lawsuit that Takashi Uemura filed in a fit of anger against the sound argument of Yoshiko Sakurai, as many as 170 lawyers joined forces to support Uemura!
Even so, one hardly knows whether to say that this is astonishing, nauseating, or enraging.
In the lawsuit that Takashi Uemura filed in a fit of anger against the sound argument of Yoshiko Sakurai, as many as 170 lawyers joined forces to support Uemura!
At the very least, this means that within Japan’s bar associations there are 170 lawyers who are masses of a masochistic view of history and anti-Japanese ideology, who side with the Korean Peninsula and China, and who could fairly be called their agents.