This commentary, based on Kō Bun’yū’s latest work, argues that the narrative imposed by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal distorted Japan’s postwar historical consciousness and resulted in the mass proliferation of “anti-Japan Japanese.” Despite repeated “reflection” and “atonement,” relations with China, South Korea, and North Korea have only deteriorated, with Japan’s national security increasingly threatened. The author warns that trusting neighboring countries that commit territorial incursions and openly declare nuclear threats leads only to subjugation—a “slave’s peace,” not true peace.

The following is the continuation of “Moreover, he said the thing as the scale falls from the eyes.”
It is taken from the latest work of Kō Bun’yū.
(Previous text omitted.)
“The prosecutor asked, ‘Who is the Class-A war criminal?’
To this, Ishihara replied that it was U.S. President Truman.
The reason, he argued, was that Truman violated international law by bombing non-combatant civilians and committing indiscriminate mass murder through the atomic bombings.
Because those crimes were the gravest, Ishihara insisted that President Truman should be indicted as a Class-A war criminal.”
The view of history imposed by the Tokyo Tribunal, which unilaterally pursued and condemned Japan’s war responsibility, unquestionably had a profound impact on postwar Japanese historical education and historical consciousness.
You can see this simply by observing the present reality in which anti-Japan Japanese have proliferated in large numbers.
Even now, that spell continues.
No matter how often Japan repeats “reflection” and “atonement,” relations with certain neighboring countries—China, South Korea, and North Korea—continue to deteriorate.
In recent years, Japan’s territory and national security have come under increasing threat.
True peace must be won through strength.
If one merely wants to preserve peace superficially, there is always the path of becoming a subordinate state that enjoys “the peace of slaves.”
If Japan continues to trust in the public justice and love of peace of neighboring countries that repeatedly violate territorial waters and openly declare they are prepared to conduct nuclear attacks, then that may indeed be the path it chooses.

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