The Architects of Anti-Japan Narratives — From Comfort Women Propaganda to U.S. Academia and Policy

This chapter examines how South Korea’s global comfort-women campaign became intertwined with international academia, media, and political power structures. It exposes the involvement of lawyer Sayo Saruta, Mizuho Fukushima, Columbia-affiliated scholars Alexis Dudden and Carol Gluck, and media outlets such as Asahi Shimbun and The New York Times. Their narratives influenced U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration, marginalized Japan diplomatically, and emboldened China’s expansionism in the South China Sea. The connections revealed suggest a coordinated ideological and geopolitical network rather than isolated individuals.

Given the strategy South Korea is using—leveraging the comfort women narrative globally to damage Japan—the actions of one woman, the lawyer Sayo Saruta, cannot be viewed lightly.
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When I consider this context, her role appears identical to that of Mizuho Fukushima, whose involvement in spreading the fabricated “military sexual slavery” narrative—originating from the Asahi Shimbun’s disgraceful fake reporting—constitutes one of the greatest acts of betrayal in postwar Japan.
It is no exaggeration to say so.
And in fact, they are not merely similar—they are members of the same group, working toward the same objective.

A friend of mine asked why a woman originally from Tokyo was suddenly so active in Okinawa.
I answered that it was likely because Okinawa offered the perfect stage for advancing her distorted ideology.
To check, I looked further and discovered the following written in Wikipedia:
In 2008, she earned her LL.M. from Columbia Law School.
In 2009, she became registered as an attorney in the State of New York.

Alexis Dudden is a graduate of Columbia University.
Carol Gluck earned her PhD at Columbia University.
The abnormality of Alexis Dudden requires no additional explanation.

It was Carol Gluck, who held a key role in U.S. Asia policy during the early Obama administration, who fed Obama the narrative—originating from Asahi Shimbun and repeated by The New York Times—that Prime Minister Abe was a “right-wing historical revisionist.”
This resulted in Obama refusing to meet Abe for a long period after taking office.

Meanwhile, Xi Jinping was invited to the United States, and the Obama administration held a warm, extended meeting with him.
This, in turn, emboldened China to unprecedented levels.
China began treating the South China Sea as if it were its own sovereign territory, defying even the ruling of the International Court of Justice.
This has now become a historical fact.

It is no exaggeration to say that Carol Gluck was the architect of that diplomatic and geopolitical disaster.
And she is a close associate of Asahi Shimbun.

So the question becomes:
Who funds Columbia University?
Who enables it to educate students in ways that degrade Japan?
And who benefits from the ongoing attempts to confine Japan within a permanent narrative of historical guilt in the international community?

(To be continued.)