This passage from Masayuki Takayama’s 2015 book America and China Arrogantly Lie compares the relocation of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey during World War I to the internment of Japanese Americans and the forced removal of the Cherokee, arguing that Western narratives have exaggerated the episode into a uniquely Christian-vs-Islam “genocide.”
Takayama highlights how Turkey has openly defended its position and used strong diplomatic tools such as ambassador recalls, then criticizes Korean activists in Glendale, California, who campaigned to install a “comfort-women” statue as “fellow victims,” and the “foolish” mayor who approved it on the claim that Japan is friendly with the Turks whom Armenians hate.
He insists that Japan is the true victim—dragged into two wars for Korea’s sake and still burdened by the misconduct of Zainichi Koreans—and warns that unless this mistaken victim narrative is corrected, Japanese leaders may seriously consider not only recalling their ambassador from South Korea but even severing diplomatic relations.

Below is an excerpt from Masayuki Takayama’s book America and China Arrogantly Lie, published on February 28, 2015.
This essay too proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.

Japan Must Recall Its Ambassador from South Korea
When Russia and Germany fought in the First World War, Turkey took the German side and declared war on Russia, which had been bullying it for so long.
Russia then called for solidarity from the Armenians, who were Eastern Orthodox Christians like the Russians and lived inside Muslim Turkey.
The Armenians, who lived near Turkey’s eastern border, guided Russian troops into Turkish territory, and some of them formed guerrilla bands that threatened the Turkish army from the rear.
In order to maintain domestic security, the Turkish government decided to relocate the Armenians en masse by forced evacuation.
During that process, the guerrillas clashed with the Turkish army and many people were killed on both sides.
In form, it was the same as what the United States did when it forcibly interned Japanese Americans at places like Manzanar during the Second World War.
Or it might be even closer to the forced relocation to Oklahoma that killed half of the Cherokee Indians.
Because the victims were Christians and the other side was a Muslim state, however, the story was exaggerated in the West and told as a genocide of the Armenian people.
Turkey, for its part, has consistently spoken out in defense of its own position and has protested by diplomatic means, including recalling its ambassadors.
In Glendale, California, which is known as a town of Armenians, Koreans then came along and said that because “we are victims of the same kind,” they wanted to erect a comfort-women statue, and the foolish mayor gave his approval.
People there are being “explained” that Japan is a country that is on good terms with Turkey, whom they hate.
Park Geun-hye is making a grave mistake.
In fact, the real victim is Japan, which was dragged into two wars for the sake of her sadly inadequate country and is still suffering from the misdeeds of the Zainichi Koreans.
If she does not correct this mistake quickly, the prime minister and others in Japan are beginning in all seriousness to think that it would be fine not only to recall our ambassador but even to break off diplomatic relations altogether.