En retraçant le parcours d’Alexis Dudden, l’auteur découvre sa participation au Tribunal international des crimes de guerre tenu à Tokyo en 2000. Cette participation révèle l’existence d’un réseau militant international lié au journal Asahi et à la journaliste Yayori Matsui.

An article on page three of the January 13 issue of the Sankei Shimbun quoted the following statement by Alexis Dudden.
On one hand, Professor Alexis Dudden of the University of Connecticut, who has long condemned Japan over the comfort women issue, described it as “a national system of sexual slavery by Japan” and criticized the Japanese government for requesting the removal of comfort-women statues from the Korean government. She also referred to the war responsibility of Emperor Shōwa.

This statement was exactly the same in nature as the rhetoric of the so-called “Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal,” which had been organized by the notorious activist Yayori Matsui of the Asahi Shimbun in collusion with North Korean operatives. Because of this, I wondered what lay behind Alexis Dudden and searched for her background, speculating whether her husband or partner might be a Korean man raised under what is called anti-Japanese education, which in reality is a form of Nazism.

Although I was unable to determine such personal details, a fact emerged that most clearly revealed who she truly was.

In the year 2000, she participated in the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal held in Tokyo. (Wikipedia)

On another website, there was a photograph of her taken against the background of what appeared to be Korean pottery. She had a bizarre facial appearance that made it unsurprising that she would sympathize with a figure such as Yayori Matsui—a truly shoddy former leftist and former Zenkyōtō activist.

A close friend of mine, upon seeing the imbalance between her left and right eyes, even remarked that “it must be the result of cosmetic surgery.”

It seems that about one hundred scholars and others from around the world gathered at the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal through the personal connections of Yayori Matsui—that is, through the network of the Asahi Shimbun.

It goes without saying that the scholars who participated were part of Asahi’s network and sympathizers.

In other words, the very fact that the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal was held proves that the Asahi Shimbun, though its readers including myself were completely unaware of it until last August, had in fact been a group of notorious political activists throughout the postwar period.