The fabricated “comfort women” narrative—initiated by a housewife from Ōita and manipulated by the Korean resident Song Dook-Hoe—was amplified by left-wing civic groups and politicians such as Fukushima Mizuho. Exploiting the misguided kindness of postwar Japanese shaped by GHQ’s false historical narrative, this movement severely harmed Japan–Korea relations. This chapter exposes that mechanism and ironically suggests that Japan’s naïve sincerity in upholding a foreign-imposed constitution for 70 years deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.

2016-01-07

The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
That housewife began it all—the beginning was bizarre.
In truth, he did not want to return to the Korean Peninsula; he wanted to remain a Japanese national.
That is why he lived in Kyoto University’s Kumano Dormitory despite having no connection whatsoever to the university.
Exploiting the false historical consciousness planted by GHQ, and riding on the mistaken kindness or sympathy of the Japanese people, he—Song Dook-Hoe, a Korean resident who lived for free with shameless audacity—manipulated the housewife from Ōita.

Thus, a mere housewife who fabricated the comfort women issue to this extent, worsening Japan–Korea relations so dramatically, was eagerly supported by so-called civic groups and figures like Fukushima Mizuho.

That housewife in Kanagawa, too, should have submitted her claim as follows:

“Under the occupation regime of the U.S. military—which ignored international law and sought to prevent Japan from ever becoming strong again, because Japanese soldiers grounded in the tradition of bushidō had been far too formidable—
you imposed upon Japan, in just two weeks, a constitution cobbled together by copying documents from various Western countries.
And for seventy years after the war, believing Westerners to be fair, just, and intellectually noble rather than solely pursuing their national interests,
we Japanese have faithfully preserved this elementary-school-level cut-and-paste document you gave us.

For this unparalleled sincerity—this unique purity of believing that Westerners are correct from head to toe—Japan deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.”

That is what she should have declared.