This essay examines the interconnected network that aligned with South Korea’s global “comfort women” campaign to discredit Japan.
By tracing links among activists, academics, major media, and Columbia University, it exposes how postwar Japan was politically constrained in the international arena through coordinated narratives and influence operations.

The Network That Worked in Tandem with Korea’s “Comfort Women” Strategy
2017-02-07

When one considers South Korea’s strategy of exploiting this issue through its “comfort women” operations deployed worldwide in an attempt to demean Japan,
the actions of a single female lawyer named Sayo Saruta,
bring to mind the moment when the Asahi Shimbun published its laughable fabricated reports on so-called “wartime comfort women,”
at which time she may have taken advantage of the situation—indeed, she may have been one of their allies from the very beginning.
In light of South Korea’s strategy to use this issue to demean Japan across the world,
I was left with the impression that her actions were entirely identical to those of Mizuho Fukushima, whose activities can hardly be overstated as among the greatest acts of treason and national betrayal in the postwar era.
Yet it turned out they were not merely alike, but rather cut from the same cloth—creatures of the same hole.
A friend of mine questioned why she, originally from Tokyo, was so active in Okinawa in the first place.
I replied that it was likely for the realization of her distorted ideology.
To be certain, I searched further and found on Wikipedia that she earned a Master of Laws degree from Columbia Law School in 2008, and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2009.
Alexis Dudden is a graduate of Columbia University, and Carol Gluck earned her doctorate at Columbia University.
The abnormality of Alexis Dudden hardly needs repeating at this point.
Carol Gluck, who held key positions related to Asia and Japan during the early Obama administration,
was the very person who implanted in Obama the truly laughable and distorted notion—originating from the Asahi Shimbun and echoed by The New York Times—that Prime Minister Abe was a historical revisionist and a right-wing figure.
As a result, she was responsible for having Obama avoid meeting Prime Minister Abe for a long time after taking office.
In stark contrast, Xi Jinping of China was invited to the United States and engaged in cordial talks lasting several days during the Obama administration’s first term.
That outcome emboldened China to an unprecedented degree,
leading to the postwar era’s most egregious acts in the South China Sea,
where China, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, continues to flagrantly ignore even rulings of the International Court of Justice—an historical fact beyond dispute.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Carol Gluck herself bears responsibility for this outcome.
And this Carol Gluck is a close associate of the Asahi Shimbun.
One must ask: from where does Columbia University receive its funding,
as it continues to provide students with an education that demeans Japan and sustains efforts to keep Japan politically imprisoned within the international community?
To be continued.