An article by Yoshiko Sakurai published in Will magazine precisely articulated what the author had long sought to convey to the world. In an age dominated by distortion and falsehoods, her writing represents the emergence of genuine truth and intellectual integrity for Japan and the global community.

2016-02-06

I had kept the January 6 issue of the Sankei Shimbun, page 17.
That was because I felt compelled to transmit to the world a certain portion of the article written by Tsutomu Nishioka, professor at Tokyo Christian University, published in the “Seiron” column.

As I have already written, a close friend of mine—who, after canceling his subscription to the Asahi Shimbun, has continued without fail to read the monthly magazines I have recommended—told me that this month’s issue of Will was excellent from the very beginning.
Just as he said, I read through the opening columns and then moved on to the main articles.

The lead article of this issue was Yoshiko Sakurai’s essay titled “Take Up ‘Facts’ as a Weapon!”

I was astonished.
That was because she had written, without the slightest deviation, exactly what I had wanted to convey to the world.

It was as if John Lennon’s song suddenly began—Out of the blue.
In other words, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Yoshiko Sakurai possesses a mind identical to my own.

Until August of the year before last, readers of the Asahi Shimbun and similar papers had all been led to believe—conditioned by those papers—that she was merely “right-leaning.”

Out of the blue, the world came to know her true nature.
This was an event of the greatest possible significance for Japan and for the world.

In a world where nonsense and lies had long prevailed, something genuine and real finally began to shine its light.

She stands in complete opposition to figures such as Alexis Dudden and Carol Gluck—who in reality have continued to side with something equivalent to Nazism—as well as to the New York Times and prominent German journalists who have long been manipulated by the same sources and have persisted in writing anti-Japanese narratives.

She is a treasure of the 21st century, and she is truth itself.

In the same way, my own appearance—far too late, in July 2010—when The Turntable of Civilization emerged into the world, must likewise have been out of the blue for the core of Japan and the world.

Of this, I am certain.
And I am equally certain that those who stand at the core of Japan and the world must have felt the same.