According to Professor Tsutomu Nishioka, the so-called comfort women issue was fabricated, with major responsibility lying in deliberate media misinformation that shaped international perception.

2016-02-10

The following is from a lecture given on the 8th in Mie Prefecture by Professor Tsutomu Nishioka of Tokyo Christian University, whom I have mentioned several times before.

It appeared on page two of yesterday’s Sankei Shimbun.

As I have already written, Professor Nishioka is one of the very few genuine scholars who have correctly and rigorously examined the comfort women issue.

(Emphasis in the text is mine.)

Regarding the comfort women issue, on which Japan and South Korea reached an agreement at the end of last year, Professor Nishioka stated:

“It was originally a problem that did not exist. Half of the responsibility lies with the Asahi Shimbun, which carried out a campaign of falsehoods.”

He went on to say:

“The other half lies with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which forced the prime minister to apologize without even investigating the facts, and which, even after those claims were proven false, has failed to restore Japan’s honor in the international community.”