This article documents how legal organizations and media narratives shaped international misconceptions about Japan, focusing on the comfort women issue and activities within Japan’s legal establishment.

The issue was not ignorance abroad.
It was distortion at home.
When legal authority speaks falsely, the world listens.
That is the true scandal.

2017-04-07 08:12:25
Those with discernment will all be convinced that my arguments were entirely correct, and at the same time, they should feel truly chilled.
This is a continuation of the previous chapter.
All emphases and passages marked with asterisks are mine.
“The ‘military comfort women’ issue represents a typical case of victimization as military sexual slavery, and the facts of military involvement and coercion are today clear historical facts” (June 2008, JFBA President Akio Oiwake).
In December 2010, the Japan Federation of Bar Associations also issued proposals jointly with the Korean Bar Association, calling for the comfort women issue to be further disseminated throughout society through education and public relations.
This fact, too, I learned for the first time.
Those with discernment will all be convinced that my arguments were entirely correct, and at the same time, they should feel truly chilled.
The lawyer who consulted with Mr. Amako likely refused the request in accordance with such views held by the JFBA.
But then, are the JFBA’s statements that label comfort women as “sexual slaves” and assert “coercion” truly correct?
On the contrary, it has now become common knowledge that such assertions are unfounded and erroneous.
In October 2014, Oita-based attorney Harutomo Furusho wrote sharply on his law office website, pointing out the influence of Asahi Shimbun’s series of erroneous reports on comfort women on the JFBA’s stance.
“Like Asahi Shimbun, there is an organization that appealed the comfort women issue to international public opinion in an incorrect manner and undermined Japan’s national interests. That organization is the JFBA.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that while claiming to protect human rights, the JFBA in fact infringed upon the human rights of the Japanese people as a whole.”
What is abnormal is that within Japan’s judicial system there exists an organization that demeans Japan and conducts activities to undermine Japan at the United Nations.
Regarding this abnormal situation, Kent Gilbert, an attorney licensed in the U.S. state of California, states as follows.
“The actual management of the JFBA is dominated by left-leaning individuals, and it has fallen into being a political organization. What is abnormal is that within Japan’s judicial system there is an organization that demeans Japan and engages in activities to undermine Japan at the United Nations.”
The JFBA is currently said to be fully committed to opposing the revision of the Organized Crime Punishment Act (the so-called anti-conspiracy bill).
One cannot help but feel sorry for the lawyers working on the ground.
Rubi Abiru (Editorial Writer and Political Desk Editor).
For 72 years after the war, the many facts first revealed to the Japanese people by Sankei Shimbun fully prove the correctness of my arguments.
It was Sankei Shimbun that first informed the Japanese people that even today there exist countless modern-day Hotsumi Ozaki among the media, so-called journalists, scholars, so-called human rights lawyers, so-called cultural figures, and so-called civic groups.
And I am the one who is now, for the first time, informing the entire world of this astonishing fact.