The Asahi Shimbun claimed in an editorial that Okinawan mass suicides were unquestionably forced by the Japanese military.
Yet only the Asahi Shimbun and Kenzaburō Ōe have asserted this as an “undeniable fact,” a claim the Ōe trial itself sought to question.

2016-04-04
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The Asahi Shimbun attempted to recover from its misstep in an editorial dated June 23, the day Okinawa fell, writing that “it has been regarded as an undeniable fact that mass suicides were forced by the Japanese military.”
The only ones who have called this an undeniable fact are the Asahi Shimbun and Kenzaburō Ōe.
Yet is it not precisely this claim that the Ōe trial sought to question as something that should be doubted?
The editorial further asserts that “the Japanese military taught that if captured, women would be violated and men brutally killed.”
Therefore, they were told to commit suicide.
It was the prewar Asahi Shimbun that instilled this belief, and that is an undeniable fact.
Yamagata Aritomo’s field service code conveys that the cruelty of the Chinese was far from ordinary.
Russian soldiers readily resorted to rape, and even in Mizuko no Fu, a book recommended by the anti-Japanese writer Nobuhiro Sataka, it is written that Koreans brutally killed Japanese men and violated women, in numbers said to exceed those of the Russian army.
The brutality of U.S. forces was reported by Lindbergh and continued even after the war.
More than 2,500 Japanese were killed by U.S. soldiers, and Procurement Agency documents suggest that the number of women violated reached into the tens of thousands.
To be continued.