This article examines how UN Special Rapporteurs have repeatedly distorted Japan’s domestic realities and international reputation. From the Radika Coomaraswamy Report to the 2015 statements by a Dutch female rapporteur, it analyzes how misinformation, media amplification, and domestic informants contributed to unfair damage to Japan’s national interests.

What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The author argues that certain UN Special Rapporteur activities have had the effect of unjustly destabilizing and damaging Japan’s national interests.
Using the metaphor of “yokai,” the text criticizes what it sees as opportunistic and malicious interventions.
It recalls earlier controversies, including the 1996 report by Radhika Coomaraswamy, which relied on disputed testimony and was widely perceived internationally as representing a UN consensus.
The article then turns to a 2015 visit by a Dutch female rapporteur, whose public remarks regarding Japanese students are described as highly questionable and politically motivated.
The author suggests that such statements echoed earlier media narratives and may have served broader geopolitical interests, while also raising concerns about the credibility and sources of information used.
To be continued.

2017-06-27
What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.
They are like yokai that unjustly shake and damage Japan’s national politics and diplomacy.
I use the special term “yokai” because they are beings that appear at will, exploit fear, and scatter malice.
When it comes to UN Special Rapporteurs, Japan has a history of having suffered severe and unjust blows in the past.
One such case was the activities and report of the Special Rapporteur on the comfort women issue, Radhika Coomaraswamy.
The Coomaraswamy Report compiled in 1996 presented fabrications such as “systematic forced recruitment by the Japanese military” and “sexual slavery” as if they were facts, and even used the false testimony of Seiji Yoshida as an important source.
This fictitious report was taken internationally as if it were an official view of the United Nations as a whole, causing immeasurable and unjust damage to the Japanese government and the Japanese people.
More recently, in October 2015, a Dutch female UN Special Rapporteur visited Japan and, after a certain “investigation,” declared at a press conference that “13 percent of Japanese female students are engaged in compensated dating.”
When I read this passage, I was reminded of reports in Newsweek around that time stating that prostitution was rampant in schools throughout China and that this was part of a Chinese tradition.
I became convinced that this Dutch woman brought up the issue of compensated dating—previously sensationalized by the Japanese mass media long ago—in order to mitigate the impact of revelations about the domestic situation in China, and that she herself was an agent of China.
At the same time, I had already mentioned that a former Ministry of Education official, Maekawa, might be a representative example of someone ensnared by a honey trap set by Chinese intelligence agencies, and this realization, though chilling, became a certainty for me.
This was because it coincided with the fact that Maekawa was frequently visiting so-called compensated dating cafés—places so absurd as to be laughable—around that time.
It would not be wrong to assume that Maekawa was one of the information sources for the Dutch woman.
To be continued.