The following is from a feature article released today of "Shukan Bunshun".
People from all over the world should know not only the Japanese editorial Sekikawa Natsuo who is also a critic is a famous writer.
Statement emphasized is me.
The issue of comfort women coverage of this, in itself Asahi Shimbun had not been a correction of the article until now, I was surprised at first.
From '90 around, the fact that Yoshida Seiji testimony is falsity, although it was common knowledge among researchers, under these circumstances, it did not come to articles of by verifying firmly, Asahi probably because it was ignorance, indifference to history.
For example, the term "forced entrainment" in 1968, although I think it was Korea University teacher at the time, it is a coined word Kyong-Sik Park of Koreans in Japan was made.
Japanese are still using it and Asahi Shinbun, I think that it's a numb in history very much.
The force that entrainment is a word that made with any idea to accompany police terminology. Compulsory because already contains the entrainment, it becomes synonymous iteration forced entrainment. "Commandeered" should correct as historical terms.
Also "comfort women", Kakou Senda has been made in that time in '73 of "apology boom". A war correspondent and a campaigning nurse were made a system. But comfort women do not exist in history.
The other day, TV Asahi in the "news station", is Mr. Emura Jyunichiro Asahi commentator, "It was under the control of the Imperial Japanese Army" "So-called comfort women" although he has said, such as, both are wrong, it is imprudent.
Comfort women were present. But it did not direct involvement of the military.
As can be seen also that the nineties, was called volunteer corps that of comfort women in Korea, say Koreans as "historical issues", instead of questioning the historical facts themselves, it is only the fact whether or not it is to admit "the historic story" which they have created.
It is because of factory labor mobilization of higher girls' school students mainly from the volunteer corps; historical dialogue with them is a waste of time.
First place in Korea, there is no investigative journalism, literature records is also not rooted. Spirit of Jitsujikyuze (Based on the facts, searching for the truth of the case) like to try to find the accuracy is not in Korea.
Or because of that, and until now, whole picture of Sinking of the MV Sewol it does not have to be elucidated.
Activists and government of South Korea, has been one believed Asahi ever. Despite the anti-Japanese national policy is, they believe only the Asahi Shimbun without any investigation by themselves.
In response to the misinformation of this time, in Korea, there is a movement to try to help the Asahi Shimbun now, but this would be a shame for the Asahi Shimbun. You think that it is better to refuse politely.
That new president of Asahi should do, is that to the world, to continue to call by and was a serious misinformation it.
The declared as "there was no basis to that article", and, it gave birth of pseudologia a "professional trader apology", "Postwar history”, and, for the nature of the coverage, it must be defended as long-winded.
It might mean the death of a newspaper, but not to play dead once, Asahi cannot survive.
In a large wave that downfall of paper media is coming, the reason newspapers of whether they can survive now, because there is a home delivery system.
While the home delivery system continues, there will be the Asahi Shimbun obligation to recover even slightly, the national interests of Japan missed.
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