The following is from a feature article in today's WiLL, a monthly magazine titled "The Comfort Women Issue, Germany's ulterior motive in beating Japan," featuring a conversation between journalist Yoshio Kisa and information strategy analyst Tetsuhide Yamaoka.
As I mention every month, the monthly magazines' WiLL, Hanada, and Sound Argument are full of genuine articles that are a must-read for the Japanese people and people worldwide.
This article proves that point beautifully.
When I was still a subscriber to the Japanese edition of Newsweek, I read an unbelievable article about a German poll showing that about half of Germans have an anti-Japanese ideology.
Since then, I have had the utmost contempt for the so-called cultural figures who have been saying things like "learn from Germany," among whom I have seen firsthand in the pages of Newsweek, Takeshi Umehara, and Masakazu Yamazaki.
Yoshio Kisa and Tetsuhide Yamaoka, who are also national treasures as defined by Saicho, have proven perfectly that my criticism of Germany was 100% correct.
The Japanese people must head to their nearest bookstore to subscribe.
I will let the rest of the world know as best I can.
The activity of Japanese people in Germany behind the scenes
Yamaoka
One more important point should not be overlooked.
It is how the Germans became aware of the comfort women issue.
They did not find out about it through their research.
The activity of Japanese people in Germany behind the scenes was significant.
Kisa
That's the source of the story.
Yamaoka
In the past, the writer and activist Makoto Oda was one of them.
Oda established the German-Japanese Peace Forum in Germany in 1986, and this organization became the nucleus for the spread of anti-Japanese information.
Incidentally, the aforementioned Mr. Shagun is also involved in this organization.
Kisa
When I went to Stockholm, Sweden, I had a chance to talk with a Japanese person who has lived there for many years for a research project. He told me that a lot of Japanese leftists have come to Scandinavia and Germany.
The New Left, which had been active in the 1970 Security Treaty struggle and failed, had given up on Japan and migrated to Europe.
In 1974, Mr. Oda went to Berlin, which is consistent with his testimony.
Eastern European countries were communist countries, and Berlin was divided into East and West, so it must have been easy for him to engage in political activities.
Yamaoka
Mr. Taichiro Kajimura, a co-founder of the German-Japanese Peace Forum with Mr. Oda, is also one of the people spreading anti-Japanese ideas in Germany.
Kisa
Mr. Kajimura once tried to attend a press conference on behalf of the Asahi Shimbun.
None of the Japanese correspondents around him knew who Mr. Kajimura was.
Later in the year, Mr. Kajimura was interviewed for Asahi's 70th postwar anniversary project in his capacity as a Japanese living in Berlin and spoke at length about his theory. He also contributed an article to "Shukan Friday."
His wife (Michiko Kajimura) was also the Berlin Women's Association leader, a group that criticized Japan on comfort women.
Yamaoka.
It's hardcore.
In 2014, in an interview with freelance journalist Yasumi Iwakami, Kajimura said the following.
In an interview with freelance journalist Yasumi Iwakami in 2014, Kajimura said, "If the Japanese government now issues a statement that denies the comfort women, Japan's credibility with the world will fall. It's impossible.
I went to the Dutch archives and obtained documents related to the Batavia trial of Dutch women who had been taken by force, and if you read them, you will see that there is no way to deny the existence of forced marriage and comfort women.
The comfort women existed as a system of the Japanese military. There are documents that former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone was involved in. Since he is a living witness, he should be summoned to testify and prove the facts.
He is confusing an incident that was a war crime even at the time with the general comfort women system.
As a chief accounting officer, Nakasone was involved in establishing comfort stations to prevent rape by soldiers and prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
That is "involvement." It's totally different from Germany.
This article continues.
