Iizuka Reiji, Arai Sachiko, Ueno Chizuko, Masuda Kaoru, Maeda Yoshiko, Tajima Mizuki, Yamada Midori, Yamamoto Jun, Kitahara Minori, Asahi Shimbun,
January 12, 2023
The following is from an article by Kuroiwa Nobutada, mayor of Kusatsu Town, Gunma Prefecture, published in the February issue of the monthly magazine Seiron, which is currently on sale.
The article is part of the unique feature "Don't be swayed by the atmosphere," which is entitled "Don't tolerate the tyranny of feminists."
The town council member who caused Kuroiwa's unbelievable misfortune is not a genuine Japanese person, just like the female representative of the collabo.
Readers who read this article should be convinced that this behavior is impossible for anyone other than those with the DNA of a country of "abysmal evil" and "plausible lies."
The reality that people with masochistic views of history, pseudo-moralism, arrogance, egocentrism, and a disdain for Japan in every way, all of whose minds are formed by the editorials of the Asahi Shimbun, and that such minds are professors at the University of Tokyo, is a horror story worse than a horror movie.
This book is a valuable record and testimony of the ugly and vicious events that have been caused by pseudo-moralism and false hypocrisy that have come from minds brainwashed by the GHQ's War Guilt Information Program, which is comparable to China's "abysmal evil" and "plausible lies."
It is also the most ugly example of the Asahi Shimbun's domination of Japan until August 2014.
It is a must-read not only for Japanese people but for people all over the world.
It is primarily a must-read for reporters at the New York Times and the UK's The Guardian.
Every literate citizen should head to their nearest bookstore and buy a copy.
After all, it was only 950 yen, even though it was full of authentic papers and articles like these.
Kusatsu Town in Gunma Prefecture is a historic tourist town, home to Kusatsu Onsen, Japan's most significant natural hot spring.
Its town charter states, "Peace of mind for those who enter, happiness for those who leave." It's a small town with a population of less than 7,000, but the townspeople have lived peaceful lives, cherishing their hot springs and the tourists who love them.
However, since November 2019, Kusatsu Town has been hit by a significant, unreasonable incident.
It all began with the publication of an e-book containing false claims that I had had a physical relationship with a female town council member in the mayor's office in broad daylight.
The female council member's claim eventually changed to that I had been "raped," and I was falsely accused of something that had no basis.
I, as well as other town council members and townspeople, did our best to dispel the suspicions, but this was then criticized by feminists and university professors who specialize in women's studies, who said, "Suppressing a courageous accusation by a woman is a violation of human rights," and "Kusatsu is a town of a second rape."
After the efforts of the investigative authorities, on October 31, 2022, the female town council member was indicted in court without being charged with defamation and false accusations after losing her job.
The trial has yet to begin, but our efforts to clear our innocence have reached a turning point.
In this article, we report on the incident that struck our town and hope that many people will learn about our frustration.
100% false accusations
The e-book in question is "Kusatsu Onsen: Jet Black Darkness 5," self-published by a writer named Reiji Iizuka.
Kusatsu Town has a traditional hot spring cure called "Jikan-yu."
The bathhouse was led by the "Yucho," but there were complaints that its activities and management were unfair, and the town decided to abolish it.
This book was an indictment that thoroughly criticized the abolition.
The female town council member was also one of the people who called for the continuation of the "Jikan Yu."
Looking back, I think this incident was orchestrated by forces that lost their interest when the Yucho system was abolished, aiming to bring me down.
The introduction to the book read, "The Kusatsu town mayor had an inappropriate relationship in his office?! A female council member reveals the truth! Don't oppress the women of Kusatsu anymore!"
I couldn't believe my eyes.
On the morning of January 8, 2015, Arai Sachiko, who was a town council member at the time, visited me in the mayor's office in the town hall, and it stated that I had forced her to have sex with me.
The book also quotes Arai's letter to Iizuka, in which she states, "I had a physical relationship with the mayor."
It is an entirely made-up story based on 100% lies.
In 2015, Ms. Arai and I had no relationship other than being town council members and mayor.
I also had no appointment with Ms. Arai on January 8 of that year, the day the incident is said to have occurred.
However, I had made an appointment with the then-deputy mayor for personal reasons at 10 am. I went into the mayor's office with the deputy mayor to meet with him, and we merely had a casual conversation for 15 minutes.
Of course, I never laid a finger on Ms. Arai.
The door to the mayor's office is always wide open.
It may be closed for personnel or tax-related meetings, but it is always open as a rule.
I was cautious when women visited so that there would be no misunderstandings, and there was no way that we could have had sexual relations.
Also, the description that Ms. Arai was in the mayor's office between 10 am and 11 am did not make sense.
At this time every year, I'm busy dealing with unappointed visitors at the beginning of the year.
It's the first day of work, and meetings with staff come in one after another.
Moreover, the mayor's office is made of glass, as seen from the Kusatsu Town Police Station and the Chamber of Commerce.
Kusatsu Town is close to two active volcanoes.
The mayor's office is the headquarters for command in case of an emergency, so it is not a closed room.
Staff members will come in when they knock, even during a meeting.
Next door is the reception room, the deputy mayor's office, and the general affairs department, so anyone would notice if there was any shady behavior.
It is absolutely impossible in terms of time and physics.
There is a limit even to ridiculousness.
I was shocked and angered to the point of being unbearable.
At the same time, I thought, "This will become a huge fuss that won't go unpunished."
So, I immediately contacted the Naganohara Police Station of the Uma Prefectural Police in the neighboring town and filed a report.
At the same time, I also contacted the newspaper reporter I was acquainted with.
I immediately asked our legal counsel to take legal action and later filed a civil lawsuit against Mr. Arai.
I notified townspeople through newspaper inserts.
I also contacted the town council.
It's a problem that my reputation and credibility have been damaged.
Still, the fact that the mayor, who holds a public office in a public facility like the town hall, forced a town council member, who is also a public official, to have sex in the mayor's office during working hours is by no means a personal issue.
Why did she make such nonsense public?
Both the town and the council must question him.
The council immediately held a full-member meeting to demand an explanation from Ms. Arai.
The story changes one after another.
Attending the full-member meeting, Ms. Arai said, "I had a physical relationship with Mayor Kuroiwa Nobutada in the mayor's office. I deeply regret the above and would like to confess."
Ms. Arai's explanation changed one after another from this point on, depending on the situation.
In the e-book, she wrote, "I really fell in love with Mayor Kuroiwa. When we were alone in the mayor's office, I was thrilled when he conveyed my feelings to me."
Later, Ms. Arai and her fellow council members submitted a motion of no confidence against me as mayor.
Still, at that time, she said, "I indeed had a physical relationship with the mayor." She also suddenly said in the assembly hall, "There are several other women who have been sexually assaulted besides me (Ms. Arai)."
Even when I asked her, "Who is it, and where did it happen? When did it happen?" she said, "I can't tell you because it would be an invasion of privacy."
She refused to reveal the contents of the story.
At a press conference held at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in December 2020, she said, "It is true that Mayor Kuroiwa raped me."
She also said at the time, "In Kusatsu Town, women are treated as objects, and if a woman becomes the mistress of a powerful man, she can have a shop around the Yubatake."
When pressed about the physical impossibility of having a relationship in the mayor's office, she casually lied and said, "The mayor redecorated the room."
Despite saying that she was raped, she did not consult the police or file a complaint herself.
She said, "The police cannot be trusted. I will reveal everything in court," but the ongoing lawsuit is a lawsuit I filed to hold Ms. Arai accountable.
If Arai's story about being sexually assaulted is true, she should have filed a criminal or civil lawsuit herself.
But that is not the case at all.
She does not have any intention of doing so.
The local townspeople's distrust and resentment towards Ms. Arai grew, and her story lost credibility.
Then, when it was discovered that Ms. Arai did not live in the town, the townspeople filed a recall.
Ms. Arai lost her job by an overwhelming majority.
In December 2021, Ms. Arai finally filed a criminal complaint against me.
At that time, the story had changed to "forcible indecency," which did not involve sexual intercourse.
"On January 8, 2015, shortly after 10 am, in the mayor's office on the third floor of the Kusatsu Town Hall, Mayor Kuroiwa kissed Arai, touched her breasts through her clothes, and then, after she collapsed to the floor, he pulled up her clothes, touched her breasts directly, pulled up her skirt, put his hand into her underwear, and touched her genitals. He then pulled down her underwear and pushed his penis directly against her genitals from behind."
The change in her story was also pursued at the press conference after the complaint.
The Maebashi District Public Prosecutors Office decided not to prosecute the case within a few days, which led to the case being prosecuted for false accusation.
Ueno Chizuko won't apologize.
Since the commotion began, I have suffered as the suspicions have been wiped away.
First, feminist politicians, university professors, and so-called experts began criticizing the town, saying, "They're all trying to crush the courageous accusation of a woman of sexual assault. Kusatsu is a town of second rape."
Usually, the victim of sexual assault is a woman, and the assailant is a man.
However, Ms. Arai took advantage of this.
I feel that the situation became even more complicated when feminists brought in sexism and gender issues, even though it was a one-sided affair and there was no evidence whatsoever.
Another factor was that Arai's claims were broadcast to the world at a press conference held by Japan's Foreign Correspondents' Club, which dealt a severe blow to the town.
Arai's claims were unconditionally treated as if they were fact.
However, we, who were struggling to dispel the suspicions, were seen as perpetrators, and reports were flooded with the idea that we were trying to cover up the allegations.
SNS was in a state that could be called "cyber-lynching."
There was a lot of discourse that unilaterally portrayed me as the perpetrator.
For example, Ueno Chizuko, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, wrote the following in the editorial for the May 2021 issue of Local Councillors, a magazine read by members of parliament.
"The worst part is that when Arai, a council member from Kusatsu Town, made public the sexual harassment allegations against the mayor, ruling party members rose and launched a recall campaign, resulting in Arai Shoko losing her job. It is the wrong thing to do. First, they should have set up an investigative committee with a third party to investigate the facts, and if they were true, they should have punished the perpetrator. But kicking the victim out of parliament puts the cart before the horse."
Although she does say that if it's true, they should have punished the perpetrator, the whole article was clearly written under the assumption that I was the perpetrator.
I immediately sent a letter of protest to the magazine and Ueno.
But Ueno just kept insisting that she would not apologize.
The magazine admitted that it had been "careless" but did not admit its description was flawed.
Now that Arai has been indicted for filing a false accusation, I would like to send another letter of protest to Ueno to ask what she thinks about her own statement.
The National League of Feminist Parliamentarians (Co-chairs: Masuda Kaoru, Matsudo City Councillor, Chiba Prefecture; Maeda Yoshiko, Hachioji City Councillor, Tokyo) sent a letter of protest to me and the council chairman.
(The Kusatsu Town Council in Gunma Prefecture is a "one-woman council". We believe that the response of the Kusatsu Town Council to Councillor Arai Sachiko's accusation of sexual assault by the mayor is a violation of human rights by "denying the very fact that she accused the town of sexual assault.")
They said that it was a "violation of human rights by denying the very fact that she accused the town of sexual assault," but Ms. Arai did not respond even when I pointed out the contradiction.
She should be held accountable for the truth of her claims in the Diet, but this is not done.
The National Federation of Feminist Parliamentarians also protested the recall, which was carried out and passed despite the ongoing trial.
"The trial schedule has not been decided, and the police investigation has not been completed, but on December 6, a referendum was held without any objective recognition, and with 2542 votes in favor of dismissal and 208 votes against, Ms. Arai lost her job. We believe that this referendum, which the town council chairperson and others initiated, deviates from the purpose of a referendum as envisaged by local self-government.)
It is also a strange argument.
At this point, Ms. Arai had not taken any legal action, such as filing a civil or criminal lawsuit or making a criminal complaint.
If Ms Arai had filed a criminal complaint and civil suit herself and had been dismissed through a recall before a verdict was reached, there might be a certain logic to the recall, even if the merits of the recall were questioned.
However, Ms Arai did none of these things.
The trial she is referring to as "clarifying the facts in court" is the one I filed.
At the provisional disposition application stage, the court indicated specific facts and recognized the defamation of Ms Arai.
Furthermore, the recall was initially initiated by the residents.
Ms. Arai has been undermining many women living in Kusatsu by saying things like, "Women are treated like objects in this town. " Even though she was pointed out in the council for the inconsistencies in her statements, she has not tried to fulfill her responsibility to explain. There are also doubts about her actual living situation, so this is a legitimate democratic procedure carried out according to the law.
The Shimbun Akahata newspaper carried comments from Mizuki Tajima, the representative of the Flower Protest Gunma organizers, such as "Former Kusatsu Town Council member Shoko Arai, who was recalled and lost her job after accusing the town mayor of sexual assault, and Midori Yamada, a member of the Nakanojo Town Council and a member of the Japanese Communist Party, participated in the protest," and "Let's change a society where people are excluded for speaking out about sexual assault" (Jun Yamamoto, representative director of the general incorporated association Spring).
These comments are based on the premise that I am the perpetrator, and Ms. Arai is the victim.
Mr. Yamamoto is said to be the person who popularized the hashtag "#Rape Town Kusatsu" on social networking services, and he is said to hold an essential position as a member of the Ministry of Justice's Criminal Law Review Committee on Sexual Offenses.
Author Kitahara Minori was critical of the town council in an article for Asahi Shimbun's AERA dot. Magazine, saying, "Even if the mayor was not guilty of the crime, the council itself was misogynistic and full of sexual violence."
Kitahara described the scene of the council members demanding evidence as "sexually violent."
The "Association to Support Former Kusatsu Town Councilor Shoko Arai" actively promoted the term "second rape."
The term refers to the situation where a woman who has been raped is further traumatized by the subsequent court case and the unkind comments and ridicule she receives from those involved.
It is said that this can amount to a violation of human rights comparable to the initial rape and is therefore warned against.
However, it is strange that things like false rumors, lies, and even exposure stories like the one in this case are called "courageous accusations" or "second rape!
It would stifle even reasonable arguments, and there would be a flood of false accusations.
I have no objection to protecting women's rights, but this must be based on facts.
There is no reason why false accusations by women should be tolerated.
If false accusations are treated as legitimate in the name of "women's rights," it will become an obstacle for the actual victims of sexual abuse who should be supported.
I want to ask feminists, who are usually sensitive and motivated to protect women's rights, how they view the current situation and think about their discourse.
I want to seek an explanation.
This article continues.
