The following is from a dialogue between Masayuki Takayama and Miki Otaka, published in the monthly magazine WiLL, on pages 184-200, under the title "Let's hit back at the outrageous 'anti-Japanese' books that insult Japan."
This dialogue also proves that Masayuki Takayama is the most deserving of the Nobel Prize for Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.
It also proves that the dialogue partner, Miki Otaka, is a genuine journalist.
Anti-Japanese discourse is linked to it.
How can they not even acknowledge the achievements of Kiichiro Higuchi...
Countering the outrageous book!
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The Shameful Side of America
Takayama
They get away with rape.
They don't spend any money on it.
The "Amerasian 1982 Act" in the United States symbolizes this.
The term "Amerasian" was coined by Pearl Buck, a Nobel Prize-winning author, to refer to children of mixed race between Americans and Asians.
American servicemen in countries such as South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines raped women and then abandoned the resulting mixed-race children.
This irresponsibility became a problem, and in 1982, a law was created to grant citizenship to children whose fathers were Americans.
It is the Amerasian 1982 Act.
However, it was stipulated that this did not apply to Japan and the Philippines.
Ohtaka
Why were these two countries excluded?
Takayama
Starting with the Spanish-American War in 1898, the United States ruled over the Philippines for half a century.
The United States was involved in the Philippines for nearly a century, and as a result, the number of rapes was extremely high, and there were more than 500,000 mixed-race children.
It would be a disaster if they gave them citizenship, so they decided to exclude the Philippines.
It is said that there were around 5,000 mixed-race children with Japanese after the war as a result of rape.
However, for example, in John Dower's "Embracing Defeat," it says, "All the American soldiers were gentlemen and did not rape," and "MacArthur was charismatic, and his occupation rule was successful around the world, and saying that "we will provide relief for the children of mixed-race rape victims" would also reveal the severity of GHQ's press censorship.
So, they have been hiding the facts about this law from the Japanese government.
Also, there is no trend among Japanese people to be grateful for American citizenship.
Ohtaka
On the other hand, I've never heard of many children being born between Japanese soldiers and local women.
If Japanese soldiers were raping women everywhere, as is claimed in books such as "Japan's Holocaust," it would be no surprise to hear such stories.
Takayama
The United States they have raped women all over the world to such an extent that they had to pass the Amerasian 1982 Act, but they keep lying to Japan, saying, "You are a nation of rapists."
They should be ashamed of themselves.
Ohtaka
As for looting, the US military plundered the Shō family's treasures during the Battle of Okinawa.
They did return some of it, though.
Takayama
During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Lieutenant Nishitake Ichiro (Baron Nishitake), a gold medalist in equestrian events (1932 Los Angeles Olympics), was killed in action.
Usually, the belongings of the deceased would be collected, but the American soldiers took everything from Lieutenant Nishitake, including his military uniform, sword, and boots.
They often say things like "the dead soldier had it" and return the Japanese flag with the words "victory" written on it.
But that is something you would put in your bellyband.
They go to that extent to search the dead for things.
It's a matter of national character, or rather, they can't get rid of their predatory instincts.
Ootaka
It's a genuinely terrible act.
Takayama
On the other hand, the Japanese army rarely committed acts of looting.
From the perspective of Western countries, that was a problem.
That's why, during the First Sino-Japanese War, there was a time when a false rumor called the "Lushun Massacre" was spread.
James Creelman, a Jewish correspondent for the New York World, reported that 60,000 Chinese had been massacred.
In his autobiography, Creelman explains why he made up such a lie, saying that he had seen Japanese soldiers killing Chinese soldiers, ripping out their chests, taking out their hearts, and eating them all together.
It was the Chinese soldiers who did such things.
In fact, after the First Sino-Japanese War, during the Boxer Rebellion, the German Minister Von Ketteler was attacked, and after being tortured to death, his chest was ripped open.
His heart was removed, and the Boxers ate it.
Ootaka
The story of the Japanese army eating human flesh has been spread from the writings of Mr. Toshiyuki Tanaka, a former professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, who Mr. Rig often quotes.
His spouse is a Jewish woman, and Mr. Tanaka uses several pen names, including Yuki Tanaka, Tetsu Namba, and Masami Akasaka.
Deep-rooted jealousy towards the Japanese
Takayama
In short, I think there is a deep-rooted jealousy towards the Japanese.
White people are proud of the fact that they hold hegemony over the world.
For the development of humanity, white people are the best at survival of the fittest.
They think it's ok to enslave black people and coolies.
However, it's not good that there is a country like Japan, which is non-Christian and non-white but has much more mercy and charity than Christians and governs each country so well.
That's why they criticize the achievements of Lieutenant General Higuchi and Chiune Sugihara.
They bring up the non-existent comfort women issue and the Nanjing Massacre and publicize how Japan is a wrong country, desperately trying to protect its superiority.
In 1992, when the L.A. riots were happening, I was dispatched to L.A. as a correspondent.
I read A.P., The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times daily.
However, the tone of the articles was uniformly harsh towards Japan.
When North Korea was suffering from a food shortage and planned to donate food through the U.N., an article criticized Japan for being uncooperative.
Still, the word "KOREA" was always followed by the phrase "they once colonized this country."
Whenever the words "Southeast Asian countries" were used, the phrase "they once invaded this country and committed acts of cruelty" was also added.
Otaka
It's a terrible expression.
It's clearly an attempt to denigrate Japan.
Takayama
I was so angry that I called the editorial team at The New York Times to protest.
I complained, "Why are you adding that annotation?" and "Bring in the author," and they said, "Editorials can't tell you who the reporter is. Just tell them that there was a protest."
I told them, "Then the next time you mention the Philippines, add the annotation that the U.S. killed 400,000 people and deceived them into colonizing it," but when the Philippines was mentioned, there was no annotation.
Otaka
That's really unfair.
Takayama
Even after that, his expressions regarding Japan remained unchanged.
In May 2013, when Abe visited the Japan Air Self-Defense Force base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, a photo of him sitting in the cockpit of a Blue Impulse plane and giving a thumbs-up was published in the newspaper.
The aircraft's registration number was "731."
Then, perhaps evoking Unit 731, the Nelson Report, a political and diplomatic information magazine based in Washington, criticized the move, saying, "It's like the German chancellor wearing a Nazi uniform."
The New York Times, as if they had been waiting for this, also wrote about the "731 biological experiments" as if they were true.
Otaka
Unit 731 was a unit that belonged to the Japanese Empire's Kwantung Army during World War II and is said to have conducted unethical biological experiments on many Korean and Chinese prisoners of war and residents in the process of researching and developing biochemical weapons.
By the way, China is apparently making a remake of the 731 movie for next year.
Takayama
Unit 731 conducted human experiments on about 3,000 people and collected data.
Stupid Japanese scholars like Tsuneishi Keiichi of Kanagawa University of Humanities have said this nonsense story that the humanitarian United States has never conducted human experiments, so in exchange for valuable data, they forgave Ishii's bacteriological unit and did not incriminate them.
However, that is a complete lie.
The United States is a paradise for human experiments.
It has done crazy things like the Tuskegee experiment, where they secretly conducted human experiments on their citizens for 40 years, injecting syphilis bacteria into Guatemalan prisoners, killing many of them, and giving them plutonium to drop atomic bombs.
The United States keeps complaining about the brutality of the Japanese army, but when nothing comes to light, they make up stories like the Nanjing Massacre and the Bataan Death March.
If Unit 731 had really conducted large-scale human experiments, the United States would have gladly released them and given medals to Commander Ishii and the others.
The content of the human experiments also shows that this story is fabricated.
Unit 731 is said to have been a "vacuum trap for humans, whose eyeballs pop out, whose blood boils, and whose bodies explode with death."
Otaka
Writer Morimura Seiichi slammed Unit 731 in his novel "Devil's Gluttony."
As a result, this rumor spread.
Takayama
Then, there was an accident in which the Soviet human-crewed spacecraft "Soyuz" lost air while preparing to re-enter the atmosphere, and the crew suffocated to death in the vacuum.
However, their blood did not boil due to the circumstances, and their eyes did not pop out.
The fact that "Unit 731's experiments" were a lie was revealed.
Most of the other stories about how "the Japanese military was cruel" were actually just stories of cruelty perpetrated by the U.S. side that were made to look like "the Japanese military was doing it."
Otaka
American missionaries were behind the scenes, and the Kuomintang Propaganda Department was also involved.
Furthermore, after the war, the Asahi Shimbun and the Chinese Communist Party colluded to try to pin the blame for their crimes on Japan by laundering the devilish fabrication of history, claiming that the Nanjing Campaign began in Japan.
Takayama
If they don't keep repeating that "defeating Japan was the right thing to do" and keep it ingrained in them, the veneer will come off because they started with a lie.
If they leave it alone, people will start saying that "the Japanese are all really nice people," so they have to keep denigrating Japan to contain that.
This article will continue.
2024/9/26 in Umeda
This dialogue also proves that Masayuki Takayama is the most deserving of the Nobel Prize for Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.
It also proves that the dialogue partner, Miki Otaka, is a genuine journalist.
Anti-Japanese discourse is linked to it.
How can they not even acknowledge the achievements of Kiichiro Higuchi...
Countering the outrageous book!
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The Shameful Side of America
Takayama
They get away with rape.
They don't spend any money on it.
The "Amerasian 1982 Act" in the United States symbolizes this.
The term "Amerasian" was coined by Pearl Buck, a Nobel Prize-winning author, to refer to children of mixed race between Americans and Asians.
American servicemen in countries such as South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines raped women and then abandoned the resulting mixed-race children.
This irresponsibility became a problem, and in 1982, a law was created to grant citizenship to children whose fathers were Americans.
It is the Amerasian 1982 Act.
However, it was stipulated that this did not apply to Japan and the Philippines.
Ohtaka
Why were these two countries excluded?
Takayama
Starting with the Spanish-American War in 1898, the United States ruled over the Philippines for half a century.
The United States was involved in the Philippines for nearly a century, and as a result, the number of rapes was extremely high, and there were more than 500,000 mixed-race children.
It would be a disaster if they gave them citizenship, so they decided to exclude the Philippines.
It is said that there were around 5,000 mixed-race children with Japanese after the war as a result of rape.
However, for example, in John Dower's "Embracing Defeat," it says, "All the American soldiers were gentlemen and did not rape," and "MacArthur was charismatic, and his occupation rule was successful around the world, and saying that "we will provide relief for the children of mixed-race rape victims" would also reveal the severity of GHQ's press censorship.
So, they have been hiding the facts about this law from the Japanese government.
Also, there is no trend among Japanese people to be grateful for American citizenship.
Ohtaka
On the other hand, I've never heard of many children being born between Japanese soldiers and local women.
If Japanese soldiers were raping women everywhere, as is claimed in books such as "Japan's Holocaust," it would be no surprise to hear such stories.
Takayama
The United States they have raped women all over the world to such an extent that they had to pass the Amerasian 1982 Act, but they keep lying to Japan, saying, "You are a nation of rapists."
They should be ashamed of themselves.
Ohtaka
As for looting, the US military plundered the Shō family's treasures during the Battle of Okinawa.
They did return some of it, though.
Takayama
During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Lieutenant Nishitake Ichiro (Baron Nishitake), a gold medalist in equestrian events (1932 Los Angeles Olympics), was killed in action.
Usually, the belongings of the deceased would be collected, but the American soldiers took everything from Lieutenant Nishitake, including his military uniform, sword, and boots.
They often say things like "the dead soldier had it" and return the Japanese flag with the words "victory" written on it.
But that is something you would put in your bellyband.
They go to that extent to search the dead for things.
It's a matter of national character, or rather, they can't get rid of their predatory instincts.
Ootaka
It's a genuinely terrible act.
Takayama
On the other hand, the Japanese army rarely committed acts of looting.
From the perspective of Western countries, that was a problem.
That's why, during the First Sino-Japanese War, there was a time when a false rumor called the "Lushun Massacre" was spread.
James Creelman, a Jewish correspondent for the New York World, reported that 60,000 Chinese had been massacred.
In his autobiography, Creelman explains why he made up such a lie, saying that he had seen Japanese soldiers killing Chinese soldiers, ripping out their chests, taking out their hearts, and eating them all together.
It was the Chinese soldiers who did such things.
In fact, after the First Sino-Japanese War, during the Boxer Rebellion, the German Minister Von Ketteler was attacked, and after being tortured to death, his chest was ripped open.
His heart was removed, and the Boxers ate it.
Ootaka
The story of the Japanese army eating human flesh has been spread from the writings of Mr. Toshiyuki Tanaka, a former professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University, who Mr. Rig often quotes.
His spouse is a Jewish woman, and Mr. Tanaka uses several pen names, including Yuki Tanaka, Tetsu Namba, and Masami Akasaka.
Deep-rooted jealousy towards the Japanese
Takayama
In short, I think there is a deep-rooted jealousy towards the Japanese.
White people are proud of the fact that they hold hegemony over the world.
For the development of humanity, white people are the best at survival of the fittest.
They think it's ok to enslave black people and coolies.
However, it's not good that there is a country like Japan, which is non-Christian and non-white but has much more mercy and charity than Christians and governs each country so well.
That's why they criticize the achievements of Lieutenant General Higuchi and Chiune Sugihara.
They bring up the non-existent comfort women issue and the Nanjing Massacre and publicize how Japan is a wrong country, desperately trying to protect its superiority.
In 1992, when the L.A. riots were happening, I was dispatched to L.A. as a correspondent.
I read A.P., The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times daily.
However, the tone of the articles was uniformly harsh towards Japan.
When North Korea was suffering from a food shortage and planned to donate food through the U.N., an article criticized Japan for being uncooperative.
Still, the word "KOREA" was always followed by the phrase "they once colonized this country."
Whenever the words "Southeast Asian countries" were used, the phrase "they once invaded this country and committed acts of cruelty" was also added.
Otaka
It's a terrible expression.
It's clearly an attempt to denigrate Japan.
Takayama
I was so angry that I called the editorial team at The New York Times to protest.
I complained, "Why are you adding that annotation?" and "Bring in the author," and they said, "Editorials can't tell you who the reporter is. Just tell them that there was a protest."
I told them, "Then the next time you mention the Philippines, add the annotation that the U.S. killed 400,000 people and deceived them into colonizing it," but when the Philippines was mentioned, there was no annotation.
Otaka
That's really unfair.
Takayama
Even after that, his expressions regarding Japan remained unchanged.
In May 2013, when Abe visited the Japan Air Self-Defense Force base in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, a photo of him sitting in the cockpit of a Blue Impulse plane and giving a thumbs-up was published in the newspaper.
The aircraft's registration number was "731."
Then, perhaps evoking Unit 731, the Nelson Report, a political and diplomatic information magazine based in Washington, criticized the move, saying, "It's like the German chancellor wearing a Nazi uniform."
The New York Times, as if they had been waiting for this, also wrote about the "731 biological experiments" as if they were true.
Otaka
Unit 731 was a unit that belonged to the Japanese Empire's Kwantung Army during World War II and is said to have conducted unethical biological experiments on many Korean and Chinese prisoners of war and residents in the process of researching and developing biochemical weapons.
By the way, China is apparently making a remake of the 731 movie for next year.
Takayama
Unit 731 conducted human experiments on about 3,000 people and collected data.
Stupid Japanese scholars like Tsuneishi Keiichi of Kanagawa University of Humanities have said this nonsense story that the humanitarian United States has never conducted human experiments, so in exchange for valuable data, they forgave Ishii's bacteriological unit and did not incriminate them.
However, that is a complete lie.
The United States is a paradise for human experiments.
It has done crazy things like the Tuskegee experiment, where they secretly conducted human experiments on their citizens for 40 years, injecting syphilis bacteria into Guatemalan prisoners, killing many of them, and giving them plutonium to drop atomic bombs.
The United States keeps complaining about the brutality of the Japanese army, but when nothing comes to light, they make up stories like the Nanjing Massacre and the Bataan Death March.
If Unit 731 had really conducted large-scale human experiments, the United States would have gladly released them and given medals to Commander Ishii and the others.
The content of the human experiments also shows that this story is fabricated.
Unit 731 is said to have been a "vacuum trap for humans, whose eyeballs pop out, whose blood boils, and whose bodies explode with death."
Otaka
Writer Morimura Seiichi slammed Unit 731 in his novel "Devil's Gluttony."
As a result, this rumor spread.
Takayama
Then, there was an accident in which the Soviet human-crewed spacecraft "Soyuz" lost air while preparing to re-enter the atmosphere, and the crew suffocated to death in the vacuum.
However, their blood did not boil due to the circumstances, and their eyes did not pop out.
The fact that "Unit 731's experiments" were a lie was revealed.
Most of the other stories about how "the Japanese military was cruel" were actually just stories of cruelty perpetrated by the U.S. side that were made to look like "the Japanese military was doing it."
Otaka
American missionaries were behind the scenes, and the Kuomintang Propaganda Department was also involved.
Furthermore, after the war, the Asahi Shimbun and the Chinese Communist Party colluded to try to pin the blame for their crimes on Japan by laundering the devilish fabrication of history, claiming that the Nanjing Campaign began in Japan.
Takayama
If they don't keep repeating that "defeating Japan was the right thing to do" and keep it ingrained in them, the veneer will come off because they started with a lie.
If they leave it alone, people will start saying that "the Japanese are all really nice people," so they have to keep denigrating Japan to contain that.
This article will continue.
2024/9/26 in Umeda
