Reporting a lie and instilling a masochistic view of history
2021/2/2
The following is from a series of columns by Masayuki Takayama in this month's issue of Themis, a monthly magazine full of must-read articles.
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The Asahi Shimbun, which considers itself an influential newspaper, is the "naked king."
It drove Abe out of the office with allegations of "a lie that is not a lie."
Reporting a lie and instilling a masochistic view of history
One of Andersen's fables is "The Naked King."
Two crooks went around the city telling people they would weave costumes out of a mysterious cloth that the foolish would not see.
The king hears the rumor and has them weave the most exquisite costumes.
The retainer, who was watching them work, could not see anything, but he did not want to look like a fool, so he told the king, "It is a beautiful color and a beautiful pattern.
It was done, and the king paraded through the city wearing only his underwear, the invisible costume.
But children are honest. He said, "But he has nothing on at all." The citizens also shouted, "The king is naked. "The king was much embarrassed, and the story ended.
What happened next?
It does not say whether the two crooks were punished and whether the child was praised or angered.
There was a similar story in Japan.
The Powers That Be in Japan Asahi Shimbun Osaka Headquarters was approached by the crook Seiji Yoshida, who said, "I have a story that fits the masochistic view of history Asahi Shimbun wants.
On May 18, 1943, on the prefectural governor's orders, Seiji Yoshida took ten soldiers to Jeju Island, pushed 205 women into a truck, and sent them to the front under the name of the Women's Volunteer Corps.
"Soldiers got inside the hoods of trucks and raped women," and "All the Women ｗere Killed on the Battlefield," Yoshida said.
The Asahi thought it was the authority entrusted by GHQ to govern Japan.
The task was outstanding.
"Japan has done a great job of putting an end to Western imperialism, colonialism, and racism," said historian Arnold Toynbee.
"Japan sacrificed itself to end Western colonialism and liberate people of color in the greatest revolution in human history" (Peter Dawes, professor at Stanford University).
To make Japanese people close their eyes to the view of history that they mentioned.
To imprint on the Japanese people the Tokyo Tribunal's historical view, Japan was an aggressor and a wrong country.
However, there is no such evil work.
There were only lies about the "Bataan Death March" and the "Massacre of 100,000 in Manila" made up by the US.
The poison gas and the photos of the beheadings were also lying.
It can not help that the Maoist president, Hirooka Tomoo, had Honda Shoichi write a series of articles entitled "Travels in China," which contained not a shred of truth.
President Seiki Watanabe, the Japanese representative of the Comintern who had followed Hirooka, took up the story of the forced removal of comfort women from Jeju Island by Seiji Yoshida.
Haruhito Kiyota wrote it.
Later, he researched and found that Seiji Yoshida had no truth to his name, background, and story.
But Asahi doesn't care whether it's true or not.
Since then, Kiyota has been on the board of directors, continuing to write and expand on Seiji Yoshida's lies.
Besides, Seiki Watanabe flamboyantly reported that the 23rd Miyakonojo Infantry Regiment, which had taken the lead in Nanking's invasion, went around killing Chinese civilians, with a photo of raw heads lying around.
The article also included a photo of smoke billowing from the regiment's battle against poison gas on the Chinese mainland.
In response to this, the officials of the Miyakonojo Regiment protested with determination falsehoods in the article.
The photo of the head of a bandit was also a photo of Chiang Kai-shek's army conquering bandits, and Asahi knew this when it published it.
On the other hand, the Sankei Shimbun reported that the smoke-filled photograph was a picture of the smokescreen operation in Xinjiang River, saying, "It's a bad lie" and "If poison gas rises to the sky, we can't even kill crows.
The Comintern's Watanabe also resigned after his false reports were exposed one after another.
Next, Toichiro Ichiyanagi avoided talking about the Japanese military and had coral scribbled with the word "KY" to slander the modern Japanese. However, this, too, was exposed, and Ichiyanagi was fired.
Next, Toshitada Nakae resurrected the comfort women story by Seiji Yoshida, whose lies had survived without being exposed, and had Takashi Uemura write "comfort women opened their heavy mouths" and had Yoshiaki Yoshimi of Chuo University, who could not read Chinese characters, talk about "military involvement.
It went well.
Kiichi Miyazawa, at the behest of Asahi, admitted that "Japan is an aggressor nation" and established good-neighbor diplomacy.
Asahi tried to get him to talk about remorse.
Since then, Hosokawa Morihiro, Murayama Tomiichi, and other prime ministers have served The Asahi Shimbun as a powerhouse.
It changed in November 2012 when the Japan Press Club hosted a party leaders' debate.
The Asahi Shimbun, a powerhouse, made Hoshi Hiroshi ask Shinzo Abe, the next prime minister, to serve the Asahi Shimbun like previous prime ministers in the televised debate.
They wanted him to narrate Asahi's issue of comforting women and discuss the remorse of being an aggressor nation.
Abe shook his head and replied, "Hoshi-san. Isn't that the result of your Asahi newspaper spreading the story of the crook Seiji Yoshida?
Both Hoshi, who thought he was a powerful man, and Tadakazu Kimura, who watched the broadcast from the president's office, were taken aback.
The Asahi did not care whether the story was true or not.
It thought it could push through the story because it was in power, even if it was a lie.
But then, on national TV, he said to them, "You are a spreader of lies. You don't even have the pride of a newspaper. You're not even a person of power. "
The naked king, pointed out by an honest child, was embarrassed and supposedly became a good king.
However, the Japanese version of the king showed no signs of shame.
After Abe pointed it out to them, they re-examined the articles for two years and found that every single one was an outright lie.
Kimura concluded, "We'll admit to lying. But we won't give up our seat of power."
He resigned, leaving the matter to his editorial director, Seiki Nemoto.
Since then, Nemoto has been attacking Abe with "a lie that is not a lie," in other words, by tormenting him with allegations.
The Moritomo and Kake Gakuen scandals were based only on his typical "putting a deliberately bad interpretation." Still, he used the entire front page of the paper to bash Abe, and the stress caused his illness to return, forcing him to step down.
But there is a second coming.
Four months after Abe's resignation, he is still banging on about the cherry blossom viewing party, Moritomo, and Abe's "leadership of the Prime Minister's Office.
Japan's naked king was so brutal and insidious, unlike Andersen's story, that "he sought out an honest child and burned him at stake," and that will be the end of it.
