10,000 Japanese Fascists Sue Asahi Simbun Over Comfort Women Story

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10,000 Japanese Fascists Sue Asahi Simbun Over Comfort Women Story

Japan government continues to deny responsibility for sex slavery as the fascist Abe regime terrorizes anyone who talks about past WWII aggressions. This is the same week Europe is holding a celebration of the freeing the last survivors of Nazi extermination efforts in Poland…by not inviting Russia to the party even though Russian soldiers were the liberators. Meanwhile, in Japan, denial of WWII crimes is climbing fast with the US snoozing over this, refusing to punish the Japanese leaders.

I was thoroughly disgusted when the Asahi Simbun news people retracted all mention of ‘comfort women’ WWII crimes. This caused both China and both Koreas to issue formal complaints which Japan ignored totally. Now, More than 8,700 people sue Asahi Shimbun over ‘comfort women’ stories ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion:

The group of plaintiffs, led by Sophia University professor emeritus Shoichi Watanabe, is demanding 10,000 yen in apparently symbolic compensation each, describing themselves as “Japanese citizens whose honor and credibility were damaged by the false reports made by the Asahi Shimbun”, according to court documents.

They argue that Asahi reports on the so-called “comfort women” system “have imposed indescribable humiliation not only on former soldiers but also on honorable Japanese citizens… who are labelled as descendents of gang rapists.”

History matters. Rewriting it is criminal. Everyone loves to excuse past crimes and this is very certainly true of all the remaining royal and aristocratic families in Europe, not to mention American ethnic cleansing/slavery crimes. Humans do this sort of thing and we need to understand it and expose it so it won’t happen again.

Both Japan and Israel are insulated, isolated ethnic communities that have lots and lots of contempt for any other humans and both do very nasty things to ‘outsiders’ due to this and both have strong feelings of persecution. And both have been persecuted in the past!

But this doesn’t excuse them both when they commit the same crimes. And this is where looking in the mirror is so important. If one refuses to do this, it ends violently if others gain enough power to impose reality and China has that power. It gets stronger as Japan gets weaker and Japan depends on the US to protect them as they insult their neighbors and lie about reality. Israel does this too with the same total US protection.

At the end of December, the frightened editors of the Asahi Shimbun penned this disgusting EDITORIAL: 2015 should mark turning point in settling ‘comfort women’ issue – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

One emotionally charged issue rooted in history continues to weigh heavily upon the relationship between Japan and South Korea.

It is the issue of so-called comfort women who were forced to provide sex services to officers and men during wartime. The women’s human rights and dignity were violated.

Note the word ‘so-called’. This is an open insult suggesting there is any question about this issue. The only people who have problems believing sex slavery happened are all Japanese.

A third-party panel that examined The Asahi Shimbun’s coverage of the comfort women issue harshly criticized the newspaper for failing for many years to respond to errors in articles based on fabricated testimony by the late Seiji Yoshida.

The committee, chaired by lawyer Hideki Nakagome, said the Asahi had been far too slow to retract these inaccurate articles, which were based on Yoshida’s testimony that he forcibly took away women on Jeju Island, South Korea, during the war.

This was no ‘third party’ this was a gang of criminals rewriting history so they could get away with war crimes! The Japanese army enslaved EUROPEAN women, too! But Europe, like the US, doesn’t raise a row about this due to the diplomatic needs to keep Japan a warmongering power which is why Japan is rearming so they can again, try to kill as many Chinese as possible in the future!

Remember Charlie in Paris? How all the world’s biggest warmongers paraded around screaming that terrorists shouldn’t attack newspapers by gunning down people there? Here in Tokyo this happened to the Asahi Shimbun people angry about the paper mentioning Japanese WWII crimes: Tomohiro Kojiri – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tomohiro Kojiri (小尻知博) was an Asahi Shimbun reporter shot on 3 May 1987 by a Japanese rightist with a shotgun.[1][2] Kojiri was 29 years old when he died the next morning.[1] One of his colleagues, Hyoe Inukai, then 42, was also shot and seriously injured.[1] A rightist group calling itself a special unit “Sekihōtai” (赤報隊) of the “Japanese Independent Volunteer Army” (日本民族独立義勇軍) sent typed letters to Japanese media, claiming it carried out the murder and threatening to kill other “anti-Japanese elements” in the media.[3][4][5] The murder was still unsolved when the 15-year statute of limitations expired in 2002,[6][7] yet the Japanese police told the press that it would continue the investigation.[8] Asahi Shimbun has held a memorial for him every year.[9] The attack is known in Japan as the Asahi Shimbun Hanshin Bureau Attack (朝日新聞阪神支局襲撃事件).

Abe condemned the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris but he also knows that he can scare the Asahi people in Tokyo with the unspoken threat they will be butchered by his own fascists. This is why they issued the apology for their old story written more than 20 years ago. Then came this news: US Publisher Rebuffs Japan on ‘Comfort Women’ Revision. This is a full frontal campaign to rewrite history. Ms. Kennedy, our silly ambassador in Tokyo, remains silent.

The Comfort Women and Japan’s War on Truth – NYTimes.com was written a short while ago which is good news. Too bad the Times rewrites history hiding Jewish crimes in Palestine. The same fascist political beliefs drives both Japan and Israel rulers to commit these crimes and more crimes will happen in the future and they both set a very bad example to others.

Both will whine about violence and terror and crimes when these happen to THEM but not when they do it which is how the US also operates. Republican or Democrats, both parties commit war crimes with no shame while demanding other leaders be put on trial for war crimes. With all this blatant criminality, the truth is, even the Nazis after WWII could not be charged with any crimes due to the simple fact, they were tried only because they lost.

War crimes are perfectly fine if done by winners!

Something to read from the Koreans, an open letter to the Emperor of Japan who didn’t answer:

Emperor and Empress of Japan,
You are recognized around the world as moral and spiritual leaders of the Japanese people, as well as for your efforts to advance world peace. This letter is a heartfelt appeal to you to exercise your moral and spiritual leadership to speak clearly to your people about one of the cruelest offenses perpetrated during World War II. This offense remains unresolved today.

The writers are being polite. The Japanese emperors have nothing to do with ‘world peace’. They are figureheads who never go against the military/fascists except once: when the nuclear bombs were dropping on Japanese cities.

As you are aware, during that conflict a very large number of women and girls in Asia were forced into the government sanctioned system of sexual slavery and rape operated for the Imperial Army and Navy. These women and girls are known by the euphemism ‘Comfort Women.’ Many thousands of them were killed during the war.The survivors were for decades treated with shame and contempt in Japan and in their home countries.

10,000 Japanese Fascists Sue Asahi Simbun Over Comfort Women Story | Culture of Life News

This offense remains a deep source of pain and anger throughout Asia and the world. That is because Japanese government leaders continue today to use tricks of language and double-talk to refuse to frankly acknowledge the wartime government’s direct, central role in this terrible crime. For example, past prime ministers have stated that they regret that women and girls had a bad experience during the war.

But these ministers specifically refuse to acknowledge the wartime government’s central responsibility for the crimes committed against these women. Some refuse to even admit a crime took place.
The failure to honestly apologize to Comfort Women by admitting the moral, spiritual, and legal responsibility of the wartime government is today a global human rights issue. This is reflected in US House of Representatives Resolution 121 in July, 2007 as well as in similar National Assembly resolutions of Canada, the Netherlands and the European Parliament in 2008.

We have the honor to bring to your attention the urgent need to encourage the Japanese people and government to resolve for good this long-standing issue and redress the pain and suffering of those Comfort Women who are still alive.

 

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Japanese terrorists clining to the imperial past. Terrorists must be extinguished. Japanese moderates have lost control and fundamentalists have seized power.

 

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Japanese terrorists clining to the imperial past. Terrorists must be extinguished. Japanese moderates have lost control and fundamentalists have seized power.

Agree with you, terrorists need to be terminated.

 

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Kazumi Takahashi labjmh • 6 months ago
Wrong comparison. Japan and Germany
did not share a cause. Connection with Chandra Bose, Father of Independence of India, was about the only thing Japan and Germany shared. In Europe and Asia, WWII was fought for different reasons/causes.

Unlike Nazi Germany, Japan never tried to
exterminate a race. In fact, Higuchi Kiichiro and Yasue Norihiro, with permission from Tojo Hideki, even helped 20,000 Jewish people escape
through Manchuria, despite Nazi Germany's strong protest. It was not only Sugihara Chiune, who is well known for helping 6,000 Jewish people escape through Lithania, that was against Germany's policy. The so-called A class war criminal Tojo deserves to be praised in Israel's "Golden Book" as much as Higuchi and Yasue have been, as Henry Stokes
says in his latest book.

The US government, under the Clinton and Bush administrations, spent 7 years and 30 million dollars to look into Nazi and Japanese war crimes and published a report titled “Final Report to the US Congress on Nazi War Crimes & Japanese Imperial Government Records” in 2007. Out of millions of pages of newly declassified material, much of it
related to Japan, they were unable to find evidence of forced prostitution, the Nanjing Massacre or unit 731.
The bottom line is THE COMFORT WOMEN ISSUE IS A SCAM.
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This is a comon I find. Japanese like this is the reason why I don't like Japanese as a group.
You think they are joking, but not, just like this:

They do rediculous thing like this very seriously. Just like you can say "Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" is a big fake, because Hiroshima and Nagasaki seems all right now.
I have no patient to talk about this back anymore, only if there is a war between China and Japan, I would like give up my life.

 

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Japanese Broadcast Official: We Didn’t Commit War Crimes, the U.S. Just Made That Up
Feb. 7, 2014

The Asahi ShimbunWriter and NHK board member Naoki Hyakuta, seen here last year at the launch of one of his books, believes the Japanese did not commit war crimes in World War II and that the U.S. fabricated them
Japan's top TV figures are making increasingly outrageous statements about World War II

In the clearest signal yet of U.S. unhappiness with the rightward tilt of Japan’s political leadership — and by extension, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — the U.S. embassy in Tokyo has strongly condemned charges by a top official at Japan’s national public broadcaster that Americans fabricated war crimes against Japanese leaders during World War II in order to cover up American atrocities.

“These suggestions are preposterous. We hope that people in positions of responsibility in Japan and elsewhere would seek to avoid comments that inflame tensions in the region,” an embassy spokesman told TIME early on Friday.

The charges were made this week by Naoki Hyakuta, a nationalist writer and close friend of Abe, who was recently appointed to the board of governors of the Japan Broadcasting Corp., commonly known as NHK.

In campaign speeches on behalf of a far-right candidate for the governorship of Tokyo, Hyakuta claimed that the infamous Nanjing Massacre in 1937 never occurred, and that Americans staged the postwar trials of Japanese leaders to cover up U.S. war crimes. He said those crimes included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the mass firebombings of Tokyo.

The staunchly conservative Abe himself caused diplomatic outrage in December, when he paid his respects at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine — a memorial to the Japanese war dead including 14 high-ranking war criminals. Beijing, Seoul and Washington strongly condemned the visit. Now supporters of Abe who have been appointed to NHK’s top decisionmaking body are fueling tensions by making revisionist or inflammatory statements.

Last week, the new NHK chairman Katsuto Momii provoked outrage both at home and abroad when he said all of the countries involved in World War II maintained “comfort women” — a euphemism for the system of forced prostitution employed by the Japanese military during the war years.

That charge prompted a frosty denial from the U.S. embassy in Tokyo that American forces had engaged in any such activity.

Along with Hyakuta’s charges, it was reported this week that another NHK board member had published an essay praising the leader of a nationalist group who committed ritual suicide in the offices of a major newspaper in October 1993 to protest negative news coverage.

Board member Michiko Hasegawa wrote that because the activist recited a brief prayer to the Emperor before shooting himself in the abdomen, “His Majesty the Emperor has again become a living god.”
 Hasegawa is a professor emeritus of Japanese cultural studies in Tokyo.


Japan’s Emperors were once worshipped as living gods, but are designated under the current constitution as “the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people.” As such, they have no governing authority or official religious function.

Hasegawa, who also has close ties to Abe, published the essay in connection with a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the activist’s death.

The appointment of such staunch nationalists to NHK’s board is part of a concerted campaign by the Abe administration to recast Japan as the true victim of World War II and put a more benign face on the country’s often brutal colonial practices, says Jeff Kingston, professor of Asian studies at Temple University’s Tokyo campus.

“These are Abe’s cronies, they agree with his revisionist views, and now he’s putting them in positions of power and influence,” says Kingston. “What they don’t realize is that the right-wing revisionists are not convincing many people in Japan, and they are not convincing people outside Japan. What they are doing is creating a huge diplomatic problem.”

Japan is locked in increasingly tense disputes with neighboring China and South Korea over territorial and historical issues. A spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry denounced Hyakuta’s statements on the Nanjing Massacre as “a barefaced challenge to international justice and human conscience” and called on Japan to “face up” to its history.

China says 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians died in Nanjing during a weeks-long rampage by Japanese troops. Although some mainstream historians put the number of casualties lower, few — if any — deny the incident occurred.

Critics say the Abe appointees threaten the editorial integrity of Japan’s largest broadcaster.

“Just the knowledge of the character of the governors leads producers and journalists working for NHK to engage in self-censorship,” says Michael Cucek, a Tokyo-based research associate at MIT’s Center for International Studies.

Indeed, NHK did not report chairman Momii’s controversial statements on comfort women until he was grilled by opposition members during a Diet session three days afterward. Nor had news of the debate over Hyakuta’s and Hasegawa’s statements appeared on the NHK news website as of early Friday — despite more than 7,200 messages, mostly negative, phoned in or emailed to NHK’s headquarters.

Members of the opposition have called for the appointees to be replaced, but an Abe spokesman said all had been speaking in their capacities as private citizens and had not violated government policy.

NHK is Japan’s largest television network, funded largely by viewer license fees. It produces round-the-clock entertainment and public-interest programming and operates news bureaus around the world.

The 12 members of NHK’s board serve three-year terms. They are appointed by the Prime Minister with approval of the Diet and exercise authority over NHK’s annual budget and top executives.

Hyakuta is the author of several best-selling books, including The Eternal Zero. Abe and his wife attended a screening of the film version of the book over the New Year holiday. The movie ends with the hero, a pacifist fighter pilot turned Kamikaze, flying his airplane into an American aircraft carrier.

 

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