The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The Japanese who have been responsible for spreading the German-Japanese stereotype is, for example, the following people.
・It is the journalist Akira Ikegami, who, despite his superficial knowledge, gave unrestrained praise of Germany's efforts to deal with the past in a TV special.
・It is former Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe, a self-proclaimed expert on international politics and a connoisseur of Europe, who praised postwar Germany without knowing the true intentions of the Germans or the situation behind the scenes.
・Shigeru Ishiba, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party's House of Representatives, professes that Germany's post-war processing is a model in smattering while becoming one of the prime minister candidates as "academic" in politics
・Nagai Kiyohiko, an international political scientist who highly praised Weizsäcker's speech, published a Japanese translation of it, "Forty Years in the Wilderness," and became a preacher of the Weizsäcker myth.
・It is Mari Akasaka, a writer who praised Weizsäcker's speech in her novel, The Emperor in a Box.
・In the postwar period, the historical view of the Tokyo Trials (i.e., the victorious nation's idea of history) has existed in Japan.
Still, there is no such thing as a historical view of the Nuremberg Trials in Germany.
In addition, Weizsäcker's successor, President Herzog, gave an epoch-making speech that overturned the historical perception of Germans.
A professor at the University of Tokyo, who is considered a leading researcher in modern German history in Japan, published a large book, "Overcoming the Past: Germany after Hitler" (Hakusuisha), ignoring at least six critical events postwar Germany. Yuji Ishida
Compared to these six, Yasuaki Onuma, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, was an intellectual who viewed postwar Germany with a somewhat more balanced perspective.
However, such a person is a very minority, and the German-Japanese stereotype has taken root, especially in Japan, and has transmitted to China and South Korea.
The international community is increasingly undermining the image (perception) of Japan.
In particular, what cannot overlook is the momentum of Korean anti-Japanese groups erecting "comfort women" in the United States, Europe, and Oceania, as is evident in the case of Berlin.
In Europe, the comfort women issue is quite well known in a negative sense due to biased media coverage.
When the author explained to intellectuals such as Germany and Poland that "the source of the fire was not South Korea but the anti-Japanese forces of Japan, and they set the fire on fire," they were uniformly surprised.
"What kind of motive or purpose would they have for doing such a thing? They asked.
Especially in the past few years, anti-Japanese forces in Korea and Japan have been involved in propaganda activities in Germany to undermine the image of our country.
In recent years, South Korea has been developing an impressionistic campaign to equate the former Japanese military with the Nazis, which is on the same wavelength as Germany, which has long considered the Nazis to be evil.
In particular, since 2016, the movement of Korean anti-Japanese groups in Germany to erect comfort women statues has become noticeable.
Germans are actively involved in this movement, and our anti-Japanese forces are behind it.
As for Germany, researchers have revealed that the Wehrmacht and Nazi organizations forcibly took women from occupied territories and made them into sex slaves.
Nevertheless, the German media ignores or taboos its past, and the general public is unaware of it and denounces Japan from a self-righteous standpoint.
There are two main reasons for the poor image of Japan.
(1) Japan's leftist media and activists have sent out a mixture of false and factual information that criticizes the motherland.
(2) South Korea has been fabricating history and carrying out unreasonable anti-Japanese activities at home and abroad and spreading them to third countries such as Germany.
However, most Japanese people and the international community are largely unaware that the German-Japanese stereotype is still being expanded and reproduced due to the activities of such outrageous people.
Why has the national image of Germany and Japan become so far apart?
It is not only because Germany is very concerned about its external image and its leaders are very skillful in their speeches and other performances. it can make the
In conclusion, it can make the following two points.
☆There are no countries around Germany that are anti-German like South Korea is to Japan.
☆ There are no "anti-German Germans" in Germany who are self-righteously trying to undermine their homeland, like the anti-Japanese in Japan. It includes the media.
Germany accepts the propaganda of the anti-Japanese forces in Korea and Japan and condemns Japan without checking the facts.
Why are there no "anti-German Germans" in Germany, but there are "anti-Japanese Japanese" in Japan?
This book reveals the reality of the unjustified accusations of Japan in Germany and the German-Japanese stereotype originating in Japan.
It also exposes the mechanisms of Germany's national trickery and the process of its collapse.
At the same time, I analyze the psychological mechanisms of the "anti-Japanese" who nest in Japan from the perspectives of brain science, folklore, and psychology.
Gerald Horne, an African-American historian, is the author of "Race War: Another Truth about the Pacific War" (originally published in English in 2004, translated into Japanese by Shodensha in 2015).
Gerald Horne, an African-American historian specializing in history, is the author of "Race War: Another Truth about the Pacific War" (originally published in English in 2004, translated into Japanese by Shodensha in 2015).
He places the Japanese war in world history as a catalyst for the overthrow of colonial rule by so-called people of color in Asia and Africa.
A third party has confirmed that the historical significance of the German and Japanese wars is entirely different.
We need to know what is happening in the world today, and we need to break the German-Japanese stereotype of Japan by participating in the international information war.
It is to restore Japan's national image and honor and establish a firm footing for tomorrow.
(In the text, "Germany" refers to the Federal Republic of Germany, from former West Germany to the reunified Germany, unless otherwise specified. The titles of the characters are as they were at the time, and honorific headers are omitted. Boldface and bylines are by the author unless otherwise noted.)
