The following is from Masayuki Takayama's latest book, published on 9/1/2022 under the title "Japanese! Wake Up!" printed on 9/1/2022.
This book also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.
Kyodo News," which replaced the prewar Dōmei Tsushin, has been reporting badly.
Kyodo", created by GHQ, became a subcontractor for US-oriented information.
The vileness of the Chinese soldiers was not reported.
The Chinese who fought in the Sino-Japanese War was incredibly vile.
The first clash took place on July 25, 1894, at the Battle of Teshima, when the Chinese cruiser Jiyuan was hit on the bridge by the Japanese cruiser Yoshino, which signaled its formal surrender by flying both the white flag and the Japanese naval flag.
When the "Yoshino" ceased firing and stopped, the Chinese cruiser Jiyuan suddenly fired a torpedo and fled.
There was not the slightest hint of good manners.
Two months later, in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the Chinese cruiser Jiyuan did the same thing.
It fled before the enemy as soon as it was attacked.
The Qing Dynasty was so disgusted with the cowardice of the Chinese captain, Fang Boqian, that they had him beheaded.
The Chinese soldiers in land battles were even more bizarre.
They avoided fighting and ran around, and when they occasionally took Japanese soldiers as prisoners of war, they cut off their ears and noses, shaved off their eyes, and cut off their fingers and local parts to slaughter them.
They had no concept of taking prisoners of war.
Aritomo Yamagata, the commander of the First Army, said, "Do not kill enemy soldiers who fall," and "However, they are extremely brutal. If you are carelessly caught alive, you will suffer more pain than death and inevitably be killed because of their cruel and poisonous acts. Instead, you should die with grace and fulfill the honor of a Japanese man.
The French military officers reported that the Japanese did not kill the enemy soldiers who surrendered to the Chinese and even treated the wounded following the instructions, even though they saw their comrades slaughtered by the Chinese and their bodies transformed.
However, some of the reporters are garbage.
James Creelman, a correspondent for a U.S. newspaper, did not even visit the battlefield and reported that the Japanese "massacred 60,000 men and women, young and old, in downtown Lushun.
He wrote that they shot little girls and mutilated their mothers gruesomely.
Japan learned the importance of information warfare.
Later, it was learned that this was a copy of the Sand Creek, Colorado massacre scene where 400 Cheyenne women and children were killed. Still, the Japanese clammed up at the unexpected criticism and made excuses without offering any effective rebuttal.
Creelman and the rest of the U.S. press never mentioned the brutality of the Chinese but only criticized and slandered the Japanese.
It was probably due to envy toward the Japanese, who were non-Christians but knew more about mercy and tolerance than the whites, but Japan was vulnerable to such information warfare.
It was a relief that the Belgian Minister to Japan, Albert Danetan, painstakingly reported on the "compliance" of the Japanese military with the Geneva Conventions and denied the malicious reports of the U.S. newspapers.
Yet, Wikipedia still irresponsibly lists the "Japanese Army Lüshun Massacre" without deletion.
Japan next learned the importance of information warfare ten years later during the Russo-Japanese War.
Russia was followed by Germany and France, which had interfered in the Russo-Japanese War.
German and French colonies lined the route of the Baltic Fleet, which was to decide the battle between Japan and Russia.
Japan alone could not have known what was going on there.
However, at that time, there was the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
The British Reuters news agency reported the movements of the Russian fleet to Japan.
The British government also threatened to impose military sanctions on any country that favored Russia following the terms of the alliance.
As a result, neither Germany nor France could give the Russian ships a rest landing.
Japan was ready thanks to the British's cooperation and could wait in the Sea of Japan and eradicate them.
The U.S., whose government and newspapers were one and the same
Japan won with the help of the British.
But the U.S. did not want that.
A single champion in the Pacific was enough.
Theodore Roosevelt graciously made peace between Japan and Russia to weaken Japan, but Japan did not receive a penny in compensation or cede a single inch of territory.
Japan did not know how to negotiate and had no information.
It was too naive.
The U.S. saw the Anglo-Japanese alliance as an obstacle to destroying Japan.
The U.S. made this point at the Washington Conference on Disarmament Treaties.
The ratio of battleships owned by the U.S., U.K., and Japan was 8, 5 British, and 3 Japanese, as long as the Anglo-Japanese alliance existed.
The U.S. insisted that the U.K. and Japan break the Anglo-Japanese Alliance if they did not like it, and Kijuro Shidehara, the most idiotic diplomat in Japan, agreed.
Navy Admiral Kato Kanji, who attended the conference, said that while the U.S. government and U.S. newspapers were working in unison to sway U.S. public opinion, Japan "could not form a good alliance with the newspapers and felt the emptiness of conducting diplomacy without the support of the public opinion."
The U.S. then sided with China and even allowed the "Manchu people's land belongs to the Chinese" (Stimson Doctrine) to be used as a deception, putting Japan in a difficult situation.
Realizing that it had failed to sway international opinion in its favor due to a lack of information, Japan finally moved to establish the Dōmei Tsushin, a Japanese news agency on par with AP and Reuters.
After a long and futile struggle between the local and central newspapers, the Dōmei Tsushin was launched in 1936 at the very last minute.
With a staff of 2,000 scattered around the world, the Japanese people began to grasp how the world was moving.
Then, right off the bat, we scooped up the Xi'an Incident, in which Zhang Xue Liang kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang was released, but it turned out that the U.S. government had intervened, and we learned that the U.S. and Germany were involved in the second Shanghai Incident that followed.
By the time Japan learned that the world was that black-hearted, Japan had already fallen into the Pearl Harbor trap.
After the war, MacArthur had the "Dōmei Tsushin" dismantled as soon as he arrived in Japan.
The Japanese did not need any extra wisdom.
Instead, he had Kyodo News, a subcontractor of GHQ created.
Maintaining and Updating the Tokyo Trial Historic View
The job of this news agency was not to inform Japan about the intentions of other countries but to maintain and update the historical view of the Tokyo Trials.
A recent Kyodo Denwa from Manila was about a mock "Bataan Death March" to educate young people who know nothing of the war about the brutality of the Japanese military.
The content of the story is as invented as lying professor Lester Tenney.
In Bataan, the writer Ashihei Hino said, "Filipino soldiers who surrender are joining our army one after another. It was like an allied force between Japan and the Philippines," wrote Ashihei Hino in his "Memoirs of the Battle of the Philippines.
There are photos of U.S. POWs enjoying coffee breaks and swimming in the sea (Ikuo Mizoguchi, "Paint and War").
Bataan once wrote that Ms. Yukie Sasa walked the entire course and "had a bit of a cold but was able to walk easily," and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish institution, was furious and lashed out at "Bungeishunju," which published it.
Kyodo News only delivers lies that are the favorites of the United States.
If you say, "We are the successor to Dōmei Tsushin," we will bust you.
(July 2018)
