No one has ever heard of American citizens going all the way to the United Nations to file a complaint against their own country for human rights violations—despite the fact that child abuse in the U.S. far exceeds that of Japan.
October 29, 2019
This is a re-post of the chapter originally published on August 18, 2019, titled: Because the United Nations Turned a Blind Eye… and Because All Japanese Lawyers, Including Toru Hashimoto, Turned a Blind Eye.
The following is taken from the latest book by Masayuki Takayama—postwar Japan’s one and only true journalist—published by Tokuma Shoten on June 30, 2019, under the title Korea and the Media Lie Shamelessly.
It is a must-read for all Japanese citizens, and you should rush to your nearest bookstore to buy it immediately.
It is also essential reading for people around the world, and although my English is far from perfect, I feel a strong sense of duty to make its contents known globally.
In this chapter, Takayama teaches us, for example, that the level of child abuse in the U.S. is incomparable to that in Japan.
As I have stated before, I suspect that child abuse in countries around the world—certainly not just in the U.S.—far exceeds that in Japan.
So why is it that, when one child tragically dies from abuse in Noda City, Chiba Prefecture, the UN pounces as if it had been waiting for the opportunity, and issues a human rights warning to Japan?
Again, no one has ever heard of Americans flying to the United Nations to denounce their own country’s human rights abuses, despite the U.S. having far worse child abuse statistics than Japan.
Neither China, with its 1.3 billion people and status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, nor Russia—another UN permanent member that throws its weight around—has seen a single citizen take such action.
Why not?
Because if they did, they’d face execution or other severe punishment.
In most cases, they’d likely be assassinated before any sentence is even handed down.
That’s the reality.
And yet Toru Hashimoto, who seems to comment only on the visible phenomena right in front of him—perhaps because he’s a lawyer—needs to understand this.
Why is it that only in Japan do we find people who go so far as to set up offices in Geneva, Switzerland, just to denounce their own country at every turn?
When did Japan become a country like that—and how?
If one is to contemplate such questions, that is what true “intelligence” means.
And Toru Hashimoto must come to understand this.
Why is South Korea the way it is?
Because—as I have been stating ever since I first began writing—there is a fact that no one else in the world has dared to confront.
Since the postwar chaos, beginning with Syngman Rhee, South Korea has been carrying out a form of Nazism in the name of anti-Japanese education.
And the world has continued to look the other way.
The United Nations has continued to look the other way.
All Japanese lawyers, including Toru Hashimoto, have continued to look the other way.
Asahi Shimbun and NHK have not only ignored it—they have actively served as the propaganda agents for that system.
Many politicians have done the same.
The time has long since come for everyone to recognize that there can never be true friendship with South Korea unless its anti-Japanese education is abolished.
Toru Hashimoto should feel ashamed that he has involved himself in politics and diplomacy, without even grasping how displaying Korean script on Osaka’s subways and signage systems only serves to embolden them further.
I have never been to South Korea, and I have firmly decided never to go as long as their anti-Japanese education continues.
Therefore, I have not confirmed this with my own eyes, but I am certain that Korean subway systems and signs do not display Japanese text as a matter of course, as is done in Japan.
Until he understands that this is the very root of the current deterioration in Japan–Korea relations,
Toru Hashimoto has no business commenting on the matter.
No—if he is truly speaking out for the good of Japan, then he must realize he is being manipulated—being used—by the likes of TBS and TV Asahi, who want him to criticize the Japanese government.
If that is the case, then he should immediately quit this disgraceful role as a “broadcast geisha.”
I will discuss this further later.
Even child abuse in Japan has descended to the level of chimpanzees.
In the July 2018 issue of Seiron magazine, there was a sexual harassment-themed dialogue between two individuals I deeply respect: Michiko Hasegawa and Kumiko Takeuchi.
In it, animal behaviorist Takeuchi explained that while human females can engage in intercourse at any time, female primates, such as monkeys, cease to ovulate or become sexually receptive while nursing their young.
That’s why, in a chimpanzee harem, when a new alpha male takes over, he slits the throat of the infants sired by the previous leader—swiftly killing them.
Once the mother loses her child, she doesn’t even mourn; she immediately becomes sexually receptive and mates with the new alpha.
That, it is said, is how things work in the animal kingdom.
But can we really say humans are any different from wild beasts?
In Meguro Ward, Tokyo, five-year-old Yua Funato was killed by her father Yudai (age 33) and her mother Yuri (age 25).
Yudai was not Yua’s biological father—he was, so to speak, the new alpha male.
From the time she was three years old, Yudai punched her in the face under the guise of discipline and left her outside in the winter cold.
Kagawa Prefecture’s child consultation center recognized the abuse and took protective custody twice.
But the abuse continued even after the family moved to Tokyo.
That winter, he forced her to study hiragana at 4 a.m. and beat her when she failed.
She was often denied food and locked out barefoot on the balcony.
After prolonged abuse and starvation, she died in March.
Her feet were covered in frostbite.
“I will do better tomorrow, so please, I beg you, forgive me,”
read a heartbreaking note she had written in hiragana to her parents.
Looking at Yudai’s behavior, it is no different from that of a chimpanzee.
No—it is worse than that of a chimpanzee.
According to another of Takeuchi’s books, the new alpha simply slits the throat and kills the infant immediately.
But Yudai tortured her slowly, over a period of two years.
And the biological mother, Yuri, abused her daughter alongside Yudai.
She too was worse than a primate.
Trying to appeal to the new alpha, she fawned over him while abusing her own child.
These kinds of cases—in which a remarried man kills a stepchild—are surprisingly common.
A few years ago, in Nishi-Tokyo City, Akira Murayama (age 41 at the time of arrest) repeatedly abused his wife’s son Yuito (then 14), telling him to “kill yourself within 24 hours,” leading the boy to hang himself.
Murayama received only six years in prison.
In the 1990s, in Osaka, a sixth-grade girl died in a house fire while bathing.
The police discovered that her Korean stepfather had been sexually assaulting her and had taken out a ¥15 million life insurance policy on her.
Both parents were arrested and confessed to killing her for the insurance money.
They served time in prison, but were released after the defense filed for retrial claiming wrongful conviction.
Men who “move in” with single mothers are, statistically speaking, alarmingly likely to kill the children.
In Yua’s case, Kagawa’s child consultation center had correctly identified the risk and had reported the abuse to the police.
But the Shinagawa child consultation center, which had received the information from Kagawa, ignored it.
Their excuse?
The "parent didn’t want intervention"—as if that were sufficient.
Because of that pathetic excuse—on par with something Yasuo Fukuda would say—Yudai was allowed to kill Yua.
The lesson from this case is clear.
Just as the child welfare staff in Kagawa and the police in Osaka had rightly surmised, stepfathers are extraordinarily dangerous.
This article continues.
