The Truth of the “Comfort Women” Intelligence Warfare:
Information laundering by anti-Japanese fascists,
by Nishimura Kohyu(Summary)
To fight against distorted history not only must one present the truth but also
understand why such distortions are propagated in the first place. Author Nishimura
Kohyu suggests that anti-Japanese agitators are not merely trying to bend historical facts,
for example, those surrounding the issue of the “comfort women,” to fit their ideologicalinclination, but ultimately to psychologically “weaken and degrade” the Japanese people
and to keep Japan from becoming “truly independent and self-reliant”. At the center ofthis anti-Japan “psychological warfare” operation are China and Korea and their antiJapanese fellow travelers, which doggedly repeat the same malicious claims against
Japan.
The extent of the intelligence war against Japan is illustrated by Mr. Nishimurawith the adoption of the so-called comfort women Resolution in the U.S. Congress,
which blamed the Japan government for forcing hundreds of thousands of women into
being “sex slaves” for the Japanese military. The Resolution demanded that Japan accept
responsibility and apologize to former “comfort women”. Central to the effort’s successis the co-opting of the western media, especially influential newspapers such as The New
York Times. Indeed, without them, the “comfort women” issue may have well been
isolated to Asia, as Mr. Nishimura points out that Americans had no stake in this issue atthe time, except, perhaps as a way to lash out at Japan for its economic dominance in the80s—and perhaps as a warning shot to Japan against becoming too “uppity” in theconduct of policy with its neighbors.
Similar “comfort women” bills were presented every year for over ten year in theDiet for approval, but they have all been flatly rejected and this is due to the fact that theissue in Japan had already been resolved, especially the notion that the Japanese military“broke into” homes and kidnapped Asian girls. Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in 2007 statedat an unofficial press conference what was clearly borne out by history, that there was“no coercion in the narrow sense.” In the western media, however, the Prime Minister
was made to look as if he denied the existence of the “comfort women” (Washington Post,“Japan’s Abe: No Proof of WWII Sex Slaves”). In addition to distorting comments andhistorical facts, the western media smears those who point out the facts as “right-wing”
and “nationalists” while those who endlessly present lies as facts are held up as“scholars” and “historians”.
Also key to the emergence of the “comfort women” issue in the U.S. is the arrayof Chinese and Korean sycophants and shills who directed campaign contributions to
sympathetic members of Congress. Mr. Nishimura points out that such groups have ties
to China and Korea, and ultimately, to official state agencies. Thus, behind thesupporters of the so-called comfort women issue were, in effect, the Chinese Communist
Party and Korean Workers’ Party. Such maneuvering to weaken Japan’s policies byJapan’s adversaries and the U.S. are reminiscent of the activities of the 1930s, which leadto the China Incident and the Greater East Asia War. Thus, Mr. Nishimura warns thatJapan and her supporters must thoroughly understand the informational war in order tocounter it.