A public betrayed
A public betrayed
"A public betrayed" is the name of a book highly critical of the Japanese media. If you think WaPO and the New Jayson Blair Times are disgusting (which they are, of course), then the online contents of this book will serve as a sobering experience.
The book and the complementary website examine five case-studies, which include the promotion by the Japanese press of holocaust denial, denial of the rape of Nanking (Nanjing), and denial of the 'comfort women' forced into prostitution by the Japanese in WW II (the Japanese are guilty of other atrocities, including experiments on prisoners of war).
The text on the holocaust denial reads, inter alia:
January 27, 1995, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp where a million Jews were murdered and which has become a world symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. To coincide with that event, the popular Japanese monthly newsmagazine Marco Polo published an article in its February 1995 issue (distributed in mid-January) denying the Nazi mass murder of 6 million Jews in camps such as Auschwitz.
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Another recent incident of Japanese anti-Semitism in the mainstream media occurred near the end of 2001, not two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11. It concerned the anthrax mailings in the United States at that time. A regular commentator on TV Asahi's Super Morning show, Koji Kawamura, asserted on the air that the "common thread linking the targets of anthrax attacks was that they were Jews" and declared that "Jews were targeted for anthrax attacks because they control the U.S. media" (as quoted in A Public Betrayed 193) Interestingly, none of the early victims, nor any of the prominent personalities who were targeted (such as NBC's Tom Brokaw or U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle), was Jewish.
Interestingly, there are less than 1,500 Jews in Japan, out of a population of approximately 130,000,000. But as others have said before me, you don't need to know Jews to be an anti-Semite (just look at Saudi Arabia!)
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at November 23, 2004 07:01 AM
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I'd still argue that the WaPo and Old York Times are worse.
It is relatively easy to leverage and break the Japanese media when they take on us and also Great Powers like China. It's also a relatively good method to develop allies in the PR wars. Some Jewish scholarship on the rape of Nanking that's placed on the appropriately targeted audience groups would do wonders for us and have some Japanese pseudo-journalists hoping for a return of MacArthur - because he was nicer than PR China.
Jewish strength is not to be found in large numbers to advance boycotts and other population intensive methods. Our strength is knowledge and the use of knowledge. A major change in Zahal doctrine is to introduce =knowledge superiority=.
Of course, we have no organization to somewhat easily handle Japanese media enemies.
"Jeremiah then summoned Baruch son of Neriah,and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jermiah all the words of HASHEM that He had spoken to him on a scroll book."
Jeremiah 36:4
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on November 23, 2004 10:40 AM
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A public betrayed
"A public betrayed" is the name of a book highly critical of the Japanese media. If you think WaPO and the New Jayson Blair Times are disgusting (which they are, of course), then the online contents of this book will serve as a sobering experience.
The book and the complementary website examine five case-studies, which include the promotion by the Japanese press of holocaust denial, denial of the rape of Nanking (Nanjing), and denial of the 'comfort women' forced into prostitution by the Japanese in WW II (the Japanese are guilty of other atrocities, including experiments on prisoners of war).
The text on the holocaust denial reads, inter alia:
Interestingly, there are less than 1,500 Jews in Japan, out of a population of approximately 130,000,000. But as others have said before me, you don't need to know Jews to be an anti-Semite (just look at Saudi Arabia!)Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at November 23, 2004 07:01 AM