Yoshiko Sakurai

Yoshiko Sakurai (櫻井 よしこ, Sakurai Yoshiko, born 10 October 1945, Hanoi, French Indochina) is a Japanese journalist, TV presenter, and writer. She is also president of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals, established in 2007.[1]

Yoshiko Sakurai

Life

Sakurai was born to Japanese parents in Vietnam. After returning with her family to Japan, she graduated from Nagaoka High School. Later she graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, majoring in history.

Sakurai started her career as a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor in Tokyo. She served as a news presenter on Nippon Television's late night news programme Kyo-no-dekigoto from 1980 to 1996. She worked on the HIV-tainted blood scandal in Japan during the 1990s.

Affiliated with the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi,[2] Sakurai denies sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military during World War II (i.e. "comfort women").[3] This claim of denial seems to be contradicted by Yoshiko Sakurai herself during her appearance in the John Pilger documentary 'Japan Behind The Mask' 1987. In the documentary film she acknowledges, and criticizes, Japanese denial of war crimes and suggests students in Japan should be told the hard truth of Japan's imperial past. She promoted Taniyama Yūjirō's 2015 Scottsboro Girls film in Japan and the United States, a revisionist film aimed at denying the sexual enslavement of comfort women.[4][5][6][7]

In 2007, she supported the recently announced film about the Nanjing Massacre, The Truth about Nanjing.[8] Satoru Mizushima, the director and producer of the film, has said the massacre is nothing more than propaganda.[8]

She is the originator of the term "Tokutei Asia".

References
  1. "Japan Institute for National Fundamentals". Japan Institute for National Fundamentals.
  2. Nippon Kaigi website
  3. http://www.debito.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SakuraiYoshikoJINFYomiuriAd.jpg
  4. "Michael Yon JP: CWUの岡田です". May 27, 2015.
  5. "Michael Yon JP: 日本：「スコッツボロガールズ」――この映像をプロモートしないでください (Japan: "The Scottsboro Girls" --- Do Not Promote this Film )". May 20, 2015.
  6. "'Comfort Woman' Revisionism Comes to the U.S.: Symposium on The Revisionist Film Screening Event at Central Washington University | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus". apjjf.org.
  7. "Detailed Review of the Film "Scottsboro Girls"". www.michaelyon-online.com.
  8. Hongo, Jun (January 25, 2007). "Filmmaker to paint Nanjing slaughter as just myth". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on August 13, 2007. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
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