[국제]”Grow a pro-Japanese faction”…Japan leads the propaganda of the’war of history’

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It is no coincidence that a Harvard professor’s thesis about’comfort women was a prostitute’ came out in the world.

This is because Japan’s strategy to develop pro-Japanese personnel and actively spread the position that is favorable to them domestically and abroad is in the background.

Tokyo correspondent Lee Gyeong-ah reports.

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This is the explanation of this year’s budget by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

It contains the content that it will conduct research on the territory and history with domestic and foreign institutions and expand the pro-Japanese and Ji-Japanese factions.

Online-related budgets such as social media have also increased by over 50% compared to last year.

This is a part of the reading of the will to lead international public opinion in their favor on historical issues such as comfort women and Dokdo.

[이영채 / 일본 게이센여학원대 교수 : (위안부 판결 등에 대한) 국제사법재판소에 제소를 준비하는 것과 동시에 또한 WTO 내에서도 한국과 분쟁이 많아짐으로써 국제 기구 속에서 일본에 유리한 여론을 확대시키고 한국의 영향력을 축소시키기 위한 전략이라고 봅니다.]

Since the inauguration of the Abe regime in 2012, the Japanese rightists have begun to blatantly expose’historical revisionism’ that denies responsibility for war.

The reason why the Sankei Shimbun virtually operated English Internet media was created to actively publicize Japan’s position abroad.

Professor Ramsayer of Harvard University, who was excommunicated with the thesis’comfort women were prostitutes’, has made the same argument by participating in the media as a writer before the thesis.

His assertion that the problem of the comfort women recruitment process is the responsibility of the middle-aged businessmen is no different from the Japanese government.

[가토 가츠노부 / 일본 내각관방장관 (지난 달 29일) : 일본 정부가 발견한 자료 가운데는 군이나 관청의 이른바 ‘강제 연행’을 직접적으로 보여주는 기술은 발견되지 않았다는 입장을 지금까지도 밝혀왔습니다.]

Mitsubishi, a leading war criminal company, provided more than $1 million in funding to Harvard University in the 1970s to support professors who study Japan.

Professor Ramsey, who was controversial, was appointed professor in 1998.

The arguments of some pro-Japanese figures, which have been cultivated over the decades, are an excellent propaganda tool for right-wing forces trying to take responsibility for war.

This is Kyungah Lee from YTN in Tokyo.

[저작권자(c) YTN & YTN plus 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]