I cannot help but feel affectionately toward those who romanticize about things Japanese. The country of my origin certainly has a special place in my heart as well, second only to the U.S.A. So, with what I am about to reveal, I do not mean to spoil the image you may have of Japan. Rather, it is meant to shed some light on a few historical facts that you may find troubling. I present the case of Japan in the context of the disturbing trends I see happening today in the U.S.A. Namely, brainwashing of the masses.
When I was growing up in Japan, I disliked samurai movies immensely. Why? Because they would often show heads of the beheaded as trophies of conquest. How repulsive! How vile! How utterly evil!
I tried dismissing these events in the movies, however, as “Something that happened eons ago when people used to behave like barbarians, long before I was born. Things like these no longer happen anywhere in the world today.”
Well, well. How little did I know that some segments of people are still – and perhaps will always be – just as barbaric, or worse, as they were back then!
Recently, I came across a documentary called, “Architects of Denial.” It is about the Turkish government’s denial of the Armenian genocide. In 1915, it is estimated that 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by Ottoman Turks. The majority of Armenians are Christians. What I find alarming is that not only is the denial continuing, Armenians are still being persecuted by Muslims today, just like all other non-Muslims.
As you can find in the International Crimes Database, the term, “crimes against humanity,” was first used to describe the Armenian genocide. Crimes against humanity are so horrific that, for most of us, it is beyond our comprehension. In fact, most people, including the Jews who were the direct targets of such crimes, could not believe that the Nazis would think to exterminate them.
During the 1930s and 1940s, when its military had a territorial-expansion goal to accomplish, Japan had also committed crimes against humanity. Such aggression continued until the country was crushed by the Allied Forces and, subsequently surrendered unconditionally in 1945. After the war, however, these facts were never being taught in Japan – even when I was in school there. Japan’s youths are completely ignorant of its shameful criminal past… Even I learned about them only after I came to the U.S.A.
For the last several decades, schools, universities, and the media – heavily being funded by the Far Left – have been in concert to brainwash the American public. Recently, I also realized that the same is happening in Japan – with the same messages. Take, for example, the anti-Trump rhetoric. I find illogical and baseless arguments against him objectionable enough when I hear it in the U.S.A. When Japan’s NHK (an equivalent of PBS in the U.S.) repeated the same theme, I was livid. As I learned later, this was just a glimpse of how much the Far Left has been coordinating brainwashing of the masses around the world. Sadly, most people do not recognize it when they are being brainwashed.
During the war, my parents’ generation of Japanese were being brainwashed by its military authorities. Most Japanese, therefore, “honestly” believed that (1) Japanese were a pure race, superior to all other races and (2) non-Japanese were less than humans. The Imperial Japanese Army ordered its soldiers – most of whom barely adults – that it was their duty to kill the enemies; and to die fighting the enemies was the highest honor they could attain from the emperor.
What is scary is that, when you grow up in such an environment, it takes years thereafter, if at all, to reverse what you have always been taught and believed from childhood. This is how powerful and destructive brainwashing is. How do I know this?
I was born after the war. While there was no killing of the minorities (non-Japanese residents in Japan) – at least none that I’m aware – I grew up being told never to set foot in the areas where they were clustered.
Ironically, such a strict parental rule made me very curious about non-Japanese people. I often wondered what it must be like being minorities in Japan. Talk about reverse psychology!
I was 23 years old when I arrived in the U.S.A. By coming to this country, I willingly became a part of the minority in my new adopted country. Except for a few situations while in corporate America, if there was any outright discrimination against me, I was oblivious to it. I surmise, however, that my experiences as a minority in the U.S.A. are not even close to being comparable to those experienced by the minorities in Japan.
For the most part, Japan welcomes foreigners as visitors. In fact, today, tourism is heavily promoted by the government. Due to labor shortages, caused by the population decline, Japan is also allowing an ever-increasing number of foreigners to enter the country. Unlike in the case of tourists, however, Japanese society is not so welcoming of foreigners when they choose to stay there for the long term.
Understanding the history of Japan and its treatment of gaijin – 外人 which literally means outsiders – and especially of the minorities, my heart breaks for the families of those who committed suicide in Japan in recent years, seeking jobs and better lives there.
In most societies, cultural norms stay deeply rooted. Let’s contrast the two separate cases in which surprise attacks were waged against the U.S.A. on its soil:
- December 7, 1941 – Japan’s attack on:
- Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- September 11, 2001 – Muslim extremists’ attacks on:
- The Twin Towers in New York City, New York.
- The Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
- A failed attempt to attack the White House in Washington D.C., which ended in the crash of a hijacked plane in a field in Pennsylvania.
First, let’s take a realistic look at Japan. The chances of success in trying to change centuries-old Japan to accept foreigners as its full-fledged citizens, for instance, are nil to none. That said, after World War II, Japan has not taught its children to kill non-Japanese.
In contrast, Muslim extremists have been training their children to kill infidels since 700 AD. Their goal has always been to conquer the world and convert all peoples to Islam. Is it any wonder that most Muslim countries in the Middle East have already killed off or driven out non-Muslims? Their current targets are the Western nations. Yet, schools, universities, and the media in the West – most of which are driven by the Far Left – are treating these Muslim countries as if their social norms were the same as our own. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It is my contention that anybody who becomes a teacher in the U.S.A. should be required to experience life outside of the country.
I have a hypothesis that the powers that be of the Far Left in the West are being bribed by Muslim countries. How else do you explain the phenomenon in the U.S.A. that anything related to the Bible is off limits in public schools, yet the Qur’an is not?
Political correctness – to be pro-Islam and anti-Christianity – blinds most people from acknowledging the truth of what is happening in our society in plain sight. The brainwashed will shoot down those trying to have a meaningful conversation about what is happening in the U.S.A. by instantly labeling them as Islamophobes or whatever phobia they can conjure up. How many innocent people, including Muslims, must be killed before people finally call it what it is? Wake up, people! If you don’t believe that you’re being brainwashed, think again. And, remember, you have the power to think for yourself.
p.s. “The Lark Farm,” a film by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, is highly recommended. It is about the Armenian genocide.
