Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Two Universities In Japan Recieve Bomb Threats Over Asahi Shinbun Articles

The Asahi Shinbun on 5 August admitted that several articles published in its pages about the veracity of Seiji Yoshida's information concerning Japan's use of Comfort Women during World War II.  Many on the Right in Japan are historical revisionist's and war crimes deniers.     

Since that time conservatives in Japan have applied considerable pressure on the newspaper to cease publication including conservative publications.

In a Sept 21 news conference, Asahi president Tadakazu Kimura admitted the wrongdoing and announced that executive editor Nobuyuki Sugiura would be resigning to take responsibility.
Asahi’s apology appears only to have added fuel to the fire of the ongoing campaign, spearheaded by the Sankei and Yomiuri newspapers and the weekly magazines Shukan Bunshun and Shukan Shincho, to harangue Asahi by, among other things, urging its advertisers to drop their ads and readers to cancel subscriptions.
And indications are that the campaign may be having some impact on the Asahi’s bottom line.
But this approach, warns Nikkan Gendai (Sept 23), represents an “enormous miscalculation” on the part of Asahi’s rivals, and explains the reason why.
“The Yomiuri has launched a one-week trial campaign aimed at exploiting the Asahi’s current woes to its advantage, by use of a four-page leaflet titled ‘How did the Yomiuri Shimbun verify reportage of the comfort women?’ a source at the Yomiuri told Nikkan Gendai. “It also produced a 20-page booklet for distribution in the 23 Wards of Tokyo, where there are many Asahi subscribers.”

According to the fools who sent these missives the universities in question must fire these professors or get blown up.  Let all of that pent-up hate out you'll feel much better. Until the police come.

Two universities, in Osaka and Hokkaido prefectures, have received letters urging them to fire former Asahi Shimbun reporters working for them, threatening to plant explosives on their campuses if they don’t, police said Tuesday.
Tezukayama Gakuin University in Osakasayama, Osaka prefecture, said it received a letter on Sept. 13 saying it must dismiss a professor who had been working for the university since April 2012 because he wrote, while working at the Asahi, erroneous articles that were based on claims by Seiji Yoshida, a man who said he was involved in the kidnapping of Korean women who were then forced into sexual servitude for the wartime Japanese military. The victims came to be known euphemistically as “comfort women.”


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