There are bound to be idiots who say, "It's the duty of newspapers to bring down those in power with violent devices'' (Yoichi Funabashi, former chief editor of the Asahi Shimbun). What happened as a result? Open a newspaper, and you will find out.
Takashi Uemura of the Asahi Shimbun created the lie about military comfort women.Uemura's Korean wife's mother made a fuss about erecting comfort women statues worldwide and pitched one in the U.S. as a first step.
Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize winner in economics, had an interesting analysis of Japan. He is amazed at the tremendous growth in newspaper circulation since the Meiji Restoration.
