The following is from Masayuki Takayama's column in the latter part of the Shukan Shincho, released today.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read not only for Japanese citizens but also for people around the world.
Chiang Kai-shek in Gaza
When Chiang Kai-shek went to Xi'an to stop the Chinese, he was captured by Zhang Xue-liang, who had turned against him.
It is known as the Xi'an Incident.
Zhou Enlai was also at the scene.
Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be at an end, but when William Donald, a correspondent for an American newspaper, flew in, Zhou Enlai was silenced, and Chiang was released.
Zhang Xue-liang was conversely made Chiang's prisoner of war.
What on earth had happened?
For the answer, look at the Committee for Public Information (CPI) materials to which Donald belongs.
The other option is to interrogate the Donald in question and get him to confess.
In fact, Japan had plenty of opportunities to do so.
He was in Manila at the beginning of the war, was detained by the Japanese, and interned with other Western civilians for three years.
However, the Japanese did not know who he was.
And Japan turned him over to the U.S. before the Battle of Manila.
The truth is still unknown, but it is easy to guess from the standpoint of the CPI, which wants to drive Japan out of China.
Through Donald's obsession with Song Mailing, the United States should have told Chiang and Mao to stop their bickering and immediately go to war with Japan.
The U.S. was a major sponsor of the war, providing both arms and money.
If they complied, the U.S. would give them Manchuria and Mongolia.
There was no reason to disobey.
As soon as Chiang returned, he immediately provoked the Japanese at Marco Polo Bridge, and when he saw that the Japanese would not budge, he massacred 250 Japanese residents in Tongzhou.
That much would generally lead to war.
In fact, after 250 of his comrades were killed at the Alamo, the U.S. immediately attacked with cries of "Remember the Alamo.
However, when the Japanese held out, Chiang did not wait any longer.
He had his 60,000-strong army attack the Japanese concession in Shanghai.
Chiang's forces attacked from behind the crowds in Shanghai.
If the Japanese retaliated, the civilians who had been used as shields would die.
Chiang's atrocities were sure to draw international condemnation, but the CPI was not slack.
The Western press portrayed Chiang as the leader of the new China and Japan as the invader of China" (Frederick Williams, "The Inside Story of China's War Propaganda").
So, even the Tongzhou massacre was rejected.
Chiang was on a roll.
He deployed the Shina Air Force planes raised by the U.S. to drop bombs on the cruiser Izumo floating in the Huangpu River.
They all missed.
The second wave, carrying a 450 kg bomb, dropped it on the busy city, killing 1012 people instantly.
Another bomb fell in front of the Cathay Hotel, killing 729 people.
Chiang blamed the bombs on the Japanese.
But there were too many witnesses.
Later, he called it a "misdirected bombing," but that was also a lie.
He knew that if he made civilians the victims, it would surely lead to accusations against Japan.
In fact, newspapers around the world were filled with articles accusing Japan, the aggressor, of massacring the citizens of Shanghai.
In this scene, "Eleanor, the wife of the U.S. president, happened to be there and came to my office," John Powell, editor-in-chief of the China Weekly Review, wrote in his book.
She knew what was true.
She was in a position to clear up misunderstandings about Japan, but she was not such a good person.
She wrote to Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe "sternly holding him responsible for the misery of so many innocent people," Powell wrote.
The U.S., Germany, and the Soviet Union disliked Japan and spared no effort to support Chiang, but he was not the right size to do so.
Defeated, Chiang began to retreat.
When the Japanese army pursued them, Chiang ordered the Yellow River to burst to stop the Japanese army.
Nearly 10,000 villages were submerged, and 300,000 people died in the disaster, but Chiang blamed it on "air strikes by Japanese warplanes.
He is a man of obstinate.
The Islamic militant group Hamas fired rockets into Israel, searching for 203 people and fleeing into the streets of Gaza, where people were regrouping.
If Israel retaliates, civilians will die.
It was the same situation as the Shanghai Incident.
Then, one of their rockets "misfired" on a hospital in Gaza, killing 471 people.
Like in the Shanghai Incident, people scream that Israel shot at them.
The newspapers, always saying that Israel is to blame for everything, are the same as at the Shanghai Incident.
People only see what they want to believe now and in the past.
