SDHF Newsletter No.81 Henry Stokes Chapter Nine

Falsehoods of the Allied Nations’ Victorious Views of History,
as Seen by a British Journalist
Chapter Nine: People I remember
By Henry S. Stokes, former Tokyo Bureau Chief of The New York Times

October 9, 2014

We now present Chapter Nine.
This Chapter is composed of the sections: 1) The Japanese and the Jews, 2) My friends who introduced Japanese literature to the world, 3) People I met in Japan.
Every person who appears and every story told here are very interesting. Here, I would like to touch on 1) Japanese and the Jews.
The New York Times is owned by the Sulzberger family, a Jewish family. When Henry Stokes first visited his work place in the NYT headquarters, he met 3 colleagues and they became friends immediately. They were all sharp and intelligent, had excellent senses of humor, and were interesting and attractive, compared with other staff members. They were Jews. Since then, he found that he himself got along well with Jewish people. His Jewish friend Gilbert de Botton united the Rothschild families of London and Paris as one. Mr. Stokes writes that if de Botton hadn’t persuaded him to write a Mishima book, he wouldn’t have written his book: The Life and Death of Mishima Yukio.
He then writes “The reason I feel empathetic towards Jews and Japanese is, perhaps, because I am a Quaker.” You will be interested in understanding why. Read:
Chapter 9: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/124_S4.pdf
Chapter 1: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/114_S4.pdf
Chapter 2: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/115_S4.pdf
Chapter 3: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/116_S4.pdf
Chapter 4: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/117_S4.pdf
Chapter 5: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/119_S4.pdf
Chapter 6: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/120_S4.pdf
Chapter 7: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/121_S4.pdf
Chapter 8: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/122_S4.pdf
Author profile:　 https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/114_S3.pdf
Questions are welcome.

Sincerely,

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Secretary General
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact