SDHF Newsletter No.120 The Greater East Asian War 10

The Greater East Asian War: How Japan Changed The World
By Kase Hideaki
(Published by KK Bestseller in Japanese, 2015)
Chapter 10 – What the Japanese People Accomplished

April 23, 2016

This link is to Chapter 10 and the Conclusion.
Mr. Kase’s father, Toshikazu, participated in the surrender proceedings, accompanying plenipotentiary Shigemitsu Mamoru, held in Tokyo Bay aboard the American battleship USS Missouri. When Mr. Kase was in middle school, he asked his father what was going through his mind while he was on board the USS Missouri. His reply was:

“Although Japan had been defeated in battle, we had liberated the people of Asia from hundreds of years of oppression and enslavement. As I stood on the deck of the USS Missouri, I knew in my heart with pride that Japan had actually won the war, insofar as we had led Asia into a great new era of history. Shigemitsu felt the same way.”

From the Conclusion: “For humankind, the greatest event of the twentieth century was the disappearance of the “color line,” which measured the worth of humans and divided them based on the color of their skin.”
It is unbelievable that there are many in the world today who deny this historical fact. Americans claim that the US-Japan war was a battle of “democracy vs totalitarianism.” It is beyond belief that a racist country such as the US can claim to be a democratic country and, furthermore, condemns egalitarian countries to be “non-democratic”. It is also silly that Europe and America, which colonized Asia, calls the Japanese “invasion” of their colonies as “imperialistic aggression”. Japan actually made the Philippines and Burma independent in 1943 and promised Indonesia its independence. Moreover, Japan fostered the volunteer army “Defenders of the Homeland” (Indonesian acronym PETA), which became the core force for independence in the struggle against British and Dutch armies.
I hope many, including Japanese, come to realize how Japan changed the world through the Greater East Asian War by reading Mr. Kase’s book.

URL: https://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/675/
PDF: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater10.pdf
Author profile: https://www.sdh-fact.com/auther/kase-hideaki/

*For your reference; Chapter 1. Up to the Day Japan Surrendered
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/The-Greater1.pdf
　　　　　　　　　　Chapter 2. The Trap Laid by the United States
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater2.pdf
Chapter 3. The Greater East Asia Conference and the Dream of Racial Equality
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater3.pdf
Chapter 4. The Noble Spirit Which Inspired the People of Asia
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater4.pdf
Chapter 5. Freedom From Racial Discrimination
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater5.pdf
　　　　　　　　　　 Chapter 6. Japanese Army’s “Spirit-First Policy”
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater6.pdf
Chapter 7. Why Do We Praise The Kamikaze?
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater7.pdf
Chapter 8. The United States and the Atomic Bombings of Japan
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater8.pdf
　　　　　　 Chapter 9. A Nation with a Fabricated History
https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater9.pdf　

Questions are welcome.

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