Our work at this stage in the movement consists almost exclusively of information outreach, which is a monumental task all by itself but making giant strides. But it is heartening to see the outline of the future, and one way to surmise what is to come can be glimpsed easily from thoughtful letters from many other cultures.
It's fascinating stuff!
The letter below was written by a young Japanese student who has been in America for only a few years. I have done a little paragraph editing and very slight syntax corrections to make for readability, but the text is his own, and the thoughts are his own:
". . . I honestly have to admit I have to take more time to develop my opinions. I am only 16 years old. I must mature and I must listen more to other people's ideas. I must take more time to study German and Japanese history and society. I need more experience and more suffering, and more anger.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky had to suffer for many decades under the communists to be this determined to introduce National Socialism into Russia. Adolf Hitler had to be very patient and long-suffering, waiting years and organizing slowly to get his movement going.
My moment is not now. Maybe when I am thirty and very angry, I'd judge myself capable to speak. For now, I am content just writing. After all, Jesus Christ had to wait to be thirty to officially be baptized by the Holy Spirit. Only then did he object to the corrupt Pharisees.
In Germany, Holocaust deniers are considered unconventional and unorthodox. In Japan, on the other hand, people who deny Japanese "war crimes" like the Nanjing massacre, the forced enslavement of sex slaves (comfort women) abound.
In fact, many Japanese friends I know hate the Americans for atom-bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki for no apparent reason (not because Japan was doing anything bad!) and later occupying it in the name of "world security."
It can be considered that stuff like Holocaust-revisionism is common and quite normal in Japan. Anything that strengthens the Japanese people's position is considered orthodox; even if it means very warped revisionism by American standards.
Reminder: My views are not unique in Japan. The Japanese youth are developing the same ideas as I am. It's just that I can publish them in English and disseminate them that makes me very unique.
We Japanese are used to ignoring everybody's complaints. We still print books praising Adolf Hitler's election techniques. Unfortunately, the publication had to be temporarily halted after outrage from Jewish groups in Japan. (Note that there are only 500 Jews in Tokyo alone. They sure scream.)
In the magazine Marco Polo, Masanori Nishioka wrote the article "There were no Nazi Gas Chambers." He wrote, "The Holocaust is nothing but a story which has become 'history' after the war without being given investigation." This prompted the SimonWiesenthal Center to protest to Japan's AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON! The Israeli Embassy in Tokyo made protests also. Hanada, the editor, defended the printing, saying Nishioka found evidence that standard theories about the gassing of Jews were wrong. The Japanese public and media ignore the Jews and the whole controversy, simply disgusted with such a trivial matter. In fact, the JEWS were the ones who were lightly reprimanded.
This sure shows how different the Japanese are from the "American" Germans. We Japanese are not swayed by an ethnic group called the Jewry. They do not have power in Asia. They also do not control their interests in Japan. The Jews had assumed that they would reap the same results in Japan as they did in Germany. THEY ARE MISTAKEN!
Occasionally, when there is economic decline, Hakenkreuz flags are flown across the Ginza district to make an intellectual protest against the Jews. I am proud of how the Japanese are resisting the taboo.
We are still nostalgic about that fargone period in history when elegant Europe was still a virgin, when nothing intervened against her interests. We romanticize that optimistic time! Boy, the Germans are still moving at a snailllllll pace. We sure hope for a revival in Europe. We feel alone in our achievements.
I guess Japan has its own revisionist movement. People are starting to realize that Japan was forced into the war. Fellow Asian neighbors were suffering under European colonizers and she could not have possibly ignored that. Japan meant to keep Asia to Asians and keep the Europeans to Europe. Thus, Japan sought to liberate her suffering friends from further degredation. It was all sensible. I have to give the Nazis credit for understanding our struggle. Very few of this period did.
When the Americans stopped trading with Japan, this crippled her, so much that she could not liberate her neighbors anymore. There was no choice but to attack the US because her allies Germany and Italy were busy with their wars and other countries were ignoring Japan's holy mission.
Then America became very brutal, eventually bringing Japan to its knees as it did to Germany. I swear, the cause was nothing demonic. IT WAS NOBLE . . ."
How different a world view this is from what our American schools grind out! When I read letters like that, I often think that other races will do a great deal more for our cause than we will do ourselves - their instincts are less murky than ours, at this point. There's much to learn from them.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"And in today already walks tomorrow."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge