{"id":13141,"date":"2015-03-10T13:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T23:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2015-03-10T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T23:33:50","slug":"asia-pacific-journal-japan-focus-carries-full-text-of-my-interview-with-dr-ziegler-on-goj-pressure-to-censor-his-history-book-of-comfort-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13141","title":{"rendered":"Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus carries full text of my interview with Dr. Ziegler on GOJ pressure to censor his history book of “Comfort Women”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Last week I offered Japan Times readers an abridged version of an interview with Dr. Herbert Ziegler<\/a>, historian at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, on Japanese Government pressure to censor all mention of Japan’s official sexual slavery during WWII (the “Comfort Women” issue). \u00a0The full text of the interview is now available at The Asia-Pacific Journal: \u00a0Japan Focus<\/a>‘s\u00a0website (a very valuable resource, in case you haven’t heard of it before). \u00a0An excerpt that did not make the cut in The Japan Times due to space limitations:<\/p>\n

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Dr. Ziegler: \u00a0I mentioned earlier about the woman who came as the Consul\u2019s interpreter and I looked into this a little bit.\u00a0 I remember some time ago that she came to my office, I didn\u2019t know her well but she was a student at this university, and she asked if I had a collection of World History books.\u00a0 And I do, sort of, just to see what the competition is like.\u00a0 So my whole shelf over there is full of World History textbooks.\u00a0 So she asked if she could go through them and look at them.\u00a0 And now, with hindsight, I\u2019m thinking, \u201cShe was on a spying mission.\u201d\u00a0 Not that I cared then, but this is my thinking now:\u00a0 This was started some time ago, perhaps.\u00a0 I mean, how does the Consul, who barely reads English I assure you, read my textbook?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Go to\u00a0http:\/\/www.japanfocus.org\/events\/view\/246<\/a> for the rest. \u00a0Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n

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Last week I offered Japan Times readers an abridged version of an interview with Dr. Herbert Ziegler, historian at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, on Japanese Government pressure to censor all mention of Japan’s official sexual slavery during WWII (the “Comfort Women” issue). The full text of the interview is now available at The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus’s website (a very valuable resource, in case you haven’t heard of it before). An excerpt that did not make the cut in The Japan Times due to space limitations:<\/p>\n

Dr. Ziegler: I mentioned earlier about the woman who came as the Consul\u2019s interpreter and I looked into this a little bit. I remember some time ago that she came to my office, I didn\u2019t know her well but she was a student at this university, and she asked if I had a collection of World History books. And I do, sort of, just to see what the competition is like. So my whole shelf over there is full of World History textbooks. So she asked if she could go through them and look at them. And now, with hindsight, I\u2019m thinking, \u201cShe was on a spying mission.\u201d Not that I cared then, but this is my thinking now: This was started some time ago, perhaps. I mean, how does the Consul, who barely reads English I assure you, read my textbook?<\/p>\n

Go to http:\/\/www.japanfocus.org\/events\/view\/246 for the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,18,36,19,50,20,4,13,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinprick-protests","category-academia","category-bad-social-science","category-education","category-gaiatsu","category-history","category-japanese-government","category-media","category-nj-voices-ignored"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}