Blog #4 Tetsu Ozawa

They are not quite mentor because they motivate me to study my major by ignite my anger, hate, and any imaginable negative feelings. I am discussing how Japanese people use internet as a strong propaganda tools in Japanese society, and now, there is a “mentor” for Japanese young kids. There are two people and two homepages that influence Japanese student. One is the super-right wing politician Toru Hashitomo (http://www.hashimoto-toru.com/), one is also the super-right wing politician, and former air force officer Toshio Tamogami (http://www.toshio-tamogami.jp/), the other two homepages are called Hachima-Kikou (http://blog.esuteru.com/) and Kyoko-Shinbun (http://kyoko-np.net/). First of all, those two politicians are recognized as super-right-wing, that are keep justifying Japanese invasion of WWII, keep claiming that Nanjing massacre is a fake that is made up by Chinese government, and Japanese (as a race) is the most superior humankind that was chosen by the god. Then, why those two are important? Because those two politicians use Twitter in order to “teach” their followers that what is the “truth”. On the other hand, the two news sites often support those super right-wing politicians with spreading exaggerated or fake information that is insult Korea, China, the U.S. and even Taiwan (known as a Japan-friendly country). Especially, Kyokou-Shinbun means “Fake Newspaper” in Japanese, but still many of those Nationalist Japanese students believe in those “welcomed lie” rather than “inconvenient truth”. And more, I also consider that the Internet itself is also a Mentor for those Nationalistic movements, because all people more ore less may have nationalistic thoughts, but those ideas usually surprised by the people around them. However, internet let them connect with those Authorities and huge number of groups that are strong enough to justify their idea, and drive them into super-right-wing thought. This may be the process I must analyze and find some method to stop this cycle.

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this is totally off the topic, but Toru Hashimoto’s first name’s Chinese character is same as mine. I feel  ashamed a lot these days because of that fact 🙁