Yoshiko Sakurai
Encyclopedia
is a Japanese journalist
, TV presenter, and writer. She is also president of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals, established in 2007.
. Later she graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa
, majoring in history
.
Sakurai started her career as a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor in Tokyo. She served as a news presenter
on Nippon Television
's late night news programme, Kyo-no-dekigoto, from 1980 to 1996. She is best known for her work on the HIV-tainted blood scandal
in Japan during the 1990s.
She is critical of the traditional historical view of the Nanking Massacre
, along with Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara
and other Japanese conservative revisionist
s.
issue being taught about in schools, Sakurai insists "all the textbooks... assume 'taken by force' as a major premise; however,... it is my conviction that (the women) were not 'taken by force.'"
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, TV presenter, and writer. She is also president of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals, established in 2007.
History
After graduating from Nagaoka high school, she entered Keio UniversityKeio University
,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...
. Later she graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...
, majoring in history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
.
Sakurai started her career as a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor in Tokyo. She served as a news presenter
News presenter
A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...
on Nippon Television
Nippon Television
is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as , contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".-Offices:*The Headquarters : 6-1,...
's late night news programme, Kyo-no-dekigoto, from 1980 to 1996. She is best known for her work on the HIV-tainted blood scandal
HIV-tainted blood scandal (Japan)
, refers to an event in the 1980s when between one and two thousand haemophilia patients in Japan contracted HIV via tainted blood products. Controversy centers on the continued use of non-heat-treated blood products after the development of heat-treatments that prevent the spread of infection...
in Japan during the 1990s.
She is critical of the traditional historical view of the Nanking Massacre
Nanking Massacre
The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing , the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second...
, along with Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara
Shintaro Ishihara
is a Japanese author, actor, politician and the governor of Tokyo since 1999.- Early life and artistic career :Shintarō was born in Suma-ku, Kobe. His father Kiyoshi was an employee, later a general manager, of a shipping company. Shintarō grew up in Zushi...
and other Japanese conservative revisionist
Historical revisionism (negationism)
Historical revisionism is either the legitimate scholastic re-examination of existing knowledge about a historical event, or the illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light. For the former, i.e. the academic pursuit, see...
s.
Controversial views
When talking about the comfort womenComfort women
The term "comfort women" was a euphemism used to describe women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.Estimates vary as to how many women were involved, with numbers ranging from as low as 20,000 from some Japanese scholars to as high as 410,000 from some Chinese...
issue being taught about in schools, Sakurai insists "all the textbooks... assume 'taken by force' as a major premise; however,... it is my conviction that (the women) were not 'taken by force.'"