
is a Japanese journalist, TV presenter, writer, and political activist. She is also president of the
Japan Institute for National Fundamentals
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in th ...
, established in 2007.
Biography
Sakurai was born to Japanese parents in Vietnam. After returning with her family to Japan, she graduated from Nagaoka High School. Later, she graduated from the
University of Hawaii at Manoa
A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...
, majoring in history.
Sakurai started her career as a journalist for the ''
Christian Science Monitor
''The Christian Science Monitor'' (''CSM''), commonly known as ''The Monitor'', is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition. It was founded in 1908 as a daily newspaper b ...
'' in Tokyo. She served as a news presenter on
Nippon Television
JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded as (NTV) or Nippon TV, is a Japanese television station serving the Kantō region as the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned and operated by the , a sub ...
's late night news programme ''Kyō no Dekigoto'' from 1980 to 1996. She worked on the
HIV-tainted blood scandal in Japan during the 1990s.
Affiliated with the openly
revisionist lobby
Nippon Kaigi
is Japan's largest ultraconservative and ultranationalist far-right non-governmental organisation and lobbying group. It was established in 1997 and has approximately 38,000 to 40,000 members as of 2020.
The group has significant influence i ...
, Sakurai denies sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military during World War II (i.e. "
comfort women
Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term ''comfort women'' is a translation of the Japanese , a euphemism ...
"). She promoted 2015 Scottsboro Girls film in Japan and the United States, a revisionist film aimed at denying the sexual enslavement of comfort women.
In 2007, she supported a film about the
Nanjing Massacre
The Nanjing Massacre, or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly Chinese postal romanization, romanized as ''Nanking'') was the mass murder of Chinese civilians, noncombatants, and surrendered prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanji ...
, ''
The Truth About Nanjing''.
Satoru Mizushima
is a Japanese filmmaker.
Early life
Mizushima graduated from Waseda University majoring in German literature.
Career
Mizushima is the main host of the right-wing Japanese media organization, Channel Sakura, which maintains an active YouT ...
, the director and producer of the film, has said the massacre is nothing more than propaganda.
She is the originator of the term "
Tokutei Asia".
References
External links
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On a radio talk show with Shinzō Abe, April 2004
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1945 births
Conservatism in Japan
Japanese women journalists
Japanese nationalists
Japanese women television personalities
Keio University alumni
Living people
Battle of Okinawa
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
Members of Nippon Kaigi
Japanese broadcast news analysts
Mass media people from Hanoi
Japanese expatriates in Vietnam
Women television journalists
Nanjing Massacre deniers
Comfort women denial
Japanese historical negationists