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is a Japanese journalist, TV presenter, writer, and political activist. She is also president of the
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, 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 ''
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'' 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".


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On a radio talk show with Shinzō Abe, April 2004
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sakurai, Yoshiko 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