Saturday, August 9, 2014

PCG's Demonization of Japan

PCG has a long history of demonizing Japan. PCG's hack writers in Edmond find some news articles and then present those events as evidence that Japan is one heartbeat away from turning against the United States and allying with other powers to destroy America and Britain in nuclear warfare.

Any tension or source of disagreement between Japan and the United States is fearfully presented as evidence that Japan is about to disregard US interests and assert themselves as a major power in order to turn against the United States and Britain.

PCG also fearfully announces that Japan is about to remove any restraints on the use of their Self-Defense Forces and that Japan is plotting to make nuclear weapons. (In fact many Japanese people utterly hate that idea and make their feelings heard to any Japanese politician who dares to utter such a thing.)

PCG's demonization of Japan is particularly cynical in that Japan is generally not treated as being particularly important in COG prophetic speculations (which very often have been proven wrong). Considering what HWA taught there is no need for PCG to demonize Japan in this way, but they choose to do so over and over again.

It is disgusting to see PCG's writers exploiting the injustices and tragedies caused by successive Japanese governments' militarism up to 1945 simply to keep their readers fearful and frightened of fanciful enemies. The readers do not see that PCG's leaders do not have the readers' interest at heart.

If I thought the writers of PCG were being sincere and simply trying to inform their readers I would have no problem with that. It is good to discuss and expose the many crimes and atrocities that were caused by the militarism of successive Japanese governments that occurred until 1945.

But to exploit this sorrowful history just to get people to pay three tithes and extra offerings is just disgusting, and a terrible exploitation of the mass suffering that occurred and which we still grapple with. This demonization of Japan is just a relatively small part of PCG's demonization of the entire world carefully designed to make people isolate themselves from the surrounding society and join PCG and devote all their energies to building it up for the benefit of a few privileged leaders within PCG.

What xenophobic bile these writers make!

But what can one expect from a group that dares to belittle the Srebrenica Massacre as just "a crime of passion" and falsely accuses Germany of starting the Yugoslav Wars in December 1991 when the armed conflict actually started in June?

I take great delight in exposing the writers who chose to demonize Japan simply to get people fearful for no good reason and frighten them into giving PCG their money.

Whenever possible the authors are named but many of these articles are written anonymously.

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1998

March-April

In Japan We Trust by J. Tim Thompson

Japan—What Does the Future Hold? by J. Tim Thompson

May 

Sony Chairman Predicts Financial Collapse

December

Pearl Harbor: A Warning Unheeded by Gary Rethford

1999

2000

2001

May

Is the World Unraveling Financially by J. Tim Thompson

August

Rewriting History by Ryan Malone

December

Japan’s Long History of Militarism by Ryan Malone

2002

January

March Toward Armageddon by Ryan Malone

2003

February

Japan's Place in the Future by Gareth Fraser and Ron Fraser

(This article was later used as Chapter 4 of PCG's booklet, Russia and China in Prophecy, in its 2009 revision, and in subsequent printings. However this article appears anonymously.)

May

A Nuclear Japan?

July

Viewpoint: A Tale of Two Perspectives by Ryan Malone

2004

March-April

Japan, Iran Oil Deal Irks U.S.

August

Japan, North Korea Closer

September-October

Japan Told to Put Article 9 in File 13

2005

August

Japan Stirs by Ron Fraser

September-October

The Contest for World Domination by Ryan Malone

September

Koizumi’s Huge Election Win to Reform Japan
 
November

Japan's Makeover

2006

January

Japan’s Constitution Makeover

June

The Looming Dangers of American Debt by Robert Morley

July

The Key to Japan's Revival by Ron Fraser

August

Ford’s Market Share Slips Behind Japan

September

A New Era for Japan by Ron Fraser

Pressure Mounts on Japan to Go Nuclear

Hawkish Prime Minister to Create New Japan

November-December

A Leaner, Meaner Japan by Brad MacDonald

December

Japan--On the Rise Again by Ron Fraser

2007

January

Right-Wing Extremism Grows in Japan

Russia and Japan Move to Strengthen Energy Ties

March

The Great Global Power Transfer by Ron Fraser

Right-Wing Extremism Rising

July

Japan Drops Dollar to Buy Iran's Oil by Robert Morley

Japan Continues to Break Military Taboos by Brad MacDonald

Double Quakes Rock Japan by Robert Morley

August

Japan and China to Launch Massive Lunar Projects

November

Japan Ends Support for Afghan War

December

America Exhorts Japan to Increase Military Spending

2008

February

Japan Furious at U.S. Military Misconduct

March

A Military Love Triangle: America, China and Japan

May 

America Exhorts Japan to Increase Military Spending

August

China Becomes Japan’s Largest Trade Partner

2009

January

America Calls on Japan to Reinterpret Its Pacifist Constitution

February

Japan to Make “Clear Shift” Away From U.S.

Is Japan Turning Its Back on Its Pacifist Constitution? by Andrew Miller

Japanese Opposition Wants American Troops Out of Japan

April

Japan Warming to the Idea of Nukes

July

Japan’s Military Looks to the Final Frontier

August

Japan Abandons America by Robert Morley

Political Upheaval in Japan by Robert Morley

Japan's Next Government by Jeremiah Jacques

Japan's Next Government -- Part 2 by Richard Palmer

Japan Eager to Boost Ties With China

September

Japan Wants East Asian Community

October

Nations of the East Agree to Unite by David Vejil

December

Is the U.S.-Japan Relationship Unraveling?

China and Japan Plan First Joint Military Exercises

2010

March

Japan Scoots Towards China by Jeremiah Jacques

July

U.S.-Japan Security Partnership Continues to Weaken

November

Japan: Nationalism on the Rise by Jeremiah Jacques

December

Japan Deserting Its Postwar Pacifism?

2011

February

Japan--Turning It Around? by Ron Fraser

March

An Earthquake of a Different Kind Rocks Japan by Robert Morley

(My word! How "compassionate" this is. Just after Japan goes through one of the most severe catastrophes they have experienced since 1945 Morley decides to allude to that catastrophe just to make a "catchy" title. Well, I am not impressed one little bit.)

The Coming Nuclear Meltdown by Ron Fraser

(And of course Ron Fraser uses the horrifying disaster at Fukushima to fear monger that nuclear war is just about to strike the United States.)

Japan's Quake Repercussions Hit America

Russia Steps in to Supply Japan’s Energy Needs

May-June

Will Japan Ever Be the Same? by Robert Morley

June

Japan: Do You Remember Herbert W. Armstrong? by Gareth Fraser

August

Japan Appoints Sixth Leader in Five Years

December

China and Japan Agree to Far-Reaching Currency Pact by Andrew Miller

2012

May

China and Japan to Start Direct Currency Trading

August

The Day Japan’s Emperor Hirohito Greeted Herbert W. Armstrong by Gareth Fraser

Dispute With Japan Brings China and Taiwan Closer

September

China Threatens to Pull Pin on Global Economic Hand Grenade by Robert Morley

December

Germany and Japan: Biopharmaceutical Axis Powers by Andrew Miller

Herbert W. Armstrong's Speech to Japanese Officials and International Ambassadors

Hawks Ascend to Power in Asia by Jeremiah Jacques

2013

January

Will China Call America’s Military Bluff? by Jeremiah Jacques

February

Russia Joins China in Provoking U.S. Ally [Japan] by Jeremiah Jacques

China Refutes Japan’s Claim of Weapons Radar Use

May-June

The Day the Dollar Dies by Robert Morley

May

Emperor Hirohito Awarded Herbert W. Armstrong Order of the Sacred Treasure by Gareth Fraser

Beijing Says Okinawa May Belong to China by Jeremiah Jacques

July

Shinzo Abe’s Japanese Economic Renaissance by Ron Fraser

August

The Fiction of Japan's Self Defense Force by Ron Fraser

Japan’s Deputy Leader: ‘Tokyo Could Learn From Nazis’ by Jeremiah Jacques

Japan Unveil Biggest Warship Since WWII

December

Is Japan's Military Secret About to Come Out? by Jeremiah Jacques

A Savage History by Jeremiah Jacques

Imperial Japan Rising?

2014

March

Don’t Worry, Putin, Asia Has Your Back by Jeremiah Jacques

May

Russia, China, and Japan —Not U.S.— Are Priorities for New Indian Leader by Jeremiah Jacques

July

Does Japan’s Historic Constitutional Change Mean Its Military Secret Will Soon Come Out? by Jeremiah Jacques

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