“The End of Japanese
Women”
Original article written
and published in1993
by Ohta Ryu
Translator: Grace-Eki
Published 1961 January
edition of the Macrobiotic Society’s monthly
magazine「新しい
世界」 “New World”
Many of the quotes of Sakurazawa, i.e. the phrase “The end of
the Japanese
women “can be found on page 19 of this magazine.
Otherwise it may be offensive or hard to comprehend the historical
panoramic sweep of this particular article.
Article number
38, pg. 44-45
“The End of
the Japanese Women (from circa 1960’s)?
“Japanese women have perished... The type of
women that Lafcadia Hearn took as his
consort, no longer exists.”
(The type of
women who has these following qualities within their femininity, such as;
ヤサシサ
Yasashisa
tenderness, compassion, consideration of other beings
シトヤカサ Shitoyakasa-
a mode of behaviour that which is not rude, noisy, tactless, vulgar ,
inconsiderate,
imposing---all expressed with beauty and naturalness.
スナオサ
Sunaosa -pliability, flexibility, an
open-mindedness of the heart, receptiveness The woman who
at
the cost of her life, would resist violence and
imposition in order to protect and adhere to her
sense of justice.)
Departs for abroad in order to
say “Adieux- to his homeland forever”.
He probably pledged to never
return, however the presence of his homeland
With his each
return he is consistently shocked and appalled at the speed
in which
He had to be
the witness in the “decline and fall of the Japanese civilization”.
He noticed this especially
in the rapid
process for the extermination of the Japanese women.
It occurred
subtly as a process of “change”, or “progress” i.e. Westernization.
“The U.S Allied Forces over two
hundred thousand Japanese women by force
in the form of rape (discarded), as
mistresses (so
called
“Only”s i.e. temporary
), or by marriage ( a la Madame “Butterfly”
or some were taken back to the States but from the data available most
of the
marriages did not have a happy ending.)
and their
lives terminated like flowering branches cut-off before their prime.”
Post WWII,
Hence the rape of Japanese women
by the Allies was completely unknown
except to the perpetuators themselves. With the passage of time, it has
almost
completely been erased out people’s memories and never even made it to
much
“documentation” (The
rape of the Japanese women by the
invading Soviet Army, yes that documentation can be found but even that
is not
in the history text books, and we never hear them being rattled for
“compensation”.)
But these Acts have produced an
indelible and unbearable schism between
the hearts of Japanese men and women. These wounds have never been
medicated or
healed and still fester in their sub-conscious.
Japanese men, in front of the
Americans (or the
Soviets) behaved
like and hence became castrated
sheep, and The Japanese women would forever develop an inferiority
complex
towards Western women (and for some reason towards the French women).
This sub-conscious conditioning
has created a vision of the West as an
ideal to be imicked and incorporated and has made this direction of the
flow as
irresistible, unilateral and not to be resisted.
A process so
ingrained and assumed to be absolute and beyond doubt or
debate.
Sakurazawa has
spent parts of Taisho, and the beginning part of
Showa residing in
“The
skin of the Western women seems to be rough and tough like a grater.
Their skin texture is very much
like that of a shark, and their legs are
hairy. Some even have hair growing from their fingers.”
A rather unflattering
and biting comment, needless to say.
He then goes
on to eulogize the beauty of the Japanese women’s skin texture.
He applauds the porelessness, the softness, the
moistness and so forth, a perfect specimen for the tactile sensation.
Western women appears to have a
hormonal defect and in reality is a masculinized version of womanhood and
has psychological defects as females. They are no longer women
and must
be expressed and understood as females in process of becoming masculine.
This was his concluding observation.
“I was deeply surprised and bothered that if five men got
together
in
Japanese women are taking such American
womanhood (or
European) as their
ideal to be
reached.
This is called the
“Progress of (Western) civilization”.
My personal comment
regarding disaster is the
fact that Sakurazawa’s students and followers, refuse
to give up this
yard-stick of Democracy as the absolute good and just and only system
for a
society.
Having grown up in a post
WWII society where
“democracy” is an absolute, has done everything to hide and censure Sakurazawa’s negative critique
regarding Democracy.
By doing so has enabled the
loss and
inexistence of this aspect to Sakurazawa’s thinking.
“The greatest problem with democracy is that it has turned the human
females
into, both physically as biological creatures and psychologically as
women,
into a masculinized –or “femanized” creatures.
and an
“Adamized “ Eves.”
つまり民主主義の国には、アダム化したイブと奴隷しかいないのだ」
By extension the same could
be applied to
emasculated females.
Sakurazawa foresaw that the
adoration for the democratic
“The greatest mistake of democracy is this
concept of gender-equality or so called equal rights in all areas, all
concepts.”
If women disappear, then
there would no longer
exist, the social entity known as –family/
And if there is no family, there would be no
home. So by extension family, home life, home cooking, home-made
products,
home-schooling, the existence and importance of hearth, women as
guardians of
the hearth and home and so forth will lose its roots and perish.
The word “democracy” has such a sweet
resonance.
It literally resounds with
all the positive
imagery of justice, fairness and peace.
How could such a positive
word, such a noble
concept could literally destroy a family ?
It defies logic.
But it is a concept as dark
and dangerous as
blackest magic and as diabolical and
destructive.
And when “enchanted” (or brainwashed or enchained) with this formula that;
“Democracy is good. Dictatorship is bad”
One ends reacting, as if we
are dogs
conditioned by Pavlov’s bell.
There is a famous book called 「菊と刀」
“The Sword and the Chrysanthemum” by Dame Ruth.
(This is one of the books
prepared for the psychological domination and destruction of the
Japanese mind by
In this book the creation of an all female
schools and institutions like 「女大学」-University
for Women 「女小学」-Elementary
School for Girls by 貝原 益軒 by Kaibara Ekiken
is denounced by Ruth as “an institution for the enslavement of Japanese
females”.
Whereas Sakurazawa applauds Kaibara as a creator of a system
wherein Japanese women would flourish to their maximum potential.
Here is system wherein the tradition derived from the universe for over
several
thousand years would be taught in such a way that; it could be and was
applied
and utilized to their everyday existence.
These insane women - (Hillary Clinton being one of the
foremost
example and there being many of this type of women in the States.
That has been the role of the Western
females for the Orient., as
according to Sakurazawa.
So the statement that the”
Japanese women are
dead”, was made over thirty years ago (it would be forty now) But we must examine this statement with
care
and see whether perhaps in some obscure area within the Japanese
society there
may still be in existence, surviving somewhere somehow-a genuine
Japanese
woman…?
In Sakurazawa’s conclusion there is one
fundamental flaw.
Although absolutely accurate and correct, he
delves still on the surface
of this process.
The devaluation and
destruction of family and family life for the Japanese
(not just here but
all
over the world the same method is being meticulously applied) and this is not some
natural phenomena but created and applied by the people with an Agenda.
Sakurazawa’s research is still in the
level of the outside appearance and he does not seem to see through
that there
is a man-made cause and effect here at work.
He does not go down to the
bottom factor for
the cause of this decline and by not doing so actually helps aid the
intended
obscuration of the “origin”(of the evil) for this
social phenomena.
That is why that his students and followers (and anybody else impressed with
his words and
thoughts) are not
able
to find an appropriate action but ends up wandering in a labyrinthian mentality.
Without the aid and command
from a much higher
panorama, without a much vaster vision regarding the historical flow, by
being caught up in the fragmented aspect of the world and everyday
existence;
they are unable to remedy the current
situation or even be able to devise a concrete draft against it.
One needs to understand the
total mechanism and “who, which, what, where
and how” - that is enabling the civilization/society to function
and
proceed in this direction.
That is the part absent from his otherwise
solid observation and theory.