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is a Japanese journalist, TV presenter, and writer. She is also president of the

Japan Institute for National Fundamentals The or Kokkiken (国基研) is a public policy, public and foreign policy think tank in Tokyo, Japan, privately funded and founded in December 2007 by Yoshiko Sakurai. Overview On its English website about JINF: "We take great pride in our ti ...

, established in 2007.

Life

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 higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

, majoring in history. Sakurai started her career as a journalist for the ''

Christian Science Monitor Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι� ...

'' in Tokyo. She served as a news presenter on

Nippon Television JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded as , is the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned-and-operated by the which is a subsidiary of the certified broadcasting holding company , itself a listed su ...

's late night news programme ''Kyo-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 The Right side up ...

, Sakurai denies sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military during World War II (i.e. "

comfort women Comfort women or comfort girls were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese '' ia ...

"). She promoted Taniyama Yūjirō's 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 (, ja, 南京大虐殺, Nankin Daigyakusatsu) or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as ''Nanking'') was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Ba ...

, ''

The Truth about Nanjing is a 2007 film by Japanese nationalist filmmaker Satoru Mizushima about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre (Nanking Massacre). Background and funding Mizushima said he received more than 200 million yen (US$1.8 million) in donations from 5,000 of his ...

''.

Satoru Mizushima is a Japanese filmmaker and nationalist. He graduated from Waseda University majoring in German literature. He can often be seen and heard during nationalist rallies in Tokyo, especially during anti-Chinese protests. He denies Japan's destructive ...

, 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 television personalities Keio University alumni Living people Battle of Okinawa University of Hawaiʻi alumni Members of Nippon Kaigi Japanese broadcast news analysts Japanese expatriates in Vietnam Women television journalists