- Yoshiko Sakurai
nihongo|Yoshiko Sakurai|(櫻井 良子|Sakurai Yoshiko is a Japanese female
journalist and TV presenter.History
Sakurai was born on October 10, 1945 in
Vietnam . After graduating from Nagaoka highschool, she enteredKeio University . Later she graduated from theUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa , majoring history.Sakurai started her job as a journalist for the
Christian Science Monitor at Tokyo. She served as anews presenter onNippon Television 's late night reporting programme, "Kyo-no-dekigoto", from1980 to1996 .She is best known for her ardent study for the HIV-tainted blood scandal in Japan during the 1990s. Now she is regarded as one of the most famed
female journalist s in Japan.She is an assenter of "
The Truth about Nanjing (movie)."Criticism
When talking about the
comfort women issue being taught about in schools, Sakurai insists "all the textbooks...assume 'taken by force' as a major premise; however,...it is my conviction that (the women) were not 'taken by force.'" For Sakurai, Japan's (hi)story needs to be told from the Japanese perspective, that is, a perspective through which the younger generation come to love the nation. [ cite web
url = http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2063|title = The 'Comfort Women' Controversy: History and Testimony
accessdate = 2008-06-17
author = Yoshiko Nozaki
date = 2005-07-31
format = html
work = Japan Focus
publisher = www.japanfocus.org
language = English
quote = For Sakurai, Japan’s (hi)story needs to be told from the Japanese perspective, that is, a perspective through which the younger generation come to love the nation. ]External links
* [http://www.yoshiko-sakurai.jp/l Official website of Yoshiko Sakurai]
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