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4.Specific issues related to historical awareness
4-1.The problem of the fraudulent name of Koichi Kido, Inner Minister (Naidaijin) of Japan until the end of the war.
(The position of Inner Minister (Naidaijin) in Japan at that time was separate from the Minister of the Interior (Naimudaijin), who was in charge of police and other matters, and was a close confidant of the Emperor and in charge of the court.)
Koichi Kido, who was Inner Minister of Japan until the end of the war, called himself "Kido Takayoshi's grandson," and in the annotation of "Koichi Kido's Diary" written that he is "the grandson of Kido Takayoshi". And in many books after the war, Koichi Kido was written as a matter of course as "the grandson of Kido Takayoshi, who was considered one of the three outstanding men of the revolution," which was generally accepted, but it was not true. When I found out it, I was really surprised.
Kido Takayoshi, who is said to have been blessed with no biological children, had three adopted sons. The first adopted son, Takamasa, was adopted before the Meiji Restoration when Kido Takayoshi was formerly known as Katsura Kogoro, but Katsura Takamasa was killed in action during the Forbidden Rebellion before the Meiji Restoration. The second adopted son was Shojiro, the second son of Kido Takayoshi's sister Haruko and Ryozo Kuruhara after the Restoration. The third adopted child was Chutaro, the son of Kido Takayoshi's wife Matsuko's sister. Chutaro was not directly related to Kido Takayoshi and was 10 years younger than Shojiro.
When Kido Takayoshi died, Shojiro succeeded him as governor, and Chutaro became a branch of the family and inherited the Kyoto villa and other assets. Kido Takayoshi's wife Matsuko later lived in Kyoto with the young Chutaro.
After Kido Takayoshi's death, the nobility system was established in Japan, and Shojiro was given the title of marquis for his services, but he died suddenly on board a ship near Sri Lanka on his way back from Germany where he had studied. Only Shojiro's body returned to Japan, but instead of Chutaro, another adopted son after Shojiro's death, it was Shojiro's own brother, Hikotaro Kuruhara, who was adopted by his younger brother Shojiro and also married 16-year-old Yoshiko, who claimed to be Kido Takayoshi's illegitimate daughter, and took over the reins of the Kido family and changed his name to Kido Takamasa. This name "Kido Takamasa" had the same reading as Takamasa, who was the first adopted son of Kido Takayoshi (Katsura Kogoro).
Under today's Japanese civil law, elders are not allowed to be adopt children. An younger brother is not permitted to adopt a older brother, nor is a child permitted to adopt a parents. However, it is permissible for a younger brother to be adopted by his older brother. It is believed that the adoption of a child is not allowed because it would cause many inconsistencies and strange situations if the older or parent-child relationship were allowed to be reversed. However, since there were no such civil law regulations at that time in the early Meiji period, it is not illegal per se at that time. But it is unnatural for an elder brother to be adopted by his younger brother, which is disconcerting. It is also highly doubtful that Shojiro recognized his own older brother Hikotaro as his adopted son before his death.
Also, Yoshiko, who claimed to be Kido Takayoshi's illegitimate child and married Kuruhara Hikotaro, is also of dubious authenticity. Yoshiko is said to have an unknown mother, but on what basis was she self-proclaimed as Kido Takayoshi's illegitimate child when her mother is unknown? It's a strange story.
Two years after her marriage to Hikotaro (Takamasa), Yoshiko also died of illness at the age of 18. Then Takamasa Kido remarried to Sueko, the eldest daughter of Yozo Yamao, and their first son was Koichi Kido. Therefore, Koichi Kido cannot be "Kido Takayoshi's grandson." He is the grandson of Kido Takayoshi's sister Haruko, and by blood he is Kido Takayoshi's grandnephew, and by family register he is Kido Takayoshi's great-grandson. In other words, since the inheritance of the Kido Takayoshi family by his father Takamasa (Hikotaro) was fraudulent, his eldest son Kido Koichi seems to have fraudulently claimed to be "Kido Takayoshi's grandson" by saying as if Shojiro did not exist, as if his father Takamasa had inherited the family from Kido Takayoshi. The "Koichi Kido is the grandson of Takayoshi Kido" and "Yoshiko is the illegitimate daughter of Takayoshi Kido" seem to be a kind of "Ole Ole Fraud." It is, so to speak, its historical expansion version.
In 2011, the National Museum of Japanese History (Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture) held a special exhibition entitled "Album of the Marquis Family," which displayed photographic documents and other materials on Kido Takayoshi's family lineage, and the catalog for the exhibition included only one photograph of Kido Yoshiko. However, in the documentary photograph, four women are shown, but only one's face has been scraped off and whitened, creating an eerie photo in which the face is completely unrecognizable. Perhaps it was Yoshiko Kido. If there had been another photo with a clearer picture of Yoshiko Kido's face, the museum would have included it in the catalogue, which is probably the only photo of Yoshiko Kido that was found. In other words, it is believed that Takamasa Kido (Hikotaro) tried to destroy evidence of Yoshiko's appearance, who had become his wife, by claiming to be an illegitimate son of Takayoshi Kido.
Chutaro Kido, another adopted son of Takayoshi Kido, later became a maniacal collector of daruma, and built a daruma hall next to his Kyoto villa to house tens of thousands of pieces of daruma that he had collected. Chutaro Kido had also published a book on Daruma, "Daruma and its various aspects" and other works. Chutaro Kido died in 1959, and in 1977, after his death, Koichi Kido's second son, Takahiko Kido (died in 2000), became the copyright holder and published a reprint of Chutaro Kido's "Daruma and Its Various Phases". This second son of Koichi Kido, Takahiko Kido, also served as his father Koichi's assistant defense counsel during the Far Eastern Military Trials.
However, to my surprise, in the "Re-publication Address" of the reprinted edition of "Daruma and Its Various Aspects," of which Takahiko Kido was the copyright holder, it is written "shopkeeper" and no personal name is given, but "Finally, in publishing this book, I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Takahiko Kido, grandson of Takayoshi Kido, for his kindness to our store, and to conclude this book with his re-publication address". Koichi Kido continued to falsely claim to be "Kido Takayoshi's grandson," even his second son, Takahiko Kido, was referred to there as "Kido Takayoshi's grandson. Then, he would have been known as "Kido Takayoshi's grandson" for two generations, father and son.
Chutaro Kido was also not blessed with a biological child and had no heir. Later, for some reason, Takahiko Kido may have been adopted by Chutaro in the family register. If so, then surely Takahiko Kido would have been "Kido Takayoshi's grandson-in-law" in the family register. Presumably, by becoming Chutaro's adopted son, Takahiko Kido became the copyright holder of Chutaro's books and also had access to Kido Takayoshi's materials that belonged to Chutaro after the war.
Takahiko Kido had donated the "Materials on Three Generations of the Kido Family" (Kido Takayoshi - Kido Takamasa - Kido Koichi) to the National Museum of Japanese History in three separate donations in 1984, 1987, and 1998. The Kido Takayoshi materials were probably obtained by Takahiko Kido after Chutaro's death. It goes without saying that this was a false document that ignored the existence of Kido Shojiro, who was the legitimate heir to Kido Takayoshi. At first, the curators of the museum also seemed to have taken the "data on the three generations of the Kido family" to heart, writing in the museum's bulletin that "Kido Takamasa is the son of Kido Takayoshi" and "Kido Koichi is the grandson of Kido Takayoshi," which were not true.
However, when the National Museum of Japanese History held a special exhibition of "Album of the Marquis Family" in 2011, it seemed that the materials had been scrutinized and organized with the participation of intellectuals, and were displayed with the "materials of the four generations of the Kido family" (Takayoshi Kido - Shojiro Kido - Takamasa Kido - Koichi Kido) revised to normal historical facts. However, the museum's exhibit was solely devoted to the purpose of glorifying the Marquis Kido's family, and did not point out the criminality of the "Koichi Kido fraud issue" and the "perjury operation by Takahiko Kido. Koichi Kido's second son, Takahiko Kido, was probably trying to cheat the National Museum of Japanese History in order to continue to convince future generations of the falsehood of "three generations of the Kido family.
Koichi Kido's eldest son,Takasumi Kido, does not seem to have been involved in these matters, but his second son, Takahiko Kido, who also served as his father Koichi's assistant defense counsel during the Far Eastern Military Tribunal, seems to have continued to be complicit with Koichi Kido after the war. And Koichi Kido was given a life sentence at the Far Eastern Military Tribunal, avoiding the death penalty by a single vote, and was released on parole for health reasons in 1955.
Koichi Kido, who falsely claimed to be the "grandson of Takayoshi Kido" and was Japan's Inner Minister until the end of the war, had the same "small mustache" as Hitler. Koichi Kido, along with Fumimaro Konoe, who also had a " small mustache" is believed to have been the mastermind of the "Japanese Nazis" who tried to make Japan pander to the Nazis.
In the "Album of the Marquis Family" exhibit at the National Museum of Japanese History in 2011, Kido Koichi was displayed as the great-grandson-in-law of Kido Takayoshi, but many books, including "Kido Koichi Diary," still incorrectly state that Kido Koichi was the grandson of Kido Takayoshi. The fact that "Koichi Kido was the grandson of Kido Takayoshi" became a common belief after the war until the beginning of the 21st century is a surprise to us.
Marcel Duchamp (An-Artist) wrote this letter to Pierre de Massot, a Dadaist.
"We are all playing a miserable game. Every generality, every universalization, is a hoax made up by the cheaters in their own homes."
(From "The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp" edited by Michel Saneuil, translated by Kenji Kitayama, published by Michitani, p18)
Even a fabricated falsehood can be made into a fact if the world is made to believe it.
That was probably Satan's argument. It was Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, who tried to create a false world by thoroughly implementing this very practice. The New York Times described Fumimaro Konoe as the "Goering of Japan," and Koichi Kido, who was Inner Minister until the end of the war, was the "Goebbels of Japan," so to speak. They also shared the same diary mania. And in wartime Japan, the equivalent of the "Fuehrer (Führer)" would have been not the Showa Emperor, nor was it Hideki Tojo, the Prime Minister and Minister of War who was to declare the outbreak of war,but "Daihonei (Imperial Headquarters) without supreme commander," which had wrested the right to command the Japanese armed forces from the Emperor. That is the secret of the Pacific War. The Japanese system had been hijacked by "the authority and influence," and Japan had pandered to the Nazis and opened war against Britain and the United States.
However, heaven may know all about the deception.
4-2.Allegations of falsification of the "Showa Emperor's Monologu (to next page)
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(c) Satoshi Furui 2024
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