Yoshiko Sakurai

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Yoshiko Sakurai ((櫻井良子, Sakurai Yoshiko^?) is a Japanese female journalist and TV presenter.

1 History
2 Criticism
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History

Sakurai was born on October 10, 1945 in Nagaoka, Niigata. After graduating from Nagaoka highschool, she entered Keio University. Later she graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, majoring history.

Sakurai started her job as a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor at Tokyo. She served as a news presenter on Nippon Television's late night reporting programme, "Kyo-no-dekigoto", from 1980 to 1996.

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 journalists in Japan.

She is an assenter of "The Truth about Nanjing(movie)."

[edit] 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. ^[1]