Some suggest that defacement of about 300 books (The Diary of a Young Girl and other related books) seem almost impossible at libraries across Tokyo where quietness is required unless someone inside is involved. Defacing of the particular books seems to be very systematic, possibly indicating involvement of a well-organized group and/or some international plot to impair the image of Japan by intentionally relating Japan to the Nazism although Japan has consistently denied the Nazi’s racial discrimination practiced against Jewish people before, during and after WWII.
In the recent years, South Korea has employed every possible means to fabricate a story that Japan was as brutal as Nazi Germany during Japan-Korea annexation despite every historical evidence denying such a Korean claim as being non-sense. Therefore, many regard it as “grave distortion” of historical facts and dismiss it just as a huge political manipulation.
Related Story: Destruction of books at Nishi-Funabashi Public Library, Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
107 books (written by members of Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform) were destroyed by librarians not in accordance with discarding criteria set for the public library by the city of Funabashi but based on their own political thinking during the period of August 10, 2001 to August 26, 2001.
On July 14, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that destruction of 107 books infringed the authors’ moral rights, thereby ordering five female librarians to compensate for the damage caused by their illegal act. This particular case is also related to deprivation of the authors’ rights in connection to the public library, freedom of expression, and denial of the users’ right to know.
In an area of Funabashi city, Chiba Prefecture, some concentration of Korean population is seen along with branch office of South Korean Organization.
Nishi-Funabashi Library has been closed since it was seriously damaged by multiple quakes that occurred on March 11, 2011
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