Namely surrounding the Thomas Lockley's book. The guy who made up the fake story of "Yasuke the black samurai"
There were passages in his book that say "there were hundreds of blacks in feudal Japan and Japan did slavery of black people. But that the jesuits did not".
And recently there was also another "British" guy in Japan called "David Atkinson" who tweeted , "Is there any evidence that black slavery was not widespread in Japan?"
Atkinson is a special adviser to the Japan National Tourism Organization and was a key adviser in the previous administration, so he holds an important position in promoting Japanese culture to the world."
Thomas has been proven to be jewish and not british https://archive.md/UstHH#selection-1127.0-1127.147 and there's a high chance that David Atkinson is too. David joined U.S. investment bank Salomon Brothers as a Tokyo-based banking analyst, prior to moving to Goldman Sachs as a banking analyst in 1992. He was promoted to managing director in 1998 and then appointed partner in 2006. In 2007 he left the bank. https://archive.md/BqAIN
But because it looks like 2 White guys accusing Japan of the slave trade on top of Thomas' book saying that the jesuits didn't participate in slave trade, there's now people in Japan who think this is a case of White people trying to pass off the blame of "Whites enslaving blacks" on to the Japanese people
Can people who know Japanese, help correct the misconception over there?
This whole thing looks like jews giving White people a bad reputation in Japan
This whole slave trade thing has become a larger issue in Japan than the Yasuke thing actually
His opinion should be immediately discounted, because that's not how you science. He has to prove that african slavery existed in Japan and that it was widespread. You don't prove a negative.
They want this shit because guilt has proven so effective in controlling large swaths of people.
That's exactly what I was going to post. "Is there any evidence that X was not" is inherently difficult (likely impossible) to improve regardless of what X is, so the opinion and speaker should be dismissed outright.