This one was pretty big at the time it was released though. If you read books that were published on the subject they often mention Yoshida, at least in passing. As for wikipedia, this is all preliminary information gathering before I finalize what exactly my paper will be over. I have access to the University's archives for this, and their records on the War in the Pacific are quite good. Here's a better source that tells quite a bit more than the Wikipedia article, and was also written in a Non-Japanese paper by a Non-Japanese person.. As you can tell, it talks about how this whole situation was a field day for the political right.

This guy had an agenda though, as he was a member of the Japanese communist party and sought to discredit the right wing in any way he could. The years after World War 2 were extremely turbulent for Japan, and there was tons of political strife going on. Unlike in the United States, where we have a pretty central, moderate 2 party system where both parties are fairly similar, Japan has a parliamentary system. Parliamentary systems often encourage minority parties, because political parties often become more specialized that our moderate parties in the United States. This resulted in things like the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, a socialist candidate for the National Diet who was murdered by a militant right wing extremist with a sword. So writing a book to try and discredit your political opponents, regardless of whether it happened or not, really cheapens the message. Disrespect all around.

I'm pretty excited, because next week I'm taking my first trip to Japan to do some research (and also have some fun), but I'm really interested to see just to what degree the Japanese Museums and their curators deny the atrocities committed in China, the Philippines and Korea. Should be really interesting, much like the Chinese National War Museum, which had some really interesting historical quirks...