Talk:Nippon Foundation

Statement removed
I commented out the statement about forced sterilizations. It's very vague, and it appears that the citation was added without the editor actually looking at the article (which was in a French Communist Party newspaper). We have no clue what level of involvement that's supposed to mean: did Sasakawa know what was going on, or was the involvement indirect through his connections with Peru? Unless other sources can be found to describe the connection, it shouldn't be in the article. - Sekicho 09:41, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

→ I am adding the statement again with sources cited in the Alberto Fujimori article section on human rights violations.Guzmas31 (talk) 04:46, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

--The topic does have a place in this section of the article, but the way it was written seems to cast aspersions which are unsupported by the articles cited. TheGilbert (talk) 10:18, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

POV
Many one-sided opinions have been written in this article. And this page is not article of Sasakawa. Does writer dislike that foundation?Vip001 19:22, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Facts are facts. Do any research on the foundation and the same information will show up. Reverting. Try to provide information in articles, if possible. Do not delete information without good justification (too large size, repetitive, unnecessary, or inaccurate).--Sir Edgar 05:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I cannot understand what you say and what you do. You didn't answer my question. Your edits are almost all topics of Sasagawa. Are you all right? If you wanna write down, move to article of Sasagawa please.Vip001 13:27, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Stop whitewashing this article.
Assholes.--Sir Edgar 04:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Comment on sources
Not that I understand anything about the subject but I'd like to point out that Debito.org and the Voltaire Network are, to put it mildly, fairly unreliable sources. Pascal.Tesson 02:43, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Made article pertinent to topic
Taking the Sasakawa related items out of this article, (since he has his own exhaustive wiki entry), I found that there was remarkably little real information about the Nippon Foundation here. The problem seems to be that most English writing about the foundation is not about the work that it does, but about its ties to Ryoichi Sasakawa, a man who died nearly 15 years ago.

Given the apparently positive nature of most of the foundation’s work, and the increasingly tenuous connection between it and its founder, I feel justified in focussing not on speculation and conspiracy theory but on the verifiable facts of what the foundation does, as mentioned on its English and Japanese websites, a couple of books, and some publications that I had the good luck to find in a Jimbocho bookstore.

Given the fact that there is remarkably little about the foundation in English that has not been written by people with an eye to political conspiracy, I have gone to Japanese sources to find out just what it is that it does, and am herewith providing the results of my study.

CoffeeCup10 (talk) 09:49, 29 May 2009 (UTC)


 * This article has some detailed information about the Nippon Foundation: History on Trial: French Nippon Foundation Sues Scholar for Libel to Protect the Honor of Sasakawa Ryōichi by Karoline Postel-Vinay with Mark Selden. -- Klein zach  14:21, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Removed the point about Takashi Sasakawa, since it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the topic of the article. TheGilbert (talk) 10:30, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Class A World War II Criminal
The beginning of this article states that this organization's founder, Sasakawa, was a Class A World War II criminal. But Wikipedia's article on Sasakawa said he was only accused of being one and was acquitted. If he was acquitted, then he wasn't actually one after all, right? 58.88.80.145 (talk) 11:37, 19 July 2010 (UTC)DK

Precicely. Someone seems to want to insist that he was, so I revised it again. A "Class A war criminal" is a specific legal term, and is only usable if the accused has actually been convicted. He wasn't.TheGilbert (talk) 10:25, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 one external links on Nippon Foundation. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090118210937/http://zenit.org:80/article-2233?l=english to http://zenit.org/article-2233?l=english
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080120154243/http://www.fesco.or.jp:80/eng_index.html to http://www.fesco.or.jp/eng_index.html

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Bias editing
The predominant activities of the charity have nothing to do with war crimes or sasakawa's politics or revisionism. Yes, Sasakawa is controversial, but let's not make wikipedia a place of agitation politics. Seeing that the Korean version of this article doesn't even mention any charitable activities, it's clear that this foundation is seen with a large amount of animosity among South Korean nationalists. There should be a section for criticismd, but this stuff shouldn't be so prominent in the introduction. Dplre (talk) 05:59, 18 November 2022 (UTC)