Will you investigate Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard's "Yasuke, African Samurai" book if its historically accurate? Its been use as an accurate and real representation of Japan's history.
@abc0to1
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If an author cites a history book written in Japanese by a Japanese person as a reference, there is a good chance that the work is trustworthy. Conversely, the veracity of a Japanese history book written in English by a non-Japanese person should be questioned. This is because to understand Japanese history, one must study ancient documents written in old Japanese. This is a simple principle that applies to non-English speaking countries as well.
@grannysint1625
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Your logic is flawed. Many fictional books and works cite historical books and historical facts too or even referenced real people and their words but not one of these books are advertised as real historical books like what Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard did. So I think Japanese media should investigate Lockley/Girard's claims fully as citizens of Japan should have all the real sources regarding their own history. And further, the present Jesuit Order would also be inclined to participate in the investigation with all their documents about their relations with Japan if legitimate Japanese media is doing the investigation, after all, their predecessors where the ones who gifted Yasuke to Nobunaga Oda.
@abc0to1
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@@grannysint1625 Considering that Yasuke was a Jesuit, your argument is reasonable, and it is my fault for overlooking that point. There are some descriptions of Yasuke's character from the Jesuit's perspective on Japanese Wikipedia弥助, so if you refer to it through machine translation, you can save a lot of trouble. However, how a book is promoted is a matter of intellectual honesty and responsibility on the publisher's part, and Japan has no responsibility to respond to it one by one. Readers can get a rough impression of how Yasuke was treated in Japan by reading the documents written about Yasuke by Japanese people at the time that the author cites as references (and you will find that they are very few in number). it is natural for readers to fact-check the information themselves to determine its authenticity.
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