Armstrongite WCG's Demonization of Japan

As noted earlier PCG has long demonized Japan. PCG does so to this day. I had never noticed this racist, xenophobic scare mongering of Japan while I was an Armstrongite who believed that God was with LCG in 2000-8. Where did PCG get this racist paranoia?

From HWA's WCG.

WCG had a long history of fear mongering about Japan as well. This tendency appears to have first began with Garner Ted Armstrong's article "Japan--Future Super Giant!" in the February 1963 issue of The Plain Truth (pp. 3-5, 28-30, PDF pp. 5-7, 30-32).

(Shouldn't the article's title be "Japan--Future Super Power"?)

February 1963 issue.

In this article Garner Ted Armstrong accuses Japan of being fated to enter an alliance with Communist China. He even insinuates that Japan will become a sort of Germany of the East.

Can we really begin to see what is happening in the Orient? Japan is doing, in effect, EXACTLY what Germany is doing in the Common Market. ... Japan [is] surging ahead to capture the leadership in all the Orient. Japan is the ONLY Asiatic nation equipped to provide the industrial know-how and leadership to harness the almost unlimited resources of this neglected, sprawling, unbelievably rich part of the world. ...

Before much longer JAPAN WILL BE AN INDUSTRIAL GIANT IN ASIA THAT WILL BE NEGOTIATING FROM A POSITION OF GREAT STRENGTH WITH THE OTHER GIANTS OF THE WORLD--THE UNITED STATES, RUSSIA, AND UNITED EUROPE! (Garner Ted Armstrong, Japan--Future Super Giant!, Plain Truth, February 1963, p. 30, PDF p. 32.)

And this xenophobic delusion began to be promoted by WCG and it continues to be promoted among the COG splinter groups such as PCG having no regard for Japan's close relations with the United States these many years.

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Using the magazine article index from herbert-w-armstrong.org the following list of articles about Japan may be reconstructed. Some of the more inflammatory titles are highlighted.

1960s

JAPAN-FUTURE SUPER GIANT! (PT Feb-63)

THE MIRACLE OF PEARL HARBOR (PT Jan-65)

HIROSHIMA-PREVIEW OF WORLD WAR III (PT Aug-65)

WORLD NEWS: CHINA - AND JAPAN TOO (NUCLEAR WEAPONS) (PT Apr-66)

WORLD NEWS: MATSUSHIRO EARTHQUAKE (PT May-66)

RIOTS ROCK TOKYO (PT Dec-67)

JAPAN-INDUSTRIAL SUPERGIANT (PT Jan-68)

JAPAN'S FEET OF CLAY (PT Mar-68)

JAPAN'S NEW ROLE IN ASIA (PT Apr-68)

PERSONAL: FIRST VISIT TO JAPAN (PT Feb-69)

JAPAN SPEAKS OUT TO THE WEST - BUT ARE WE LISTENING? (PT Jun-69)

YANKEES OF THE ORIENT (PT Oct-69)

1970s

OKINAWA'S FUTURE DECIDED (PT Jan-70)

WORLD NEWS: JAPANESE-CHINESE COOPERATION (PT Feb-70)

WORLD NEWS: JAPAN - GIANT OF ASIA (PT Apr-70)

WHY TODAY'S WORLD IN IS REVOLT...AND THE ANSWERS! (TW May-70)

PERSONAL: INTERVIEW WITH JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER (PT Feb-71)

WORLD NEWS: TURN IN U.S.-JAPANESE RELATIONS (PT Feb-71)

PERSONAL: VISITING OKINAWA-POTENTIAL TROUBLE SPOT (PT Apr-71)

WORLD NEWS: JAPAN'S CORNER OF THE WORLD (PT May-71)

WORLD NEWS: HISTORIC TRIP FOR JAPANESE EMPEROR (PT Jun-71)

DECISIONS AHEAD FOR JAPAN (PT Aug-71)

WORLD NEWS: US WITHDRAWS, JAPAN REARMS (PT Aug-71)

MIDDLE EAST OIL-BLACK GOLD FOR EUROPE (PT Aug-71)

WORLD NEWS: JAPAN - KEY TO CANADA'S PROSPERITY (PT Sep-71)
 
WORLD NEWS: SHIFT IN AUSTRALASIAN TRADE (PT Sep-71)

WORLD NEWS: SATO GOVERNMENT IN THE BALANCE? (PT Nov-71)

WORLD NEWS: CHINA'S CHIEF OBSESSION (PT Oct-71)

WORLD NEWS: DEFENSE SPENDING: NEW U.S.-JAPAN ISSUE? (PT Dec-71)
 
WORLD NEWS: EMPEROR HIROHITO'S TRIP-DEMONSTRATIONS AND SILENCE (PT Dec-71)

WORLD NEWS: TOKYO AND WASHINGTON: A CHANGED RELATIONSHIP (PT Feb-72)

WORLD NEWS: ASIAN QUADRANGLE (PT Mar-72)

PERSONAL: MEETINGS WITH LEADERS OF JAPAN, INDIA, CEYLON AND ISRAEL (PT May-72)

PERSONAL: TENSIONS BETWEEN NATIONS TIGHTENING (PT Jun-72)

WORLD NEWS: JAPANESE INDUSTRY SEARCHING EUROPEAN MARKETS FOR 
INSURANCE (PT Jul-72)

PERSONAL: MEETING WITH JAPAN'S PRIME MINISTER TANAKA IN TOKYO (PT Sep-72)

WORLD NEWS: RUSSIA'S NEW INFLUENCE WITH JAPAN (PT Nov-71)

WORLD NEWS: MEXICO LOOKS TO JAPAN (PT Dec-72)

WORLD NEWS: U.S. TO EXPORT ATOMIC SECRETS? (PT Dec-72)

WORLD NEWS: JAPAN BEEFS UP DEFENSE FORCES (PT Jan-73)

WORLD NEWS: OIL POLITICS (PT Jan-73)
 
THE COMING OIL CRISIS (PT May-73)

WORLD NEWS: ENERGY CRISIS MUCH WORSE THAN REALIZED (PT Sep-73)

THE FIGHT FOR OIL (PT Feb-74)

JAPAN'S STAKE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (PT Feb-74)

PERSONAL: EIGHT JAPANESE CONGRESSMEN HELP OPEN NEW DOORS TO US IN THE MIDDLE EAST (PT Mar-74)

TAKEO MIKI-JAPAN'S NEW MAN AT THE HELM (PT Feb-75)

AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN-INTERDEPENDENCE BRINGS PROBLEMS (PT Apr-75)

JAPAN DEBATES DEFENSE POSTURE (PT Jul-75)

PERSONAL: I LOSE AN IMPORTANT FRIEND-EISAKU SATO (PT Jun-75)

MR MIKI COMES TO WASHINGTON (PT Sep-75)

IN BRIEF: BRIDGING NATIONAL DIFFERENCES (PT Feb-76)

JAPAN AND CHINA FORGE CLOSER LINKS (PT Mar-76)

WORLD NEWS: KOREA PHASEOUT-IMPACT ON JAPAN (PT Jul-77)

GOSPEL TO JAPANESE LEADERS (GN Jun-79)

1980s

THE MEANING OF HIROSHIMA (PT Aug-80)

AHEAD! JAPANESE REARMAMENT (PT Feb-81)

INTL DESK: WILL CENTURY 21 BE THE JAPANESE CENTURY? (PT Feb-83)

YOSUHIRO NAKASONE - JAPAN'S NEW PRIME MINISTER (PT Mar-83)

JAPAN: ASIA'S ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER FACES UNCERTAIN FUTURE (PT Mar-83)

INTL DESK: KENYA & JAPAN: SETTING AN EXAMPLE FOR INTL COOPERATION (PT May-83)

NEWS OVERVIEW: JAPAN'S MOUNTAIN OF DEBT (PT Jan-86)

INTL DESK: THE OTHER BOMB (PT Jul-85)

NEWS OVERVIEW: THE GRAYING OF JAPAN (PT Jul-85)

NEWS OVERVIEW: JAPAN'S ECONOMY: FALTERING OR REFUELING? (PT Jul-87)
 
MYTH: JAPAN INCORPORATED IS UNBEATABLE (PT Feb-89)

NEW DAWN FOR THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN (PT Oct-89)

BOX: CANADA AND JAPAN: A NEW OPTIMISM (PT Oct-89)

BOX: MANILA AND TOKYO: BUILDING BRIDGES (PT Oct-89)

BOX: UNDERSTANDING JAPAN DOWN UNDER (PT Oct-89)

NEWS OVERVIEW: JAPAN AND EUROPE (PT Oct-89)

1990s

JAPAN QUIETLY BECOMES A MILITARY POWER (PT Feb-90)

JAPAN'S FLOOD OF FOREIGNERS (PT Sep-90)

JAPAN LOOKS TO ASIA (PT Oct-90)

NEWS: AMERICA FIRST...REMOVE THE SPLINTER FROM YOUR OWN EYE (PT Jul-92)

FAMILY: JAPANESE RENT FAMILIES (PT Mar-93)