A number of readers wrote to the Community Page in response to John Spiri's June 17 Zeit Gist article on Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Yukihisa Fujita. Following is a selection of the responses.
I was quite surprised to find John Spiri's article about Yukihisa Fujita on the Japan Times Web site. Surprised because, despite Fujita's credentials as a Diet member, he is simply repeating the tired intonations of completely discredited theories regarding the events of Sept. 11. Additionally, Spiri writes with a very exaggerated and outright misleading writing style, doing his best to inflate the tiny influence that a band of wingnuts has on real discourse. From its focus on asserting the "growing number of individuals," the "many" who are "convinced" that we are not being told the truth about the Sept. 11 attacks and so on, the writing style alone makes it clear that Mr. Spiri is a sympathizer of these embarrassing claims.
Let's take a look at what he has written in this article, and the claims of the conspiracy theorists themselves.