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In the aftermath of the Asia-Pacific War, U.S. occupation forces attempted to re-educate the Japanese through various media outlets into favoring a specific view of the war that portrayed them as helpless victims simply misled by their deceitful military oligarchy. Such a portrayal had been deliberately orchestrated as part of the U.S. endeavor to sway the Japanese people over to the American system in the prospect of a future conflict with the Soviet Union. Yet, unlike the post-postwar Japanese revisionists¡¯ claim, the U.S. occupation forces were not solely responsible for the rewriting predicated on the strategy of exposing the historical truth allegedly concealed from the people by Japan¡¯s wartime leaders. This paper sheds light on the Japanese media¡¯s appropriation of the Asia-Pacific War and the audience¡¯s involvement in their rewriting of history by investigating the popular leftist tell-all magazine, Truth (Shins¨­). Published by the People¡¯s Publisher (Jinminsha) led by communist-oriented former ideological converts (tenk¨­sha), Truth¡¯s ultimate tell-all goal differed from that of the U.S. occupation forces; nevertheless, in reducing the search for the historical truth to revealing supposedly concealed absolute historical facts, both made it easier for the Japanese to adopt a new view of history. In this process, the belief in objective historical facts represented the change in historical view as natural and even inevitable. Considering the postwar rewriting of history as a complex process of negotiations, in which not only the American military personnel but also the Japanese media and audience actively participated, this article intends to reconsider the presumed dichotomy between the U.S. occupation forces and Japanese people, and to contribute to recent scholarly efforts to understand the Global Cold War not as a unilateral framework, but as a sort of patchwork created through interactions between diverse groups and individuals.