This article, dated April 30, 2020, criticizes the stance of opposition politicians and media such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK toward the Wuhan virus crisis. While Western nations are reconsidering their dependence on China for medical supplies and advanced industries, preventing Chinese acquisitions, and rebuilding supply chains, the article argues that Japan’s debate is abnormally focused as if the only major issues were the 100,000-yen payment and the lifting of the state of emergency.

April 30, 2020
Can it be lifted?
Is it not a situation in which it cannot be lifted?
Do you feel responsibility for that?
Saying such things, Edano loudly interrogated the prime minister as a representative not only of the most foolish of fools, but also of a party and party members who harm the nation.
The stance of the opposition-party politicians and television media such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK strangely coincides.
Leaving aside countries that have joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative, countries that, to speak in the extreme, are not even in the form of proper states, let us speak here of the decent countries of the world, especially the G7 countries excluding Italy.
The G6 countries are surely now considering a change in the system under which the production of medical supplies, including masks, was carried out by building factories in China simply because labor costs were cheap.
They are also surely considering a change in the manner in which not only medical supplies but also cutting-edge industries such as semiconductors had been substantially transferred to China by building factories there.
Britain, with Prime Minister Johnson’s anger, declared that it would revise its thinking about adopting Huawei to a certain degree for 5G, contrary to the intentions of the United States.
The same is true of France and Germany.
At the same time, seeing the reality of China, the CCP, they have begun to set aside enormous budgets to prevent China from taking advantage of the Wuhan virus disaster to buy companies in their own countries.
From this greatest postwar catastrophe caused by the Wuhan virus, the countries mentioned above are correcting the mistakes of their past attitudes and, as liberal and democratic nations, beginning to construct a new hundred-year plan for the state.
On the other hand, Japan’s opposition-party politicians and media such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK are different to an abnormal degree.
The opposition-party politicians do not merely ask questions in the Diet as if the present great problem of Japan were the 100,000 yen for today or tomorrow.
Prime Minister Abe issued a state of emergency declaration saying it would last until May 6, but can the state of emergency be lifted on May 6?
Is it not a situation in which it cannot be lifted?
Do you feel responsibility for that?
Saying such things, Edano loudly interrogated the prime minister as a representative not only of the most foolish of fools, but also of a party and party members who harm the nation.
From the end of last year until just yesterday, they were not merely repeating attacks on the administration together with the Asahi Shimbun over such laughable matters as the Cherry Blossom Viewing Party.
Moreover, although it is clear that the cause of the suicide was the public hanging carried out by Representative Sugio and others, they brought out a typed manuscript in the name of a dead person whose author was unknown, spent all their time attacking the administration, and continued to bind the prime minister and all cabinet ministers to the Diet.
They are completely pretending not to know this fact.
Such an attitude is called malicious.
Those who harm the nation and control NHK’s news department and editorial department took up and reported this scene as if they had been waiting for it.
For them, Japan seems to be a country in which the majority of people would perish if they did not have 100,000 yen today or tomorrow.
Because they intentionally close off the 5W1H, the root of what reporting and intelligence should be, in relation to the Wuhan virus this time, they can only take such a foolish attitude.
Today, I thought the following.
What China would now find most troublesome is, especially, Japanese groups of companies moving their production bases out of China.
Europe and America detected that China, while being the arsonist, was plotting to act as a thief at the fire scene and acquire companies, and they appropriated enormous budgets to prevent this.
It is no exaggeration to say that Japan is now China’s last remaining lifeline.
A friend of mine who is a serious reader asserted that among people in Japan’s political world, business world, and world of public discourse, those who have visited China not just once but several times have almost 100 percent fallen into honey traps.
He said that the way China entertains people useful to China when they visit China proves this.
First comes a luxurious meal.
Japanese people love Chinese cuisine.
Then comes entertainment in a place where beautiful women are in attendance.
With this, most people fall into honey traps.
Come to think of it, in the serial dialogue “Amakara Mondo” between Shintaro Ishihara and Shizuka Kamei in the monthly magazine WiLL, Shizuka Kamei spoke of his experience of almost falling into a honey trap.
Kamei laughed and said that she was such a beautiful woman that perhaps it would have been better to fall into the trap.
But Kamei, being a former National Police Agency official for good reason, probably did not fall into it.
But what about this person or that person, in a good mood, pleasantly under the influence of alcohol?
I answered, “I see. In that case, almost most of them would sink completely.”
Readers know that, as a matter of philosophy, I have decided never to go to China or South Korea in my lifetime.
Not only politicians, but also businessmen, reporters, and scholars must never, not a single one of them, trust anyone in China.
The moment they trust is the fatal moment.
This is proven by actual examples such as Foreign Ministry officials and Self-Defense Forces personnel who were demanded by China to provide information and then committed suicide.
The opposition-party politicians, to a strange degree, do not even criticize China’s attitude over the Wuhan virus disaster this time.
On the contrary, people such as Renho, with LDP Representative Aoyama, who deliberately calls it the Wuhan virus, in mind, are in the state of saying things like “racists who say Wuhan virus.”
If Japan had a CIA or FBI, and if I were its director, I would order my subordinates to thoroughly investigate her background.
The conclusion that would be obtained goes without saying.
Not limited to her, I would thoroughly investigate all members of the Constitutional Democratic Party.
That conclusion, too, goes without saying.
The reason the opposition-party politicians and media such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK all together ask questions and make major reports as if Japan’s great problem were the 100,000 yen for today or tomorrow is to deprive Japan of the time to consider encouraging companies to change their supply chains, and to consider legislation to compensate companies if losses occur as a result.
It is also to take away the budget necessary for that purpose.
Japan is, in substance, even now the world’s second super-economic power and the nation holding the world’s largest claims.
Yet last night, Arima of NHK’s Watch 9 began saying that Japan’s great problem is that there is a man who will quit university because his part-time job was terminated.
The attitude of the people who control NHK’s news department and editorial department is the height of “false kindness,” “pseudo-moralism,” and “pseudo-political correctness.”
Until August six years ago, when I subscribed to the Asahi Shimbun, I did not recognize that behind their attitude were the propaganda and operations of China, the CCP.
It could not be helped, because I had lived my life as a businessman who subscribed only to the Asahi and Nikkei.