Through a dialogue between Shoichi Watanabe and Kimindo Kusaka, this essay exposes the ideological roots of the Democratic Party in the postwar “comprehensive peace” faction.
By examining nuclear policy, foreign suffrage, and ties with resident Korean organizations, it reveals a continuous line of political distortion in postwar Japan.

I was reading the dialogue collection A Final Message to the Japanese by Shoichi Watanabe and Kimindo Kusaka, published by Tokuma Shoten (1,300 yen)..
2016-11-21.
The following is from an article I disseminated on 2016-02-22..
I met up with a friend, who is also one of Japan’s foremost readers, and went to a bookstore to buy the March issue of Voice (780 yen), published by PHP Institute. I stopped by Starbucks and read it, and this month’s issue as well was packed with papers that every Japanese citizen must read. I was reading it with complete concentration. I am convinced that especially those who subscribe to Asahi and judge events based on the news programs of its television stations should all subscribe. The content of these papers can only be described as astonishing..
My friend was reading A Final Message to the Japanese by Shoichi Watanabe and Kimindo Kusaka, published by Tokuma Shoten (1,300 yen), a dialogue collection that, together with Yoshiko Sakurai, has since August of the year before last revealed their true nature to Asahi Shimbun subscribers like myself..
The section my friend handed to me, saying “Please read this,” while I was reading the March issue of Voice with complete focus, contained not only material directly related to my own arguments, but things that would make any Japanese citizen feel anger..
All emphasis in the text except for the title is mine..
The true nature of the Democratic Party lies in the postwar “comprehensive peace” faction!.
Watanabe Returning to the issue of nuclear power plant operation, the Kan administration hastily shut down all nuclear power plants across Japan at once, but I believe there was absolutely no need to stop them. Even while operating the plants, safety measures could have been strengthened in any number of ways, and since a once-in-a-thousand-years earthquake was not going to occur immediately, it would have been possible to raise the height of seawalls while keeping them in operation..
Then why did they shut them all down at once. This is only a rumor, so its truth cannot be confirmed, and I do not have the ability to verify it, but there is a theory that Masayoshi Son of SoftBank whispered to Naoto Kan, “Let’s do solar power generation where it was hit by the tsunami.” If that is true, it is an extremely malicious story..
Kusaka If so, it is because the two of them lack patriotism toward Japan. Japan is truly a strange country for allowing such people to become prime minister or company president..
Watanabe To begin with, the Democratic Party administration was, to a certain extent, a government controlled by Mindan (the Korean Residents Union in Japan). There were suspicious aspects, such as Mindan members helping with Democratic Party elections and Democratic Party executives rushing over to express their gratitude. This is not my speculation. According to newspaper reports from 2010, on January 12, at a New Year’s party held by Mindan’s central headquarters at a hotel in Tokyo, then Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Hirotaka Akamatsu gave the following greeting: “To Chairman Jeong Jin and everyone at Mindan, we were especially indebted to you last year. Although you cannot vote, you supported us in various ways across the country, enabling us to secure 308 seats. That led to the change of government. I sincerely thank you for your support in the House of Representatives election.”.
Furthermore, he promised the passage of a bill granting foreign residents the right to vote by saying, “I believe you supported us with the expectation that the issue of local suffrage would be resolved under a Democratic Party–centered government. In that sense, it is only natural to keep our promises. Truly, we are just one step away (until the resolution of the local suffrage issue – Watanabe’s note). I am filled with emotion.”.
Kusaka Even if they are resident foreigners, it is strange in itself to speak of “promises” to foreigners who do not have the right to vote..
That must be the true nature of the Democratic Party..
Watanabe When traced back, the Democratic Party is of Socialist Party lineage and should be described as the postwar “comprehensive peace” faction..
It can be said that the roots of all political evils in Japan lie in this stream of the comprehensive peace faction..
At the time in Showa 25 and 26, when momentum for concluding peace treaties was rising, if one insisted on comprehensive peace, it would not have been possible to conclude peace treaties with 49 countries excluding the Soviet Union and its satellite states..
That would have meant keeping Japan under occupation..
Despite that, people of the Socialist Party lineage at the time shouted “comprehensive peace,” which was clearly a political “evil.”.
Kusaka I think many young people today are not very familiar with this issue, so let me add a brief explanation..
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