This article, dated April 25, 2020, criticizes the contradiction of opposition parties, media figures, so-called human rights lawyers, cultural elites, and civic groups who opposed the My Number card system yet now attack the Japanese government over delays in cash payments. It argues that Germany’s swift cash assistance was possible because its national identification system was widely established, and questions the responsibility of those who obstructed Japan’s institutional readiness.

April 25, 2020
They do not even know that Germany was able to provide cash payments within a few days because its equivalent of the My Number card system had reached every corner of the country.
There can be no greater stupidity, no greater foolishness than this.
Readers of this column should know that my arguments, almost all of them without exaggeration, have always struck the very heart of the matter.
The My Number card system, and the fact that at the time the opposition parties, together with those who agreed with them, opposed it, were described in the note I placed in the previous chapter.
Now I have found the blog of a Communist Party member of the Diet which proves that my argument was 100 percent correct.
The greatest calamity since the war is teaching all Japanese citizens that the people who make a living in the Japanese mass media, the opposition-party politicians, the so-called human rights lawyers, the so-called cultural figures, and the so-called citizens’ groups are malicious, irresponsible, crude, and, without exaggeration, people who may rightly be called traitors to Japan.
For they have been skillfully manipulated by China and South Korea, have degraded Japan, and have continued to damage the honor and credibility of Japan and the Japanese people in the international community.
Therefore, it is no exaggeration at all to call them the most shameful traitors.
The reason they are such crude human beings is also that in the countries to which they devote themselves, whether Europe and America, or China and South Korea, people like them do not exist.
Their behavior is what should be called utterly ridiculous.
What are the opposition-party Diet members who prevented the spread of the My Number card by loudly repeating exactly the same things as Representative Tamura below, the media who agreed with them, the so-called people, and especially those who watch nothing but television wide shows, saying now!
They are saying that the government’s cash payments are slow, and they are attacking the Japanese government, which is truly doing better than any other country, even though they should originally be angry at China and should be criticizing China thoroughly.
Where can there be greater fools, or more hideous human beings, than these?
They uniformly cite Germany as an example of a country where cash payments were quick, yet they do not even know that Germany was able to provide cash payments within a few days because its equivalent of the My Number card system had reached every corner of the country.
There can be no greater stupidity, no greater foolishness than this.
To begin with, when Germany and other countries moved to such an identification card system, Germany had no fools like them.
To begin with, there is no Communist Party in Germany.
It was made illegal in 1952.
In postwar Germany, the Constitution upholds “militant democracy,” and it is possible to order the dissolution of organizations and associations regarded as threats to democracy.
In fact, in 1952, the Socialist Reich Party of Germany, founded by Otto Ernst Remer, a former Wehrmacht major general, was banned from activity together with the German Communist Party.
From Wikipedia.
The following is from https://www.tamura-jcp.info/minutes/2019/0526094446.
(Photo) Representative Tomoko Tamura asking questions, May 23, 2019, House of Councillors Cabinet Committee.
The “Digital Procedures Act,” which promotes the digitization of administrative procedures, was passed and enacted at the plenary session of the House of Councillors on the 24th by a majority vote of the Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito, and others.
The Japanese Communist Party opposed it.
Prior to this, at the House of Councillors Cabinet Committee on the 23rd, Japanese Communist Party Representative Tomoko Tamura pointed out that the law, together with revisions to the Family Register Act and the Health Insurance Act, was intended to link family register information and insurance information to My Number and further promote the spread of My Number cards.
She criticized this, saying that because highly sensitive personal information such as origin and family relationships would be centrally managed by the administration, the risk would increase if personal information were leaked.
According to a government survey on the cost-effectiveness of My Number cards, the costs, including initial investment and maintenance expenses, amount to 300 billion yen, while the effects, such as reducing administrative work in public agencies, amount to 442.7 billion yen.
Tamura pointed out that the surveyed costs did not include personnel expenses required by local governments or the cost of mailing My Number cards, and that the effects assumed a “target state” such as the use of online services employing My Number.
She stated that the spread of My Number cards, for which there is no urgent or pressing need for citizens, remained at 12.8 percent as of March 3, and that it was questionable whether the system was cost-effective.
Tamura also referred to the family register law revision bill submitted to the current Diet session, saying that the government was trying to establish a system that would allow information on the birth, marriage, and divorce of all citizens to be retrieved through My Number.
She criticized this, saying that the management of family registers would be transferred from local governments to the state, thereby strengthening state control over citizens.
From Shimbun Akahata, Sunday, May 26, 2019.