Based on Rui Sasaki’s Silent Invasion of Japan, this essay examines the abnormal reality of Nissho Gakuen Kyushu International High School in Miyazaki Prefecture, where 90 percent of the students are Chinese international students. Through the issues of Japan’s declining birthrate, school management, the plan to accept 300,000 international students, and China’s National Defense Mobilization Law, it argues that Japanese society must confront a serious security crisis.

2020-06-03
When one reflects on the existence of China’s National Defense Mobilization Law, which makes it possible to mobilize people at Beijing’s command in both peacetime and wartime, one feels an indefinable eeriness as to when, at any moment, these international students might pledge loyalty to Beijing and suddenly change.
The following is a chapter I published on 2019-02-19 under the title: “After the NHK broadcast, the author repeatedly requested interviews with Kyushu International High School and the head of its managing body, Nissho Gakuen.”
“Silent Invasion of Japan” is indeed a book that sounds the alarm, but it is also a book that proves just how much Japan’s political operators, all the opposition-party political operators, and the mass media such as Asahi and NHK are equivalent to traitors.
Every Japanese citizen who can read printed words should dash to the nearest bookstore and buy it.
They will surely turn the pages all at once.
Chapter One: A Japan Full of Chinese People
The abnormality of a school where 90 percent of the students are Chinese international students.
It is impossible not to be astonished.
On the morning of April 25, 2018, Heisei 30, a shock ran through Japanese living rooms.
NHK’s morning program “Ohayo Nippon,” under the title “Secure International Students: The Efforts of Local High Schools and Municipalities,” introduced a private high school in Miyazaki Prefecture that accepts a large number of international students.
Astonishingly, 90 percent of the students are Chinese.
It is Nissho Gakuen Kyushu International High School in Ebino City, Miyazaki Prefecture, whose principal is Katsunori Magome.
The scene of the entrance ceremony is abnormal.
The author was surely not the only viewer whose spine grew cold, thinking, “So this is what it means to be taken over.”
The overwhelming majority of Chinese international students, standing in more than twenty rows across, were singing the Chinese national anthem toward the Chinese national flag, which was hoisted side by side with the Hinomaru.
If someone had turned on the television and seen only that scene, he would almost have mistaken it for a high school in China.
Beside them, Japanese students were sitting apologetically on chairs arranged in two rows.
There were only 16 Japanese students.
The Chinese international students, who made up the majority of the international students, numbered 167.
According to NHK and others, the school originally had only Japanese students, but it began having difficulty recruiting students about 15 years ago.
Behind this lies the rapid decline in the birthrate.
The number of high school entrants in Miyazaki Prefecture has fallen by as much as 35 percent over the past 20 years.
This high school, too, had reached the point where its management could no longer stand.
In fact, Principal Katsunori Magome frankly told NHK in an interview, “The number of Japanese students kept falling. It is not a company, but it was bankruptcy.”
What the school then turned its attention to was foreign international students.
It is said that the school accepts students en masse from its affiliated school established in Changchun, China, and over the course of one year prepares them to enter well-known Japanese universities.
These Chinese international students reportedly study Japanese for two years and then thoroughly prepare for university entrance examinations.
Leaving aside the pros and cons of accepting large numbers of international students, as a result of this guidance by the school, it has achieved a 100 percent university advancement rate for seven consecutive years.
One would like to know what kind of education these excellent students received in China during their junior high school years before coming to Japan, especially regarding historical understanding, and what kind of living environment they came from.
After the NHK broadcast, the author repeatedly requested interviews with Kyushu International High School and the head of its managing body, Nissho Gakuen.
However, for reasons such as “Japanese university entrance examinations and the personal safety of the students,” according to a school official, permission to conduct the interview had still not been granted as of early September, when this manuscript was being written.
From the standpoint of someone whose basic practice has been to conduct direct interviews, see things with my own eyes, put my questions to the other party, listen to the other party’s assertions, and then put them into print, this makes me suspect, on the contrary, that there may be something to hide.
In the first place, it is misguided to demand that the media secure the personal safety of the students.
If international students making up 90 percent of a school arrive in a depopulated town, it would be unnatural if no local residents felt suspicious.
It is said that viewers who saw the NHK program also called the school incessantly to protest and demand explanations.
If Chinese international students are to be made the pillar of school management, then the school side also bears responsibility for managing the risks that may arise.
One understands this immediately by considering the reverse case.
For example, if Japanese students came to make up 90 percent of a school for Americans in a rural town in Tennessee, it is not hard to imagine what the local Americans would think.
At present, the number of foreigners living in Japan has reached a record high of 2.56 million.
Their numbers are particularly conspicuous in local municipalities where depopulation is advancing, including Hokkaido, and over the past five years the number of foreigners has increased in 1,316 municipalities, equivalent to about 75 percent of all municipalities nationwide.
A major reason for this is foreign international students.
In particular, there are many Chinese international students.
The “Plan to Accept 300,000 International Students,” proposed by former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on July 29, 2008, Heisei 20, became the trigger for a dramatic increase in Chinese international students.
Ten years later, in June of this year, Mr. Fukuda visited the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in Jiangsu Province, China.
Whatever the reason for his visit, if an excessive sense of atonement toward China has influenced the invitation of international students on a scale that exceeds Japan’s capacity to receive them, then the sin is deep.
To invite them in and then throw away the administration, and to pretend not to know anything even if trouble arises with Japanese residents, can only be called far too irresponsible.
I would very much like Mr. Fukuda to inspect the “China housing complex,” filled with Chinese residents, which will be discussed later.
The author, too, would like international students who are interested in Japan and who sincerely devote themselves to study to become bridges of friendship between Japan and China.
However, when one reflects on the existence of China’s National Defense Mobilization Law, which makes it possible to mobilize people at Beijing’s command in both peacetime and wartime, one feels an indefinable eeriness as to when, at any moment, these international students might pledge loyalty to Beijing and suddenly change, like the Chinese students who caused a riot during the 2008 Nagano Olympic torch relay.
This essay continues.
Silent Invasion of Japan: How Far China, South Korea, and North Korea’s Domination of Japan Has Advanced
Rui Sasaki　Heart Publishing