Elpida Memory, once the world’s third-largest DRAM manufacturer, collapsed despite receiving 30 billion yen in public funds, leaving Japanese taxpayers exposed to losses of up to 27.7 billion yen.
This article raises serious questions about Elpida’s bankruptcy, the possible transfer of Japanese semiconductor technology, the appointment of former Elpida president Yukio Sakamoto as a senior executive of China’s Tsinghua Unigroup, and the reporting stance of the Nikkei.

June 27, 2020
In November 2019, the major Chinese semiconductor company Tsinghua Unigroup decided to appoint Yukio Sakamoto as a senior executive, but this man is nothing less than a “traitor to his country.”
This morning, a friend of mine who is one of the most widely read people I know telephoned me and said, “You must read the following page in today’s Nikkei.”
That was because he had read the following chapter, which I published on June 17, 2020, under the title, “Business Leaders Who Still Curry Favor with China……Japan, Too, Has Seen an Increase in Swindlers Who Look Japanese but Behave Like Chinese Agents.”
The preceding passage is omitted.
In November 2019, the major Chinese semiconductor company Tsinghua Unigroup decided to appoint Yukio Sakamoto as a senior executive, but this man is nothing less than a “traitor to his country.”
He is the former president of Elpida Memory, a major Japanese semiconductor manufacturer that was once the world’s third-largest producer of DRAM.
After selling the company off cheaply to the American company Micron, he now appears intent on handing its technology over to China.
In 2009, Elpida became the first company to receive assistance under the revised Industrial Revitalization Act and obtained 30 billion yen in public funds, yet it nevertheless went bankrupt.
However, there are suspicions that this bankruptcy may have been a “planned bankruptcy.”
Moreover, as a result of the collapse, Japanese taxpayers were left to bear losses of up to 27.7 billion yen.
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Japan, too, has seen an increase in swindlers who look Japanese but behave like Chinese agents.
To be continued.
The following is the article published in today’s Nikkei.
The question is whether the Nikkei published the following article precisely because it is pro-China.
It is extremely difficult to believe that the reporter who wrote the article had read Masahiro Miyazaki and Tetsuya Watanabe’s The Coronavirus Great Depression: The World Excludes China, published on May 1, and wrote it in order to inform the Japanese people of Yukio Sakamoto’s misconduct.