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The “Overseas Chinese Youth Struggle Committee” used to manipulate former Zenkyōtō activists… In July 2022, Yamagami… assassinated Mr. Abe, the greatest politician of the postwar era.
Daidōji began turning to extremist terrorism after the 1970 protests against the Japan–U.S. Security Treaty had ended.
The “Overseas Chinese Youth Struggle Committee” approached him in his state of exhaustion and emptiness after the festivities.
February 20, 2019
I republished this chapter because it had been subjected to the crime of search interference.
The moment I republished it, “transcendence” arrived.
The “Overseas Chinese Youth Struggle Committee” used to manipulate former Zenkyōtō activists.
What sort of people do they manipulate now?
As I have repeatedly stated, they manipulate the “dropouts” lurking in society.
At the time when China was insisting that the Shinkansen technology it had stolen from JR was its own and was trying to export it to various countries,
the greatest thorn in China’s side was the Shinkansen’s legendary accident-free record… The Shinkansen had not had a major accident.
At such a time, suddenly, a “dropout” living in Tokyo brought gasoline aboard a Shinkansen train and caused an incident that left people dead and injured.
For the Japanese, it was a bolt from the blue.
In July 2022, a “dropout” named Yamagami… who, moreover, had previously served in the Self-Defense Forces, a man who had been languishing in Nara, through circumstances that were strange in every respect,
assassinated Mr. Abe, the greatest politician of the postwar era, who had been China’s greatest “thorn in its side.”
The “Overseas Chinese Youth Struggle Committee” must still be continuously in existence and active today.
It cannot have been mere coincidence that a young woman who had attended a political fundraising party of the Kishida faction was beside Yamagami that day.
The chapter published on September 26, 2018, under the title “Daidōji Swallowed It Whole and Founded the ‘East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front,’” is now ranked 37th in Ameba’s official hashtag ranking for multiple myeloma.
The following is a continuation of the preceding chapter.
Emphasis in the text, apart from the headings, and the passages enclosed in ＊ are mine.
The Sankei’s Scoop Beats the Other Newspapers
That was why it seemed so sudden.
I was greatly surprised that, apart from Kazuo Shii, there were still fools in this world who believed a communist revolution was possible in Japan.
But there were more surprises.
Early on the morning of May 19, 1975, eight months after I had heard the explosion on the seventh floor of the Ministry of Transport, a telephone call from the city news department jolted me awake.
When I picked up the receiver, a familiar editor’s voice was shouting.
“You’re the only one still asleep. Get yourself in here now,” he barked.
But his voice lacked the sharpness it had when another paper had beaten us to a scoop; he sounded as though he was smiling.
“Why? The morning papers must have arrived already. Read through all of them before you come in.”
The Sankei Shimbun had arrived.
Across the top of its front page was a prominent reverse-type headline announcing, “Metropolitan Police to Arrest Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Bombing Suspect Group Today.”
I hurriedly checked the other papers, but there was not even a mention of Mitsubishi.
It was an extraordinary scoop by the reporter covering the Metropolitan Police Department, beating the competition on a public security story—something any newspaper reporter would appreciate.
That made it perfectly clear why the editor was so excited.
When I arrived at the office, the newsroom was tense, yet the excitement over the scoop was palpable throughout it.
The head of the city news department had apparently stayed overnight.
The Atrocities of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front
As soon as he saw me, he told me to write the lead story for the evening edition.
“There are at least half a dozen suspects. We’ve assigned reporters to follow the detectives going to make the arrests, but they intend to shake them off. Whether our reporters can actually reach the arrest scenes is uncertain. Take that into account and write something that conveys the immediacy of the arrests.”
Shortly before that, the detectives heading out to make the arrests had left the Metropolitan Police Department.
In the end, they shook off all the reporters.
Even so, one photographer managed to stay on their trail and photograph the moment of an arrest.
The man arrested was Masashi Daidōji, one of the ringleaders.
It was just before the evening edition’s copy deadline.
Listening to the photographer’s account, I wrote 180 lines in one burst, and they went straight into print.
The article was later praised for its “vivid description” in the citation for the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association Award, but it was also an article that meant something to me personally.
What surprised me was the true objective revealed by the arrested Daidōji and the others in the “Fangs of the Earth.”
Daidōji began turning to extremist terrorism after the 1970 protests against the Japan–U.S. Security Treaty had ended.
The “Overseas Chinese Youth Struggle Committee” approached him in his state of exhaustion and emptiness after the festivities.
They said Japan had committed atrocities, exploited people, and carried out massacres in Asia.
Japan, they said, was the oppressor of the peoples of Asia.
This echoes Xi Jinping’s words that “China, which resisted the aggressor nation Japan, represents justice.”
Chinese people were feeding those ideas to left-wing extremists in the 1970s.
Daidōji swallowed them whole and founded the “East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front.”
The objective was retaliation for the fact that “Koreans and Taiwanese were turned into imperial subjects, the men were made into cannon fodder for the Imperial Army, the women were used to satisfy the Imperial Army’s sexual needs, and many were massacred” (Daidōji’s statement of grounds for appeal).
＊The time has long since come for the Japanese people and people throughout the world to realize that it is no exaggeration whatsoever to say that opposition political hacks such as Kiyomi Tsujimoto, former NHK producer Eriko Ikeda and others who supported the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal held by former Asahi Shimbun reporter Yayori Matsui and North Korean spies, Americans such as Alexis Dudden (it is astonishing to hear that she is called a scholar), anti-Japan activists in Japan, and similar people lurking throughout the world are all likewise under the influence of Chinese and Korean Peninsula operations—which, it is no exaggeration to say, have no reason to exist other than propaganda.
I would like to call them, beginning with Kiyomi Tsujimoto, together with the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others, something like the “East Asia Front for Attacking the Government Through False and Fabricated Anti-Japan Reporting.”＊
There were two targets.
One was the zaibatsu conglomerates, such as Mitsubishi, that had exploited Asia; the other was Operation Rainbow, namely the operation to assassinate Emperor Shōwa.
Daidōji and the others made explosives using sodium chlorate as the base ingredient and, in mid-August 1974, went to plant them on the railway bridge in Akabane over which His Majesty’s imperial train would pass on his return from the imperial villa.
In the middle of the night, they carried the explosives beneath a bridge pier, but Daidōji lost his nerve, and they withdrew to try again.
His Sense of Being Japanese Prevented Him from Carrying It Out
The next day, they reached the bridge pier again, and just as they were about to install the detonating device, Daidōji once more said he felt someone was watching them, and they withdrew.
Having twice abandoned the plan to assassinate the Emperor, the “Fangs of the Earth” group changed its plan at this point, and the two cans were to be planted at the next target, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Daidōji’s death sentence was finalized in 1987, but he developed multiple myeloma and died this May at the Tokyo Detention House, suffering pain worse than death.
Until the very end, he refused to explain the real reason he had twice abandoned the assassination of the Emperor, which he could have carried out without encountering resistance.
Another persuasive view was that the small remnant of his sense of being Japanese had prevented him from carrying it out.
Could it mean that, however the Chinese try to implant suggestions, Japanese people will not cross the final line?
Daidōji, too, was Japanese.
(August 2017 issue)