This essay contrasts the reporting of Sankei Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun, focusing on Chinese capital inflows, one-party policy speed, and China’s unexpected economic expansion. It argues that only Sankei is conveying the facts Japan urgently needs to know.

Today, readers of newspapers such as Asahi Shimbun who read Sankei Shimbun must all have felt that my assertion was correct, namely that Sankei Shimbun is the newspaper properly conveying the facts that must be communicated now.
2016-11-24.
Regrettably, however, the morning circulation of Sankei Shimbun is less than one fifth of the combined circulation of Asahi and Mainichi Shimbun.
Under such circumstances, it is hardly surprising that Japan has reached the reality in which its national land is being trampled by Chinese capital.
Readers are not newspaper reporters but people living their own lives, and it is the role of a newspaper company to properly convey facts that only reporters can know and facts that the Japanese people must know, and it is no exaggeration to say that there is no other role beyond this, as I have already stated.
In any case, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today’s Sankei Shimbun was filled with eye-opening articles.
Not only did it devote full pages on page one and page twenty-four, but it also carried numerous easy-to-understand color aerial photographs, conveying the reality of Chinese capital purchasing real estate in Hokkaido, and the eerie nature of the acquiring entities must have sent chills down everyone’s spine.
Needless to say, China is a communist state, so not only are foreigners unable to purchase land, but in recent years Japanese citizens have even been arrested on arbitrary charges of espionage.
Among the facts reported by Sankei today, facts that the vast majority of Japanese citizens were learning for the first time, the content under the headline “A Fortress Overlooking Otaru” would in China result in immediate arrest on suspicion of espionage.
Why are such unbelievable acts being openly allowed to pass.
It would not be an exaggeration at all to say that all of this is because until August of the year before last, Japan had been dominated by Asahi Shimbun.
Here I introduce an article titled “The Policy Speed of One-Party Rule” published on page seven of the international section, written by Masumi Kawasaki.
This article also proves my argument.
Emphasis in the text is mine.
“The total gross domestic product, GDP, of China in 2020 will with sixty percent probability become the world’s third largest.”
This was one of the scenarios predicted in China in 2020, a book published in July 2000 and coauthored by ten Japanese and Chinese experts.
The top two positions were predicted to be the United States and Japan.
However, ten years after the book’s publication, China’s GDP easily leapt past Japan to become second only to the United States.
China achieved this unexpected rise through methods different from the concepts of the international community.
It was the speed of immediate decision-making under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, which has no need to fear opposition from a parliament, opposition parties, or public opinion.
That money was immediately poured into diplomacy and the military, transforming China into a political power that threatens the international community through friction with Japan and Taiwan and advances into the South China Sea.
Japan still appears to be clinging to a China scenario drawn in the twentieth century.
Japan cannot keep up with the policy speed produced by one-party rule.