Using Forbes’ ranking of the world’s most powerful people, this article examines why Japan’s prime minister is undervalued, tracing the roots to GHQ occupation policies, the absence of long-term leadership, and media-driven diminishment shaped by Asahi Shimbun, China, and Korea.

But why is Japan’s prime minister not even in the top five.
2016-12-24
Quite a few people must have seen the news about the recently announced ranking by Forbes of the people who wield influence over the world.
It is only natural that the president of the United States, whoever it may be, ranks within the top five.
But why is Japan’s prime minister not even in the top five.
From a broad perspective, this is the result of the occupation policies imposed by GHQ after Japan’s defeat.
At the same time, this very fact has helped create today’s unstable and extremely dangerous world.
Looking at concrete facts as of now, the reason Angela Merkel ranks fourth is that she has maintained a long-term administration of sixteen years, following Helmut Kohl, and has continuously appeared on the international stage as Germany’s chancellor.
On the other hand, the fact that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a statesman of rare realism and rare caliber, languishes in the thirties is truly absurd.
Yet this is precisely the outcome created by Asahi Shimbun, South Korea, and China, a fact I have consistently exposed and challenged.
Readers with discerning eyes should all be aware of this.
I was the first in the world to argue that Japan must learn from Germany and establish a long-term administration like Merkel’s, and that until I emerged, Asahi Shimbun, along with other Japanese media, willingly allowed themselves to be manipulated by Korea and China, continuing to diminish Japan through the stratagems of totalitarian and Nazi states, which I stopped with divine retribution, with the contemplation of Kūkai and the thunderous voice of Oda Nobunaga.
If the Japanese government had stood at the level of wisdom of the countless heroes throughout history, I would have been granted the highest vestments, like Musō Soseki.
As already noted, had I not written the above, the media such as Asahi would by now have begun a great chorus in newspapers and on television condemning any extension of the Abe administration’s term as outrageous.
To be continued.