This essay examines a March 2020 Upper House Budget Committee session, focusing on Renho’s remarks about testing numbers, the questioning style of Shunichi Mizuoka and other Constitutional Democratic Party lawmakers, and a comparison with American politics, asking what role Japan’s Diet should truly fulfill and what qualities politicians should possess.

April 21, 2020
The United States would never waste the time of a president who must fulfill the role of leader of the world with such matters.
Renho said something truly ridiculous, such as, “In the first place, I think the reason Japan has few infected people is that the number of tests is small.”
This is a republication of a chapter I sent out on March 16 under that title.
It is something that almost never happens, but in the morning I happened to switch on NHK television, and it was broadcasting live the questioning session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee.
Renho, who has continued to dodge the dual-nationality issue, wore the face of an agent of “justice and humanity” and, in a shrill voice, continued hurling abusive language at Prime Minister Abe.
In the course of this questioning, as if proving that she is also an agent of South Korea, she said something truly ridiculous, such as, “In the first place, I think the reason Japan has few infected people is that the number of tests is small.”
She and the Constitutional Democratic Party, siding with China and South Korea, must be unable to stop wanting to degrade Japan.
But when the Wuhan virus was finally becoming a pandemic throughout the world, all decent Japanese people must have recognized once again.
That Japan is the country with the highest medical standards in the world, and the country with the most complete medical facilities and equipment in the world.
And that this fact is outstanding.
The awfulness of the next questioner, a man named Shunichi Mizuoka, was again so bad that it made me want to vomit.
Judging from the fact that this man proudly talked about the organization from which he came, he is a person from the Japan Teachers’ Union.
It would be more accurate to say that this man is already a senile old man who makes his living by merchandising justice, humanity, and children.
The reality of the next man, Yoshifu Arita, is probably that he is a spokesman for the Korean Peninsula.
All of them belong to the Constitutional Democratic Party.
Giving such people an effective annual income of about 50 million yen is truly a waste of taxpayers’ money.
But together with the people who elected such figures, they side with China and the Korean Peninsula and continue to degrade Japan.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that their reality is that of traitors to the nation.
Since they cherish the Constitution that GHQ gave Japan after the war in order to weaken Japan permanently, they should also cherish the manner of American politics.
The President of the United States is not confined in Congress day after day and subjected to a barrage of questions from such legislators, questions that are the height of stupidity, the height of intellectual deficiency, and the height of malice whose only purpose is to degrade Japan.
The United States would never waste the time of a president who must fulfill the role of leader of the world with such matters.
The Constitutional Democratic Party and the people who elected them must not merely cherish and imitate the Constitution given by GHQ.
They must cherish and imitate the essence and reality of American politics itself.
Because Shunichi Mizuoka was so appalling, I searched for him and was even more astonished.
If such a person holds an important post in the Japan Teachers’ Union, Japanese education is in danger.
Shunichi Mizuoka.
Source: Free Encyclopedia “Wikipedia.”
Opening section omitted.
He was born in Takeno Town, Kinosaki District, Hyogo Prefecture, now Toyooka City.
His family home was engaged in the reworking of futons.
His father was adopted into the family and worked as a teacher.
When he was ten years old, he moved to the former Toyooka City.
He graduated from Toyooka Municipal Toyooka Elementary School, Toyooka Municipal Toyooka Minami Junior High School, Hyogo Prefectural Toyooka High School, and the Special Science Teacher Training Course of the Faculty of Education at Nara University of Education.
Later he became a local public servant and worked as a junior high school teacher in Miki City.
After working at the Japanese School in New Delhi, he served as a full-time officer of the Toban District of the Hyogo Prefecture Teachers’ Union, executive committee member of the Hyogo Prefecture Teachers’ Union, Hyogo Prefecture School Welfare Association, secretary-general of the Hyogo Education and Culture Research Institute, deputy secretary-general of the headquarters of the Hyogo Prefecture Teachers’ Union, and deputy director of the Hyogo Education and Culture Research Institute.
Omitted.
Policies, positions, and personality.
On January 8, 2008, he met with Mike Honda, a member of the United States House of Representatives who was visiting Japan, together with Mieko Kamimoto, Satsuki Eda, Tomoko Kami, Sohei Nihi, and others.
Honda had led the submission of United States House Resolution 121, which demanded an official apology from the Japanese government regarding the comfort women issue, and had it passed in the House of Representatives.
Mizuoka and the others expressed their gratitude for this.
In response, Honda said, “Getting Japanese people to admit guilt over the comfort women issue is a very difficult task, but I have the same heart as all of you.”
On April 21, 2010, he participated in a tenth-anniversary gathering for the submission of the “Bill to Promote the Resolution of the Issue of Victims of Wartime Sexual Coercion,” to which Kang Il-chul had been invited, and spoke of his strong desire to see the bill enacted.
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