Yoshiko Sakurai argues that the Wuhan virus exposed not only the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party, but also Japan’s abnormal condition as a country lacking the authority of a real state, able only to make requests and instructions rather than issue binding orders even in an emergency.

May 21, 2020
The Wuhan virus exposed the true face of China, but it also inevitably made clear the abnormality of our own country.
Japan is an abnormal country that can hardly be called a state.
The following is a continuation of the opening chapter of Yoshiko Sakurai’s book, The Lies of the Pro-China Faction, published on May 12.
She is a “national treasure” as defined by Saicho, and one of Japan’s treasures.
Japan Exposed by the Virus
The Wuhan virus exposed the true face of China, but it also inevitably made clear the abnormality of our own country.
Japan is an abnormal country that can hardly be called a state.
For example, at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s press conference on March 14, 2020, there was an extremely strange question.
Yasumi Iwakami, representing an internet business operator, asked the following.
“The state of emergency declaration included in the Special Measures Act. When this is issued, private rights will be restricted, but will freedom of the press and freedom of speech be guaranteed? Also, Prime Minister, you are very enthusiastic about constitutional revision, and in the Liberal Democratic Party’s draft constitutional revision, emergency provisions are included alongside the revision of Article 9. There is concern that this emergency declaration under the Special Measures Act will serve as a foothold to accustom the people, and that after that these emergency provisions will be introduced. These provisions are extremely powerful and include contents that would make an Abe dictatorship possible. I would very much like you to answer on this point.”
Even if a state of emergency declaration were issued, where on earth would there be a path leading to an “Abe dictatorship”?
Japan’s state of emergency declaration and the state of emergency declarations of other countries are similar in name but entirely different in substance.
In our country, what the government can do is make requests and issue instructions to the people.
It cannot issue orders.
In addition, the main actors who make requests and issue instructions are not the prime minister, but the governors of each local government.
Requests and instructions by governors are not accompanied by penalties and have no binding force.
The state of emergency declaration has absolutely nothing to do with an “Abe dictatorship.”
In other words, asking the question with the strong phrase “Abe dictatorship” was completely off the mark.
Nevertheless, the media write as if the declaration would lead to dictatorship by the administration, arbitrary unilateral action, and tyrannical behavior.
Newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, and the Tokyo Shimbun and Chunichi Shimbun publish articles that deliberately create such an impression.
This kind of reporting, repeated again and again, may work like body blows and steer public opinion in a certain direction, toward the view that the government is sinister and could become tyrannical.
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