August 19, 2020
This is a republication of a chapter originally published on February 22, 2020, under the title, “It is no exaggeration at all to say that the essence of dictatorships and totalitarian states is to call black white and to call black white.”
The reason requires no explanation.
Just now, while watching TV Tokyo’s WBS, I saw footage of Trump speaking at a rally, saying, “The Academy Awards this year were terrible… Why did a Korean film win Best Picture?… We are having problems with South Korea over trade and other matters, and yet they gave the highest film award to a Korean movie.”
It was deeply satisfying to hear.
I even thought there was a strong possibility that Trump had been reading my blog.
As I have mentioned several times regarding Trump, an assessment made by a Chinese government official when he was elected struck precisely at the heart of the matter.
He said, “Ordinary politicians all enter politics and accumulate wealth. But he is already a billionaire and still wants to become a politician. That is what makes him admirable…”
Trump stands at the opposite pole from the conduct of Biden of the U.S. Democratic Party, as revealed by Watanabe Soki, whom I regard as the finest modern and contemporary scholar of Japan-U.S. relations, and from the conduct of the Clintons, Senator Feinstein, and others.
Yesterday came the designation and decision by the U.S. government concerning Xinhua News Agency and other organizations.
Even as of today, NHK has not reported it at all.
The behavior of NHK, the Asahi Shimbun, and others is nothing less than the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
There was also the remark, “Who said Taiwan was part of one China…?”
It is no exaggeration at all to say that the essence of a one-party Communist dictatorship, a totalitarian state, is to call black white and to call black white.
This applies to virtually everything.
What makes them truly malicious is that they force the other party to accept it.
The Asahi Shimbun and others, NHK, and so-called intellectuals have readily submitted to that pressure.
Their intellectual framework completely rejects Japan as it existed before the war.
Yet Japanese people before the war saw through what the author regarded as the essential characteristics of Chinese and Korean people, and unlike postwar Japanese, they were never continuously trampled upon at will.
In other words, the author argues that Japanese people before the war were, as human beings, far superior to their postwar counterparts.