Germany sustained long-term leadership under Angela Merkel and her predecessor Helmut Kohl.
Yet Asahi Shimbun, while urging Japan to “learn from Germany,” rejects political stability at home.
This essay exposes the contradiction and the broader consequences for Japan’s security and governance.

2016-07-10
The following continues from the previous chapter.
As a result of fieldwork spanning several years and covering nearly all provinces of China, he concluded that the essence of China as a nation was one of “plausible lies” and “bottomless evil.”
To that tradition was added the evil of one-party Communist dictatorship.
By the laws of history, such a one-party dictatorship is approaching its end, yet it is also a historical fact that it might have collapsed much earlier.
It is now a historical fact that Asahi Shimbun played a major role in prolonging its life and enabling it to attain its current level of economic presence.
In the anti-Japanese propaganda typified by the so-called Nanjing Massacre, Asahi Shimbun elevated a man named Katsumi Honda into a prominent reporter and carried the banner for that campaign.
It would be no exaggeration to say that there was not a single Japanese citizen who was unaffected by these lies.
As a result, Japan came to provide China with the largest financial and technological assistance in human history.
Until August of the year before last, people across all sectors and strata of Japanese society—the very core of the nation—did not merely trust and subscribe to Asahi Shimbun, but read it closely.
For countries possessing organizations such as the CIA and FBI, it goes without saying that considering how to exploit Asahi Shimbun would be only natural.
The reporting carried out by Asahi Shimbun, having swallowed those strategies whole, fully demonstrates this fact.
These Communist one-party dictators in China have, unbelievably, begun to plot world domination.
From the South China Sea and the Senkaku Islands to spearheading the construction of the Nicaragua Canal aimed at diminishing the role of the Panama Canal, they are not only creating conflicts across the globe but have begun challenging the United States itself.
Do they truly believe that the world will accept or welcome one-party Communist dictatorship?
In any case, they have begun acting in ways tantamount to madness.
Perhaps for that very reason, as China embarked on these actions, the world simultaneously became extremely unstable.
Amid this highly unstable and dangerous situation, the majority of Japanese citizens seek an even more stable government; this is reflected in the pre-election surveys for the House of Councillors showing the ruling parties’ overwhelming advantage.
Without creating an absolutely stable and strong government, it is impossible to deal with the current political and economic circumstances.
This is what many Japanese citizens with sound and natural judgment believe.
Of course, the appalling state of the so-called opposition parties may also be accelerating this trend.
Nevertheless, just a few days ago, Asahi Shimbun ran a large front-page headline claiming that pro-constitutional-revision forces were on the verge of exceeding a two-thirds majority.
This article proves the childish yet persistently malicious nature of Asahi Shimbun.
Not only does it fail to recognize that it is entirely natural for many Japanese citizens to conclude that confronting today’s extremely unstable and dangerous international political environment requires a stronger, more stable government with a solid foundation,
but perhaps, unaware that their distorted ideology is nearing its end, they are engaging in a final death struggle.
Asahi Shimbun thus slapped the label “pro-constitutional-revision forces” onto the entirely reasonable thinking of the Japanese people.
When one considers that Japan’s postwar seventy years were conducted under such childishness,
and that those seventy years have now passed, it is a chilling thought.
As a result, the bleak landscape of today’s world has spread before us.
They may not realize it, but those who created this are Asahi Shimbun, the so-called cultural figures who aligned with it, and the rulers of the countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” who have manipulated them.
They are among the greatest villains in human history, having halted the progress of the “Turntable of Civilization.”
The crimes of those villains who engaged in unbelievable obstruction of business, defamation, and online slander at the time of publication of my Turntable of Civilization were far deeper and heavier than what the detectives who worked diligently for a year and a half, or the prosecutors who proved utterly useless, could ever imagine.
They desperately want to prevent an overwhelming victory by the ruling parties.
In other words, they seek to weaken Japanese politics.
That is the reporting posture of Asahi Shimbun.
All Japanese citizens, young and old alike, must firmly understand that the only ones who rejoice in Japan returning to the weak administrations, weak politics, and dysfunctional governance that existed before Prime Minister Abe are Asahi Shimbun, the newspapers aligned with it such as Mainichi and Tokyo, the one-party Communist dictators of China, and the totalitarians of South Korea.
Many readers and viewers should know that Asahi Shimbun and those who align with it have long insisted that Japan should “learn from Germany.”
During her tenure, Chancellor Angela Merkel served for ten years, while her predecessor Helmut Kohl remained in office for sixteen years.
Yet most of those people are likely unaware of this fact.
Asahi Shimbun and its sympathizers should be the first to learn from the examples of these two leaders.
Otherwise, their repeated call to “learn from Germany” merely proves that they have been spokespeople for totalitarian states such as South Korea and China, driven by distorted ideology, a desire to keep Japan in the position of a political prisoner, to brand Japan as a nation equally guilty of Nazi crimes, to weaken Japan politically, and to extract money whenever convenient.
To be continued.