Using President Trump’s statement on the “National Day for the Victims of Communism” as a starting point, this chapter argues that the threat of communism/totalitarianism remains ongoing, not historical.
It outlines the Comintern’s strategy of infiltrating media, labor unions, governments, and militaries to engineer war and defeat, then seize power in the resulting chaos—what is called a “defeat revolution.”
North Korea emerged from that sequence, and Japan was also a target; the author insists this basic recognition is critically missing in today’s Japan.

2019-01-28
Such a basic recognition is decisively lacking in Japan today.
The “defeat revolution” that struck North Korea also had Japan as its target.
A chapter I posted on 2018-10-20, titled “Since the last century, totalitarian regimes run by communists around the world have killed more than 100 million people, and have subjected even more to exploitation, violence, and immense misery,” ranked 16th in goo’s search ranking yesterday.
The following is from the latest book by Ezaki Michio, who graduated from Kyushu University, became a commentator, and has continued the research and verification that a true man of letters must undertake, producing authentic works of labor.
It is a genuine book that everyone who aspires to enter Kyushu University, as well as current students and alumni, should go to the nearest bookstore and purchase immediately.
Japan’s Occupation and the Peril of the “Defeat Revolution.”
Introduction—The crisis of the “defeat revolution” that struck Japan after its defeat.
War is frightening.
In fact, just as frightening as war is communism.
And the threat of communism has not ended.
It is an ongoing “threat” in the present tense—this is President Donald Trump’s recognition in the United States.
Japan’s mass media ignored it, but when President Trump visited South Korea on November 7, 2017, he designated that day as the “National Day for The Victims of Communism” and issued the following statement.
“Today’s National Day for the Victims of Communism commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
The Bolshevik Revolution gave rise to the Soviet Union and decades of oppressive communist darkness.
Communism is a political ideology incompatible with liberty, prosperity, and the dignity of human life.
Since the last century, totalitarian regimes run by communists around the world have killed more than 100 million people, and have subjected even more to exploitation, violence, and immense misery.
Under a false veneer of freedom, these activities systematically deprived innocent people of God-given rights: the free exercise of religion, freedom of association, and many other rights of the highest sanctity.
Citizens who longed for freedom were subjugated through oppression, violence, and fear.
Today, we remember those who have perished and we stand in solidarity with all who still suffer under communism.
Recalling them, and honoring the unyielding spirit of those who fought to spread freedom and opportunity around the world, our nation reaffirms its resolute commitment to shine the light of liberty for all who yearn for a brighter and freer future.”
(The English original is in White House press materials.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/national-day-victims-communism/
The Japanese translation is in “Donald Trump NEWS.”
https://www.trumpnewsjapan.info/2017/11/09/national-day-for-the-victims-of-communism/
The key points of this statement are four.
First, on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, it once again emphasized the problems of communism.
Behind this lies the fact that in the United States today, a trend is strengthening among the left-liberal side to sympathize with communism and to view liberalism and democracy as enemies.
Second, by stating that “totalitarian regimes run by communists around the world have killed more than 100 million people, and have subjected even more to exploitation, violence, and immense misery,” it pointed out that in the twentieth century the greatest number of victims was produced not by war but by communism.
Third, by saying, “we remember those who have perished and we stand in solidarity with all who still suffer under communism,” it pointed out that the threat of communism is ongoing in the present tense.
In Japan, with the end of the Cold War, a “misunderstanding” was spread as if the age of ideological confrontation had ended.
But President Trump is an extremely rare leader who understands that the threat of communism and its variant, totalitarianism, is ongoing in North Korea and in China.
Because this is not understood, much of Japan’s Trump reporting is off the mark.
Incidentally, the day after issuing this statement, President Trump visited China.
He showed a basic philosophy: he will deal with the Chinese Communist Party government for the peace and economic interests of the Asia-Pacific, but that does not mean he intends to forget “all who still suffer under communism.”
And fourth, while he upholds America First and places national interest first, he declared that, “honoring the unyielding spirit of those who fought to spread freedom and opportunity around the world, our nation reaffirms its resolute commitment to shine the light of liberty for all who yearn for a brighter and freer future,” meaning that he will work with allied nations that fight communism and totalitarianism and will maintain a policy of defending the freedom of the “world.”
What made this “anti-communist” statement more concrete was President Trump’s speech the next day, November 8, in the National Assembly of South Korea.
(For the full text, refer to the Yomiuri Shimbun dated November 9, 2017.)
What stands out in this speech is that he describes in detail the hardship of the North Korean people suffering under the Kim Jong-un regime.
“The miracle of South Korea extends only to the point where the armies of free nations advanced in 1953—only to a point exactly 24 miles north of Seoul.
It ended there.
Everything stopped.
A dead end.
Prosperity stopped there, and unfortunately from that point begins the prison state, North Korea.”
Then what is a “prison state.”
“North Korean workers labor for long hours under unbearable conditions, exhausted, for almost no pay.
Recently, all workers were ordered to labor for 70 consecutive days.
If they want to rest, they must pay money.
North Korean families live in homes without water supply or drainage, and fewer than half have electricity.
Parents bribe teachers to exempt sons and daughters from being sent to forced labor.
In the 1990s, more than one million people starved to death.
Deaths from hunger continue today.
About 30 percent of children under five suffer stunted growth due to malnutrition.
In 2012 and 2013, the North Korean regime built more monuments, towers, and statues praising its dictators than ever before, and the cost is estimated at about 200 million dollars.
This amounts to about half of the budget that could have been used to improve the lives of the people.”
In Japan, “black companies” are a problem, but North Korea is nothing of that kind.
While only the cadres of the one-party dictatorship, the Workers’ Party of Korea, live in luxury, many ordinary households still have no running water and no electricity.
Naturally, there are no air conditioners either.
There is not enough food, and more than a million people starved to death, but if one criticizes such conditions, one is sent to a forced labor camp, tortured, raped, and killed.
A communist regime is a political system in which, under a small privileged class, many common people are oppressed, cannot obtain a decent meal no matter how hard they work, cannot even bathe, and are killed if they complain.
That terrifying system exists right next to Japan.
Then why did North Korea become such a cruel communist regime.
North Korea’s tragedy was born from Soviet and Comintern operations and from the last war and Japan’s defeat.
In the first place, the communist regime appeared in human history through the Russian Revolution of 1917.
The Soviet Union, the world’s first communist state, troublingly constructed a network of communists around the world called the Comintern and carried out operations against various countries in pursuit of a world “communist” revolution.
Specifically, they sent “agents” into the media, labor unions, governments, and militaries of countries around the world, secretly influenced public opinion in those countries, and sought to manipulate the politics of the target nations.
Their purpose was to set capitalist countries against each other, cause war, drive them to defeat, then seize power at once amid the resulting chaos and establish communist party regimes.
This is called a “defeat revolution.”
I detailed the reality of the Comintern’s operations against Japan in my book published in 2017, “The Comintern’s Plot and Japan’s Defeat” (PHP Shinsho), and I begin from the Meiji Restoration in order to clarify Japan’s challenges as it was tossed about by Comintern operations.
For details, I ask you to read my book, but since the Meiji era Japan had two worlds—“the Japan of ordinary people” and “the Japan of elites”—and they were separated.
Unlike the ordinary people, many of the elites were taught to make light of Japan’s traditions and were driven into a spiritual void.
Moreover, from the Taisho period onward, the “elites” placed in a condition of “loss of homeland and tradition” were mainly subdivided into the following three groups.
The first, against the background of the Great Depression and based on distrust that “capitalism is already finished,” plunged into socialism—the group of “left-wing totalitarianism.”
From the early Showa period onward, scholars, journalists, bureaucrats, and military men belonging to this group sympathized with Soviet and Comintern “secret operations” and guided Japan into war with Britain and the United States.
A representative figure was Ozaki Hotsumi of the Asahi Shimbun, who served as an adviser to Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro.
The second group respected the Imperial Household and emphasized the Imperial Rescript on Education, yet regarded the United States and Britain, which upheld capitalism, as enemies, and while inwardly sympathizing with socialism, believed that suppressing the “left wing” and turning politics into a “bureaucratic dictatorship” was necessary for prosecuting the war, and that this was how to protect the “national polity”—the group of “right-wing totalitarianism.”
This group led the movement from the May 15 Incident to the February 26 Incident and on to the Imperial Rule Assistance Association.
The third group, while arduously studying the political tradition since Prince Shotoku on their own, respected parliamentary democracy, opposed a controlled economy, maintained vigilance toward the Comintern’s “operations against Japan,” and sought to protect “orderly freedom under the Imperial Household”—the group of “conservative liberalism.”
“Right-wing totalitarians” and “conservative liberals” agreed in revering the Imperial Household and respecting tradition, but they were completely different in terms of freedom of speech, parliamentary democracy, economic policy, and so on.
Therefore, “conservative liberals” such as Dr. Minobe Tatsukichi were suppressed by the “right-wing totalitarians” who led the government and the military, and Japan proceeded toward “anti-American, pro-Soviet” and “from a controlled economy to totalitarianism,” was driven into war with the United States, and then into defeat.
As a result of this defeat, the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, which had been under Japan’s control, was occupied by the Soviet army, and backed by Soviet military power, communist forces led by Kim Il-sung (the Workers’ Party of Korea) declared the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in September 1948.
It is the sequence of Comintern operations against Japan and the United States, the outbreak of the U.S.-Japan war, Japan’s defeat, the Soviet occupation of northern Korea under Japan’s control, the Workers’ Party seizing power with Soviet support, and the establishment of a communist regime.
North Korea was born as a result of Soviet and Comintern operations for a “defeat revolution” against Japan.
Such a basic recognition is decisively lacking in Japan today.
The “defeat revolution” that struck North Korea also had Japan as its target.
Most people have not noticed it, but Japan too might have become a communist regime under Soviet influence, like North Korea.
This is the theme of this book.
To be continued.