This essay, written on February 3, 2019, examines the news site LITERA, known for its large volume of anti-Abe and anti-LDP articles, and raises questions about possible information warfare within Japan’s media environment. Referring to the legacy of Uwasa no Shinso and connections with Yasumori Okadome, the author presents the hypothesis that media narratives such as the Moritomo and Kake issues may involve influence operations linked to China or the Korean Peninsula, warning of the dangers of organized information campaigns.

February 3, 2019
Even today it continues to publish numerous false articles about the U.S. military’s Osprey and to attack groups it dislikes by labeling them “Netouyo,” showing that its tendencies have not changed.

A chapter I published on March 31, 2018 titled “If he is now living in Okinawa, doesn’t everything match like a rakugo three-topic story?” has now entered the top ten in Goo’s search rankings.
What follows is an article I discovered earlier today after encountering the strange website called LITERA and searching for information about it online.
I am convinced that the speculation in the article below is 100 percent correct.
Furthermore, when one learns that the operating company is connected to the former magazine Uwasa no Shinso, and that its manager was Yasumori Okadome, the very man who ran that magazine and who now resides in Okinawa, everything seems to fit together like the elements of a rakugo three-topic story.

This site called LITERA is apparently regarded on the internet as even lower than the extremely anti-Japan site Nikkan Gendai.
Those with keen insight probably already know that Chinese or Korean Peninsula funds are flowing into both Nikkan Gendai and LITERA.
In any case, the methods of China and the Korean Peninsula are insidious and persistent.
They truly demonstrate the full power of “bottomless malice” and “plausible lies.”

On page 7 of today’s Sankei Shimbun there is an interview with Jiang Longfan, head of the Korean Peninsula Research Center at Tianjin Foreign Studies University in China, under the column “The Korean Peninsula — My View.”
When I saw him casually saying, “Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has escaped his immediate domestic political crisis…,” I became convinced that intelligence operations by China and the Korean Peninsula existed behind the Moritomo and Kake scandals.

I also learned that the manager of Uwasa no Shinso mentioned above was a man named Yasumori Okadome.
It also became clear that this man graduated from Hosei University… that Hosei University has been a stronghold of radical groups… and that the man who married Kuwako also graduated from Hosei University and joined a commercial broadcasting company.

Yasumori Okadome… born in Sueyoshi Town, Soo District, Kagoshima Prefecture.
He belonged to the baseball club at Miyakonojo Izumigaoka High School in Miyazaki Prefecture.
After entering the Faculty of Sociology at Hosei University he became active in the student movement and joined the Proletarian Student Alliance, a structural-reform left group, during his third year.
After graduating in 1970 he withdrew from the student movement following the 1970 security treaty protests.
He re-entered the Faculty of Law and while studying worked part-time as a construction laborer in Takadanobaba.
He graduated in 1972.

After suspending publication of Uwasa no Shinso with the April 2004 issue he moved to Okinawa Prefecture and currently writes the column “Monday Debate” once a month for Tokyo Sports.
As of September 2013 he is the proprietor of a snack bar called “Sakedokoro Kawaraya Bekkan” in Naha City.

It is obvious that such a man could not operate a site like this on his own.

The following is an article found on the internet.

When I looked at the site LITERA I felt something strange.
It is filled almost entirely with anti-Abe and anti-LDP news.
Incidentally, 13 out of the top 20 trending topics are criticism of the government.
I am not trying to defend the Abe administration.
But this site seems strange beyond the categories of right and left.
What do those who know about it think, and what is your impression when you look at it now?

At first glance the site appears to be an ordinary left-wing site, or one that pretends to support the left, but it makes one imagine that something far more frightening may actually be at work behind it.
To put it bluntly, I suspect that the management is not radical Japanese leftists but money and people from the peninsula or the continent.

It is already said that the media are largely controlled by Korea and China, especially resident Koreans in Japan.
With such information power, financial resources, and personnel, creating a site like this would be easy.
Good-natured and careless Japanese readers might mistakenly believe it represents “public opinion.”
That is probably exactly what the site aims to achieve.
It is impossible to do such things with the information power of an individual alone.
It is natural to think that a large organization stands behind it.

If that were the case, it would indeed be frightening.
If they are trying to brainwash the Japanese people through information warfare…

“Is LITERA a conspiracy site run by people from the peninsula or the continent?”
What do you think about this hypothesis?

June 24, 2017 16:50:22

When I investigated I found the following explanation.

LITERA is an extreme left-wing news site.

[Overview]
It is a site affiliated with Cyzo and is operated by the editorial staff of the now-defunct anti-establishment magazine Uwasa no Shinso.
It can essentially be considered the online version of Uwasa no Shinso.

[Editorial stance]
During the era of Uwasa no Shinso, it spread rumors about the Imperial Family and even suffered attacks from right-wing groups.
Its stance was not merely liberal but rather extreme left.
Even today it continues to publish many false articles about the U.S. military’s Osprey and to target groups it dislikes by labeling them “Netouyo.”

As mentioned above, this is a news site that strongly prioritizes ideology over factual accuracy, so it is not recommended to cite or use LITERA articles as sources.
Incidentally, on the 2ch News Flash+ board, threads based on LITERA sources are banned, and it is treated as even lower than Nikkan Gendai.