This essay argues that China’s influence operations in Japan are highly strategic and sophisticated, highlighting the dangers of honey traps and the vulnerability of Japan’s media, political, and intellectual circles. It also points to cases allegedly underreported because they are unfavorable to China and discusses the Asahi Shimbun’s role in Osaka redevelopment, presenting a broader critique of structural weaknesses within Japanese society.

2019-04-10
The kind of appearance and beauty of skin that irresistibly stir the Japanese heart….
There are hardly any people who could withstand the female operatives handpicked by the Chinese government.

A chapter I published on 2019-04-07 under the title Japan’s Chinese spy apparatus is truly ingenious and rich in strategic sophistication has entered the official hashtag ranking at No. 6 in Argentina.
A chapter I published on 2018-05-30 under the title The following three journalists are Class-A war criminals who bear a duty of explanation to the people: 1. Yomiuri Shimbun’s Tomoko Echizenya has also entered the official hashtag ranking at No. 6 in Argentina.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.

In the comment section of the above blog, there was also a post like the following.
In the past as well, after visiting China, there have been countless people, regardless of whether they belonged to the political world, the bureaucracy, or the private sector, who seemed as if they had been brainwashed, changing their prior views and statements by one hundred and eighty degrees and going beyond being pro-China to becoming like Chinese agents.
So this time too, that will probably happen.
What kind of danger does it imply that nearly 150 puppet politicians hold seats in the Diet?
Even an elementary school child ought to understand that.
Sure enough, it appears that among this visiting delegation to China there were lawmakers and related persons who were caught in honey traps.
Also, if one searches the names of Kenzaburo Oe, Shuichi Kato, and Makoto Oda together with the term “honey trap,” results do appear.
Perhaps those on the left, too, fell into honey traps.

Moreover, among the cases of media non-reporting introduced on my blog, there are cases unfavorable to China.
Among the cases I know of alone are the acts of violence during the Nagano Olympic torch relay, China’s aircraft carrier construction, follow-up reporting on the poisoned dumpling incident, organ harvesting, health damage from nuclear testing, the Uyghur issue, China’s opposition to continental shelf applications, the claim that more than 65 percent of organ donors were death-row prisoners, the expansion of the Tuidang movement, and cases in Spain and Argentina involving accusations of genocide against Jiang Zemin.

If one takes into account that China has as many as 5,000 honey-trap operatives targeting important figures all over the world, then it would not be strange to think that the mass media throughout Japan, too, have fallen prey to China’s honey traps.

*Yesterday, I was having dinner at a very delicious restaurant in Kyoto, not an inexpensive one….
Even though it was a weekday, it was extremely deserted….
Deflation still has not been fully overcome….
The former Miyako Hotel at Keage, which I loved so much….
It too was loved by Chaplin, his regular inn in the Japan and Kyoto he loved, and it had a magnificent Chinese restaurant commanding a full view of the Kyoto scenery he loved, but it ended up closing after all.
Two young women of Chinese background—Chinese, Taiwanese, or Hong Kong—came in and sat diagonally in front of me.
The woman seated opposite me had an appearance no different at all from that of a young and beautiful Japanese woman, and she had the air of belonging to the wealthy class in Chinese society.
At that moment, a sudden thought struck me like lightning….
That almost everyone, except perhaps a man who had lived a life like Prime Minister Abe’s….
Including myself, if I were targeted with a honey trap by such a woman….
Would surely fall into the honey traps set by China or the Korean Peninsula.
The kind of appearance and beauty of skin that irresistibly stir the Japanese heart….
There are hardly any people who could withstand the female operatives handpicked by the Chinese government.

The Asahi Shimbun and the like had a project on which they had staked their company’s fate….
All the more so because it is a newspaper that should by rights have been consigned to abolition, and because they were shifting their main business model away from the newspaper business, where subscribers were plummeting, toward real estate….
In Osaka, which was groaning under severe decline….
In Osaka, which had been hit head-on by the effects of Tokyo’s one-pole concentration to the point that it would not be an exaggeration to say that office-building management itself could hardly be sustained….
There was the Nakanoshima Twin Towers project, on which they had staked their company’s fate….
Because the project had been decided long before August five years earlier….
And because, as Kenichi Ohmae made clear, they used the power of what was at the time a newspaper company that virtually dominated politics—the mightiest “fourth estate”—to force the floor-area ratio of a commercial site on weak riverside ground from 1,000 percent to 1,600 percent….
The completion date of the project on which they had staked their company’s future—that is, the timing of tenant recruitment—would have overlapped exactly with the first-stage development of the North Yard if that had proceeded as planned….
And so, because this newspaper company always thought only of what lay directly before it and never of the national interest, it cared nothing whatsoever about the North Yard, which was the key to Osaka’s revival—in other words, about Osaka’s rebirth.
This company, wicked to the extreme, used an entire front page to write up the confusion over the North Yard, and in the end, through one of its useful associates, a former female employee of Takenaka Corporation who served as an executive secretary of Keizai Doyukai….

They even got then-Kankeiren chairman Shimotsuma to say, “Why not stop the second-stage sale and turn it into a green park?”
Build a park at Ginza 4-chome, build a park on New York’s Fifth Avenue, on Paris’s Champs-Élysées, on Rome’s Via Condotti….
Just when I thought I had crushed this evil deed after fighting it alone for three months, they then got then-Osaka mayor Hiramatsu to use tax money to campaign for building a soccer stadium and inviting the World Cup.
At that time, the person in charge of this matter at the soccer association must remember telling me, “If you truly wish to invite the World Cup and energize Japan….
Why not ask His Majesty the Emperor? Surely His Majesty would gladly respond to your noble sentiments by offering a tiny part of the Imperial Palace grounds….
If you absolutely insist on building a soccer stadium in Umeda, then pay more than 100 million yen per tsubo and buy the land first….
Because this place is, in substance, an asset of the people….
And because of the 30 trillion yen deficit of the Japanese National Railways that we are still bearing even now…,” thus admonishing me.
To be safe, I also told FIFA….
Where in the world is there a fool who would build a soccer stadium on New York’s Fifth Avenue, on Paris’s Champs-Élysées, or on Rome’s Via Condotti?
If you absolutely want to hold it in Umeda, then buy the land for more than 100 million yen per tsubo….
For this is, without exaggeration, Japan’s foremost commercial district, a superlative No. 1 area….
The fact that I admonished them in this way, too, is something the world is learning for the first time now.*

To be continued.