Written on May 16, 2019, this essay warns that Chinese and South Korean acquisition of land around remote islands and military facilities, loopholes in the student visa and public health insurance systems, and the activities of Confucius Institutes are endangering the foundations of Japan’s national security and society because of the inaction of politicians, administrators, and defense authorities.

2019-05-16
Land transactions by foreigners are also in a sieve-like state, and Chinese and South Korean capital are doing whatever they please.
First, Tsushima, which suffers from population outflow and depopulation, has become a target of South Korean capital.
This is a chapter published on 2019-02-19 under the title, “It is known among those in the know that the Japanese police authorities have placed it under ‘kōkaku (behavioral monitoring).’”
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The book discussed in the previous chapter is truly a warning to the age, but it is also a book that proves how closely Japan’s political operators… all of the opposition parties, as well as mass media such as Asahi and NHK, are equivalent to traitors to the nation.
Every Japanese citizen who can read print should dash to the nearest bookstore and buy it.
They will turn the pages all at once.
The following is from the prologue.
Introduction.
In every era, Kyushu and the Southwestern Islands were the front line of national defense.
Now, however, the defense line has been broken through unnoticed, and even the Tokyo metropolitan area is being quietly invaded.
Posing as well-intentioned foreign students and operating through legal commercial transactions, they have begun to put down deep and quiet roots in the daily lives of us Japanese.
In a depopulated town in Miyazaki Prefecture, a high school has appeared in which 90 percent of the students are Chinese foreign students.
At one point, even a branch campus in Tokyo of a private university based in Fukuoka Prefecture had incoming classes in which over 90 percent were Chinese.
Many foreigners, including Chinese, are probably earnest students or workers who came to Japan after undergoing a certain degree of screening both in Japan and in their home countries.
However, it is also true that, for the receiving side, realities that cannot be dealt with by mere idealistic words alone are beginning to surface.
In the United States, “Confucius Institutes,” which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has explicitly declared to be subjects of investigation, have in our country been allowed to keep offices and classrooms at as many as 14 universities without their method of operation being broadly questioned, and are attempting to begin indoctrination education aimed at ensuring that no words or actions run counter to the intentions of the Chinese Communist Party.
It is known among those in the know that the Japanese police authorities have placed this under “kōkaku (behavioral monitoring).”
Some come with student visas, others come from mainland China as family members, form exclusive overseas Chinese communities, and cause friction with Japanese residents.
They snap back in anger at Japanese neighborhood association officers who advise them to follow apartment-complex rules, such as sorting garbage and not making noise that disturbs the neighborhood.
Among them are shameless people who snarl in broken Japanese, “Shut up, we’ll take it over!”
There are also increasing cases in which people falsely declare the purpose of their coming to Japan and receive expensive medical treatment at low cost even though they have never paid insurance premiums at all.
Moreover, Chinese brokers have appeared who arrange this as a business, increasing the number of Chinese who feed on the Japanese people’s tax money.
If these are left alone and increase exponentially, our country’s health insurance system, which is sustained by trust, will collapse.
From the standpoint of Japanese who diligently pay their insurance premiums, it is utterly unfair.
Forty percent of medical expenses are covered by taxes.
In a society like ours, where the number of elderly people keeps increasing, this is a grave problem.
However, such cases are only the tip of the iceberg.
One can easily obtain a visa or permanent residency in a country where the air is clean, goods are abundant, and courteous people live, and in some cases even citizenship.
And if, on top of that, one can receive expensive medical care cheaply through the latest medical equipment and medical technology, then it is only natural that not only Chinese people, but others as well, would want to come to Japan.
And if that is legal, they too would probably think they have no reason to be complained about.
Furthermore, it is not only loopholes in the medical system that are being targeted.
Land transactions by foreigners are also in a sieve-like state, and Chinese and South Korean capital are doing whatever they please.
First, Tsushima, which suffers from population outflow and depopulation, has become a target of South Korean capital.
There, land has been bought up by South Korean capital so extensively that it now surrounds the area around the Maritime Self-Defense Force base.
A scene that could never occur around naval bases in Washington, the American capital where the author once lived, was spread out there.
In a country like China… one would be arrested merely for happening to go near a base and taking photographs, and would likely be detained for a long period like the Itochu employee and about ten others.
In time, China too will surely come in here, changing its methods in one way after another.
Who was it, and why, that they stood by helplessly until buyouts took place?
The responsibility of the state, which has left unregulated such land transactions by foreigners, is heavy.
In other words, the greatest problem is the inaction and negligence of politics and administration, which have allowed this reality while making no effort to close the loopholes in the law.
The Ministry of Defense is equally guilty.
Even though it was offered sales of surrounding land, such inaction as “refusing on the grounds of insufficient budget” (testimony of local residents) is even criminal, and is also a betrayal of the citizens who fulfill their duty to pay taxes.
In addition to this, there has also emerged the issue of large cruise ships carrying 2,000 to 6,000 Chinese passengers calling at remote islands, specifically Nishikomi settlement on Amami Oshima.
What exactly is intended by bringing several thousand Chinese into a settlement of only 35 people?
The area around Nishikomi settlement in Setouchi Town on Amami Oshima is close to a top-secret training area of the Ground Self-Defense Force’s prized Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, and in the surrounding area a surface-to-ship missile base is also under construction.
In the end, the Japanese themselves are inviting such circumstances and trying to dig their own grave.
The same is true of defense issues and of the student issue.
The author’s impression through reporting is that the burden is falling on economically vulnerable Japanese people, who cannot move even if they want to because of noise damage, and who cannot receive expensive medical treatment even if they need it.
This essay will continue.