This essay harshly indicts the “August Revolution theory,” the corruption of constitutional scholars, anti-Japan discourse by NHK and left-wing opinion leaders, and the structure of attacks on Japan carried out through the United Nations.
Through Shōichi Watanabe’s critique and the background of Yoichi Komori, it exposes the pathology that has dominated Japan’s postwar intellectual space.

2019-06-07
These left-wing infantiles, seeking to preserve their own domination, use men like David Kaye, the very lowest of the low, to have reports issued at the United Nations claiming that Japan has no freedom of the press, or that such freedom is under threat.

The following is reproduced from a book by the late Shōichi Watanabe, the finest book in the postwar world.
Constitutional scholars are rotten with the profits of defeat.
Professors in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo ought to have continued saying the kinds of things I have been saying until now.
But had they said such things, they would have been caught by the purge order from public office.
So Professor Miyazawa Toshiyoshi of the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law put forward the “August Revolution theory.”
The August Revolution theory is the academic theory that, by the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration in August of Shōwa 20 (1945), sovereignty shifted from the Emperor to the people, and that the Constitution of Japan was enacted by the people who had become the sovereign.
It interpreted the transfer of sovereignty as a revolution in the legal sense.
The root of all these evils lies in this Professor Miyazawa and his disciples.
Among them are the pathologically pacifist Professor Emeritus Nobuyoshi Ashibe of the University of Tokyo and Professor Emeritus Higuchi Yoichi of the University of Tokyo.
And what is frightening is that a constitution based on lies has become the way of thinking of the examiners for the bar examination and the civil service examinations.
This has done the greatest harm to Japan.
In other words, lies became power.
I have actually experienced proof that many constitutional scholars are frauds.
I first learned of the above-mentioned Higuchi Yoichi through NHK programs defending the Constitution, or special programs saying that Japan in the past was an evil country.
Now, on Close-up Gendai, hosted by a certain Takeda who behaves as though he were the representative face of NHK announcers, there is Kōichi Nakano of Sophia University, a man whose face itself makes one wonder whether such a person can really be a university professor, who provides materials to the delinquent foreigners entrenched in the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan…
Though they are fully enjoying life in Japan, not only the country with the highest freedom and intellect in the world, but also the safest country in the world and the finest and safest country of gourmet cuisine in the world, they are sending anti-Japan ideology, that is, articles attacking Japan, out to the world.
And there is also Yōichi Komori, whom I learned about below.
The mere fact that NHK uses such people as commentators makes it instantly clear what sort of people now dominate NHK’s news division.
The foolishness of Japan in continuing to let its national broadcaster be ruled by human beings who are like lumps of anti-Japan ideology has reached its extreme…
These left-wing infantiles, seeking to preserve their own domination, use men like David Kaye, the very lowest of the low, to have reports issued at the United Nations claiming that Japan has no freedom of the press or that it is under threat…
And they are working together with Takagi, Kaito, Mizuho Fukushima, and the like.
Below is a section I posted on 2017-10-08 under the title, “Like myself, most Japanese people must have known absolutely nothing about this person either.”
What follows is the result of my searching Wikipedia for a person I learned about through Rumiko Nishino.
Like myself, most Japanese people must have known absolutely nothing about this person either.
Like Nishino, such people were part of what Japan had been until now, secretly maneuvering on the stage of the United Nations and elsewhere in order to damage and wound the honor and credibility of the Japanese state and the Japanese people.
Yōichi Komori (scholar of Japanese literature),
Komori Yōichi (born May 14, 1953) is a Japanese scholar of Japanese literature.
He is a professor at the University of Tokyo.
His specialties are modern Japanese literature and structuralist semiotics.
He is the secretary-general of the nationwide “Article 9 Association.”
Profile.
Born in Tokyo.
Because of the work of his father, Komori Yoshio (1926-2008), who was a member of the Japanese Communist Party and served on its secretariat, he spent four years beginning in 1961 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, then a Soviet satellite state.
In Prague, he attended a Soviet school run directly by the Soviet Foreign Ministry for the children of cadres of foreign communist parties, and also joined the Pioneers, the youth organization of the Soviet and communist bloc.
Because of that, after returning to Japan, he struggled because he could speak only stiff, formulaic Japanese (Komori Yōichi, Nihongo ni Deau).
At the Faculty of Letters and graduate school of Hokkaido University, he studied under Hideo Kamei.
While still in graduate school, he worked as an instructor in modern Japanese at the Sapporo preparatory school Hokudai Gakuryoku Zōshinkai, and after serving at Seijō University, he took up his post at the University of Tokyo.
His mother is Komori Kōko, a poet, a director of the Tokyo Gensuikyō, a director of the Japan Peace Committee, a standing executive committee member of the Poets’ Conference, and a director of the Japan Children’s Protection Association.
He also has a coauthored work (Aoi Sora wa Aoi Mama de Kodomora ni Tsutaetai – Haha to Ko de Kataru Shōwa to Ima –).
As a scholar of Japanese literature.
In 1987, he drew attention by engaging in a controversy with University of Tokyo professor Yukio Miyoshi over the interpretation of Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro.
He reexamines attempts at Westernization in Japan from the Meiji period onward from the viewpoint of postcolonial theory, such as the formation of a colonial unconsciousness and excessive imitation of the great powers (Postcolonial).
Furthermore, he analyzes colonial elements in modern Japanese literature, especially in the works of Sōseki (Seikimatsu no Yogensha Natsume Sōseki, Sōseki o Yominaosu p.251).
As noted in the addendum to the second printing of The Modernity of the Japanese Language (Iwanami Shoten), many parts of that book drew upon the work of Yasuda Toshiro without annotation, and this became an issue (Sugā Hidemi, Empire Literature).
Also, in the lawsuit over the plagiarism issue concerning the NHK Taiga drama Haru no Hatō, he testified on NHK’s side as an expert in Japanese literature (Yamaguchi Reiko, NHK Hanrekiroku).
One of Komori Yōichi’s greatest contributions as a literary scholar lies in relativizing “literature” as a translated concept and in practicing “literature” as an indispensable part of historical research.
He also possesses deep knowledge of novel theory.
As a civic activist.
He is active in lectures and writing, but not only in literary criticism; he also makes political assertions.
At present, in order to protect the pacifism of Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, he is involved as secretary-general in the management of the “Article 9 Association,” which opposes constitutional revision, and he continues speaking at gatherings held around the country against both constitutional revision and the National Referendum Law, which is the procedural law for such revision, while also actively writing for print media (“New Year’s Greeting from the Secretary-General of the Article 9 Association”).
Also, seeing it as an opportunity to move away from the spirit of the Constitution and return to a state centered on the Emperor, he strongly opposed revision of the Fundamental Law of Education.
In 2004, he became one of the initiators of the “National Liaison Committee to Stop the Worsening of the Fundamental Law of Education,” and took part in movements opposing revision.
(It was dissolved in January 2007.)
In 1998, at the National Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of His Majesty the Emperor’s Enthronement, he and Hidetaka Ishida sent an “open letter of questions” regarding X JAPAN’s YOSHIKI performing a celebratory piece at the ceremony.
(YOSHIKI refused to receive it.)
At the academic symposium “What Is Asia?” sponsored by the Oriental Studies Liaison Committee of the Science Council of Japan on November 17, 2001, he stated that “the 9/11 terror attacks learned from Japan’s kamikaze special attack units.”
His colleague Tetsuya Takahashi, professor at the University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences and a French philosopher, can be described as an ally in the ideological sense (Beyond National History).
In Postwar Japan Studies 3: The 1980s and 1990s, he revealed that he himself is a Marxist.