Originally published on July 21, 2019.
This essay discusses NHK’s reporting on the deployment of Aegis Ashore in Akita Prefecture, local opposition movements, Defense Ministry briefing sessions, the Araya Exercise Area of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Akita Garrison, and the response of Governor Satake.
It criticizes the neglect of the national-defense significance of placing defense facilities at strategic points, condemns NHK’s extensive coverage of opposition movements, and questions the self-awareness of Akita residents as Japanese citizens.

2019-07-21
Even if, in a national election, they make victorious a candidate put forward by the Constitutional Democratic Party or the Communist Party, parties that it would be no exaggeration at all to call groups of agents for China and the Korean Peninsula, I will probably feel nothing.
I say this to the people of Akita Prefecture.
After the government decided that Aegis Ashore would be installed in Yamaguchi Prefecture and Akita Prefecture to protect all of Japan and the Japanese people from missile attacks by anti-Japanese states, NHK’s Watch 9 gleefully took a long segment to report that the mayor of the relevant district in Akita Prefecture—though of course the installation site is in the mountains—had raised a voice of opposition.
That was the first I learned of this matter.
Now, when I searched to confirm the name of the town in the relevant district, I was made to recognize once again the maliciousness of NHK’s news department.
Because that broadcast made it seem as if it would be installed in the mountain area of the relevant town.
But what is it really?
It is simply a matter of installing it at the Araya Exercise Area of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s Akita Garrison!
Is it not already clear that the reality is this: people under the influence of the Communist Party, which from the beginning regards the Self-Defense Forces as unconstitutional and hostile, are carrying out activities, and the 5 percent Communist elements who have infiltrated NHK and dominate its news department are using the public airwaves to launch an attack on the administration in order to make this an issue in the coming House of Councillors election?
First, what I thought was strange at the time was that a man was serving as mayor—the stage setting was also elaborate—and they said this man was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party; this town suffers from depopulation, and it is well known that Akita Prefecture has the largest population decline in Japan, which means Akita Prefecture as a whole suffers from depopulation.
So they began a movement to attract people from outside the prefecture.
A woman said to be in the first group was the very person who brought about this uproar.
As I watched this woman, who hid her face while answering the interview, I was convinced that she was certainly an operative.
“I moved here because I accepted the town’s invitation, but if Aegis Ashore is installed, I will have no choice but to leave…”.
The mayor was extremely close to this woman, and so he set out in opposition.
To begin with, it is strange in itself that NHK, which in substance is Japan’s state broadcaster, would report such a structure on a large scale in its flagship news program as if their activities were correct.
Originally, it should have spoken about the honor of having been chosen as a place to defend Japan’s land and protect the Japanese people.
As I watched, thinking that the people who dominate NHK’s news department are truly vicious, they began saying that it was outrageous that the Ministry of Defense had quoted its map from Google Maps.
In the end, they began making a fuss as if it were a major problem that there was a two-meter difference in the listed height.
And they made the Ministry of Defense hold a meeting under the name of an explanation session.
The people who work in Kasumigaseki are, from the beginning, in an environment that it would not be an exaggeration to call the original black company.
Working until late at night is common, and staying overnight is frequent.
As already mentioned, the son of an acquaintance of mine, a student at the finest national university in the Kinki region, had made Kasumigaseki his first choice in job hunting, but he said, “I was overwhelmed by the severity of the way they work,” and decided to take a job at a private company.
When Fusae Ota, former governor of Osaka Prefecture, had graduated from the University of Tokyo with excellent grades and was serving as a section chief at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, I met her in Akasaka through an introduction by a Dentsu man who was my close friend, and the time of the meeting was, astonishingly, midnight.
The four of us—myself, the Dentsu man, and two presidents who did business with Dentsu and who had said they very much wanted to join us—spent a long time killing time at a soft-shelled turtle restaurant we had found while walking through the shopping street in Shibuya where our company then had its Tokyo branch, and then headed to Akasaka.
Ms. Ota appeared with two subordinates in tow.
One was Mr. Murakami, who later founded the Murakami Fund, and the other was Mr. Matsui, who later became a Diet member.
The father who attended the above-mentioned explanation session was not a career bureaucrat like them.
He was what is called a non-career official.
Even so, the amount of work is no different.
The father, without meaning to, dozed off.
There was a young man who noticed it.
If this man is a genuine Akita resident, I do not recognize him as a Tohoku person.
This young fool abused the father in an unbearable tone and loud voice.
And NHK, as if delighted by this, showed it in close-up and reported it nationwide.
What this young fool said was, “Our lives are at stake… and yet you are dozing off…”.
I want to say this to that young fool.
How does installing Aegis Ashore become a matter of your life being at stake?
To protect the lives of the Japanese people, it is installed at each Self-Defense Force garrison in Yamaguchi Prefecture and Akita Prefecture to protect all of Japan and the lives of the Japanese people—in other words, the defense of Japan and the lives of the Japanese people are at stake.
Are you saying that as long as your own life is protected, you do not care about the lives of the Japanese people?
To begin with, the very fact that NHK is reporting this on a large scale as if it were a serious defect of the government is itself the major problem.
If this NHK were an organization operated by decent Japanese citizens, then admonishing or criticizing the above-mentioned mayor and the young people who shouted in unbearable loud voices would be the duty of the people in an organization calling itself Japan’s state broadcaster, no, calling itself journalists.
The response of Governor Satake of Akita Prefecture to this is also laughable.
Speaking of Satake, he must be a descendant of the Akita domain lord’s family.
A descendant who does not possess even a fragment of insight to discuss the affairs of the state and the nation is not worth even one yen.
Since when did the people of Akita become the same as Chinese and people of the Korean Peninsula?
Instead of wasting time attacking the Abe administration, which has carried out the finest politics of the postwar era and splendidly revived Japan after it had fallen to the bottom of the abyss, they should know their own shame as Japanese citizens.
Come to think of it, when I was watching a late-night program on a commercial broadcaster, I encountered a scene of a group date between four girls from Akita and four boys from some university, and I was truly shocked by what all four women said in unison: “Men from Akita always strangle you during the act, so I hate them…”.
I was left speechless, thinking, are all men from Akita Koizumi?
I am truly utterly disgusted with the people of Akita Prefecture, so even if in this House of Councillors election, that is, a national election, they make victorious a candidate put forward by the Constitutional Democratic Party or the Communist Party, parties that it would be no exaggeration at all to call groups of agents for China and the Korean Peninsula, I will probably feel nothing.
I will merely curse them in the Tohoku dialect, saying that they are not Tohoku people, but people who likely possess the same DNA of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” as Chinese and people of the Korean Peninsula, you damn fools.