Published on September 12, 2019.
Starting from the issue of political funds reports concerning Kiyomi Tsujimoto and the Kansai ready-mixed concrete suspicion, this article criticizes the Constitutional Democratic Party’s struggle tactic of demanding that “the suspected side prove its innocence.”
Through the Moritomo-Kake issue, the Ministry of Education corruption case, Representative Tsunehiko Yoshida, and Secretary-General Tetsuro Fukuyama’s response, it discusses the CDP’s double standard and the structure by which the mass media obstructed debate on constitutional revision.

September 12, 2019.
The “Morikake issue” is the worst speech coup in history, in which the mass media, in order to prevent debate on revising the Constitution of Japan, tried to fabricate Prime Minister Abe as if he were guilty through nothing but impression manipulation.
The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Political Funds Reports Cover Three Years.
Then, what is the actual situation?
On this point, very unfortunately, under the current system, only three years’ worth of political funds reports are published on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
For this reason, the income and expenditure reports reported in the Weekly Asahi article mentioned earlier cannot be directly confirmed.
Also, even when viewing the three years’ worth of income and expenditure reports currently available for Kiyomi Tsujimoto’s political fund organization, “Citizens and Peace Project,” the words “Kansai Ready-Mixed Concrete” and the like cannot be confirmed.
Income and Expenditure Report for 2014.
Income and Expenditure Report for 2015.
Income and Expenditure Report for 2016.
In this respect, when one is writing a website as an individual, it is inevitably frustrating that there are limits to the information one can obtain.
Incidentally, on the Internet, copies of political funds reports said to belong to Kiyomi Tsujimoto’s political fund organization at the time of 1999 and 2000, “Politica = Kiyomi and Citizens,” are circulating, but unfortunately, at this point I myself have not obtained evidence that they are authentic.
Therefore, as of today, I would like to avoid asserting that “Kiyomi Tsujimoto is connected to ready-mixed concrete.”
I apologize to readers for leaving them with an unsettled feeling, but even so, as this website, even if the other party is a Diet member, I would like to avoid declaring someone “guilty” without firm evidence.
If It Is the CDP, It Cannot Be Helped.
The Suspected Side Must Prove Its Innocence.
However, even so, if “the person under suspicion is Kiyomi Tsujimoto,” the story changes.
This is because Kiyomi Tsujimoto is the person who led the “struggle tactic” in the “Morikake issue” and the “sexual harassment issue” that “the side under suspicion must produce evidence that it is innocent.”
Please remember carefully.
I also mentioned this in “Afternoon Edition: Do Not Allow Kiyomi Tsujimoto’s Obstruction Strategy,” but the person who led the thorough tactic of refusing Diet deliberations was none other than Kiyomi Tsujimoto, and the members of the specified opposition parties, led by the Constitutional Democratic Party, took twenty consecutive days off around Golden Week without permission from the people.
In particular, the “Morikake issue” refers to “the suspicion that Shinzo Abe abused his position as prime minister and illegally provided favors to school corporations run by his personal friends.”
Yet despite that, I have never heard a rational explanation of what article of what law Prime Minister Abe violated and how.
If one considers the Kake Gakuen “issue” as an example, perhaps it could be described as “the problem in which Shinzo Abe illegally caused approval to be granted for the establishment of a new veterinary medicine faculty, which was prohibited by law, at Kake Gakuen, a school corporation run by his personal friend Kotaro Kake.”
But to begin with, no such thing as a “law prohibiting the establishment of new veterinary medicine faculties” exists.
Rather, the essence of the matter is “the problem in which the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, contrary to law, arbitrarily established an illegal notice refusing to approve the establishment of new veterinary medicine faculties and the like, thereby twisting administration.”
To put it further, the “Morikake issue” is the worst speech coup in history, in which the mass media, in order to prevent debate on revising the Constitution of Japan, tried to fabricate Prime Minister Abe as if he were guilty through nothing but impression manipulation.
The moment the Constitutional Democratic Party jumped on such a “Morikake issue,” it too can be said to share the same guilt.
However, our country is originally a state under the rule of law, and in order for a person to be declared “guilty,” it is not the case that “the side under suspicion bears the obligation to prove that it is innocent.”
It is “the side that suspects” that bears the obligation to prove that the suspected person is guilty.
The Astonishing Double Standard of the CDP.
This “Morikake issue” is an extreme example, but even so, if one says that “Shinzo Abe is guilty,” it is certain that one has at least the obligation to point out “what law he may have violated and how.”
The same applies to opposition lawmakers.
For example, this website has in the past discussed several times the connection between the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology corruption case and Tsunehiko Yoshida, a House of Representatives member of the Constitutional Democratic Party.
This includes the fact that the arrested defendant Koji Taniguchi was in the position of “policy adviser” to Yuichiro Hata, a House of Councillors member of the Democratic Party for the People, and this point is almost certain; the possibility that, from that position, defendant Taniguchi had contact with senior officials of the Ministry of Education; and the possibility that Representative Yoshida existed behind the corruption case.
Of course, on such circumstantial evidence alone, it is impossible to construct an argument on the premise that House of Representatives member Tsunehiko Yoshida is “guilty,” and this is the same reason why this website has avoided assertions such as “House of Representatives member Tsunehiko Yoshida is the mastermind of the Ministry of Education corruption.”
However, if one follows the logic of the Constitutional Democratic Party’s pursuit of the “Morikake issue,” then it should have no grounds to complain even if someone says:
“Tsunehiko Yoshida must be involved as the mastermind of the Ministry of Education corruption.
If you say that is not so, then produce the evidence!”
And yet, when Constitutional Democratic Party Secretary-General Tetsuro Fukuyama was asked about Yoshida by a freelance reporter, his eyes seem to have wandered involuntarily.
See “CDP Secretary-General Fukuyama’s Eyes Wander at the Mention of Representative Tsunehiko Yoshida.”
I am so astonished by this double standard that I am left speechless.
This article continues.