Published on January 11, 2020.
This essay criticizes ICAN’s nuclear abolition movement as an anti-Japanese political campaign whose true purpose is to prevent Japan from acquiring nuclear deterrence.
It argues that nuclear-armed states will never disarm because of such activism, while Japan alone is pressured to sign onto nuclear abolition, and criticizes the Asahi Shimbun and NHK for damaging Japan’s national interest through masochistic history, pseudo-moralism, and political correctness.

January 11, 2020
What they use in order to deceive people at the level of kindergarten children is pseudo-moralism, the masochistic view of history that may be called the very ideology of the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, and political correctness.
Moreover, it is clear from the fact that Peace Boat is one of the organizers that a nuclear weapons abolition movement such as ICAN is their scheme, and that its true purpose is to prevent Japan from acquiring nuclear arms.
It is the worst possible plot, and yet it even won the Nobel Peace Prize.
What Japan’s true elites must do is absolutely not to cooperate with ICAN in the same way as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK.
If I state it plainly, behind ICAN there must be China, the Korean Peninsula, or Chongryon and similar forces as the hidden power.
No one will immediately oppose the slogan “abolition of nuclear weapons.”
That is precisely what they exploit.
In other words, they make use of “apparent moralism,” which is the target they aim at when they conduct anti-Japanese propaganda.
They themselves possess not even apparent moralism.
They have no thought other than maintaining power, propaganda and domestic control for that purpose, military expansion, and hegemonic thinking.
Yet they exploit the pseudo-moralism that spreads through advanced capitalist countries.
That this is their usual method should be understandable even to a kindergarten child.
What they use in order to deceive people at the level of kindergarten children is pseudo-moralism, the masochistic view of history that may be called the very ideology of the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, and political correctness.
How greatly the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others that have followed this line have continued to damage Japan’s national interest.
ICAN itself should know best that there is not even a one percent probability that nuclear-armed states will say yes simply because ICAN conducts a nuclear abolition movement.
This is also clear from the fact that North Korea would never have stopped its nuclear tests or missile launches without economic sanctions from the international community and hints from the United States that it might carry out a decapitation strike.
There is probably no fool anywhere in the world who thinks China would agree to nuclear abolition because of ICAN’s movement.
Then what is the purpose?
At the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony, the mayor of Hiroshima gave a speech saying that the Japanese government should sign the nuclear weapons abolition movement promoted by ICAN.
Probably, the mayor of Nagasaki must have said something similar.
They themselves remain nuclear-armed, while preventing only Japan from becoming nuclear-armed.
They want to keep Japan forever as a weak country.
The moment the Japan-U.S. alliance wavers and the United States abandons the defense of Japan, China will surely invade Japan.
Where else could the purpose lie of the anti-Japanese propaganda that China is conducting in the United States, propaganda that creates cracks in the Japan-U.S. alliance and drives Japan and the United States apart?
To keep Japan militarily weak at all costs, to threaten Japan as they like, and to extort money from Japan as they like—that is the true purpose of ICAN.
Not a single nuclear-armed state takes their movement seriously at all, so why are they carrying on this movement?
Where does the funding come from?
Enough of this utterly ridiculous matter.