Based on a dialogue book by Masayuki Takayama and Masahiro Miyazaki, this article discusses GHQ’s postwar rule of Japan, the release of Communist Party members, the first postwar general election, the establishment of the MacArthur Constitution, Shizue Kato and family planning, the Eugenic Protection Law, the nuclear-family policy, and the origins of Japan’s population decline.

March 23, 2020
Through them, the MacArthur Constitution was approved.
It is better to think that the first postwar general election, in which, in addition to the Communist Party, 39 women were elected, was entirely a staged production arranged by GHQ.
The following is from the wonderful book below, a dialogue between Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, and Masahiro Miyazaki, one of the world’s leading experts on China.
This is a book that the Japanese people must go to their nearest bookstore and buy immediately.
It is also a book that people throughout the world must read, but I will convey that as much as I can.
Introductory text omitted
Takayama
The North Korean army suddenly crossed the 38th parallel and attacked.
Until then, Japan had ruled it, so the Korean Peninsula had served as a defensive fortress.
The moment Japan disappeared, the Korean Peninsula was divided, and half of it became communist.
Japanese people dislike Christianity too, but they also detested the Communist Party and never neglected their vigilance.
America did not understand that at all.
William Sebald, who was a subordinate of Douglas MacArthur, wrote in his book “With MacArthur in Japan” that when he came to Japan, every time he met people in political, financial, and bureaucratic circles, they told him to “be on guard against the Communist Party.”
The Americans who occupied Japan initially were not particularly wary of communism or communists, and at the time of the first ordinary election in 1946, they released all Communist Party members from prison, allowed them to run, and even had them elected.
Miyazaki
Kenji Miyamoto and Kyuichi Tokuda were all released.
Takayama
The first postwar general election was a sloppy election in which GHQ really even arranged the votes.
They also sent Shizue Kato, who said that women’s sex should be liberated on the same level as men’s, into the Diet.
They were exactly MacArthur Children, and through them, the MacArthur Constitution was approved.
It is better to think that the first postwar general election, in which, in addition to the Communist Party, 39 women were elected, was entirely a staged production arranged by GHQ.
Miyazaki
Did all of them get in?
Takayama
All of them were elected.
When you read Shizue Kato’s records, one day an American military officer came and asked her to run.
Miyazaki
Shizue Kato’s husband was Kanju Kato, a Socialist Party politician, wasn’t he?
Takayama
The reason Shizue Kato was chosen was that she was the foremost disciple of Margaret Sanger, the American who had advocated the necessity of birth control through the family planning movement.
To destroy Japan, first the Constitution prevents it from possessing weapons, prevents it from possessing an army, and eliminates even the right of belligerency.
Then, because reducing the population is the best way to destroy a country, they made a fuss, saying that women’s rights required men to use condoms.
Margaret Sanger was a woman who said, “Only men are playing around. If women play around, they become pregnant. This is unfair,” and made various kinds of condoms and pessaries.
Sanger was trying to create a world in which women, too, could play around.
Agnes Smedley was the same.
She was a woman who had been toyed with by men, and once married, had only to look after babies.
Dissatisfied with that, she abandoned her husband and child and ran away.
Smedley and Shizue Kato worked together under Sanger to create a society in which women could play around.
After that, Smedley went to Shanghai.
She went to Shanghai, put playing around with men into practice, and asked Sanger to send more condoms.
The person who helped with that shipping was Shizue Kato.
Miyazaki
This is a strangely vivid story, but where is it written?
Takayama
It is not written quite that explicitly, but in a book published by the Sankei Shimbun in 1997 called “Twentieth-Century Correspondents,” a female reporter from the Osaka Sankei wrote about the strange relationship among Sanger, Shizue Kato, and Smedley under the title “Storm of Sex.”
Miyazaki
Smedley had relations with anyone.
She certainly had relations with Richard Sorge too, didn’t she?
Takayama
She also had them with Hotsumi Ozaki.
What was used at that time was a Sanger-brand condom (laughs).
GHQ intended to make the Japanese people as an ethnic group disappear.
Middle omitted
Among the surrender terms imposed by Scipio, there was also one requiring all children of Carthaginian nobles to study in Rome.
This is exactly the same as the postwar rule of Japan.
Miyazaki
It is similar, isn’t it?
The Fulbright scholarships, right?
Takayama
Furthermore, under the name of agriculturalization, GHQ made NHK create a radio program called “New Farming Village.”
Miyazaki
From 1963, it became “Bright Farming Village.”
Even now there is a shochu brand called “Seiko Udoku.”
Takayama
Japan is an industrial country, so its dependence on agriculture is not that high.
The agricultural population was about 5 percent, wasn’t it?
Miyazaki
Now it is about 1 percent, but if fishing and forestry in the primary sector are included, I think it was a little higher.
Takayama
Now fishing has 400,000 people.
Forestry is close to almost zero.
Agriculture is said publicly to have 8 million people, but the Ministry of Agriculture counts someone as a farmer even if he works only one hour a year.
In reality, there are probably about 2 million, if that.
When I was in the first or second year of junior high school, around 1956 or 1957, the Anti-Prostitution Law had been enacted but had not yet been enforced, and there was a nationwide common practice test.
One question asked what percentage of the total population was engaged in agriculture.
The choices were 30 percent, 15 percent, and 5 percent, and I thought it could not be that many, so I answered 5 percent.
Then I was the only one who got a perfect score of 100, so I remember it well.
Even at that time, the agricultural population was 5 percent.
In short, in Japan, which was not even an agricultural country, NHK was broadcasting “Bright Farming Village” on the radio.
There were correspondents with some kind of alphabetic title such as RPO correspondents, and the content was that they reported on wheat harvests.
Back then, radio was the only source of information.
Miyazaki
There was also Christian programming such as “The Lutheran Hour.”
Such radio broadcasts existed openly.
GHQ plotted Japan’s population decline through family planning and the Eugenic Protection Law
Miyazaki
In 2019, Japan’s number of births finally fell below the 900,000 mark and declined to 860,000.
This means that the seeds sown by GHQ to reduce Japan’s population in order to make Japan disappear are now finally blooming.
Takayama
That is right.
It was either a conspiracy by Shizue Kato and the Socialist Party, or they were made to dance to America’s tune.
Through Shizue Kato, they carried out family planning, stopping at “one girl and two boys,” and the American plot not to let people have any more children than that has finally blossomed after 70 postwar years.
In 1945, they made the old Imperial Diet swallow the draft Constitution, and in April of the following year, 1946, in the first general election with universal suffrage for both men and women, they had large numbers of people such as Shizue Kato, Socialist Party members, and Communist Party members elected, and changed it all at once into the Peace Constitution.
In short, GHQ sent people it had endorsed into the Diet, and steadily purged those who opposed it.
Miyazaki
It sounds like a Red Purge.
Takayama
It was not red.
At that time, it was a purge of conservatives, a purge of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and everyone who did not follow GHQ policy was eliminated.
Then they passed that Peace Constitution.
Furthermore, the family planning that has led to today’s births in the 800,000 range was also incorporated.
An army surgeon named Crawford Sams, the head of GHQ’s Public Health and Welfare Section, played the central role in inviting Sanger to Japan many times, and together with Shizue Kato, had her travel around giving speeches on family planning.
In short, it was a policy to prevent Japanese people from having children.
Then, saying that large houses and estates did not suit Japan, they made Japan build small 2DK apartment complexes like matchboxes and turned families into nuclear families.
From the very beginning of the occupation, they were planning how to reduce Japan’s population.
If the opponent had been Indians, it would have been enough to kill the women and children.
If only men remained, they would eventually perish.
Therefore, like the Sand Creek massacre, they killed all the women and children while the men were away.
This is the method of killing written in the Old Testament.
However, since the war was over, they could not do that openly, so they launched a campaign saying that Japan’s extended-family system was bad, that nuclear families were good, and that unwanted children could be aborted.
Once people became nuclear families, a small 2DK was enough, and one child, or at most two, was good.
That value system was led for a long time by the Asahi Shimbun, Shizue Kato, and the Socialist Party.
Miyazaki
I see.
So Japan’s rabbit-hutch-like apartment complexes were an American plot.
They spread the idea that rabbit housing could be small.
After repatriation began in 1946, Japan’s annual births were around 2.7 million, and that became the baby-boom generation.
After witnessing the appearance of these baby boomers, did America call for population reduction?
Is this something that emerged through hindsight?
Takayama
No, GHQ was talking about family planning soon after it arrived.
GHQ brought out Shizue Kato because, in the 1930s, she had been holding lectures on the Eugenic Protection Law and carrying out activities just like Hitler, saying that defective children should be sterilized early and not be born.
So GHQ had its eye on her immediately after the occupation began.
In that sense, I think they really did pursue the “Carthaginization of Japan” by calculation.
Last year, a law was enacted to pay lump-sum compensation to victims who had been subjected to forced sterilization under the old Eugenic Protection Law, and Prime Minister Abe apologized to the victims, but in truth the Socialist Party and the Asahi Shimbun should apologize.
That is because the Eugenic Protection Law was also a law realized through Shizue Kato’s powerful campaign.
Shizue Kato is Japan’s Hitler.
In Germany, too, Hitler carried out eugenic protection policies.
Shizue Kato did that with GHQ’s backing.
The Asahi Shimbun also joined in and reported that GHQ was right.
Miyazaki
The Asahi really should change its title.
Not “the red, red, bright red Asahi,” but something like “American Asahi.”
Latter part omitted.