The following is from an article by international journalist Mika Tsutsumi, an exertion that rebukes society, which appears in a unique feature titled “Japan, Dangerous Waters!“
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.

The Shock Doctrine Eating Up Japan

Giving No Choice　
Have you ever heard of the term “shock doctrine”?　
When a shocking event such as terrorism, war, natural disaster, financial crisis, or infectious disease occurs, the government and corporations will legally loot the nation and its people’s valuable assets by introducing neoliberal policies (the three pillars of deregulation, privatization, and cutting social security) and unreasonable rules at breakneck speed while the people are in a state of fear and a state of suspended thinking. The “revolving door” of government and corporations moves back and forth between the government and the corporations, and the government and its corporate friends make a killing.　
Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, who introduced this term to the world in 2007, became famous for exposing the fact that the Schotzkopf Doctrine has been used behind many historical events, from the coup in Chile to the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the Tiananmen Square incident, the Asian currency crisis, the 9/11 attacks, the Iraq War, and many others, The original idea was based on the Nobel Prize in Economics.
The original idea may ring a bell with many people when they hear that Professor Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics, was the man behind the doctrine.　
Fifteen years have passed since then, and with the arrival of a new player, Big Tech, the Shock Doctrine has also evolved.
Cognitive warfare,” which works on the human cognitive domain to induce public opinion and manipulate policy decisions, has become faster with the spread of digital technology and smartphones. With the advance of globalization, the scope of shocks has also become global.　
During this period of pandemics, the Ukraine conflict, climate change, bank failures, and other events affecting the world, unreasonable policies that would typically be impossible were introduced one after another in the United States and Canada, in India, and the countries of the European Union, under the guise of emergencies.　
It is, for example, in 2022.
In Canada, the state of emergency of Corona was used as a reason to push for excessive behavioral restrictions through vaccination requirements.
When there was a domestic outcry, Prime Minister Trudeau suddenly declared a “state of emergency,” expanded police powers, and froze the bank accounts of protesters and donors.
Although the freeze had to be lifted due to the outcry, Prime Minister Trudeau was subsequently criticized as a “totalitarian” by EU parliamentarians.　
The Shock Doctrine is a game of speed and does not give the public time to think and make “choices.　
Vaccination during the new Corona pandemic was a choice between “vaccinate or don’t vaccinate and die.　
Alerts were placed on posts that differed from the WHO (World Health Organization) position; Facebook issued a policy to suspend accounts that posted the opposite. YouTube announced a procedure to remove videos opposing all vaccines, not just the new coronavirus.　
Many countries survived with measures other than vaccines, and the WHO admitted that not all of them were failures. Still, those cases and different views only reached some people because Big Tech restricted their access to the Internet.　
As a result, while public money poured like hot water and vaccine makers made enormous profits in medical history, the lid was lifted, and the vaccine was not as effective as advertised in preventing infections or reducing the severity of illness and infection rates among vaccinees remained high, with serious side effects and deaths increasing rapidly in many places.　
At the European Parliament, where it called Pfizer executives witnesses, the floor was abuzz when they testified that they had not tested the vaccine’s effectiveness in preventing infection. 
A press conference was held afterward in which the company was heavily criticized. 
Significant class action lawsuits have been filed (and prepared in Japan) in Australia, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and others.　
In Japan, however, there is almost no media coverage of the incident, and the minister in charge of the case blocked the voices of the bereaved families of the deceased on Twitter.　
Similarly, the government has not changed its policy of abolishing paper health insurance cards and adopting a minor option despite the many-discussed My Number Card problems.
Regarding the issue of climate change, the government is promoting solar panels as a national policy, saying, “The earth will perish if we don’t reduce CO2 (CO₂) as soon as possible” and “The global trend is toward EVs.
The people are not given room to think, they are not informed when they have a choice, and they believe what the government and the media tell them.　
It is why Japan is losing the perception battle, especially in the last few years.
This article continues.