How Political Operatives and Media Propaganda Undermine Japan from Within

By tracing media coverage of Mizuho Fukushima and the origins of the comfort women narrative, this essay exposes long-standing propaganda networks, Sino-Japanese postwar manipulation, and the strategic context behind China’s Senkaku ambitions.

March 14, 2017

Last night’s TV Asahi Hōdō Station and TBS News 23 once again aired footage attempting to attack Prime Minister Abe, focusing on absurd questioning by Mizuho Fukushima, who claimed that a school operator in Matsuyama was a friend of Abe’s and that their golfing together had distorted national politics.
Prime Minister Abe, who knows better than anyone that Mizuho Fukushima has continued to engage in activities tantamount to betraying the nation and has been one of the principal figures distorting national governance on numerous occasions, naturally reprimanded her sternly.
Many viewers must have thought, once again, what an utterly outrageous figure Mizuho Fukushima is.
It was Mizuho Fukushima who was among the first to leap onto the fabricated “comfort women” narrative, which began when a resident Korean man illegally living openly in Kyoto University’s Kumano Dormitory ensnared a housewife of the Zenkyōtō generation who had graduated from Kyushu University.
By telling Korean prostitutes that she would extract massive compensation payments from the Japanese government, she incited them and became one of the principal figures who spread the monstrous lie known as the “comfort women issue” throughout the international community.
Not only did Asahi Shimbun’s Katsuichi Honda write exactly what the Chinese government instructed him to write after being invited to China, publishing fabricated stories such as the Nanjing Massacre as major scoops,
he also published books such as Travels in China, turning them into bestsellers and earning enormous royalties.
As a result, Asahi Shimbun not only extended the life of the Chinese Communist Party—whose fate should have ended with the Tiananmen Square incident—but also gave decisive support to its present expansion and arrogance.
By exerting pressure with the claim that “Japan committed evil acts in China by killing 300,000 people and must therefore atone,” the government was made to provide the largest financial and technological aid to another country in human history.
The symbolic image of this technological aid was Deng Xiaoping’s visit to Japan and his inspection of Matsushita factories.
Japanese corporations, beginning with Matsushita, were thoroughly deceived.
Once China’s economy had rapidly developed with Japanese funds and technology, factories such as Panasonic’s were destroyed to deflect domestic criticism.
China is now meticulously constructing its timetable for the invasion of the Senkaku Islands.
In executing this plan, the one individual in Japan who not only fully perceives their scheme but is also a true realist, a true patriot, and a true statesman—Shinzo Abe—stands as a thorn in their side.
It is no coincidence or drunken fancy that a young Chinese woman working part-time at a souvenir shop in Kyoto could say without hesitation or doubt, “I like all Japanese people except Prime Minister Abe.”
This is a vivid demonstration of what propaganda operations truly are.
The Chinese timetable for the Senkaku Islands is drawing quite near.
The government and the Japanese people must recognize this through the uproar over Toyosu, Toyonaka-Noda, and yesterday’s conduct of Mizuho Fukushima, stirred up by opposition parties, Asahi Shimbun, TV Asahi, TBS, and so-called cultural figures.
Even NHK shows troubling signs—meaning that imperative directives from the Chinese Communist Party must have reached the operatives embedded within NHK.
The time has long come to recognize that similar operations are being carried out against the organizations and individuals mentioned above.
By looking at what Mizuho Fukushima, a kind of lead batter among such representative figures, has done over the years, the time has long come for all Japanese to realize what kind of entity she truly is.
Nosaka Sanzo and Tokuda Kyuichi were not foreigners, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that groups such as Governor Onaga’s faction in Okinawa are of the same lineage, and that Mizuho Fukushima’s faction is no different.