Japan’s opposition parties and left-leaning media dismiss Prime Minister Takaichi’s Taiwan policy as a personal view, revealing their detachment from public reality. With nearly 80% popular support for Takaichi, the true “minority” is an aging media-dependent elite aligned with China.

Is Prime Minister Takaichi’s Taiwan Contingency Statement Really a “Personal Opinion”?
— The Self-Deception of the CDP and Japan’s Pro-China Old Media —
While Kiyomi Tsujimoto claims Prime Minister Takaichi’s remarks on a Taiwan contingency were merely personal views, the reality is far different. This article examines how the Constitutional Democratic Party and Japan’s left-leaning old media function as de facto proxies for China, detached from the overwhelming will of the Japanese public.

Is Prime Minister Takaichi’s statement regarding a Taiwan contingency merely her personal opinion?
Kiyomi Tsujimoto speaks as if she has seized upon a decisive point, but there is no basis for such an interpretation.
The majority of the Japanese people quite naturally recognize that Tsujimoto and the Constitutional Democratic Party are acting in a manner that can scarcely be described as anything other than agents of China and betrayers of the nation.

The ones who are unable to see their own conduct—who exist in a state akin to the “Emperor’s New Clothes”—are Tsujimoto herself, the Constitutional Democratic Party, and the left-leaning old media such as NHK, Asahi Shimbun, and Kyodo News, all of which likewise operate in a manner that can reasonably be described as serving as China’s proxies and betrayers of the nation.

The “majority of the Japanese people” refers to the astonishing figure of nearly 80 percent of citizens across almost all age groups who support Prime Minister Takaichi.
Those who do not reach this 80 percent threshold are limited to elderly individuals who rely solely on local newspapers whose content is largely derived from NHK, Asahi Shimbun, and Kyodo News—so-called information-disadvantaged readers.