Drawing on a WiLL magazine roundtable, this piece highlights the suspected links between China’s strategic objectives and Okinawa’s anti-base movement, while criticizing Japanese media for ignoring these critical issues.
This article examines a WiLL roundtable that directly argues foreign intelligence involvement, covert funding, and ideological infiltration behind Okinawa’s anti–U.S. base movement.
It contends that the deliberate silence of major Japanese media functions not as neutrality but as active distortion, accelerating Japan’s vulnerability to external influence and undermining democratic accountability and sovereignty.

2017-04-19
The May issue of the monthly magazine WiLL features a roundtable discussion by four figures: the historian of East Asian history Junko Miyawaki, journalist Kaori Fukushima, commentator Sekihei, and Professor Yang Haiying of Shizuoka University.
For some reason, Asahi Shimbun and other media outlets do not report at all on the excerpted passages below.
Upon reading this section, one can clearly understand the argument I recently made for the first time in the world.
Japan, where media led by Asahi Shimbun and so-called cultural figures loudly oppose anti-conspiracy laws that are enacted in almost every country in the world, is openly demonstrating to all that it is one of the world’s foremost spy havens.
In other words, the media such as Asahi Shimbun, so-called cultural figures, so-called human-rights lawyers, and so-called civic groups are showing that they have long since fallen under the influence of Chinese and South Korean intelligence agencies.
The groups of Ozaki Hotsumis who are living and existing today ruled Japan until August three years ago.
They have halted the progress of the Turntable of Civilization and created the extremely dangerous and unstable world we face today.
It is no exaggeration to say that they are people inferior even to dogs and beasts.
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The ringleaders of Okinawa’s anti-base movement.
Miyawaki.
Right now, Chinese nationals are buying up land in Okinawa and Hokkaido.
I find this trend extremely frightening.
Sekihei.
The anti–U.S. military base movement in Okinawa has seen its greatest surge in recent years, coinciding exactly with the birth of the Xi Jinping administration in China.
In 2014, the Xi Jinping administration put forward the idea that “Asia’s security should be protected by Asians.”
This is clearly a strategy to drive U.S. forces out of Asia, and in parallel with this, the anti–U.S. base movement in Okinawa has intensified.
Miyawaki.
It can only be assumed that they are connected behind the scenes.
Yang.
I myself traveled to Okinawa this past January, and Chinese nationals have increased dramatically.
Sekihei.
There are many mysteries surrounding Okinawa’s anti–U.S. base movement.
Many of its core members are not Okinawan residents but unidentified individuals coming from all over Japan.
And where is the funding coming from.
I previously wrote in Sankei Shimbun that Beijing openly gathered military-related personnel and held a forum on Okinawan independence.
Strangely enough, Okinawa’s two major newspapers, Ryukyu Shimpo and Okinawa Times, also participated.
Moreover, Ryukyu Shimpo published an article stating that it had participated in the forum in China.
Just think about it.
If Chinese journalists came to Tokyo, attended a forum on Tibetan independence, and published articles about it, being shut down would be the least of their worries—they would likely be executed.
Yang.
Even at Okinawan universities, there are China sympathizers and Chinese instructors who praise the Beijing government and write nothing but anti-Japan papers.
Fukushima.
This situation in Japan can only be described as utterly abnormal.
To be continued.