This essay examines how Vice President Mike Pence’s statement—“peace is achieved only through strength”—shattered the postwar myth of Japanese pacifism. It argues that the long-standing narratives upheld by media, academics, and activist groups were decisively overturned by the very nation that authored Japan’s postwar constitution.

2017-04-21
This statement marked the end of the schemes that the rulers of those countries and their intelligence agencies had carried out against Japan.
I informed the world that President Trump’s campaign remark that Japan should arm itself with nuclear weapons instantly blew away the deception that the Asahi Shimbun had continued to write and proclaim while dominating postwar Japan until August three years earlier.
Vice President Pence’s statement during his meeting with Prime Minister Abe the day before yesterday—“The United States seeks peace, but peace can only be achieved through strength”—was, so to speak, an atomic bomb dropped on their pseudo-moralism and pseudo-communism.
It perfectly and openly declared to the entire world that what they had continued to preach about a so-called pacifist constitution was nothing but deception.
The Nikkei published it prominently on page two and highlighted it in a major headline.
The Asahi Shimbun placed it on page six, in a small column that one would miss without careful reading, and did not include it in any headline at all.
In other words, this completely shattered the deception of media organizations such as the Asahi Shimbun, as well as so-called scholars, so-called cultural figures, so-called human-rights lawyers, and so-called civic groups.
This was all the more decisive because it was a pronouncement by the President and Vice President of the United States—the very country that had granted Japan the Constitution they had used as a talisman and as the justification for their continued attacks on the government.
Vice President Pence’s statement the day before yesterday will ultimately be remembered by future generations as the declaration that finally put a period to Japan’s deception-filled postwar era.
At the same time, Pence’s statement announced the end of the schemes carried out against Japan by South Korea, which wants Japan to remain weak and seeks to claim Takeshima as its own, and by China, which wants not only the Senkaku Islands but even Okinawa as its territory, along with the rulers of those countries and their intelligence agencies.
It also declared the end of the condition of Japan that had been manipulated, dominated, and sustained by media organizations such as the Asahi Shimbun, so-called scholars, so-called cultural figures, so-called human-rights lawyers, and so-called civic groups who had been completely controlled by those schemes.