As Japan entered its so-called Lost Twenty Years, media-friendly “scholars” increasingly promoted the slogan “Learn from Germany.” This essay exposes the emptiness of that claim, noting that Germany also maintains intelligence agencies equivalent to the CIA and has actively infiltrated extremist groups. It further argues that Japan’s exceptional vulnerability to anti-Japan propaganda is historically and internationally anomalous.

2016-03-13

Japan is probably one of the very few countries that does not possess an organization equivalent to the CIA.

So-called scholars who began appearing in the media in inverse proportion to Japan’s Lost Twenty Years repeatedly insisted on slogans such as “Learn from Germany,” statements whose dubious nature would be instantly obvious to anyone with a sound mind.

As made clear in a recent article published in Newsweek Japan, it goes without saying that Germany also has an intelligence organization comparable to the CIA. In fact, the leadership of the right-wing NPD was so thoroughly infiltrated by government spies that a court even suspended its judgment.

Then what about Japan? These scholars have said absolutely nothing about this issue. Naturally, they could not. It would not be an exaggeration to say that many of them were individuals manipulated by the governments and intelligence services of South Korea and China.

Japan and the Japanese people must never again commit the folly of favoring in the media those who have sought to belittle Japan and place it on the same level as China or South Korea—or even below them.

They must never again elevate those who refuse to acknowledge Japan as a great nation, or as a country in which the Turntable of Civilization turns by divine providence, and who have persistently attempted to weaken Japan.

Just think about it.

The United States, which has both the CIA and the FBI, once seriously attempted to deport even John Lennon. Lennon himself came close to breaking down, and only after a prolonged legal battle did he finally prevail in court.

Japan’s defenselessness toward forces that seek to degrade the nation, and toward countries that effectively adopt anti-Japan propaganda as national policy, is an abnormal condition found nowhere else in the world.