Pseudo-moralists denounce governments after crises while opposing preparedness as an abuse of power.
This mindset has weakened Japan economically and strategically.
The essay exposes how such narratives align with external pressures seeking to keep Japan weak.

2016-03-26
Needless to say, when we ask who pseudo-moralists are, they are the kind of people who, once an incident occurs, uniformly accuse the government of being completely unprepared, yet when a solid security system is put in place, denounce it as an abuse of power.
The reason I have repeatedly stated that they are childish in every respect and the most pernicious is that their foolish conduct, or rather their mental structure, is so foolish that this becomes instantly clear if one imagines scenarios such as China advancing into the Senkaku Islands or placing the South China Sea entirely under its control.
Their way of thinking has, up to now, inflicted enormous damage on Japan economically, amounting to a total of 1,400 trillion yen.
I came to realize, through China’s actions in the South China Sea, that China’s intention is to force Japan into complete submission.
It is media outlets such as the Asahi Shimbun that have guided Japan in a direction aligned with this Chinese intention, insisting that Japan must not grow larger or stronger.
Together with figures like Kang Sang-jung, who has continued to spout truly laughable arguments that Japan should not become large or strong, but instead exist merely as a Far Eastern country mediating between China, South Korea, and the United States, they have functioned as media acting as proxies for South Korea, and it would not be an exaggeration to say so.
They have undermined Japan’s independence, elevated people resembling proxies for South Korea to party leadership and even to the office of prime minister, driven Japan’s world-renowned electronics manufacturers into distress, created hundreds of thousands of unemployed when related industries are included, and now, while allowing the man who has driven Toshiba into hardship to reap enormous profits, have continued to advance arguments that impoverish the Japanese people—such media include the Asahi Shimbun.