While repeatedly invoking the phrase “learn from Germany,” Japan’s discourse avoids its most essential lesson. This chapter argues that Japan should follow Germany’s precedent of banning the Communist Party, grounding the claim in historical and contemporary realities.

2016-03-29
On March 27, as I was walking through Shijo Kawaramachi in Kyoto, I saw a very small group affiliated with the Communist Party marching while holding placards reading “Oppose the war bills” and “Down with Abe,” with an older woman shouting into a microphone.
At that moment, I understood.
From among such people, twenty-nine individuals—whether they even live in Shiga Prefecture or not is unclear—filed a lawsuit at the Otsu District Court to halt the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant, and a single judge raised on Asahi Shimbun responded to them.
It was these people who stopped the nuclear plant that Kansai Electric Power had finally managed to restart after an extraordinarily long review process unparalleled in the world, a fact I grasped instantly.
Needless to say, I was appalled.
They must feel strong sympathy for Kang Sang-jung, who has continued to proclaim through public broadcasting slogans such as “learn from Germany,” precisely in line with the intentions of one-party dictatorships like those of South Korea in the past and the Chinese Communist Party today.
In response to what I stated first in the world—that Japan should learn from Germany and outlaw the Japanese Communist Party—they can have no rebuttal.
This is because it merely follows the fact that Germany long ago banned its Communist Party.
It is, quite simply, the natural outcome of truly learning from Germany.
That we must indeed learn from Germany is made clear even by looking at the front page of this morning’s Asahi Shimbun.
By publishing photographs of a tiny group in Tokyo, slightly augmented by immature yet malicious youths affiliated with the Communist Party and the Democratic Party, such as SEALDs, gathered in front of the Diet, and labeling it “Endless protests in front of the Diet,”
Asahi Shimbun and similar outlets have continued reporting that has cost Japan and its people 1,400 trillion yen in national wealth,
allowed territorial violations by states that still practice totalitarianism and Nazism-like behavior in the twenty-first century,
and permitted a one-party communist dictatorship, China, to repeatedly violate international law and intrude into Japan’s territorial waters and airspace.
The urgent and absolutely non-negotiable struggle against this situation is sustained only by the life-risking actions of a small number of Self-Defense Force personnel, motivated by nothing other than their dedication to Japan and its people, through which Japan’s security and peace are barely maintained.
Meanwhile, those who remain comfortably insulated in Tokyo, earning top-tier salaries inside climate-controlled corporate offices and campuses, continue to ignore this reality.
To avoid ever repeating the grave error of treating newspapers like Asahi as representatives of Japan, we must learn from Germany and first outlaw the Communist Party.
Without doing so, it will be impossible to purge their operatives who have infiltrated Japan’s media and universities.