Totalitarian and one-party communist states extract wealth when opponents show naivety and seize territory when even the smallest military opening appears. Drawing on the fieldwork conclusions of Tadao Umesao, this essay critiques Japanese media—particularly the Asahi Shimbun—and institutions that praise manipulated movements while ignoring hard realities.

2016-03-30
Even in the twenty-first century, totalitarian states and Nazi-like regimes—and above all, one-party communist dictatorships that encompass them—continue to exist.
Economically, when an opponent shows even the slightest weakness or naïveté, they relentlessly extract money or obtain it through deception.
Militarily, if even the smallest opening appears, they immediately convert another country’s territory into their own.
They do not regard the small-scale clashes that arise in this process as war, nor do they recognize them as steps toward a major war.
Why?
Because they are childish and vicious totalitarian or Nazi-like states, and above all, one-party communist dictatorships.
At the most fundamental level, these are states whose people possess the astonishing national characteristic of feeling nothing at all about telling lies.
This trait did not emerge yesterday or today.
Tadao Umesao, Japan’s greatest anthropologist and folklorist, concluded through years of fieldwork—living across nearly all ministries in their countries—that these societies are inhabited by people of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
The comfort women issue and the reality that nearly half of goods circulating online are counterfeit fully prove the absolute correctness of Umesao’s conclusions and his greatness.
Yet many people, long manipulated by media that praise on their front pages the actions of individuals perfectly controlled by operatives from such states, know nothing of Umesao’s greatness and make no use of it whatsoever.
It is natural enough that members of the same communist movements work for those regimes, but organizations such as the Asahi Shimbun and the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, which align with them or even embolden them, lack even kindergarten-level recognition of this reality.
Why?
There is no explanation other than that they are completely manipulated.
Or perhaps they simply believe that Comintern-style Marxism is absolutely correct.
What they possess instead is nothing more than a façade of moralism.
Hiroshi Hoshi describes such a posture as “flexible nationalism” over the public airwaves.
He even proclaims that the only entity in Japan possessing flexible nationalism is the Asahi Shimbun.
In other words, he claims that they themselves are the embodiment of flexible nationalism.
He is a truly incorrigible man who, during the Naoto Kan administration, repeatedly wrote editorials in the Asahi Shimbun praising not only Kan himself but even his wife.
Last night, he exposed to the entire nation just how utterly hopeless he truly is.
One of my close classmates had transferred from Fukushima High School, and I believe that even the honor of his alma mater has been significantly diminished.