This essay questions whether Asahi Shimbun and aligned intellectuals genuinely learned from Germany, arguing that they selectively invoked German history while ignoring the reality of long-term political stability under the CDU, and instead used historical narratives to undermine Japan’s national strength and international standing.

2017-06-15
Asahi Shimbun and one of its representative sympathizers, Kang Sang-jung, have continued to insist that Japan should learn from Germany.
However, this was done in order to arbitrarily exploit the Weizsäcker speech, stemming from their distorted ideology and an attitude that could be described, without exaggeration, as that of agents for South Korea and China.
It was a joint conspiracy to demean Japan and to keep Japan as a political prisoner in the international community.
It would not be an exaggeration at all to say that the maliciousness of this conduct has reached an extreme level.
I was the first in the world to point out that Germany’s CDU held power continuously for thirty-two years, with Chancellor Helmut Kohl serving for sixteen years and Chancellor Angela Merkel serving for another sixteen years, a firmly established fact.
No one can deny that this fact has enhanced Germany’s presence in the international community.
Meanwhile, did Asahi Shimbun and the so-called scholars truly learn from this Germany.
Needless to say, Asahi Shimbun and the so-called scholars beginning with Kang Sang-jung were so absorbed in schemes to demean Japan that they failed to notice at all the simple facts I pointed out.
Moreover, during the Tokyo gubernatorial election, in order to bring down what they repetitively derided as the Abe one-strong administration, and to weaken LDP politics as they had done before, thereby reducing Japan’s national strength and international presence, they manipulated Shigeru Ishiba, who could be described without exaggeration as a puppet of Asahi Shimbun, and promoted Yuriko Koike, whose hunger for power could hardly be overstated and whose character could be described as extraordinarily ugly, pushing her to run by stirring turmoil within the LDP and inducing her to rebel.
Seeking to have the Koike new party win the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election in July and thereby weaken the LDP administration, that is, to do everything possible to undermine and weaken the Abe administration, Asahi Shimbun fabricated the Moritomo Gakuen issue, but it ended in failure.
They then seized upon the fact that the chairman of Kake Gakuen in Okayama was a friend of Prime Minister Abe and began relentless attacks no less persistent than the anti-Japanese propaganda of China and South Korea.
I felt that this was a scheme devised by Asahi Shimbun in order for the Koike new party to defeat the LDP in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election.
Everything about it was malicious.
How could someone who is to become prime minister not have countless friends.
Bringing a university to Ehime is surely one of the finest concrete measures politics could take to resolve the overconcentration in Tokyo and the depopulation of regional areas.
Is there any better proposal for Ehime Prefecture and Shikoku than this.
In any case, I was utterly astonished by the viciousness of Asahi Shimbun.
While thinking that someday I must write a paper containing content that no one has ever written before.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the late Tadao Umesao, the late Shoichi Watanabe, and I share exactly the same intellectual framework.
In order to make Professor Shoichi Watanabe’s superb and genuine scholarly works known to the world as widely as possible, I had refrained from pointing out the actions of Asahi Shimbun.
A friend showed me an interview article published in today’s Sankei Shimbun with Moriyuki Kato, former governor of Ehime Prefecture, who promoted the invitation of a veterinary school establishment project.