The present condition of the Tokyo Stock Exchange exposes the absurd Japan shaped by decades of media distortion.
This chapter argues that Japan’s market has been rendered easily exploitable by foreign capital and political actors, despite the nation’s true economic power.

2016-04-07
The current state of the Tokyo Stock Exchange also reveals just how absurd the Japan created by Asahi Shimbun truly is.
It was reported that the number of Chinese tourists increased sharply,
and that last year, Chinese tourists contributed more than one trillion yen to Japan’s economy through tourism.
However, given the present condition of the Tokyo Stock Exchange,
the inference I wrote about in recent days regarding the suspicious meeting reported by Asahi is far more likely to be correct.
Those who gathered were said to include one of Japan’s top one or two asset holders,
along with political profiteers from China, South Korea, and Russia.
The true substance of what was discussed at that meeting was likely this:
from this week onward,
drive the yen higher,
short-sell the Nikkei average,
and each reap enormous profits.
This is something even an elementary school student could understand.
This individual, together with China—whose economic slowdown is unmistakable and casting a shadow over the global economy—
South Korea, deeply entangled in trade with China,
and Russia, suffering severe blows from international sanctions over Ukraine and from falling oil prices,
are all people desperately in need of vast sums of money.
I wrote that Japan and the Tokyo Stock Exchange must closely monitor
what actions they take in the market this week.
Just as I predicted,
for example, China has already earned an amount exceeding what Chinese tourists spent in Japan over an entire year.
Even if it has not yet reached one trillion yen,
it will do so in a very short time.
I also appeared in writing to state that Japan has long been exploited by greedy Western capital.
In reality, in order to continue extracting enormous sums from Japan,
a nation that is in substance the world’s second super economic power,
they have kept Japan as a “political prisoner” for seventy years since the war, even to this day.
It was Asahi Shimbun—
a truly foolish collective—
that willingly went along with, or was manipulated by,
these vicious arrangements.
And of course, the elites across Japan’s various sectors who continued to subscribe to it
were themselves unbearably foolish.
To be continued.