Japan’s lack of counterintelligence institutions has left its media sphere uniquely exposed. With such agencies, foreign influence operations would have been far easier to uncover.

2016-04-12

That figures such as Kang Sang-jung—who have long preached that Japan should “learn from Germany”—together with newspapers like the Asahi Shimbun, amounted to literal traitors or enemies of the state hardly needs to be said any longer.
Because I had recorded the Masters tournament, a TBS wide show appeared on my television on Sunday morning.
Seeing Hiroshi Sekiguchi as host with Kang Sang-jung and Shigetada Kishii seated beside him made me sigh the instant I saw it.
It can only be taken as proof that TBS’s news division is already completely steered by the governments of China and South Korea—or by the Central Intelligence Agency.
If Japan had its own CIA or Federal Bureau of Investigation—as virtually every country in the world does—we would be able to uncover, to a startling degree, Chinese and Korean spies embedded within NHK, Asahi, Mainichi, and the like.
And if Japan, like other countries, had laws defining treason against the state, the Asahi Shimbun would long ago have ceased publication.