This essay reveals how Japan became susceptible to manipulation by totalitarian and one-party states such as South Korea and China, focusing on the dangerous concentration of information power in five national newspapers and five television networks, a structure unprecedented among advanced nations.

2016-05-23

The fact that Japan has been so thoroughly and skillfully manipulated by totalitarian states and one-party dictatorships such as South Korea and China is something I have now realized, for the first time in the world, to be because everything was in a state exactly as they desired.
Before writing about this, it should be obvious to anyone with an ordinary intellect that for totalitarian states and communist one-party dictatorships, propaganda for their own benefit constitutes virtually the entirety of their national strategy.
As readers know, I am also the person who emerged by pointing out the danger inherent in the fact that Japan’s newspapers are monopolized by only five national dailies.
Readers also know that television networks are their subsidiaries, that in exactly the same way five networks dominate the entire nation, and that all five newspapers and five television networks are concentrated in a single hub in Tokyo—an error and a danger I have long pointed out.
In particular, Japan’s newspapers are, from a global perspective, extremely abnormal.
For example, in the United States, it is virtually inconceivable that public opinion could be so easily manipulated by another country.
This is because even if one were to say that The New York Times or The Washington Post represents the United States, they are merely regional newspapers, and their circulation is incomparably smaller than that of Japanese newspapers.
The majority of Americans, so to speak, think for themselves in their own ways.
Those Americans who think exactly in line with the editorials of two regional newspapers are an absolute minority.
By contrast, Japan was far too extreme.
This is manifested in the chilling state of the previously mentioned list of supporters of the women’s war crimes tribunal.
Moreover, Japan has neither a CIA nor an FBI.
Under such conditions, information is monopolized by only five newspapers and five television networks.
From the perspective of totalitarian and communist states, whose very raison d’être is propaganda and subversion, this is a drool-inducing situation.
In other words, it is a state that can be manipulated more easily than twisting the arm of a baby.
This chapter, too, is something that I am revealing to the world for the first time, simultaneously with The Turntable of Civilization,
and considering the importance of the nation called Japan, any person of discernment will silently understand that this is a Nobel Prize–class editorial.