This essay examines Japan’s business delegation to China led by Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), focusing on intellectual property protection, fraudulent trade practices, and a mindset that normalizes deception, as reported by NHK.

2016-09-23

Last night I was watching NHK news. I learned that economic organizations led by Japan’s Keidanren are visiting China with the revitalization of economic exchange with China as their agenda.
It goes without saying that investment from Japan into China is among the largest in the world, but it is also a well-known fact among those well versed in economics that in recent years Japanese companies have sharply reduced their investment in China.
For today’s China, this is a troubling matter. That is why this time China welcomed Japan’s economic organizations in a manner entirely different from the rude responses it has continued to show toward Japan in the political sphere.
Now then, NHK reported that the chairman of Keidanren strongly requested, to China’s Ministry of Commerce, which serves as the window for dialogue, that in order for Japanese companies to resume or increase investment in China, it is an essential condition that the Chinese side strengthen the protection of intellectual property (that is, a reference to the need to correct the situation in which counterfeit goods are rampant).
Watching this news, I was reminded of something that a client of our company, a person who has made trade (mainly dealing in food machinery) his life’s profession, said the other day.
“After installing the machinery, they do not pay the price. They do such things without hesitation. I have experienced this more than once. They brazenly say that the one who is deceived is at fault—an outrageous bunch….”
The man who, the moment I announced from my hospital room the decision to publish The Civilization Turntable, went on to commit unbelievable and unforgivable acts of business obstruction, credit damage, and defamation on the internet as well (needless to say, the publisher, myself, and Kinokuniya Bookstore all suffered great damage as a result), (and all of these acts he has confessed to as having done himself in police statements), also repeatedly wrote brazenly such unbelievable things as “the one who is deceived is at fault.”
Even if it is a major factor that South Korea continues to use internationally the fabricated comfort women reporting created by the Asahi Shimbun for anti-Japan activities, carried out by fascists raised through the anti-Japan education—an unmistakable fascism—begun by Syngman Rhee, a similar tradition of evil is also a major cause.
I am convinced that underlying the manner of continuing to shout lies loudly is their unbelievable ideology that the one deceived is at fault and the one who deceives wins.
The time has long since come for the world to know this as well.
Therefore, I tell Japan and the world that this is precisely the result of the condition of a country of “plausible lies” and “bottomless evil.”
As you know, I have advocated the two-percent-evil-people theory. I have also stated that a country of 1.3 billion people has 26 million evil people, and that China is therefore a difficult country.
The news reported that among goods circulating on the internet and elsewhere, the number of counterfeit items seized by the authorities alone exceeds sixty thousand.
This essay continues.