Drawing on the work of Terumasa Nakanishi, this essay examines a century-long pattern of communist operations aimed at driving a wedge between Japan and the United States.
From the Sino-Japanese War and the outbreak of the Pacific War to contemporary Chinese efforts targeting Okinawa and South Korea, it reveals how neo-communist regimes continue to undermine regional security and why the Japan–U.S. alliance is indispensable today.

This congressional report reveals that Communist China has incited South Korea through historical issues, heightened anti-Japanese sentiment, and sought to drive a wedge into relations among Japan, the United States, and South Korea.
2016-11-11.

When Masayuki Takayama declared that the fact that Renhō studied at Peking University while retaining Taiwanese nationality was not an issue that could be overlooked, I remarked that only he, as the singular journalist of the postwar world, could have made such a point.
Professor Terumasa Nakanishi’s essay fully proves the correctness of my assessment of Takayama.

All emphasis in the text, except for headings, is mine.
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Thus, Ozaki clearly articulated both his operations and his intentions to defend the Soviet Union while driving Japan southward into war with the United States and Britain.
Any examination of that war can no longer ignore Ozaki’s operations.

A Hundred-Year Communist Threat.

The wars of the Shōwa era, from the Sino-Japanese War to the conflict with the United States, certainly had multiple causes.
There were foolish or reckless choices on Japan’s side, and actions by Britain and the United States that also warrant scrutiny.
However, it is equally undeniable that communist forces in various countries persistently conducted operations to expand the Sino-Japanese War and to bring about war between Japan and the United States, beginning more than twenty years before hostilities actually broke out.
Despite this, such activities have scarcely been discussed by postwar Japanese historians.

To change the subject briefly, the forces now deteriorating security in East Asia are the so-called neo-communist or communist-rooted totalitarian regimes of China, North Korea, and Russia, and their coordination.
Precisely for this reason, the impact of communism on Japanese history over the past hundred years since the Russian Revolution, particularly on the Greater East Asia War, must now be subjected to serious examination.

This is not merely a matter of historical perception, such as escaping from the self-deprecating view of history that took root in postwar Japan through GHQ occupation policies portraying Japan as the sole villain.
It is, above all, an issue of contemporary Japanese national security under pressure from China, North Korea, and Russia.

For Japan to make sound choices in the future, it must discern the true nature of neo-communist strategies, and that requires first understanding what the communist bloc has done in the past.
As we have seen, their foremost tactic was the separation of Japan and the United States.

By means of layered operations aligned with the tactics of Lenin and the Comintern—forcing Japan and the United States to fight, weakening Japan, and triggering revolution or drawing it into the communist camp—the Japan–U.S. war became a reality.
After the war, Communist China’s efforts to drive a wedge between Japan and the United States continued without pause.
The objective was to neutralize the alliance, expel American influence from Asia, and establish its own hegemony.

I have detailed China’s deep involvement in the 1960 Security Treaty protests in my article in Bessatsu Seiron No. 15.
It is also known that from the late 1950s onward, operations were carried out to transform Okinawa’s movement for reversion to Japan into a struggle for the removal of U.S. bases.

Even today, China’s ongoing anti-American operations in Okinawa have been revealed by a U.S. congressional report introduced by Yoshihisa Komori, a Washington-based correspondent for the Sankei Shimbun.
That report also makes clear that Communist China has sought to incite South Korea through historical issues, intensify anti-Japanese sentiment, and drive a wedge into relations among Japan, the United States, and South Korea.

Today, Japan has no path to survival other than further deepening the Japan–U.S. alliance.
I am not an advocate of blind dependence on the United States, but it is impossible for Japan alone to confront the hegemonic ambitions of the neo-communist bloc.
If the current situation is left unattended, the neo-communist camp will eventually seize global hegemony, inflicting grave harm even on American national interests.
Japan must appeal to American public opinion on this reality and lead efforts, together with other liberal democracies, to stand against the neo-communist bloc.

The threat of communism has persisted for a hundred years.
Examining its impact is indispensable to Japan’s future survival.
To be continued.