The internet stands as humanity’s greatest library but also a battleground for crime and cyber warfare.
While Japan’s engineers and corporations demonstrate excellence worldwide, questions arise about whether media and institutions truly serve the nation.
In an age of cyber threats and information warfare, the need for stronger governance and vigilance is urgent.

Far from being modern samurai, could they in fact be parasites within the lion, harmful to the Japanese state and its people.
2018-01-31.
Rapeseed greens must be in season now.
Recently I have been buying them frequently and boiling them, and by my own rough sense I had been boiling them in water for about three minutes.
Freshly boiled they were acceptable, but once refrigerated they somehow did not stimulate the appetite. They were not tasty.
On impulse I searched the internet for how to boil rapeseed greens. A recipe appeared instantly. It said thirty seconds was enough.
They had been overboiled, and that was why they were not tasty at all.
I immediately tried boiling them according to the recipe. The difference was like night and day.
The reason I write this is to convey the truth of what I have often said: that the internet is the greatest library in human history.
And to state that what prosecutors and police around the world should now focus on most is building systems to thoroughly crack down on and punish the countries and individuals who commit wrongdoing within this space called the internet.
Police and prosecutors have already entered an abnormal situation in which they must urgently update themselves.
It is an undeniable fact that many of the murder cases and other crimes filling the news recently involve social media.
When I first saw a man named Hajime Takano on “Asa Made Nama Television,” I wondered why such a person was there.
At the ANA Hotel bar in Kitashinchi that I used to frequent, I found myself seated next to him and Ryoko Ozawa twice.
What I overheard from their conversations was always talk of collusion among general contractors.
The other day, when I searched Takano for the first time, I learned that he was the son of Takano who once dominated Sohyo.
So that is why he appeared on television and wrote the Democratic Party platform. The absolute patron of the Democratic Party was Sohyo. Having the son of the boss write the platform would naturally win further favor from Sohyo.
Yet such parties and figures as Takano dared to criticize.
Japan’s general contractors, which Japan proudly presents to the world, have always carried out projects at the highest technological level demanded by society at any given time.
These general contractors, a concentration of the finest talents in architecture, engineering, civil works, bridges, and excavation, devised bid coordination as a means to achieve both perfect technological performance and profit simultaneously as private enterprises.
Because I have continued to write this, I have recently realized it anew.
The entire world knows the excellence of Japan’s general contractors.
It is no exaggeration to say that they are the group and organization that most faithfully conveys the excellence of Japan and the Japanese people to the world.
As I once wrote when I first appeared, Japan’s outstanding salarymen are modern samurai.
They too, like the trading company men who are my lifelong friends, are modern samurai.
On the other hand, what of those working in media organizations such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK.
Are the members of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s Special Investigation Division, who clearly take these editorials as their intellectual guide, truly modern samurai working for Japan and its people.
Or rather than samurai, are they in fact parasites within the lion, harmful to the Japanese state and its people.
Might it not be an exaggeration to say they are in the palm of China or the Korean Peninsula.
The following is an article from yesterday’s Sankei Shimbun.
Targeting strongly defended Israel.
Are hacker groups researching infrastructure attacks.
It has been revealed that North Korean hacker groups have launched cyberattacks against the Israel Electric Corporation.
No actual damage has been confirmed, but company executives point out that the attacks are “of an extremely high level.”
Through attacks on Israel, which possesses the world’s most advanced cyber defense technologies, North Korea is believed to be studying methods to break strong defenses.
There is growing concern that it will enhance its attack capabilities and inflict fatal damage on critical infrastructure in Japan, the United States, and elsewhere.
(Tel Aviv, Kazumasa Bando).
To be continued.