Using a WiLL essay by Kadota Ryusho as a point of entry, this piece highlights warnings about China’s infiltration and intelligence activities—especially in IT, politics, and the media—drawing on Moeka Fukada’s book on alleged technology theft and covert influence.
It argues that the U.S.–China trade conflict marked a turning point, creating an era in which “distance from China” becomes a strategic value.
At the same time, it criticizes Japan’s lack of counter-espionage frameworks—such as a spy-prevention law and a security-clearance system—claiming Japan lags far behind global standards.
It also raises concerns about media and institutional links with China, calling on Japan to fulfill a civilizational responsibility to lead the world alongside the United States.

2019-01-29.
There is no other path to fulfilling divine providence, because as a nation where the “Turntable of Civilization” is turning, Japan must lead the world for the next 170 years alongside the United States.
The following is from an essay by Kadota Ryusho—one of the genuine journalists—published in the monthly magazine WiLL released on 1/26, under the title “The Fear of a ‘Chinese Spy Network’ Spreading Across the World.”
WiLL is one of the monthly magazines I keep insisting that every Japanese citizen who lives in the 21st century and wants to know the truth of things must subscribe to.
It costs 900 yen, whereas a subscription to the Asahi Shimbun costs around 5,000 yen.
If you consider that, then—so that you will not feel any further regret as I do—you should immediately cancel your Asahi subscription and switch either to subscribing to the four monthly magazines I recommend (3,600 yen in total), or to two of them plus another newspaper.
Because that decision of yours is what will save Japan.
Among the books I picked up at the start of the year, one sent a chill down my spine.
It was “Japan’s IT Industry Is Being Stolen by China” (WAC).
The author is the IT business analyst Moeka Fukada, who has been accusing Huawei (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.) of being a “spy company” for the past six years.
Eight years ago, when she was preparing to launch a business with an American engineer who had developed a chip solution for the F-35, her battle with Huawei began.
Before she had even launched a website, Huawei approached her, saying they wanted to sign a licensing agreement.
When the American engineer refused—saying Huawei was a spy company and the U.S. government would not permit dealings—one year later, Huawei allegedly attempted to hack Japan’s satellite communications during an experiment with a government-affiliated research institute, and obstructed development.
The author was advised to report it to the police.
But the police did not move, asking, “What crime would that be?”
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications would not take it up, and when she consulted the foreign-affairs police, that too went nowhere.
In the meantime, Japanese research staff were reassigned, an Iranian person with close ties to Huawei took over, and pressure was applied even to replace equipment with Huawei products.
The author then reported the matter to the FBI in the United States, but it was later revealed that the FBI officer in charge instead framed the author as a Chinese spy and filed a false report to the CIA… and so on.
The series of strange events that unfolded one after another reads like a spy novel.
In the book, the author denounces Huawei as “a massive spy organization in the real world that siphons information through human networks—effectively the Chinese Communist Party government itself,” and states that “upon realizing that even the United States—the last hope—had already been infiltrated by China, I felt a skin-crawling terror.”
Her struggle with a state-backed spy enterprise has a compelling realism, and it conveys the fear of China’s international spy organization.
Because I know something of the enormity of China’s spy network that has penetrated deeply into Japan’s media and political world, I found myself exclaiming “Wow…” as if seeing the reality of the IT industry, and I finished the book in no time.
The book also portrays how the #MeToo movement and people who sit in protests or hold “peace demonstrations” in front of the Diet can, without realizing it, ride on such operations and be “turned into spies.”
The author asserts, “Honey traps are China’s strongest weapon.”
This made me recall that Facebook’s founder married a Chinese woman who, even at a glance, does not appear to be an ordinary person.
Her account of being targeted by a honey trap herself is also intriguing.
In China, she says, honey-trap operatives are prepared not only for heterosexual targets but also for “homosexual” honey traps.
These experiences are presented with the information-gathering capacity and analytical power that only an author who operates across the globe can possess, and they never become dull.
It goes without saying that the U.S.–China trade war that began last year has historical significance, because at last the United States has “grasped” China’s true nature.
For many years, the United States provided enormous economic support to the impoverished great power China, and in 2001 even brought China into the WTO in an attempt to incorporate it into the rules of the global economy.
Yet China repaid kindness with hostility, stealing cutting-edge and military technologies through illegal espionage, and repeatedly carrying out hacking.
Now that China has become the greatest threat, America’s patience has finally snapped, and as is widely known, on October 4 last year Vice President Pence delivered a major speech at the Hudson Institute that could be described as a de facto “declaration of war” against China.
This drastic shift has generated a new current in the world.
The world has entered an era in which “how far one is from China” becomes “value.”
In inverse proportion to this trend, NHK (especially Watch 9) has, as I have already noted, begun incessantly chanting “China is a great power, a great power.” The abnormality of this China-praising—so extreme that they seem to have forgotten not only that NHK is Japan’s national broadcaster but even that they themselves are Japanese—makes me want to say to Arima: Great power of what? A great power of human-rights abuses? A great power without freedom of speech? A great power of lawless violence that ignores international law? A military-expansion great power with unlimited intent to invade other countries? A great power of evil as a one-party Communist dictatorship? A great power of bottomless evil and plausible lies?
This should, in principle, be a major opportunity for Japan.
However, Japan still does not even have a “spy-prevention law,” and it lacks the concept of a “security clearance” (SC) that allows access to “national classified information,” something that is common sense in countries like the United States.
Japan lags ten or twenty steps behind global standards.
Japanese companies that are careless about technology leaks and information leaks, and that lack crisis-management awareness, cannot possibly be trusted by foreign countries, and there is no way they can seize that opportunity.
At the very beginning of the new year, as I read this book, I found myself becoming pessimistic, thinking: Is Japan going to fall behind the world like this?
There was a time when China sent a major spy—at the lieutenant-colonel level from the Second Department of the PLA General Staff—into the office of a former Japanese prime minister who promoted ODA, as a private secretary.
Of course, information flowed straight to China through that spy.
As for the mass media, such cases are too numerous to list.
The U.S.–China trade war has, inadvertently, begun to expose in broad daylight the fragility of “spy-heaven Japan.”
Speaking of the media, if we recall that a Chinese state broadcaster has been inside NHK, that the People’s Daily—the organ of the Chinese Communist Party—has partnered with the Asahi Shimbun and has human connections, and that the Tokyo bureau of Xinhua—China’s Communist Party propaganda organ—has at one time been located inside the Asahi Shimbun’s Tokyo headquarters building, then every Japanese citizen must immediately stop subscribing to the Asahi Shimbun. Not those who are controlled by China or South Korea, but Japanese citizens—Japanese who are proud to be Japanese—who, over 2,600 years, have produced countless great figures, must, the moment they read this piece of mine, cancel their Asahi subscription and stop subscribing to all Asahi-related publications.
Because there is no other path to fulfilling divine providence, as a nation where the “Turntable of Civilization” is turning, Japan must lead the world for the next 170 years alongside the United States.
As for NHK, I will discuss it later.