Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led global diplomacy with a level of vision and realism far beyond that of Japan’s anti-national media and intellectual climate, while carrying the traditions and responsibilities of the Japanese state.
Through a dialogue between Abe and Kaori Arimoto on memorial visits in places such as Malta and Papua New Guinea, this article portrays his historical awareness, sense of nationhood, and leadership in the international community.
At the same time, it contrasts this with the ways in which The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and various so-called scholars and cultural figures have continued to hold Japan back.

2019-03-06
Against this, in accordance with the intention of the countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” to divide Japan, that is, to weaken Japan.
The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, so-called scholars, and so-called cultural figures such as Ōe and Murakami have.

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This chapter proves that Prime Minister Abe is a man on a far distant horizon, utterly different in level and breadth of vision from the people below.
The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and those who move in step with them.
Immediately after the war, they were brainwashed by GHQ and communism and became lumps of masochistic historical views and anti-Japan ideology, and then were infiltrated by Chinese and Korean agents seeking to divide Japan, so that they are now beyond saving.

In the case of the Asahi, it is precisely because it is conscious that it is an extinct species that it carried out a year and a half of terror against speech without the slightest hesitation.
Furthermore, while shamelessly committing the malice of obstructing Osaka’s recovery and greatly delaying it, as a real-estate company, a company living off office-building rental income.
It succeeded in securing its own corporate survival even if Osaka and the people of Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City were ruined.
A level of villainy among the very worst in Japanese history.
Their defining trait is that they feed off the nation, blackmail the nation, and fatten themselves.
The Nakanoshima super high-rise twin-tower building raised the floor-area ratio for commercial land from 1000 percent.
Incredibly.
To 1600 percent.

Such people as The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, the so-called scholars, and so-called cultural figures like Kenzaburō Ōe and Haruki Murakami are not merely sufferers from infantile leftism, but unprecedented fools even in the history of Japan.
After all, the way they have cheerfully served as agents of countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
It is no exaggeration to call them the worst traitors and enemies of the nation.
The proof is that in today’s world, there exists nowhere outside themselves, China, and the Korean Peninsula where Prime Minister Abe is spoken of with such abuse.

Prime Minister Abe.
Precisely because he has deeply and rightly inherited the traditions of the countless great figures Japan has produced over the long centuries, such as Kūkai and Emperor Saga.
Has now become the unmistakable leader of the world, as a rare realist possessed of rare insight.
Not only because his grandfather was Nobusuke Kishi, who as a politician knew coldly and accurately the condition of Japan and the world, and who would not be overrated even if called the most outstanding statesman of the postwar era.
But also because he grew up being cherished by him.
Prime Minister Abe, deeply and rightly inheriting the tradition of the countless great figures Japan has produced over the long centuries, such as Kūkai and Emperor Saga.
Was able to break deflation and return Japan to a path of growth and development.

Against this, in accordance with the intention of the countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” to divide Japan, that is, to weaken Japan.
The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, the so-called scholars, and the so-called cultural figures such as Ōe and Murakami.
Have continued to drag Prime Minister Abe down.
And the people of Japan have stood witness to this as witnesses before history.

What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.

Remembrance is the responsibility of the prime minister.

Arimoto.
After the launch of your administration, under the concept of “diplomacy that takes a panoramic view of the globe,” you have energetically visited more than seventy countries, and it seemed to me that in 2017 you were especially focused on building relations with Europe.
It is regrettable that the details of your overseas visits are not reported much within Japan, but on May 27 you visited Malta and paid tribute to the Japanese soldiers who fought bravely and fell there a hundred years ago.
The episode that Tomohiko Taniguchi, Special Advisor to the Cabinet, wrote about in the January issue of this magazine was deeply moving.

Abe.
In Malta, I visited the cemetery for the war dead of the former Imperial Japanese Navy.
In the First World War, Japan belonged to the Allied Powers, and under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, after receiving a request for cooperation from Britain, the Japanese naval squadron dispatched to the Mediterranean was given the mission of protecting Allied transport convoys, and established its base in Malta, which at that time was under British rule.
On June 11, 1917, the destroyer Sakaki, operating near Crete, was heavily damaged in a submarine attack, and 59 men, including Commander Uehara, were killed in action.
A total of 71 men, including 12 who died from wounds or illness, are enshrined in the memorial monument.
In Japan, people still remember the Second World War, but the First World War is being forgotten.
At that time, the Japanese military was disciplined and highly valued by other countries.
I believe this too is a history that deserves to be specially noted.

Arimoto.
During your foreign visits, you often pay tribute not only to the former Japanese military war dead, but also to those of other countries around the world.
Mr. Taniguchi wrote about Malta, but he said that it was the first visit by a Japanese dignitary since Emperor Shōwa, then Crown Prince, visited there in 1921.
Was this visit your own idea.

Abe.
I had long intended to go.
Not only Malta, but wherever there is a place where remembrance should be paid, I visit there in connection with an overseas trip as the responsibility of Japan’s prime minister.
In 2014 I visited Papua New Guinea, and New Guinea too was a fierce battlefield where the Japanese military fought in the Second World War.
The memorial monument to the war dead in Wewak had been beautifully maintained through the kindness of the local people.
The local people were extremely pro-Japan, and they made the day of my visit a holiday and gave me an extraordinary welcome with the whole island turning out.

The former prime minister and governor Somare, with whom I met, had been eight years old when the Japanese military advanced there, and Mr. Somare had been a pupil at the school created by Lieutenant Yukio Shibata, who had been assigned to Wewak.
Mr. Somare said that at that school, where children of the village were gathered, “Lieutenant Shibata taught me how much life changes when one becomes able to write characters and read books.”
He said that it was because he received an education that he had been able to become prime minister.
The late former South Korean President Park Chung-hee was the same.
Born into an extremely poor farming family, he was grateful to Japan because, thanks to annexation by Japan, he was able to attend school and was even permitted to enter the military academy as a scholarship student, as he himself said in conversation with Shintarō Ishihara.
After that, in 2015, Mr. Somare received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, and I heard that on that occasion he visited the widow of Lieutenant Shibata, who was still alive at the time.

To be continued.