This essay examines how China’s united front operations were connected to the U.S. Congress, anti-Japan organizations, Korean Peninsula-linked groups, and anti-Japan campaigns surrounding the comfort women issue. It highlights the reality of Chinagate inside American politics, the politicians and networks that helped China enter the WTO, and the broader structure that has damaged Japanese companies and Japan’s reputation.

2019-04-10
She was a central figure who worked hard to bring China into the WTO, the World Trade Organization.
Her husband does business with China.

The following is a chapter I published on October 30, 2018 under the title:
Low, who was in charge of linking the U.S. Congress with the Anti-Japan Federation and Korean Peninsula-linked organizations, later took up the comfort women issue as executive director of the “Social Justice Education Foundation.”

It is from a featured dialogue article by Masayuki Takayama and Keiko Kawazoe published in this month’s issue of WiLL under the title “The Dream of Pax China Is on the Brink of Collapse.”
All emphasis in the text except the headings is mine.

◎Xi Jinping, surrounded on all sides.
At last the United States, Britain, and Australia have said “No” to the Chinese Communist Party!

◎Chinagate weakened America.

Kawazoe
In late September I gave lectures in New York and Los Angeles, then did reporting in San Francisco before returning to Japan, and I am still jet-lagged.
Since these lectures were in Japanese, the participants were mainly first-generation immigrants, and the great majority supported President Trump and highly evaluated Prime Minister Abe.
Above all, they were all people who, even while living in America across the ocean, were deeply worried about Japan.
However, Japanese-Americans cannot be lumped together.
There also seem to be not a few second- and third-generation Japanese-Americans who are in step with former Congressman Mike Honda, who led the resolution in the U.S. Congress demanding an apology from Japan over the comfort women issue.

Takayama
When I went to Los Angeles, there were people called the new first generation who had gone to America after the war.
They had escaped from a Japan full of burnt ruins.
In American society, the status of Japanese-Americans was low, but they still thought they were above Japanese people in Japan.
Then, in the 1990s, America began to decline, while wealthy Japan appeared prominently in American society in its place.
In the end, being able to speak Japanese became useful, and they found themselves entering the Japanese companies they had abandoned, under good conditions.
Because of that, the new first generation I met in the 1990s were, on the whole, deeply twisted people.
They thought they had jumped onto the bandwagon, only to find that even better Japanese luxury cars had appeared.
They seemed bewildered as to why they had come to America at all, and it would not have been strange if some of them, like Mike Honda, came to bear a grudge against Japan.
In fact, when I was covering American lawsuits, many Japanese companies were trapped by such new first-generation employees.
Paul Igasaki of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sided with Americans and demeaned his own ancestral homeland by saying, “Japan is a country that discriminates against women, and Mitsubishi Motors in Illinois has discrimination against women as its policy,” and he used outrageous lies to sue Japanese companies.
I felt sick at heart, wondering whether he wished to ingratiate himself with white society to that extent.

Kawazoe
Recently what has suddenly been making headlines in the English-language press is China’s spy apparatus, the “United Front,” but from the mid-1990s onward, the activities of the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of the Anti-Japanese War, the Anti-Japan Federation, became more active on the West Coast.
This is an organization connected to the United Front.
Even before the Anti-Japan Federation was established, it is thought that some Japanese-Americans and Korean Peninsula-linked groups had cooperated with Chinese groups at the center, and they used these people as part of their political plotting, even making some of them lawmakers.
At present, the big boss is Florence Fang.
She is the honorary director of the “Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall” established in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

Takayama
Come to think of it, the ones who called for a boycott in the Mitsubishi Motors sexual harassment lawsuit were women politicians such as Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California.

Kawazoe
Senator Feinstein also served as mayor of San Francisco, and it has recently become public that her aide Russell Lowe was a Chinese spy.

Takayama
When Lowe’s true identity was exposed, there was no punishment at all, only dismissal.

Kawazoe
Lowe, who had been responsible for linking the U.S. Congress with the Anti-Japan Federation and Korean Peninsula-linked organizations, later took up the comfort women issue as executive director of the “Social Justice Education Foundation.”
Senator Feinstein, who had good relations with Jiang Zemin, was one of the central figures in the Clinton administration who worked hard to bring China into the WTO, the World Trade Organization.
Her husband does business with China.
The kind of deep, entangled Chinagate represented by her is precisely the principal cause that has weakened America.

To be continued.