Published on July 17, 2019.
This essay, originally issued on December 16, 2018, discusses intelligence operations by China and the Korean Peninsula, the Japan-Korea Parliamentary League, NHK and the Asahi Shimbun’s shaping of public opinion, and anti-Japanese activities in Okinawa.
Through the issues of impression manipulation against Prime Minister Abe, opinion polls, obstruction of constitutional revision, anti-nuclear reporting, and Okinawa’s two major newspapers, it argues for the necessity of Japan establishing its own intelligence system.

July 17, 2019.
Let us allocate a budget exceeding hundreds of millions of yen and turn intelligence officers from China and the Korean Peninsula.
Other than doing so, there is no way to stop the lies and anti-Japanese activities in Okinawa.
This is a chapter I published on December 16, 2018, under the title: “When a young Chinese woman working part-time at a shop in Arashiyama last year said, ‘I like all Japanese people except Prime Minister Abe…,’ I told her, ‘That is strange…’”
In France, that bizarre demonstration is still continuing, and Japanese television reports things such as, “France is the country of the May Revolution.”
A few days ago, on a TV Asahi wide show that happened to appear because the channel had been left as it was, after commenting that perhaps there was some kind of conspiracy and showing footage of Le Pen and others, the young announcer serving as host made a summary comment in a way that clearly showed he was criticizing President Trump, saying something like, “Is France also going in that direction?”
Watching this together with a friend, I could not help blurting out, “That direction? Which direction are you on?”
That friend called me yesterday and said that the chapter I had published was very good.
In the course of that conversation, he said, “I was surprised when I read this morning’s Sankei Shimbun editorial….”
Hearing that, I immediately became convinced.
It would probably be easier than twisting a baby’s arm for the intelligence agencies of South Korea or North Korea to compromise the lawmakers belonging to that Japan-Korea Parliamentary League.
Honey traps and money traps.
It should not be an exaggeration at all to say that among that parliamentary league there is not a single lawmaker with the insight and true patriotism needed to resist them.
They are a model example of the vulnerability of democracy.
In the past, people would be incited by the Asahi Shimbun and others and head toward war; now, they are manipulated by them and head toward anti-Japanese activities.
What they all have in common is that every one of them subscribes to and carefully reads the Asahi Shimbun, and I am convinced that this conjecture is 100 percent correct.
As long as these people exist, there is no way Japan can lead the world as a country where “The Turntable of Civilization” is turning.
And that is precisely what the intelligence agencies of China and the Korean Peninsula are likely targeting and working toward.
The title of the Sankei Shimbun editorial was “What on earth did they go there to do?”
What surprised my friend was learning that this visiting delegation to South Korea, needless to say Japanese Diet members, had excluded the Sankei Shimbun from the press conference.
The unprecedented proposal I made yesterday to Japan and to the world.
Let us allocate a budget exceeding hundreds of millions of yen and obtain deep throats from China and the Korean Peninsula as quickly as possible.
Let us turn intelligence officers.
Other than doing so, Japan cannot become a world leader alongside the United States.
Nor can it stop the lies and anti-Japanese activities in Okinawa.
As my friend told me on the telephone this morning that my proposal was “wonderful,” I became even more convinced that it is the only answer for Japan.
The foundations of a one-party communist dictatorship and of a country that has continued Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education for seventy years after the war are constant propaganda activities at home and abroad and surveillance of the people.
Far from being rock-solid, democracy has many pitfalls from the standpoint of those carrying out operations against it, and it goes without saying that it is an extremely easy target for such operations.
What they do to democratic nations is to divide the people and divide public opinion.
Against Japan, this means the fabrication of the Morikake scandal.
In NHK’s frequent public opinion polls, when asking the reason for disapproval of the administration, it always inserts the absurd item, “I cannot trust Prime Minister Abe’s personality,” and makes the announcer read it aloud every time without fail.
I once happened to encounter the prime minister before Prime Minister Abe in Kitashinchi.
Needless to say, he had the very air of someone whose personality could not be trusted.
For eyes that had continued to see that type of politician, the encounter with Shinzo Abe at the Nikko Hotel in Shinsaibashi was, without exaggeration, an earth-shaking surprise.
I was descending the escalator, and he was walking down the corridor below in the direction of the subway.
His appearance was completely different from that of any politician I had seen.
Without looking aside, looking at his feet, he was walking with an air of single-minded concentration.
It was when he was out of power.
I realized it in an instant.
He is different from the many political hacks; that man is genuine.
I was truly surprised.
After all, at that time I was a person who subscribed to and carefully read the Asahi Shimbun, so all the more so.
After he returned to the office of prime minister, I was also surprised when he appeared on “Soko Made Itte Iinkai,” which I happened to be watching, and when he appeared on a late-night wide show featuring Hitoshi Matsumoto.
However, at those times, I was surprised by what might be called the goodness of character possessed by a genuinely well-brought-up young gentleman, and therefore by his truly natural and splendid sense of humor.
With that, I was convinced that it was only natural that, when Obama was president and the United States and France, I believe, entered into a fierce exchange, a quarrel, at the G7, he brilliantly used his quick wit to settle the scene, wrap it in laughter, and prevent the meeting from breaking down.
It is probably 100 percent certain that 5 percent of the people controlling NHK’s news and editorial departments are agents of China or the Korean Peninsula.
The reason is that only minds from China or the Korean Peninsula would not find it suspicious to continue such a foolish and maximally malicious question, asking citizens who have never met or spoken even once with Prime Minister Abe whether “his personality cannot be trusted.”
When a young Chinese woman working part-time at a shop in Arashiyama last year said, “I like all Japanese people except Prime Minister Abe…,” I admonished her, saying, “That is strange.
Prime Minister Abe is the person chosen in elections by the majority of Japanese people, so your logic is wrong.”
In other words, the will of China and the Korean Peninsula is embodied in that question item, “I cannot trust Prime Minister Abe’s personality.”
NHK and others conduct public opinion polls with abnormal frequency, and their intentions must be working there as well.
The reason is that this itself is brainwashing.
They manipulate the results of Japanese public opinion polls, make it appear as though opposition is strong, and obstruct constitutional revision.
They continue anti-nuclear opposition, drive Japan, their strongest rival, down into the status of a backward country in nuclear technology, and allow China to dominate the world’s nuclear power plants.
The article I discovered this morning in The Guardian proved the correctness of my argument 100 percent; I will introduce it in the next and subsequent chapters.
NHK never reads out the approval ratings of each political party.
It reads out every time the item that Prime Minister Abe’s personality cannot be trusted, but it absolutely never reads out that, compared with the Liberal Democratic Party’s support rate of around 50 percent, the Constitutional Democratic Party’s support rate is not only under 10 percent but around 5 percent.
This is the manner in which NHK, which is in practice Japan’s national broadcaster, frequently behaves.
It is only natural that a country in such a state not only cannot stop China’s tyranny, but allows them to do as they please, and in the end even has its territory, territorial waters, and our honor and credibility continuously trampled upon by countries such as South Korea and North Korea.
The reason this lowest and most pathetic state of affairs has appeared is, first and foremost, that NHK, the Asahi Shimbun, and others are in their hands.
One often hears the saying that the problems of a country appear amplified on its remote islands.
Okinawa is exactly that.
Okinawa is, so to speak, controlled by two newspapers equivalent to NHK and the Asahi Shimbun.
Before and during the war, it was also these two newspapers and the Okinawa Asahi Shimbun that incited the people of the prefecture with slogans such as “all one hundred million must die honorably” and “do not live to suffer the disgrace of being taken prisoner.”
The Asahi Shimbun’s cowardliness also appears in the fact that it has made it impossible to search for the Okinawa Asahi Shimbun on the Internet.
Being able to instantly search its prewar and wartime reporting would be fatal to them.
For example, I do not make my living as a writer, so in order to investigate that matter, I will not go out of my way from Osaka to Tokyo to the National Diet Library and so forth; almost all citizens would be the same.
Thus, the conduct of the Okinawa Asahi Shimbun before and during the war has been turned into a black box for most citizens.
Okinawa’s two newspapers are probably similar.
If Japan had an FBI and CIA, and if I were the director there.
Needless to say, I would immediately begin investigating the contact between Okinawa’s two newspapers and operatives from China and the Korean Peninsula.
Needless to say, Okinawa is the most suitable target for aiming to invade and seize Japanese territory and territorial waters, divide Japan, and weaken Japan.
Not only in other advanced countries outside Japan.
If it were China or the Korean Peninsula themselves, those involved would immediately be arrested for espionage; in China they would be executed for crimes such as treason, while South Korea also appears to be a nonsensical country where punishments and public examples are rampant, so perhaps they might be released if the administration changes.
What Shin Sugok is actually doing makes this painfully clear.
Even so, the conduct of television stations that frequently put Shin Sugok on television, and the Asahi Shimbun, which has even welcomed her into an affiliated company, is beyond description.
This essay continues.