2019-08-08
Perhaps he is enjoying all kinds of honey traps and money traps in China and South Korea.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that this man is one of the greatest villains for humankind.
The following is a continuation of the roundtable discussion by Sakurai Yoshiko, Kadota Ryusho, and Abiru Rui, published in this month’s issue of the monthly magazine Hanada, in its “All-Out Major Special Feature: The Regrettable Asahi Shimbun,” under the title “Asahi Shimbun Is Moon Jae-in’s Spokesman.”
This special feature, too, must be read not only by the Japanese people but by people throughout the world.
That is because Japan is the country where “The Turntable of Civilization” is turning, and because Japan is a country that must lead the world alongside the United States for the next 170 years.
The fact that Jim Rogers, an utterly foolish man who is nothing but a slave to money, writes that people should invest in China and South Korea and sells books saying such things is the extreme of baseness and evil.
Perhaps he is enjoying all kinds of honey traps and money traps in China and South Korea.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that this man is one of the greatest villains for humankind.
Those who have not yet purchased this month’s issue, which is filled with content like the following, must immediately take 900 yen and go to the nearest bookstore to buy it.
Treating Prime Minister Abe Like a “Dog”
Kadota
Returning to Asahi, over these export controls, Asahi finally treated the Japanese government and Prime Minister Abe like a “dog” in Tensei Jingo.
“When a person beside us yawns, we are also drawn into going ‘fwaa.’ This phenomenon, that yawns are contagious, apparently has a reason. One influential theory is that it occurs because of the workings of the mind that empathize with the other person. … It seems that the behavior of U.S. President Trump is also contagious. … Incidentally, human yawns apparently also spread to dogs. There are research results saying that dogs are especially easily influenced by owners to whom they are loyal. In the case of the Japanese government, perhaps it is closer to this.”
It has already gone beyond all bounds of sanity.
Sakurai
In any case, Asahi is Japan’s second-largest newspaper after Yomiuri Shimbun.
In the past, Tensei Jingo was often used in entrance examinations.
For that newspaper to write a column that tears its own country’s pride to shreds and tramples it underfoot is far too terrible.
Abiru
It has completely lost all restraint.
In the first place, Prime Minister Abe is not Trump’s dog.
For example, at the 2018 G7 summit, even when Trump clashed with EU leaders, he said, “In the end, I will follow what Shinzo says.”
Among the world’s leaders, the one Trump listens to the most is Prime Minister Abe.
Without reporting such facts, Asahi one-sidedly declares that “Abe is Trump’s dog.”
It is an extremely cowardly method.
Yokoi
It was terrible when Mr. Trump visited Japan, too.
In Tensei Jingo, Asahi criticized the warm treatment given to Mr. Trump as follows.
“When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe played golf with U.S. President Trump and watched sumo with him, he was unusually wearing glasses. Many may have been reminded of his father, Shintaro Abe, whose trademark was black-rimmed glasses. … While explaining the importance of hospitality between leaders, Shintaro also described his diplomatic philosophy in detail. ‘Because Japan depends on the United States, excessively humbling ourselves will worsen Japan–U.S. relations.’ ‘We must persuade them that what we cannot do, we cannot do. That is important in Japan–U.S. relations.’ These are teachings that apply even now. … Clinging to him, begging him—when one sees the excessive hospitality shown to Mr. Trump, those are the only words that come to mind. If Shintaro, who had a backbone in his diplomatic philosophy, were still alive, what score would he give his son’s work this time?”
However, it does not write about the relationship of trust between Prime Minister Abe and Mr. Trump that Mr. Abiru just mentioned.
Abiru
Perhaps Asahi is not reporting properly.
In June, Bloomberg reported that President Trump had mentioned terminating the Japan–U.S. Security Treaty.
In response, Asahi wrote, “The Abe administration, which advertises the honeymoon by saying ‘Japan–U.S. relations are the strongest,’ cannot hide its shock and anxiety.”
On the night when that Bloomberg report came out, I was talking with people connected to the government, and all of them were laughing at the report.
There was no “shock and anxiety” of the sort Asahi described anywhere.
I would like to know exactly who in the Abe administration was so shaken.
Kadota
Prime Minister Abe is good at handling difficult leaders such as Trump, Russia’s Putin, Turkey’s Erdoğan, and the Philippines’ Duterte.
This time as well, he skillfully brought things all the way to a leaders’ declaration.
The nickname given to him in international society is “the tamer of wild beasts.”
His skill is highly regarded, and the German newspaper Die Zeit, in its online edition, published commentary on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the time of the G20 summit, writing that “Abe is everyone’s favorite on the stage of international politics” and that he is “suited to the role of mediator.”
I think this G20 summit was an international conference that showed Japan’s prime minister standing at the center of international society.
Sakurai
There has never before been a time when Japan’s prime minister was able to demonstrate leadership to this extent.
However, when you look at Asahi’s editorial title, it says, “Osaka G20 Closes: The Limits of Abe Diplomacy Have Become Visible.”
In another article, it wrote that the phrase “promotion of free trade,” which had been in the draft leaders’ declaration, could not even be included, and that the G20 had lost its ability to make decisions, as if the hollowing out of the summit were Prime Minister Abe’s responsibility.
Abiru
The G20 itself had, for the previous two meetings, produced almost nothing and had been said to be no longer necessary.
Moreover, although the exact words “promotion of free trade” were not used, the declaration did include a substantive expression: “to realize a free, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent, predictable and stable trade and investment environment.”
Kadota
Asahi, at any rate, reports only what is convenient for itself.
When you read Sankei and Yomiuri, facts on both sides, for and against, appear, so readers can grasp the whole picture.
It was the same with the Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets.
The enactment of the Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets had an international demand in the background.
Japan had no anti-espionage law and did not have a system capable of properly protecting classified information from foreign countries.
However much one read Asahi, such things never appeared.
It simply made a fuss, saying that this was a second Peace Preservation Law and that it must not be allowed.
This article continues.