Published on August 24, 2019. This chapter, originally sent out on February 18, 2019, introduces a Sankei Shimbun editorial and discusses Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s remarks on local-government cooperation with Self-Defense Force recruitment, criticism from the Asahi Shimbun and opposition parties, the Ministry of Defense’s request for name-list data, Article 9 of the Constitution, the argument that the Self-Defense Forces are unconstitutional, and the problem of university professors involved in educating future civil servants.

August 24, 2019.
At the root of this problem is also the fact that, among the universities educating people who will become civil servants, there are many professors like the following, whom it would not be an exaggeration to call national traitors.
This is the chapter I sent out on February 18, 2019, under the title: But is it not Prime Minister Abe who is pointing out the facts, while the Asahi Shimbun, the opposition parties, and others are speaking falsehoods?
The following is from today’s Sankei Shimbun editorial.
The emphases in the text, apart from the headline, are mine.
Which side is fake?
The issue of recruiting Self-Defense Force personnel.
Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has stirred debate by saying that local governments not cooperating with recruitment work for Self-Defense Force personnel amount to more than 60 percent of the total, and by calling for the Self-Defense Forces to be explicitly written into the Constitution in order to correct this situation.
The Asahi Shimbun, opposition parties, and others criticize the prime minister’s statement as mistaken, saying that “about 90 percent” of local governments cooperate with recruitment.
But is it not Prime Minister Abe who is pointing out the facts, while the Asahi Shimbun, the opposition parties, and others are speaking falsehoods?
Prime Minister Abe stated in the Diet that from more than 60 percent of local governments, “the necessary cooperation for recruitment has not been obtained.
This is truly regrettable.”
He argued that by explicitly writing the Self-Defense Forces into the Constitution, “such an atmosphere will change.”
The Self-Defense Forces Act and its enforcement order designate the submission of materials necessary for personnel recruitment as a legally entrusted task of local governments.
The Ministry of Defense asks local governments to provide, either on paper or in electronic media, lists containing data on recruitment targets, including names, dates of birth, sex, and addresses.
In fiscal 2017, 36 percent of all 17412 municipalities complied with the request, while the remaining 64 percent did not provide the lists.
In 53 percent of municipalities, excluding depopulated local governments with small populations, Self-Defense Force personnel in charge of recruitment work had no choice but to use the provisions of the Basic Resident Register Act and either copy by hand or view enormous amounts of material.
The Asahi Shimbun, opposition parties, and others add this 53 percent to the 36 percent and criticize the prime minister by saying that about 90 percent cooperated.
Are they serious?
All they had to do was submit paper or electronic media, but they did not do so, and they forced an enormous amount of work on the Self-Defense Force personnel on the ground who are in charge of recruitment.
Such behavior cannot be called cooperation.
It cannot be helped if they are said to be sabotaging work related to recruitment.
It is more reasonable for the prime minister to say that “it is a fact that cooperation has not been obtained from more than 60 percent.”
They probably reject the prime minister’s raising of the issue with such a strained argument because they want to say, “This is not a reason for constitutional amendment,” as in the Asahi Shimbun editorial of the 14th.
However, based on Article 9 of the Constitution, many constitutional scholars advocate the theory that the Self-Defense Forces are unconstitutional.
Everyone knows that among civil servants with a strong pro-Constitution tendency, there exists an atmosphere that dislikes and belittles the development and use of the Self-Defense Forces.
That leads to non-cooperation with the recruitment of Self-Defense Force personnel.
Debate on constitutional amendment must be greatly advanced in the Constitutional Commissions of both houses of the Diet and elsewhere.
I will write about the wickedness of the Asahi Shimbun later, but at the root of this problem is also the fact that, among the universities educating people who will become civil servants, there are many professors like the following, whom it would not be an exaggeration to call national traitors.
It is a clear fact known to the great majority of the people that when they are struck by a severe disaster, local governments “request rescue by the Self-Defense Forces” even before the central government does.
The time has long since come for every Japanese citizen to realize how far postwar Japan…Japan controlled by the Asahi Shimbun and NHK…had fallen into decay.