Published on November 3, 2019.
Based on an essay by journalist Otaka Miki in the monthly magazine WiLL, this article examines South Korea’s pro-North forces, the Moon Jae-in administration, North Korea’s operations toward the South, and the alleged “Divide Japan” operation linking Okinawa, Osaka, the Prime Minister’s Office, and Hokkaido.
Through the Ainu New Law, Upopoy, Ainu-related budgets, and the issue of Ainu-related interests, it points to the danger of internal division operations unfolding within Japan.

November 3, 2019.
In connection with these movements, in fact, even in Japan, a “Divide Japan” operation is being carried out from Okinawa to Osaka, to the Prime Minister’s Office, and to Hokkaido by pro-North Korean forces acting in accordance with North Korea’s intentions.
The following is from an essay by Otaka Miki, a spirited journalist, published in this month’s issue of the monthly magazine WiLL under the title “Is This a Divide Japan Operation?
Why Are the Ainu Studying North Korea’s Juche Ideology?”
What is the hidden scenario behind the passage of the Ainu New Law?
The Divide Japan Operation.
In August of this year, Shinohara Joichiro, a former secretary to a Communist Party member of the Diet, exposed confidential documents saying that South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his close aides were secret party members of North Korea, and in South Korea the confrontation between the pro-North faction led by President Moon Jae-in and conservatives is intensifying.
That said, South Korea’s pro-North tendency did not begin with the Moon administration.
Since the Kim Dae-jung era, it had been said that “the Blue House has already fallen into Pyongyang’s hands,” and North Korea’s operations toward the South had steadily progressed.
In order to explore fragments of those operations toward the South, I visited South Korea from the 1990s and tried to make contact with left-wing media.
When they answered about the future of the Korean Peninsula by saying, “We are the same nation, so unification is natural,” I asked them, “How will you reconcile that with North Korea’s human rights suppression and one-party dictatorship?”
But they merely turned their eyes away from the essential point, and I could not obtain a clear answer.
I still remember that indescribable mood of unification.
Seen from foreign countries, including Japan, the crushing of the Park Geun-hye administration by those suspicious candlelight demonstrations appears to be an abnormal scene, but when viewed from inside South Korea, was it not a current like alcohol that had been aged for many years, evaporating and reaching its ignition point?
Now we hear about criticism of the Moon administration by South Korean conservatives and the state of large-scale anti-government demonstrations, but I cannot help thinking that the Moon administration, which is seriously carrying out a revolution, will seriously try to crush conservative media and intellectuals as well, and that the formal unification of North and South Korea on the Korean Peninsula has become a scenario approved behind the scenes by both Japan and the United States.
Including the abolition of GSOMIA, might everything in fact be a scenario already factored in by the U.S. government?
It seems unlikely that the Moon administration alone, burning with naive revolutionary fervor, could possess the power to embody a current that changes the geopolitics of East Asia.
In connection with these movements, in fact, even in Japan, a “Divide Japan” operation is being carried out from Okinawa to Osaka, to the Prime Minister’s Office, and to Hokkaido by pro-North Korean forces acting in accordance with North Korea’s intentions.
From this, the following facts can be drawn out.
Why is Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga sitting as the chairman of the Ainu Policy Promotion Council, which is full of corruption and contradictions?
It will take time, but we must examine this carefully.
Before entering the main subject, I will briefly explain Ainu-related interests.
I will quote a passage that Onodera Masaru posted on his own website in 2009, when he was a member of the Hokkaido Prefectural Assembly.
Mr. Onodera is a rare assemblyman who has pursued in the assembly the improper diversion of funds by the Ainu Association.
“In Hokkaido policy, there is no standard for recognizing someone as an ‘Ainu person.’
If the Ainu Association recognizes someone, that person is recognized as Ainu.
Family registers and such have nothing to do with it.
And if one is recognized as Ainu, one can receive astonishing subsidies from the national and prefectural governments.
This is where fraud and vested interests are born.
Omitted.
I also asked questions about the loan system for educational funds for Ainu university students.
This loan system was a system in name only, and in reality it was a sloppy system in which there was no need to repay the money.
That is because, among 989 people, only one person repaid this loan, and the amount exempted from repayment was more than 2.4 billion yen.
It also became clear that there were people who had continued receiving about one million yen a year for thirteen years.
Omitted.
These systems were used often by some officers of the Ainu Association and their relatives and acquaintances, and they had become a structure in which people who truly needed loans for university educational funds could not use the system.
Only some people who possessed the information were using this system.
Omitted.
I spent a considerable amount of time investigating the Ainu Association, and the more I investigated, the more I understood that some Ainu people and some politicians and forces were using ‘Ainu measures’ to extract tax money.”
From Onodera Masaru’s website.
According to Mr. Onodera, this is only the tip of the iceberg, and there are still many more cases of improper diversion.
Despite this, I am surely not the only one who finds it incomprehensible that the Japanese government has allocated a budget this year to Ainu-related projects while these problems remain unresolved.
In Hokkaido, with Mr. Onodera’s cooperation in reporting, I visited the construction site of the Ainu cultural facility in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, the “Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony,” nicknamed Upopoy.
This facility is about one hour by car from Sapporo and is scheduled to open on April 24 next year.
After passing along the coastline, in a quiet rural town without buildings, a huge structure like Tokyo Dome suddenly appeared beyond the lakeside.
If Shiraoi is said to be a sacred place for the Ainu, I even think that this is itself environmental destruction, but when one sees the countless names of contractors posted at the construction site, one can clearly understand how Ainu policy and the construction industry are walking hand in hand.
Please do not misunderstand me.
I am not saying that all public works are bad; if they are truly necessary for the people, they should be carried out more and more, and the reverse is also true.
In the construction of Upopoy, the total cost exceeds twenty billion yen.
Looking through the car window, Mr. Onodera said the following.
“The convenience store we just passed is a shop owned by a relative of someone connected to the Ainu Association.
Next year, it will probably enjoy special demand from Upopoy.”
I also stopped by the tourist information center in Shiraoi.
I chatted with the young man at the reception desk, but he said that he was born and raised in Shiraoi, that there were no Ainu students at school either, and that he did not really know where the Ainu were.
Although the place calls itself a “sacred place of the Ainu,” why does a local young man know nothing about the Ainu?
It was a strangely anticlimactic scene.
The Elegant Foundation for Ainu Culture.
On October 5 and 6, as part of the above-mentioned PR activities for “Upopoy,” I took part in an Ainu event held at a shopping mall in Kameari, Tokyo.
An Ainu corner had been set up in the event space on the first floor, and there was a room reproducing an Ainu dwelling, a photo corner where ethnic costumes could be borrowed free of charge, and corners displaying Ainu carvings and traditional culture.
From 1 p.m. on the 6th, a talk show by Ukaji Takashi, the “Upopoy Opening PR Ambassador,” was scheduled.
However, it did not begin at 1 p.m.; instead, greetings continued from Hokkaido Vice Governor Nakano Yusuke, Shiraoi Mayor Toda Yasuhiko, and others, and around 1:15 p.m., Mr. Ukaji appeared while being protected by attendants.
The three men smiled and shook hands, while the female host called out, “Everyone, this is your photo opportunity!” and it became photo time.
Two middle-aged men beside me smiled wryly and said, “Why is Ukaji the Ainu ambassador?
Wasn’t he originally the head of a biker gang?”
Mr. Ukaji prefaced his remarks by saying, “My mother’s side is Ainu…” and held a talk show about Ainu culture that lasted only a little over ten minutes in substance.
“If one uses or bears the word Ainu, words that make one naturally think properly about what human-likeness is, what Ainu-likeness is… first, Ainu means human being…”
I wondered where I had heard that phrase before.
When I returned home and opened a book by Onoe Kenichi, the command tower of North Korea’s Juche ideology, I found in The Road of Independence by Onoe Kenichi: “Ainu means ‘a human being who is truly human.’”
Incidentally, when I asked Mr. Onodera about the budget for this Upopoy-related event, he told me about the website of the “Ainu Policy Promotion Bureau, Ainu Policy Division.”
To my surprise, the Upopoy PR project was contracted to Dentsu Hokkaido Inc., and the budget was 20,545,800 yen.
I was astonished and asked Mr. Onodera, “Why must as much as twenty million yen in tax money be poured into Upopoy PR?”
He replied, “This is the usual proposal method, and Dentsu receives the majority of Ainu-related projects.
The point to watch is that this is not an event of the Cabinet Office, but of Hokkaido.
This year, a new budget of as much as 600 million yen has begun to be attached in the Cabinet Office, but this will continue to increase.
Apart from that, please do not forget that Ainu projects by local governments and each ministry will continue as before.
With the passage of the Ainu New Law in April of this year, there is no doubt that Ainu projects will spread nationwide.”
I also went to the Ainu Culture Exchange Center, located on prime land in front of Tokyo Station, very near the Yaesu Book Center.
In addition to Ainu ethnic costumes being displayed, there were Ainu-related books and materials, and also an unused meeting room.
They said this meeting room was for seminars, but it seemed truly wasteful.
In these times, when consumption is cooling due to the tax increase, many private companies use rental meeting rooms to cut costs, but how elegant the host organization, the Foundation for Ainu Culture, is.
When I asked a real estate agent, he said the market rent would probably be around two million yen.
This article continues.