What lies behind the politicians, bureaucrats, and journalists who are extraordinarily lenient toward China? Yoichi Takahashi’s experience during his years as a bureaucrat reveals the reality of China’s honey-trap operations and their terrifying cost-effectiveness.
2020-05-01
When I visited China during my years as a bureaucrat, an exceptionally beautiful female Chinese civil servant came to my room alone.
Mr. Takahashi had previously said somewhere that Hiroko Yakushimaru was his type, so he was astonished when a woman who looked exactly like her appeared.
In a chapter I published the other day, I wrote as follows.
A well-read friend of mine declared that almost 100 percent of the people in Japan’s political, business, and journalistic worlds who had visited China not just once but several times had fallen victim to honey traps.
The moment I searched for an English translation of the phrase “had fallen victim to honey traps” in the text, an article appeared that proved that the chapter I had published was 100 percent correct.
The emphasis within the text, other than the headings, is mine.
Politicians and bureaucrats who are lenient toward China have fallen victim to honey traps.
Yoichi Takahashi.
March 21, 2020.
Highly cost-effective honey traps.
On Toranomon News, the answer that Yoichi Takahashi gave to a question from Kaori Arimoto was convincing.
Regarding the spread of the novel coronavirus originating in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, Ms. Arimoto asked whether Japan’s response to China was far too lenient.
Mr. Takahashi answered based on his own experience during his time at the Ministry of Finance.
“It is because they have fallen victim to honey traps.”
When I visited China during my years as a bureaucrat, an exceptionally beautiful female Chinese civil servant came to my room alone.
Mr. Takahashi had previously said somewhere that Hiroko Yakushimaru was his type, so he was astonished when a woman who looked exactly like her appeared.
They are probably setting traps for everyone.
He said that compared with waging war, “the cost-effectiveness is extraordinarily high.”
Mr. Takahashi said that when one of his senior colleagues went to China on business accompanied by his wife, he wondered why and asked him about it, and was told, “It is dangerous, so be careful.”
That was why he did not fall into the trap.
However, he also said that if he had not been warned, he might have been in danger.
This is not limited to government officials.
Newspaper reporters also change after going to China.
I believe it must be honey traps after all.
He said that he thought many people fell into the traps.
Ippei Orishima also said that a politician who had been an extremely hard-line member of the Parliamentary League for the Early Repatriation of Japanese Citizens Kidnapped by North Korea changed overnight after visiting China and returning home.
He did not say who it was.
Mr. Takahashi said that it was merely his own hypothesis, but the probability seems high.
On a different subject, I recalled that Miki Otaka had previously reported on the circumstances surrounding organ trafficking in China.
She said that politicians and leading figures around the world are tolerant toward China because they themselves, their family members, or their relatives have received organ transplants, and China therefore has leverage over them.
I have also introduced Tomomi Shimizu’s Twitter posts concerning the persecution of the Uyghur people.