A critical examination of how China manipulates Japan’s ruling class and old media through honey traps. Juxtaposes the words of a Ukrainian elderly woman, revealing the corruption and decline of Japanese politics and journalism.

This post examines the pervasive influence of Chinese honey traps and pro-China factions on Japanese media and politics, with a specific focus on old media. It draws a stark parallel between the defiant words of an elderly Ukrainian woman, “I would rather die than be a slave to Putin,” The article dissects how this external influence, alongside the agendas of the Ministry of Finance and opportunistic politicians, jeopardizes Japan’s national integrity.

August 20, 2025

Last night, I turned on the TV around 10 p.m. so as not to miss World Sports MLB at 22:45, and switched the channel to NHK BS1.
An international news special appeared.
I used to watch this program almost daily in the past, because among the news programs produced by NHK staff, I thought it was the only one that still contained relatively decent elements.
But recently, I hardly watch it.
When I do watch, it is only for the reason I mentioned at the beginning.
Why don’t I watch anymore?
Because it is no exaggeration to say that those who control NHK’s news division are agents of China and the Korean Peninsula.

As readers know, unless they stop that most heinous, most hideous form of Nazism called anti-Japanese education, the worst in human history, I have resolved never to visit Korea or China.
Yet it is an evident fact that a person like me is exceedingly rare.
That every single person who dominates NHK’s news division has visited China or Korea needs no verification.
China invites men and women, young and old, who have loud voices or leadership positions in various fields of Japan, under various pretexts, as government guests to China.
Except for those like Professor Takahashi Yoichi or Shizuka Kamei, who had seniors as supervisors well-versed in China’s reality, almost everyone has fallen victim to China’s honey traps.
Even without such a supervisor, the only politician I know who absolutely never fell into China’s honey trap was Shinzo Abe.

It is an undeniable fact that China, in its frantic effort, has used Komeito — which is no exaggeration to call a national traitor party — and pro-China lawmakers within the LDP (people who easily fell into traps), as well as NHK and other TV stations, newspapers like the Asahi and Kyodo News, in a desperate attempt to block the birth of the Takaichi administration, which the vast majority of the Japanese people are hoping for.
This proves that Sanae Takaichi, like Shinzo Abe, is an exceedingly rare politician who never fell into China’s traps.

It is also an undeniable fact that Chinese officials have been reported as bragging: “Honey traps are a tactic with the same effect as nuclear weapons, but far cheaper.”
Why do honey traps have such power?
Because China, under various pretexts, invites Japanese politicians, scholars, and journalists to China as government guests.
Those who are heavy drinkers, by their own admission or by reputation, are especially easy prey.
They wake up in the morning to find a beautiful stranger lying next to them — and for the drunkard, that is the end.
Because every single detail has been recorded on hidden cameras installed in the room.
Especially for a politician, if that footage is leaked to the Japanese media, his political life is destroyed in an instant.
A true politician would likely resign, take it as a lifelong disgrace, and apologize from the bottom of his heart to his wife.
But those who are trying to select, as LDP president and thus prime minister of Japan, individuals of China’s choosing, are mere political operators.
They easily act in every matter according to China’s wishes, nothing more than puppets of China.

Some among them may once have aspired to be real politicians, but for the majority, getting elected and enjoying the privileges of being a Diet member have become their only purpose.
The birth of the Ishiba administration, brought about by Fumio Kishida’s instructions, made clear to the whole world that for them, Kishida’s orders equal China’s will — an “unspoken understanding.”
In their world, that is simply how things work.
These political operators and the foolish old media all move in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s intentions.
Among officials of the Ministry of Finance, can anyone say that, except for someone like Professor Takahashi Yoichi who was lucky enough to have good superiors, none succumbed to a honey trap even if a beauty resembling their favorite actress appeared?
If things have gone that far, it is truly the end of the world.
But considering that the disastrous Ishiba administration was allowed to be born, it is no exaggeration to say Japan has sunk into a state where such end-of-the-world stories prevail.
This is evident in the behavior of political operators and old media since the avalanche of Japan’s collapse began with the assassination of Abe.
September 29, 2025.
Usually the old media, which treat the University of Tokyo and its professors with the same reverence as a religion, until just recently all together raised up a man with an academic score of 35 — a spectacle more disgraceful than any.
It is an undeniable fact that those who wanted such a man with a 35 to become Japan’s prime minister were, first and foremost, China and the Ministry of Finance.
Now, just like the previous LDP presidential election, this “35” made the most natural of blunders and fell out.
And now Kishida is apparently trying to back Hayashi, representative of the pro-China faction, according to informed sources.
Even Sankei Shimbun today put Hayashi’s name in large print on the front page.
If Japan’s old media are so powerless against the will of China and the Ministry of Finance, then only Kūkai or Nobunaga, transcending time and space, could shout a thunderous warning — the only way to save Japan and the world.

In the past, foolish political operators often uttered a symbolic phrase: “The lighter the mikoshi, the better.”
For example, Takeo Kaifu, who became prime minister under such thinking, did nothing that was not a minus for Japan.
In other words, such characters — foolish political operators who fancy themselves kingmakers — now exemplified by Fumio Kishida, who created the worst-ever Ishiba administration, are of that type.
Considering the undeniable, massive harm he has brought upon Japan, it is no exaggeration to call him a national traitor.

August 20, 2025.
Now, the reason I began writing this main essay is because of words spoken during that news program I watched last night.
An elderly Ukrainian woman, living in a Russian-speaking region now under constant Russian attack, answered an interview.
She said:
“We speak Russian… but better to die than become Putin’s slaves…”

Such words would never be heard from Chinese people, even from Lu Xun — arguably China’s greatest writer and philosopher — who declared, “Chinese people are eternally slaves.”
Of course, there are individuals with the same intellect and spirit as that elderly woman.
But in China today, where Orwell’s nightmare society has been completed, no one can utter a single intelligent word, because they are a people condemned to eternal slavery.
Why then are pro-China politicians, such as those in Komeito, bringing in such people into Japan in large numbers?

As the ultimate form of nightmare surveillance society, Chinese citizens are bound under Xi Jinping’s National Intelligence Law.
Allowing pro-China figures to bring them in without limit only proves how foolish and hideous postwar Japan — no, today’s Japanese mass media — has become.

What follows is an exchange between myself and a close friend regarding a certain matter that occurred in Shukan Shincho.
I said, “Ah, that must be because the founder’s daughter, who holds power there, is a leftist, no, a pseudo-moralist. She dislikes the magazine’s flagship serialized column… I read somewhere speculation that Shukan Shincho might even cease publication. She probably seized upon Fukazawa’s protest as an opportunity, or, in the case of Masayuki Takayama’s recent essay, she may have had personal ties and colluded with Fukazawa. Don’t you think?”
In any case, for me, this marks the end of my long subscription to Shukan Shincho.
The magazine will surely head toward closure.

My friend replied: “Couldn’t we have Mr. Takayama write regularly here instead? It’s a pity we cannot pay him much…”
Indeed.
“But as soon as Mr. Takayama’s manuscript arrives, I could immediately disseminate it worldwide in the major languages. What about that?”

To be continued.