This politically charged essay (drafted March 10, 2021 and dated May 24, 2024) argues that Japan’s chronically low voter turnout is not a spontaneous phenomenon but the product of deliberate sabotage by three actors: the public-sector union Jichirō, anti-LDP parties that depend on small but disciplined vote blocs, and television-centered mass media allegedly influenced by Zainichi Koreans and Soka Gakkai. The author proposes radical electoral reforms—invalidating elections with turnout below 50%, forcing reruns, and ultimately stripping low-participation municipalities of Diet seats and local autonomy—to compel election commissions to take turnout seriously. Drawing on examples from Okinawa’s gubernatorial race, the disappearance of municipal “go vote” loudspeaker cars, and a long history of media “fabrications” that fuel political distrust, the text claims that low turnout systematically advantages the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Communist Party, and Komeito. It further criticizes the judiciary for rulings seen as favoring anti-Abe demonstrators, and concludes that “low voter turnout was created intentionally” by a camp of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” calling on readers who agree to “spread this across Japan like Nobunaga’s booming voice.”

What follows is a rough draft, but it is a discovery and an essay of extreme importance for the nation of Japan.
I have been “surveying” low voter turnout from a bird’s-eye perspective.
Some time ago, I pointed out the absurdity of Governor Onaga of Okinawa by looking at his rate of votes obtained.
In the midst of low turnout, he won by only a narrow margin over his rival candidate.
Even though he had gained the support of only a little over thirty percent of eligible voters, he continued to falsely call himself “All Okinawa.”
If turnout does not reach fifty percent, the election should be declared invalid and held again.
If even the second time turnout fails to reach fifty percent, that local government should lose its seats in the National Diet.
Its prefectural assembly members, city assembly members, and chief executives—if the electoral system under the name of democracy does not function in that local government—should lose everything and be placed under direct control of the national government.
If that were to happen, the election management commissions of each local government would be forced to work desperately.
I had, in this column, been “surveying” matters in that way and thinking that I had to send out a message that revision of the Public Offices Election Act is an urgent task.
Last night, while I was in the bath, a sudden “transcendence” visited me regarding the true cause of the recent low voter turnout.
Come to think of it, in recent years I have not seen at all those loudspeaker cars from ward offices and the like that used to drive around during election periods announcing that an election is underway and urging people to go vote.
In the past—granted, it was quite some time ago—during election periods I frequently saw such public-relations vehicles from ward offices and so on calling on people to vote.
Ah, so that’s what it was!
The majority of local government employees must be members of the Jichirō labor union.
In particular, almost all of those working in election management commissions must be union members.
It goes without saying what kind of union Jichirō is.
It is a union that sends its members to demonstrations opposing the Henoko base, opposing nuclear power plants around the country, opposing constitutional revision, and supporting LGBT causes.
It is no exaggeration to say that Jichirō is the organizer of these movements.
Jichirō is a support base for the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Communist Party.
Kakuei Tanaka was not called the “modern Taikō” for nothing, and he made the mass media his ally.
To that end, he virtually handed over state-owned land to companies such as Asahi Shimbun at almost no cost.
To their affiliates, the private television stations, he not only provided land at a price so extraordinarily cheap—unheard of in the advanced nations and virtually free—that it is no exaggeration to call it a bargain price, but he also allowed them exclusive use of the radio waves, which are national property.
The mass media, especially television stations, should, by rights, during election periods, devote a large amount of airtime to daily debates and similar programs.
All the more so because they broadcast news programs every day as if they were the guardians of democracy.
However, the mass media have repeatedly engaged in fabricated reporting and have thereby increased public distrust of politics.
This is an outpouring of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
It was an extremely malicious setup.
The increase in distrust of politics leads voters to avoid going to the polls.
The result is an unbelievably low voter turnout.
In fact, it means that victory is assured for the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Communist Party, and Komeito, which can rely only on the organized votes of small minorities.
No wonder most of the mass media have continued to merely look on at low voter turnout.
By inflaming political distrust with fabricated reporting, the Liberal Democratic Party is defeated and the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Communist Party, and Komeito win.
They infiltrated the core of the mass media—which are also monopolistic enterprises—and carried out operations that yielded “two delicious outcomes from one piece of candy,” continuing their maneuvers that brought them such double benefits.
Jichirō, which controls local governments, has, by adopting a stance of nonfeasance, been complicit in this.
The judiciary not only handed down a not-guilty verdict to the comrades of these people, who had obstructed even Shinzo Abe’s election speeches as he fought like a lion to break through their evil schemes, but even ordered the police, who had removed them for violating election law, to pay compensation.
The stratagems of the camp of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” had been perfected.
This article is intended, for the sake of Japan and the Japanese people, to smash their malicious operations.
What follows is what I wrote at the moment that “transcendence” visited me.
Ah, so that’s what it was!
It is an obvious fact that Zainichi Koreans and others control the production of news programs at NHK and other television stations.
It is also an obvious fact that all of them are supporters of the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Communist Party.
In this column, and in this article, I will, for the first time, reveal to the whole world a fact of extreme importance for Japan.
That is, that the abnormally low voter turnout in recent years all over the country has been the result of their sabotage.
As proof of this, despite the fact that this is precisely the most important issue that shakes the very foundation of democracy, not a single media outlet has produced a major special report that treats it as a grave problem and investigates the causes.
Nor is there a single local government employee who has treated it as a grave issue and desperately urged people to vote.
Why have they been engaging in sabotage?
Because the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Communist Party, and Komeito cannot win seats unless turnout is low.
Since the birth of the LDP–Komeito coalition government, it has been an obvious fact that Komeito, that is, Soka Gakkai, has entered into the administration, the judiciary, and other organs.
Moreover, Komeito has been exercising its influence to the maximum.
It was Komeito that implemented that ludicrous policy of adding Chinese and Korean language guidance to announcements on public transportation and road signs.
Low voter turnout has been deliberately created by Jichirō, which is a mass of anti-Japanese ideology, and by the mass media—especially television stations—which are controlled in their news departments by Zainichi and Soka Gakkai and function as an auxiliary unit of the Constitutional Democratic Party!
If you find yourself saying, “I see, that is certainly true!” then please spread this far and wide throughout Japan so that it resounds like the thunderous voice of Nobunaga.