This chapter reveals critical facts suppressed by Japan’s major media: the coordinated relationship between anti-base movements in Okinawa and China’s geopolitical strategy. Weekly Bunshun exposed the involvement of lawyer Sayo Saruta, Governor Onaga, former Prime Minister Hatoyama, academic supporters of Ryukyu independence, and China’s diplomatic and intelligence networks. As China pursues maritime expansion and claims over Okinawa, coordinated activism and propaganda operations have advanced largely unnoticed. The absence of reporting indicates not oversight, but influence.

In other words, the major Japanese media had never reported even such a simple and basic fact.
(2017-02-07)
The time has come for the people of Japan and the rest of the world to understand what it truly means to report facts and report truth, as the following article clearly teaches us.
Below is my citation.

The April 23 issue of Weekly Bunshun published a special feature titled “The Taboo of Okinawa,” revealing the underground network linking Governor Onaga, lawyer Sayo Saruta, former Prime Minister Hatoyama, and China.
Sayo Saruta once served as secretary-general of the “Article 9 Walk Association,” led by Takako Doi.
According to the article, she is also secretary-general of the “New Diplomacy Initiative,” an organization strengthening ties with China while advancing anti-base activism alongside Governor Onaga.
The U.S. visit of anti-base Nago mayor Susumu Inamine and the establishment of the Okinawa Washington Office were both arranged by Saruta.
Saruta frequently meets with counselors and secretaries of the Chinese embassy, visits China, and holds discussions with senior officials of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

Why China would contact the key figure of the anti-base movement is obvious even to amateurs.
From the symbolic actions of China—its oceanic base construction, the Senkaku issue, and its ambition to expand toward the Pacific—Okinawa is clearly a crucial piece on China’s geopolitical Othello board.

On May 8, 2013, the People’s Daily published a paper by a researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences claiming that “China must reassess the sovereignty of Okinawa.”
Soon after, on May 15, the “Ryukyu Independence Comprehensive Research Society” was founded under the initiative of Professor Matsushima of Ryukyu International University.
This organization was not established to debate whether independence was possible—it was founded on the assumption that independence was the goal.

Without delay, on May 16, Global Times, a website affiliated with People’s Daily, published an article supporting the creation of this organization.

Most Japanese citizens—and the rest of the world—will be learning these facts for the first time through this article.
Names such as Sayo Saruta, Professor Matsushima, and organizations such as the Ryukyu Independence Research Society will also be unfamiliar to nearly everyone.

In other words, the major Japanese media never reported even these straightforward facts.
The only conclusion is that they, too, have been affected by China’s propaganda and influence operations.
Since the world’s major media have relied on Asahi Shimbun as the primary source of information regarding Japan, they would naturally have been unaware of these facts.
However, it would be equally naive to believe that China has conducted no propaganda operations targeting those same global media.
For the lifeline of a one-party dictatorship—and the Communist Party itself—is the strategy of propaganda and information warfare.