As Prime Minister Abe prepared for a pivotal meeting with President Trump, the Democratic Party and major media outlets abruptly launched ministerial attacks in the Diet.
This essay examines the suspicious timing, media involvement, and the broader implications for Japan–U.S. relations amid Chinese and Korean propaganda efforts.

The Sudden Disruption by the Democratic Party Just as Prime Minister Abe Headed for Talks with President Trump
2017-02-10

Anyone with discernment who read Moe Fukada’s painstaking work, “Ms. Renhō, Just Who on Earth Are You!?,” published in the March issue of the monthly magazine WiLL—priced at just 800 yen despite being filled with must-read essays—must have been deeply disturbed.
At a time when Prime Minister Abe was seeking further progress in Japan–U.S. relations and aiming to reaffirm that the Japan–U.S. Security Treaty is one hundred percent a treaty for Japan’s security—a moment many commentators describe as the greatest turning point of the postwar era following the birth of President Trump—
and when, as reported on the front page of the Sankei Shimbun, South Korea was relentlessly pursuing anti-Japanese propaganda,
and when China was repeatedly attempting to violate the territorial waters and airspace of the Senkaku Islands day after day,
just as Prime Minister Abe was about to depart for talks with President Trump, the Democratic Party suddenly began, in the Diet, the very same tactic long used by the Asahi Shimbun and other media to stir up the Liberal Democratic Party and force a change of government—petty fault-finding against cabinet ministers.
The substance of these attacks, moreover, strongly suggests that anti-Japanese propaganda operations by China and South Korea have infiltrated every conceivable organization in Japan.
They are of a nature that makes one certain that actual agents, or at least their spies, have penetrated Japan’s major institutions.
In this case, it can be seen as nothing other than the activities of forces seeking to disturb Prime Minister Abe’s state of mind and obstruct the strengthening of Japan–U.S. relations.
It goes without saying that those reporting this most eagerly are TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station and TBS’s News 23.
In particular, TBS’s enthusiasm is abnormal.
What this signifies is proof that Chinese and Korean influence operations have been almost completely successful within TBS’s news division.
To be continued.