Drawing from Moe Fukada’s extensive article in the March issue of WiLL, this essay exposes the influence of the Qing Bang on Taiwan’s semiconductor industry and its implications for Japan.
It reexamines the infamous “Why isn’t second place good enough?” remark as a question of national investment, industrial strategy, and geopolitical manipulation.

“Why Isn’t Second Place Good Enough?” — The Hidden Networks Undermining Japan’s Semiconductor Industry
2017-02-10

The following is taken from a lengthy and substantial work by Moe Fukada published in the March issue of the monthly magazine WiLL.
(Opening passages omitted.)
“Why isn’t second place good enough?”
Despite the Qing Bang effectively controlling Taiwan’s Kuomintang, its existence has remained largely unknown.
The writer Jiang Nan, who mentioned the Qing Bang, was assassinated by the Taiwanese crime syndicate Bamboo Union.
What is also little known is the reality that parts of Taiwan’s electronics industry, centered on the semiconductor market, are controlled by the Qing Bang.
Jiao You-diao, CEO of Winbond Electronics, a major Taiwanese memory manufacturer, is the son of Jiao Ting-biao, the former leader of the Qing Bang.
The other day, the president of a domestic memory module company complained, “Some kind of semiconductor syndicate in Taiwan controls the distribution of DRAM, so we’re having trouble procuring it.”
Even if one tries to sell memory modules within Japan, it seems impossible to procure them in large quantities without connections to the semiconductor syndicate.
Because the Qing Bang effectively controls certain major communication chips, there have even been cases where a Japanese electronics manufacturer was unable to procure ordered chips, delaying the launch of a new product and resulting in losses.
Many Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers, centered on DRAM, are composed of Qing Bang subordinate organizations, involving business leaders and politicians, primarily from the Kuomintang.
Former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou, known for his anti-Japanese and pro-China stance and continued courting of Xi Jinping, is said to be affiliated with the Qing Bang.
Meanwhile, Terry Gou, chairman of Hon Hai, who is close to Ma and acquired Sharp, appears to be part of the same network, with Qing Bang–related companies now aiming to weaken Japan’s electronics industry.
It is still fresh in memory that during the Democratic Party administration, Renhō’s remark, “Why isn’t second place good enough?” nearly led to drastic cuts in the development budget for semiconductor microfabrication equipment, which is indispensable to the growth of Japan’s electronics industry.
Although strong opposition from experts barely preserved the budget, it is hard to believe that someone as intelligent as Renhō made such a remark out of mere ignorance.
With all due respect, one is tempted to suspect that it was a statement made to benefit the market dominance of Taiwan’s semiconductor companies under Qing Bang control.
This is because development budgets are not “costs,” but “investments” in a nation’s growth, making it fundamentally absurd to label them wasteful.
I believe there is a strong possibility that former president Ma Ying-jeou and Terry Gou of Hon Hai, who maintains close ties with Taiwanese criminal organizations, are themselves members of the Qing Bang.
Around the time Hon Hai’s acquisition of Sharp came to light, Terry Gou reportedly boasted, “Through acquiring Sharp, I will not only revive Japan’s economy, but also correct its politics. For that purpose, I have hired an advisor.”
That political advisor was Chang An-le, leader of the Chinese Unification Promotion Party and a former senior member of the Bamboo Union crime syndicate.
He himself has said, “Though Terry Gou and I have different surnames, we are like brothers.”
Some may also recall that in 2015, he made contact with Okinawa’s designated crime syndicate Kyokuryu-kai and appeared to be discussing something highly suspicious.
To be continued.