This essay exposes the stark double standards applied by Japan’s media, opposition parties, and activist groups in the Toyosu Market relocation and the Toyonaka elementary school land controversy. While condemning Toyosu as an “overpriced purchase” due to alleged soil contamination—paralyzing a trillion-yen project and wasting public funds daily—the same actors dismissed far more serious contamination in Toyonaka as inconsequential. The article argues that this selective outrage was driven not by public safety, but by political expediency and an obsession with undermining the Abe administration, ultimately damaging Japan’s credibility and leadership in the international arena.

They Claim That Purchasing Toyosu Without Fully Resolving Soil Contamination Was an Overpriced Acquisition—and Make It a Major Scandal
2017-03-02

That the world today is in an unstable and extremely dangerous state is something anyone with a sound mind can readily understand.

It is equally obvious that the causes lie in the arrogance of China—a one-party communist dictatorship and the world’s largest violator of human rights—a country that will not hesitate to act unlawfully if it serves its ideological aims.
The same is true of the belligerence of Russia and North Korea, the instability of South Korea, and the ongoing problems in the Middle East. Anyone can see this.

And yet, the forces described in the previous chapter—those determined to degrade Japan—are incapable of perceiving even truths at this elementary, grade-school level.

Their sole objective is to bring down the Abe administration.
A faction that seeks only to lower Japan’s standing and credibility in the international community raises an uproar day after day over matters entirely unrelated to Prime Minister Abe’s actual policies.

Moreover, it is a well-known fact that in the early days of the Abe administration, they attempted to use Mrs. Akie Abe to criticize the Prime Minister himself.
An obscure kindergarten operator—unknown to anyone in Japan—obtained authorization from Osaka Prefecture and proceeded to build an elementary school based on a philosophy of cultivating patriotism.
He repeatedly asked Mrs. Abe to serve as honorary principal, and she agreed.
By entangling this individual, they have attacked not only Mrs. Abe but the administration itself.

In the case of Toyosu, they insist that purchasing the land without fully resolving soil contamination constituted an overpriced acquisition and therefore a grave problem.
As a result, the relocation of the Tsukiji Market to the completed facilities—built at a cost of several trillion yen—remains without any clear timetable.
Every single day, hundreds of millions of yen in tax revenue continue to be wasted.

By contrast, beneath the national land in a third-rate area of Toyonaka lay massive soil contamination.
Yet the land was sold under terms and at a price guaranteed to pose no problem whatsoever after the sale.
The school in question had official authorization from Osaka Prefecture, and its operator had even received commendations from the national government twice during the period of Democratic Party rule.

Despite this, they now raise a tremendous outcry, claiming that the contractual process itself was improper.
At Toyosu, they argue that attitudes toward soil contamination were too lax, and even go so far as to summon the then-governor—despite his advanced age—to testify before an Article 100 investigative committee.

The childishness and viciousness of this faction are astonishing.
They are utterly incapable of understanding that Japan, alongside the United States, must continue to lead the world for the next 170 years.
It is this very faction that has persistently undermined Japan’s credibility, honor, and leadership in the international community.

That Asahi Shimbun stands as their standard-bearer goes without saying.
Japan Teachers’ Union members are likely among the attacking forces as well—because the individual they target sought to pursue an educational philosophy diametrically opposed to their own biased, self-denigrating historical education.

To make matters worse, that individual was also a member of the Osaka branch of Nippon Kaigi, an organization Asahi Shimbun designates as an adversary.
For this reason, Asahi has whipped itself into a frenzy, openly inciting the overthrow of the Abe administration.
Even if the individual in question was not an exemplary figure, the maliciousness of these attacks is beyond description.

Prime Minister Abe—arguably the greatest statesman Japan has ever produced, a rare leader who confronts reality head-on—remains indispensable to the stability of today’s international order.
Yet they are incapable of grasping even this.

His wife has supported him throughout globe-spanning diplomacy, effectively circling the earth alongside him.
The extent to which her presence has sustained Prime Minister Abe’s “panoramic worldview diplomacy” cannot be overstated.

As Japan—a nation that must lead the world together with the United States—Prime Minister Abe has achieved what none of his predecessors had: the realization of that role through truly outstanding leadership.
That this was a life-risking endeavor goes without saying.

That his wife supported him flawlessly throughout is something any married person would naturally understand.
Even a bachelor like myself understands this instinctively.
This world consists of men and women—hence, marriage.

Mental stability for any human being resides in constancy.
Seeing Mrs. Abe holding the Prime Minister’s hand as they ascended and descended aircraft stairs around the world, the Japanese people surely recognized her as a daughter of Morinaga Confectionery and as the embodiment of a Japanese wife.

All except those described in the previous chapter.

Simply because Mrs. Abe—perhaps as a member of a support group—accepted a request from an educator to serve as honorary principal of a private elementary school that had received Osaka Prefecture’s approval, they are now attempting to bring down the Abe administration.

If their truly incorrigible conduct were applied universally across the world, countless private schools would instantly become “major scandals.”

Of course, no such foolish country exists—except South Korea, and Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, the Democratic Party, the Communist Party, so-called cultural figures, so-called civic groups, and so-called human-rights lawyers who operate entirely under the influence of Chinese and Korean manipulation.

If this logic were applied to the United States, all private schools would be shut down, and every honorary principal and major donor would have to be hauled before Congress for condemnation.

That the United States would never engage in such idiocy goes without saying.

Those behaviors are Korean behaviors.

Which is why most of them are surely connected to Korea.

Japan—a nation with over 2,000 years of history, which has produced countless great figures, and which alone in the world has maintained governance grounded in intellect (with the sole exception of defeat and occupation in World War II)—has never harbored people so incompetent, so arrogant, so duplicitous, so deceitful, so rude, and so contemptible as human beings.