Political coercion disguised as “democracy” forced Japan into submission under threat of punitive tariffs.
Such distortions weakened Japan and emboldened totalitarian regimes, contributing directly to today’s global instability.

Let me tell you—this was the real crisis of democracy.
2016-01-05

In the end, Bill Gates strongly mobilized the U.S. government.
He threatened that unless the Japanese government abandoned the policies described above,
the United States would impose heavy tariffs on Japan’s prized products—
automobiles, televisions, and video recorders.

At that point, even the Liberal Democratic Party politicians finally gave up.

I say this to Gerald Curtis of Columbia University, a man I liken to a yakuza boss,
and to his two lieutenants, Carol Gluck and Alexis Dudden.
Do you really call such a situation democracy?

Let me tell you—
that was precisely the crisis of democracy.

By relentlessly attacking and weakening Japan,
you allowed the growth and lawlessness of regimes that are nothing but
one-party communist dictatorships and practicing totalitarianism itself.

That is how today’s extremely unstable world was created.

It was created by no one else.
It was created by you.

You yourselves know how ridiculous the Japanese Constitution is—
a document cobbled together by copy-and-paste in just two weeks.

Within the constraints of this utterly absurd constitution,
Prime Minister Abe confronted the schemes of one-party communist dictators
seeking to dominate Asia and ultimately the world.

Born into one of the most distinguished political families imaginable,
Abe had no need to be poisoned by trivial exam-oriented education
or by Marxist economics, as you were.

He became prime minister by observing reality,
thinking constantly about how to protect and develop Japan,
and how to achieve lasting world peace.

Yet when he blocked the schemes of evil within the constraints of
a constitution no better than a kindergarten-level essay,
Gerald Curtis sneered and called it
“a crisis of Japanese democracy.”

Such foolish talk was conveyed as a revered pronouncement
by a female New York correspondent of The Nikkei.

Lately, I have come to think that this kind of attitude
is an even greater evil to world peace than Gerald himself.

To be continued.