Psychological Warfare and a 30-Trillion-Yen Loss— How Fabricated Reporting Served China’s Strategy —
This essay analyzes China’s psychological warfare aimed at dividing Japanese public opinion and argues that fabricated reporting by Japanese media led to a massive transfer of 30 trillion yen in public funds to the Chinese Communist regime.
February 14, 2016
It goes without saying that the collapse of the Shanghai market last summer was the result of China’s inherent maladies or structural defects.
The recent sharp appreciation of the yen and the massive plunge in Japanese stock prices are entirely different in nature.
Nazi states and totalitarian regimes maintain their legitimacy and national unity by portraying other countries as enemies.
They constantly wage psychological warfare against enemy nations fabricated by their own lies.
In other words, psychological warfare is virtually everything to them.
What China is now doing toward Japan is precisely the continuous attempt to divide Japanese public opinion.
Serious scholars have pointed this out, and it is unquestionably correct.
Moreover, it is obvious to anyone that the current Chinese government is determined to bring down the Abe administration and to erode public support for it.
The primary reason the Abe administration enjoys public support is its bold economic policies that shattered the foolish stagnation of the past thirty years.
Unlike previous Bank of Japan governors—who, educated on Asahi Shimbun thinking, trusted its reporting, and implemented policies that inflicted losses of 1,400 trillion yen over two decades—Governor Kuroda has clearly pursued policies appropriate for a nation in which the “turntable of civilization” is turning.
China’s desire to crush public support for Prime Minister Abe and Governor Kuroda has been evident since January 6, when China stopped answering phone calls.
At the same time, China possesses enough money to easily cause a massive collapse like the recent one at the Tokyo Stock Exchange and thereby instill anxiety among the Japanese people.
Who, then, not only fails to suspect such actions but instead moves exactly as China intends?
Asahi Shimbun, know shame.
Unless it publishes an apology advertisement to the international community as it itself has demanded of Japan, it must be shut down immediately without a moment’s delay.
Because of their numerous fabricated reports, we were forced to pay as much as 30 trillion yen in public funds to the Chinese Communist dictatorship.
We were made to pay this enormous sum to people who, using Asahi Shimbun, achieved such results without informing the Japanese public of anything—nor expressing even the slightest gratitude.
The most obvious example of China’s psychological warfare aimed at dividing Japanese opinion is Okinawa.
The conduct of Governor Onaga, created by the two Okinawan newspapers that are virtually children of Asahi Shimbun, and the manner in which Asahi Shimbun and TV Asahi supported him, is truly chilling.
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