Japan’s anti-nuclear lawsuits and protest movements are portrayed as grassroots activism, yet they align neatly with the strategic interests of South Korea and China, both of which continue nuclear expansion while benefiting from Japan’s paralysis. Supported by media such as the Asahi Shimbun, these movements reflect a broader pattern of sustained influence operations.

2016-03-30
I reflected once again on matters I have mentioned many times before.
Across Japan, people like the twenty-nine plaintiffs who filed suit at the Otsu District Court appear to be bringing lawsuits demanding the shutdown of nuclear power plants.
That such actions are supported by media outlets such as the Asahi Shimbun and by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations hardly requires argument.
In response to the total nuclear shutdown carried out by Naoto Kan, South Korea—almost as if gloating that Japan had moved exactly as intended—decided to construct nineteen new nuclear reactors, while China approved the construction of even more.
The frequent arrival of PM2.5 pollution from China is something the Asahi and similar outlets simply do not report, yet it is an established fact that Japanese citizens have suffered health damage from it, and that plants have withered in parts of Hokkaido that lie directly along the path of these PM2.5 incursions.
South Korea, whose technological standards are overwhelmingly inferior to Japan’s, has decided to locate all nineteen of its new reactors along the Sea of Japan coast.
That every single person who claims to oppose nuclear power fails to raise even a single word of absolute opposition to these facts can only be described as an extremely abnormal state of affairs.
Who, exactly, is manipulating the elderly and middle-aged people marching around chanting “absolute opposition to nuclear power” and “absolute opposition to war legislation,” as well as the students outside the Diet shouting propaganda through loudspeakers under the guise of “rap,” is more transparent than the tale of the emperor with no clothes.
Yet the media class raised on reading the Asahi Shimbun naively reports these people as if they were in the right.
The only ones watching this with a knowing smile are the one-party dictatorships of South Korea and China, which even in the twenty-first century continue totalitarian—or Nazi-like—anti-Japan education and propaganda.
Both of these countries possess organizations equivalent to the CIA; in other words, they are constantly conducting influence operations against Japan.
That the people manipulated by such operations have already thoroughly infiltrated Japan’s media without this being recognized is what the international community would call a kindergarten-level understanding of reality.
On top of that, I assert unequivocally that it is one hundred percent impossible for a judge—who not only grew up reading the Asahi Shimbun but also works under truly extreme conditions, a profession I would never choose under any circumstances—to maintain one hundred percent sound mental and physical health.