A small communist-aligned demonstration in Kyoto reveals a deeper structural problem. Media narratives led by the Asahi Shimbun, combined with intellectual figures such as Kang Sang-jung, have enabled a situation in which a tiny minority can halt nuclear power, erode national wealth, and undermine Japan’s security—while real defense is borne by a small number of Self-Defense Force personnel.

2016-03-30
On March 27, while walking through Shijo-Kawaramachi in Kyoto, I saw a truly tiny group of people affiliated with the Communist movement marching in protest, holding placards opposing the security legislation and calling for Abe’s resignation, with a middle-aged woman shouting through a microphone.
At that moment, I understood.
From among people like these—whether they even live in Shiga Prefecture or not is unclear—twenty-nine individuals filed a lawsuit at the Otsu District Court to halt the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant, and a single judge, raised on reading the Asahi Shimbun, responded in kind.
It was these people who stopped a nuclear plant that Kansai Electric Power had finally restarted after an extraordinarily long and rigorous review process unprecedented in the world.
Needless to say, I was appalled.
They surely sympathize deeply with Kang Sang-jung, who has long promoted slogans such as “Learn from Germany” over public airwaves, perfectly aligned with the intentions of one-party dictatorships like South Korea and the Chinese Communist Party.
They can offer no rebuttal to the argument I first advanced globally: that Japan should learn from Germany and outlaw the Communist Party.
This is because Germany has already done precisely that.
It is, in fact, the natural outcome of truly learning from Germany.
That we should learn from Germany is also evident from this morning’s front page of the Asahi Shimbun.
The newspaper ran photographs of a small group—slightly larger in Tokyo—augmented by youths affiliated with the Communist Party and the Democratic Party, such as the so-called SEALDs, who lack serious intellectual training but possess a childish and malicious aggressiveness, gathered in front of the Diet,
and labeled it “Protests Continue Outside the Diet.”
Through such reporting by newspapers like the Asahi Shimbun—entities that in reality can only be described as betraying national interests—Japan has lost 1,400 trillion yen in national wealth,
has allowed territorial encroachments by states that still practice totalitarianism and Nazism in the twenty-first century,
and has enabled a one-party communist dictatorship, China, to violate international law at will and repeatedly intrude into Japan’s territorial waters and airspace.
This urgent and non-negotiable struggle—where retreat means instant defeat, a fact fully understood by China—continues amid constant provocation,
and Japan’s security and peace are barely maintained by the life-risking actions of a small number of Self-Defense Force personnel motivated solely by duty to the nation and its people.
Yet those enjoying top-tier salaries in Tokyo, comfortably ensconced in climate-controlled corporate buildings and campuses, continue to avert their eyes from this reality.
To avoid ever again making the mistake of treating newspapers like the Asahi Shimbun as representative of Japan, we must learn from Germany and first outlaw the Communist Party.
Without doing so, it will be impossible to purge the operatives who have already infiltrated Japan’s media and universities.