This chapter argues that electricity is a core element of national security, critiques media narratives that trivialize this fact, and links SoftBank’s financial strain after the Sprint acquisition to broader risks in Japan’s energy and security policy.

2016-04-02
There exists an article on the internet that clearly demonstrates facts that one could never understand by reading Asahi Shimbun, which can fairly be described as betraying the nation.
From http://www.data-max.co.jp/270930_ibks01/.
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However, the interest-bearing debt accumulated through the acquisition of Sprint exceeded 11.5359 trillion yen as of the end of June 2015.
This is an abnormal level, surpassing sales of 8.6702 trillion yen.
The burden of debt resulting from the failed acquisition of Sprint has become a weight preventing the stock price from rising.
Is there any secret strategy that could improve the stock price while retaining Sprint?
This will be a key point to watch going forward.
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An issue of the monthly magazine Sentaku carried an article that analyzed the above in detail, and that issue will be introduced in the next chapter.
Even so, there is Asahi Shimbun.
Electric power is one of the foremost elements of national security.
Yet it writes with enthusiasm about a scheme to conduct joint projects with China, South Korea, and Russia, generate wind power on vast tracts of land purchased in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, and sell that electricity cheaply to Japan via undersea cables.
Rather than journalism, it would be more accurate to say that Asahi Shimbun is a newspaper completely manipulated by such figures, and by China and South Korea.