A Sankei Shimbun article published on April 6, 2016, conclusively validated the argument that Japan has remained a “political prisoner” of the international order for 70 years after the war. Remarks by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi clearly demonstrate how postwar power structures continue to constrain Japan today.

2016-04-09

Recently, I transmitted to the world what is once again a Nobel Prize–level discovery of truth:
the fact that the international community has continued, for seventy years after the war and even to this day, to keep Japan in the position of a “political prisoner.”
The article on page seven of the Sankei Shimbun dated April 6 proved the correctness of my argument one hundred percent.
It was the United States, which committed the original sin, that first placed Japan in the position of a “political prisoner.”
Next came China, the nation of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” and the Korean Peninsula, which had been its vassal state for two thousand years, both of which thoroughly exploited U.S. occupation policy.
In Europe, there were countries that repeatedly extorted money from Japan, and Germany, which sought to dilute its own crimes by placing Nazi Germany and Japan on the same level.
To put it bluntly, they are base nations, nations akin to criminals.
The Sankei article was a fairly major piece concerning Australia’s selection of submarines, yet needless to say, the Asahi Shimbun did not report this fact at all.
[Omitted.]
In February, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Australia by stating that “Japan is a defeated country in World War II, and its postwar arms exports are subject to strict constraints under Japan’s pacifist constitution and laws.”
[Omitted.]
These words by Foreign Minister Wang Yi prove my argument correct one hundred percent.
Even so, readers of the Asahi Shimbun should notice something.
His words are indistinguishable from those of the Asahi Shimbun itself or of the so-called intellectuals who have long echoed its line.