Japanese media and activists who reject the Self-Defense Forces as unconstitutional routinely rely on them during disasters.
This contradiction reveals an ideology that refuses responsibility while demanding protection.

Those who denounce Japan’s Self-Defense Forces as unconstitutional still rely on them in every disaster.
This contradiction exposes an ideology that rejects responsibility while exploiting protection.

2017-07-07

This is because they hold the belief that the Self-Defense Forces are unconstitutional and refuse to accept them.
The day before yesterday, when NHK extended its 7 p.m. news coverage of the torrential rains striking Kyushu, I watched the broadcast continuously.
At that point, even NHK did not yet fully grasp the extent of the disaster, but I sensed it would be severe from the overwhelming scale of the flooding.
For some reason, I found myself thinking of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, through which I lost my hometown.
Masayuki Takayama has shown how the Asahi Shimbun has driven numerous people to suicide.
I believe that the pattern of attacking one’s own country’s leaders and governments—having been indoctrinated by GHQ and Marxism and relentlessly targeting politicians—is essentially the same kind of lethal act.
Defense Minister Tomomi Inada is repeatedly attacked because she has long been a politician who visits Yasukuni Shrine.
As previously noted, during the Tokyo metropolitan election, when she gave a speech as defense minister in an area with a Self-Defense Forces base and briefly included the words “the Self-Defense Forces,” the media such as the Asahi Shimbun and opposition parties launched fierce attacks against her and, by extension, the Liberal Democratic Party.
She did not commit suicide, likely because she is not merely a defense minister by chance, nor merely a University of Tokyo–educated lawyer, and because her husband has a similar background.
However, several Diet members have taken their own lives after being subjected to such attacks in the past.
In the United States, it is entirely normal for politicians to speak before Navy or Army personnel and ask for their support or votes.
Especially in Inada’s case, it is obvious to anyone with ordinary reasoning that mentioning the Self-Defense Forces naturally arises when speaking at a location where their base exists.
Those who launch attacks simply because the term “Self-Defense Forces” was uttered are people who fundamentally regard the SDF as unconstitutional and reject them.
Yet, as seen again this time, whenever disaster strikes Japan—one of the world’s most disaster-prone nations—they calmly demand the deployment of the Self-Defense Forces.
There are few people in the world as morally reprehensible as the Asahi Shimbun and the so-called academics and human-rights lawyers who align with it.
If any exist, they would be people like Alexis Dudden—agents of China and South Korea scattered across the world.
The time has long since come for all Japanese citizens and people around the world to recognize this fact.