The Absurdity of the “Cherry Blossom Viewing Party” Scandal That Obstructed Japan’s Initial COVID-19 Response

In February 2020, as COVID-19 began spreading in Japan, the Diet should have been discussing national measures to prevent infection. Instead, opposition parties and the media focused on attacking the government over the “Cherry Blossom Viewing Party.” This article examines China’s situation, PM2.5 pollution maps, the Constitutional Democratic Party, NHK reporting, and pro-China bureaucrats.

February 25, 2020
At the very time when measures to prevent infection from entering Japan had to be considered as national policy, they were absorbed in the laughable fabrication called the “Cherry Blossom Viewing Party.”
I am republishing a chapter I sent out on February 18.
For several days, I had not checked the PM2.5 pollution map.
Yesterday, and again today, there was a shape on it that I had never once seen before.
What this map conveys is as follows.
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It shows the reality that, inside China, the novel coronavirus is raging far more fiercely than Japan’s mass media, including NHK, are reporting.
As a result, China’s industrial activity is in a state of suspension.
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To the extent that industrial activity has come to a halt, China’s one-party Communist dictatorship is desperately trying to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus by exercising a degree of coercive power that would be unthinkable in a democratic nation.
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As a result of the mixture of the two points above, production activity in China is now stopped.
The greatest responsibility for the fact that infected people have begun appearing one after another inside Japan lies with the opposition parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Communist Party.
At the very time when measures to prevent infection from entering Japan had to be considered as national policy, they continued attacking the government over the laughable fabrication called the “Cherry Blossom Viewing Party,” thereby binding the government’s hands.
The sin of the media, including NHK, is also grave.
When the other party is the government, they attack the government relentlessly, just as they did during the Morikake uproar.
Even when it is fabricated.
But, for some reason, they hardly ever criticize the opposition parties.
On the contrary, it is no exaggeration to say that they allow the opposition parties to make use of television as a medium.
It is an obvious fact that their behavior created Japan’s lost 20 or 30 years and encouraged China and South Korea to become increasingly arrogant.
Programs such as Watch 9 never once uttered words admonishing the opposition parties, such as, “This is not the time to be doing such things.”
Rather, with evident delight, Arima and Kuwako commented that the Diet debate over the “Cherry Blossom Viewing Party” had unfolded, their expressions showing that attacking the government was precisely their true desire.
I have stated several times that it is no exaggeration to say that the Constitutional Democratic Party is a proxy party for the Korean Peninsula and China.
Since the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan at the end of last year, it is no exaggeration to say that their words and actions have been aimed at diverting the eyes of the Japanese people from this matter.
In other words, in order to prevent the Japanese people from turning a stern gaze toward the Chinese government, they repeatedly asked truly foolish questions about the “Cherry Blossom Viewing Party” and the like.
Therefore, the culprits who created the greatest cause of the domestic spread of this virus are, first, the Constitutional Democratic Party, and second, the mass media that have gone along with it and devoted themselves to attacking the administration.
Speaking of my home prefecture of Miyagi, there are the people around Ishinomaki who elected someone as foolish as Jun Azumi to the Diet, giving him what is effectively an annual income of about 50 million yen.
And in last year’s House of Councillors election—as in the first presidential primary election of the Democratic Party in the United States, where the judgment was that there was no winner—there are the people of the Sendai area, my very hometown, who sent a former female announcer to the Diet by such a narrow margin that, properly speaking, the election should have been rerun.
All the people throughout Japan who voted for opposition parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Communist Party are the culprits behind the spread of infection.
Added to this are the pro-China bureaucrats who have nested in Kasumigaseki.
Even North Korea quickly closed its border with China.
The negligence of Kasumigaseki, or rather,
the result of the countless pro-China people who exist in the political world, the bureaucracy, the media, and among the so-called intellectuals, is the present spread of infection, the pandemic.