2021/1/1
The following is an article by Mr. Masato Inui, the editorial writer for the Sankei Shimbun, which appeared on the newspaper's front page on January 1st, 2021, under the title "Don't help the Chinese Communist Party anymore."
The emphasis in the text is mine, except for the headlines.
I apologize for discussing such a trivial topic early in the new year.
I was a relatively fully-flavoured pro-China person.
Forty years ago, I chose Chinese as my foreign language when taking my university entrance exams.
I was eager to show off the results of my efforts by listening to Chinese language lessons on NHK radio and attending a citizens' course taught by a former Communist Party member (although I also had a weakness in English).
At the time, hardly any other high school students did something as ridiculous as I did.
However, I still remember the story of the "red-legged doctor" (a doctor who traveled around rural areas with a minimum of medical knowledge, which was encouraged by Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution) that was in the simple textbook that was distributed in the citizens' course.
I was a 'pro-China' person.
I thought that China would eventually become a great power on par with the United States and that mastering Chinese would be beneficial in many ways.
Still, China developed at a speed far beyond the wildest dreams of a naive high school student.
I never imagined that it would become a dystopia (a world that is the opposite of an ideal society) with no connection to freedom and democracy.
It was the Tiananmen Square Incident that occurred on June 4th, 1989, that woke me up from my dream.
The Chinese Communist Party sent in the military and mercilessly opened fire on the citizens and students who were demanding freedom, putting down the uprising.
The exact number of casualties is still unknown.
I was a reporter covering the new Prime Minister, Sosuke Uno, at the time, and I followed his every move.
However, I was greatly disappointed that he did not report anything about the incident.
I wrote in my diary, "This person is not suited to be prime minister."
Furthermore, diplomatic documents released last month revealed that on the day of the incident, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had prepared a document opposing the imposition of sanctions by Western countries.
It was also clear that Japan consistently maneuvered to ease sanctions at the Summit of the Arch in July.
It has been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Soviet Union's one-party dictatorship came to an end as the Eastern Bloc countries, one after another, broke away from the Soviet Union's yoke.
It would have been no surprise if the Chinese Communist Party's one-party dictatorship had collapsed in the wake of the Tiananmen Square Incident.
It was Japan that saved the dying Communist Party.
Japan was the quickest to resume economic cooperation with China, using the slogan "We must not let China become isolated."
Does history repeat itself?
Japan saved the Chinese Communist Party even during the war.
During his lifetime, Mao Zedong would always reply to Japanese dignitaries who visited China and made the standard apology of "sorry for the Japanese army's invasion of China" with the following statement: "There is nothing to be sorry about. Japanese militarism brought great benefits to China. Without the Imperial Army, we would not have been able to seize power."
A little explanation is necessary here.
Mao Zedong, who had been defeated by the Kuomintang forces led by Chiang Kai-shek and fled to Yan'an, recovered his strength because the Japanese army entered into an all-out war with the Kuomintang forces in 1937, forcing Chiang Kai-shek to decide to cooperate with the Communists.
The Communist army, which had been reduced to 25,000 men after one defeat after another, swelled to 1.2 million by the war's end eight years later and went on to win the subsequent Chinese Civil War.
Some say that the modern weapons of the Japanese army, which were handed over to the Communist Party army, were decisive in determining the outcome of the war.
In other words, the military helped the Chinese Communist Party during the war, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs helped them after the war.
The new coronavirus has transformed the world, but we must not forget that when the first outbreak of infection occurred in Wuhan, China, the authorities' concealment of information triggered the pandemic.
The state controls all personal information, and it mercilessly throws "dangerous people" who seek freedom into prisons and internment camps.
The reality that the suppression of Tibet and Uyghur has also begun to be carried out openly in Hong Kong is being ignored by both the Japanese government and the Diet.
Now, once again, China is trying to appease Japan in an attempt to undermine the "anti-China alliance" of Western countries.
The first step is to realize the state visit of President Xi Jinping to Japan.
Japan has saved the dying Chinese Communist Party twice.
A third time must never happen.
If some politicians or bureaucrats favor Xi Jinping's visit to Japan, they are true "traitors to their country."
I am a "pro-China" person, so you can be sure that I am right.
*All the honest politicians in the LDP, including Taro Aso and Sanae Takaichi, should read this article carefully.
What Ishiba and Iwaya are doing now is an act of treason.
You will join them if you continue allowing them to act as traitors.
Not only that, but it will lead to the dissolution of the LDP.
Unlike Ishiba and the others, you must love the LDP with all your heart.
If you leave them as they are and don't even notice that the LDP will collapse in the upper house election, you will collapse Japan in every sense of the word.
You will sell Japan to the worst communist one-party dictatorship in human history, no, to Xi Jinping's dictatorship, the worst surveillance society nation in history, a nation where authentic learning and art do not exist, the worst and most prominent human rights violation nation in history, a nation of ethnic genocide, a vassal state to dictatorship of Xi Jinping, the worst surveillance society in history, a nation where authentic learning and art do not exist, the worst and most significant human rights violation nation in history, and a vassal state of a nation that commits ethnic genocide.
If you do not take any action, you will be the one to kill Mr. Abe, just like the Asahi Shimbun, the real culprits that killed Mr. Abe and the so-called intellectuals who have agreed with them.
Mr. Abe dedicated his life to the service of the Japanese nation.
He dedicated his life to the LDP as a responsible political party that runs Japan.
I believe that you, as decent politicians, will bring an end to the Ishiba Cabinet, the worst, most despicable, and most foolish LDP administration in history, at some point in the near future to save Japan.
I still believe that the majority of the Japanese people, the overwhelming majority, want to see Mr. Abe's politics and his will carried on and that he is determined to hold a simultaneous election for the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors and to make the LDP the party that carries on Mr. Abe's politics and his outstanding achievements, and that he will win a landslide victory.
If you make a stand, most Japanese people will vote for you.
If you don't understand something as simple as that and fall into the trap of the Asahi Shimbun, China, and the Kōmeitō, then Japan will sink.
All of you will be branded as traitors in history.
The mass media, including the Asahi Shimbun, repeatedly conducted random public opinion polls to oppose Abe and finally brought about the birth of the Ishiba administration.
Kishida and Suga, who created the Ishiba administration without any sense, will also be recorded in Japanese political history as traitors.
2025/1/9 was a freezing day, but I took a photo of Namba Parks for the first time in a long time, and the Umeda Sky Building is a tribute to Hara Hiroshi.
