I've always wanted to subscribe to Themis monthly magazine whenever it appeared in the newspaper's bottom section. Still, I didn't want to subscribe because I thought it would be too much trouble to buy it by subscription only.
But when I saw the line-up for this month's issue, I thought I should subscribe, so I opted for a half-year subscription and went to the internet to sign up.
This month's issue arrived immediately.
This monthly magazine is also a must-read for Japanese people who want to get to the bottom of things.
As soon as you subscribe to this magazine, you'll be aware of it.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that most of the mass media in Japan (and probably the rest of the world) do not report the truth.
But what is written here is a matter of course.
It's first-rate to take things for granted, and second- or third-rate to fail to take things for granted.
First-rate is the one that always strives for perfection.
Most of the media doesn't report the truth proves that most of the media is a bunch of seconds- and third-rate people.
The monthly magazine Themis perfectly proves my editorial's correctness, which was the first in Japan to expressly point out that 'The Asahi Shimbun is not Japan's best player at all.'
The following is from an article entitled 'Economic Security Era Has Arrived, by the Economic Group National Security Bureau, Confronting China's Invasion, and Can Japan Counter China's' 'Economic Security Strategy' amid US-China Economic Friction?
The preamble omitted.
China gave 100 million yen for a Japanese professor.
Nervous about the new US-Japan partnership in China, which is expected to overtake the U.S. in GDP by 2030.
China continues to put pressure on Japan using 'economic statecraft' (E.S.).
The 'tool' is the 'Thousand Talents Plan.'
It is a policy launched by the Chinese government in 2008 to invite the world's top minds to China.
In January of this year, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted Charles Lieber, a professor at Harvard University, for hiding the fact that he was selected for the "Thousand Talents Plan" from the U.S. government and for making false statements.
In October 2004, Toshitaka Kajino, a professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), was appointed as the first director of the newly established International Research Center for the Origin of the Big Bang Cosmic Elements at China's Beijing Aerospace Exploration University.
In the spring of 2004, Dr. Kajino had been selected for the Thousand Talents Plan.
However, there are no regulations in Japan regarding participation in the Thousand Talents Plan.
The recruiter of overseas talent for the Thousand Talents Plan was Wang Bo, who had lived in Japan for more than ten years and worked at a public research institution.
Each of the selected recruits will receive a state subsidy of 1 million yuan (about 14 million yen).
Moreover, the laboratory is well-equipped.
A Japanese professor who applied for the Thousand Talents Plan and traveled to China is said to have been offered more than 100 million yen in research funding over five years.
He told NHK: "I'm very grateful for this because it's almost impossible in Japan.
Many Japanese researchers are believed to be participating in the Thousand Talents Plan, but the government has been unable to ascertain reality.
Similarly, many universities are said to be receiving donations from Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei.
U.S. universities must report to the government if they receive more than $250,000 (26.7 million yen) in funding.
'By the way, Japan doesn't have such a requirement. I don't know exactly how much money Japan has received from Huawei. Some universities are still conducting joint research and receiving donations,' said a current bureaucrat.
The former president of a semiconductor company also pulled out.
Around the beginning of last year, a Chinese report called the 'List of Technologies Not Seized by China' was brought to the Japanese government.
The list was prepared in 2017 by someone affiliated with a central Chinese investment fund.
It listed 63 industrial technologies that China does not have and foreign companies and research institutes in Japan and other countries that have them.
The 'unclaimed core technologies' on the list included semiconductor materials, semiconductor processing technology, ultra-high-precision precision machine tools, industrial robots, precision measuring instruments, and carbon fiber.
Leading manufacturers with these technologies were also listed.
Shin-Etsu Chemical, Hitachi, Toray, Teijin, Nippon Seiko, Yamazaki Mazak, Amada, Oaks, Yaskawa Electric, Satake, JEOL, RIKEN, The University of Tokyo, Toho Tenax, Mitsubishi Rayon, and many others. The quickest way to acquire advanced technology is through acquisitions, business partnerships, and recruiting engineers.
The companies and engineers on the list could be targeted at any time.
For example, Chinese semiconductor manufacturing giant Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) announced this past April 13 that it had succeeded in developing a world-class, high-performance flash memory.
YMTC was established in 2016 as a subsidiary of the I.T. giant Ziguang Group, whose parent company is Tsinghua Muzi, the alma mater of President Xi Jinping.
Tsinghua Unigroup vice president was Yukio Sakamoto, former president of Elpida Memory, Japan's last DRAM semiconductor manufacturer (acquired by U.S. Micron Technology in 2013).
The Tsinghua Unigroup is supported by the Chinese government, which hopes to improve China's semiconductor industry's competitiveness.
Mr. Sakamoto had been brought in and transferred to the company.
In June, Honda announced that a cyber-attack had hit its internal network.
The company said that access to computer servers, internal systems, emails, and overseas production systems was affected.
Factories and other facilities around the world were also affected.
The cyber-attack on Honda is believed to have come from China, where China has the world's largest cyber force at 100,000, surpassing the 6,000 in the United States.
Postscript.
But when I saw the line-up for this month's issue, I thought I should subscribe, so I opted for a half-year subscription and went to the internet to sign up.
This month's issue arrived immediately.
This monthly magazine is also a must-read for Japanese people who want to get to the bottom of things.
As soon as you subscribe to this magazine, you'll be aware of it.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that most of the mass media in Japan (and probably the rest of the world) do not report the truth.
But what is written here is a matter of course.
It's first-rate to take things for granted, and second- or third-rate to fail to take things for granted.
First-rate is the one that always strives for perfection.
Most of the media doesn't report the truth proves that most of the media is a bunch of seconds- and third-rate people.
The monthly magazine Themis perfectly proves my editorial's correctness, which was the first in Japan to expressly point out that 'The Asahi Shimbun is not Japan's best player at all.'
The following is from an article entitled 'Economic Security Era Has Arrived, by the Economic Group National Security Bureau, Confronting China's Invasion, and Can Japan Counter China's' 'Economic Security Strategy' amid US-China Economic Friction?
The preamble omitted.
China gave 100 million yen for a Japanese professor.
Nervous about the new US-Japan partnership in China, which is expected to overtake the U.S. in GDP by 2030.
China continues to put pressure on Japan using 'economic statecraft' (E.S.).
The 'tool' is the 'Thousand Talents Plan.'
It is a policy launched by the Chinese government in 2008 to invite the world's top minds to China.
In January of this year, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted Charles Lieber, a professor at Harvard University, for hiding the fact that he was selected for the "Thousand Talents Plan" from the U.S. government and for making false statements.
In October 2004, Toshitaka Kajino, a professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), was appointed as the first director of the newly established International Research Center for the Origin of the Big Bang Cosmic Elements at China's Beijing Aerospace Exploration University.
In the spring of 2004, Dr. Kajino had been selected for the Thousand Talents Plan.
However, there are no regulations in Japan regarding participation in the Thousand Talents Plan.
The recruiter of overseas talent for the Thousand Talents Plan was Wang Bo, who had lived in Japan for more than ten years and worked at a public research institution.
Each of the selected recruits will receive a state subsidy of 1 million yuan (about 14 million yen).
Moreover, the laboratory is well-equipped.
A Japanese professor who applied for the Thousand Talents Plan and traveled to China is said to have been offered more than 100 million yen in research funding over five years.
He told NHK: "I'm very grateful for this because it's almost impossible in Japan.
Many Japanese researchers are believed to be participating in the Thousand Talents Plan, but the government has been unable to ascertain reality.
Similarly, many universities are said to be receiving donations from Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei.
U.S. universities must report to the government if they receive more than $250,000 (26.7 million yen) in funding.
'By the way, Japan doesn't have such a requirement. I don't know exactly how much money Japan has received from Huawei. Some universities are still conducting joint research and receiving donations,' said a current bureaucrat.
The former president of a semiconductor company also pulled out.
Around the beginning of last year, a Chinese report called the 'List of Technologies Not Seized by China' was brought to the Japanese government.
The list was prepared in 2017 by someone affiliated with a central Chinese investment fund.
It listed 63 industrial technologies that China does not have and foreign companies and research institutes in Japan and other countries that have them.
The 'unclaimed core technologies' on the list included semiconductor materials, semiconductor processing technology, ultra-high-precision precision machine tools, industrial robots, precision measuring instruments, and carbon fiber.
Leading manufacturers with these technologies were also listed.
Shin-Etsu Chemical, Hitachi, Toray, Teijin, Nippon Seiko, Yamazaki Mazak, Amada, Oaks, Yaskawa Electric, Satake, JEOL, RIKEN, The University of Tokyo, Toho Tenax, Mitsubishi Rayon, and many others. The quickest way to acquire advanced technology is through acquisitions, business partnerships, and recruiting engineers.
The companies and engineers on the list could be targeted at any time.
For example, Chinese semiconductor manufacturing giant Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) announced this past April 13 that it had succeeded in developing a world-class, high-performance flash memory.
YMTC was established in 2016 as a subsidiary of the I.T. giant Ziguang Group, whose parent company is Tsinghua Muzi, the alma mater of President Xi Jinping.
Tsinghua Unigroup vice president was Yukio Sakamoto, former president of Elpida Memory, Japan's last DRAM semiconductor manufacturer (acquired by U.S. Micron Technology in 2013).
The Tsinghua Unigroup is supported by the Chinese government, which hopes to improve China's semiconductor industry's competitiveness.
Mr. Sakamoto had been brought in and transferred to the company.
In June, Honda announced that a cyber-attack had hit its internal network.
The company said that access to computer servers, internal systems, emails, and overseas production systems was affected.
Factories and other facilities around the world were also affected.
The cyber-attack on Honda is believed to have come from China, where China has the world's largest cyber force at 100,000, surpassing the 6,000 in the United States.
Postscript.
