The following is from a 3-column feature by Naoki Hyakuta and Ryusho Kadota in the July 26 issue of the monthly magazine WiLL titled "LGBT Issues, Supreme Court Rulings that Fuel Women's Anxiety and Fear," which runs from p. 30 to 40.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.
Preamble omitted.
The following is an excerpt from p. 35.
The Time Bomb Set by GHQ
Kadota
It is politics, government, finance, and the judiciary.
Corruption continues unabated in all areas of Japanese society.
The cause of this can be traced to postwar democratic education.
Prime Minister Kishida was born in 1957, Secretary General Mogi in 1955, and Foreign Minister Hayashi in 1961.
Judge Imasaki, who ruled on the "women's restroom" case, was also born in 1957.
The administrative vice-ministers of each ministry were also born in the 1950s.
What kind of education did they receive at school?
At that time, the Japan Education Association was in charge of education, so they were not taught "what the nation is" and "what it means to protect the people's lives.
Instead, they were taught that "Japan was an invading nation" and "the nation was evil."
I was born in 1958, so I know this firsthand (laughs).
The people at the top of that education are now forming the leadership.
Mr. Hyakuta, you were born in 1956 and are only two years older than me.
Hyakuta.
At the elementary school I attended, the Hinomaru flag was flown, and the Kimigayo was sung as a matter of course.
When I was in the lower grades, we had a school day on New Year's Day every year.
Red and white Manju (buns) were distributed to the students, and I remember that the Hinomaru flag was also displayed on that day.
Kadota.
That is wonderful.
That would never happen in Kochi, where Japan Teachers' Union is strong (laughs).
Hyakuta
When I was in the fourth grade, the Showa Emperor came to Osaka.
The school distributed small Hinomaru flags to the students to welcome the Showa Emperor.
The atmosphere in the educational field changed around that time.
Kadota.
That was around the time of the 1960s, wasn't it?
Hyakuta
GHQ did not brainwash most Japanese people who knew about the prewar period.
The actual effect of GHQ's brainwashing policy will show up two or three decades later.
Kadota.
That is an interesting point.
Please elaborate.
Hyakuta
With the San Francisco Peace Treaty, Japan achieved independence.
Immediately after that, a national movement demanded the pardon of war criminals.
Under the occupation, saying, "Let's help the war criminals," was impossible, even if it was out of the question.
However, when GHQ withdrew, 40 million signatures were gathered from all over Japan, and the people's voices moved the Diet.
Kadota
The resolution was finally passed unanimously, and the honor of the war criminals was restored.
Even the Communist Party voted for the resolution in the Diet.
Hyakuta
The population at that time was approximately 80 million, but at that time, there were many children, so 40 million was the majority of the voters.
In other words, most Japanese people knew that the war criminals were victims of the Tokyo Trials.
However, the generation born in the latter half of the 1930s and the baby boomer generation born immediately after the end of the war were brainwashed by GHQ as a blank slate.
The generation that the War Guilt Information Program brainwashed entered the workforce in the 1960s.
It was in the 1975's that the generation that had been brainwashed by the "War Guilt Information Program" entered the workforce.
It was around that time that Japan began to take a strange turn.
Kadota
So the time bomb set off by GHQ has been "activated.
It coincided with when the lies about the "Nanking Massacre" and "comfort women" were reported, and the Yasukuni issue began to make headlines.
Hyakuta
Neither Mao Zedong nor Zhou Enlai ever mentioned the "Nanking Massacre."
Until Nakasone came to power, there was no protest against the Prime Minister's visit to Yasukuni Shrine.
Japanese people, who GHQ had brainwashed to believe that the Japanese military was treacherous, easily believed the fabricated articles of the Asahi Shimbun and the claims of neighboring countries, even though the content was completely untrue.
Immigration Policy is a "stimulant
Kadota
The political, governmental, and media worlds are controlled by the elite, who have achieved excellent results in entrance examinations through "false education."
If one tries to talk about "what the nation is," one is sneered at in the world of the elite.
It is where Prime Minister Kishida and his friends live.
For them, it is not about the Japanese people, the "lower class," but how they can live within their privileged world.
Hyakuta
The cause of this may be a lack of study of history, especially a lack of understanding of the history of one's own country.
If we learn the history of our own country, we will realize that we are part of its history.
We want to pass on our wonderful Japan to our children and grandchildren. That is what we should think. However, if you don't know the history of your country, you may think that what happens to Japan a hundred years from now will have nothing to do with you.
Kadota
The "as long as it's good enough for me" and "as long as it's good enough for now" mentality is particularly evident in the debate over immigration.
Hyakuta
Politicians and business leaders who promote immigration policies are residents of upper-class society.
Their lives will not change even if Japan's security deteriorates or workers' wages decrease.
Kadota.
The Kishida administration has decided to drastically expand the "specified technical skill II" residence status, allowing foreign workers to reside in Japan and bring their families with them permanently. It has effectively started Japan on the path to becoming an "immigration powerhouse.
Hyakuta
Immigration policy is similar to a stimulant.
If you take a stimulant, you can work hard without getting sleepy or tired.
But eventually, your body will fall apart.
The company's profits will increase if they use cheap labor and cut costs.
Tax revenues will also increase.
It may be attractive to management and the government, but the side effects will be so significant that they will blow such things out of the water.
Japan will cease to be Japan.
Kadota
In France, immigrant residents are now rioting and looting to the point of rioting and looting.
There was also a riot by Kurds in southern Saitama Prefecture.
It is evident to everyone that multiculturalism is an illusion.
Despite the alarm bells being sounded, the Kishida administration was outdated in a carefree manner and "rushed" into it.
Hyakuta
Even former Chancellor Merkel, who led the way in accepting immigrants and refugees, admitted that Europe's immigration policy was a complete failure.
The U.S. and Europe have realized that "if we go any further, we will fall off the cliff and die" and are trying to turn back just in time.
Despite this, only Japan has begun to run headlong toward the cliff.
Kadota.
Living in Tokyo, I have noticed the transformation of Japanese society.
In the past few years, the landscape and atmosphere of the area known as the "subcenter" has been changing.
It is due to the increase in Chinese and other foreigners.
By "subcenter," I mean the area from Ikebukuro through Shinjuku to Shibuya.
Even though the number of foreigners is increasing, it is only a few percent of the population.
Even so, they have enough influence to change the cityscape drastically and cause a visible deterioration in public safety.
Hyakuta
During the Qing Dynasty, the Jurchen people ruled China.
It is said that the population of Jurchen people was only 3% of the total population of China.
The Mongols in the Yuan dynasty may have been even smaller, but that was how they ruled the vast Chinese continent.
It is not limited to China.
There are many examples of white colonial rule where only a few percent of whites ruled over people of color.
Japanese people should have a greater sense of crisis.
Otherwise, Japan will cease to be Japan.
This country is in trouble.
Hyakuta
When we entered the workforce, the Japanese economy was thriving.
Then, when we were in our 30s, the bubble burst.
For the next 20 years, Japan was consumed only with domestic issues such as the disposal of bad debts.
Kadota
Fortunately or unfortunately, post-Cold War Japan has not been plagued by external threats.
To be precise, the public was unaware of the "threat."
That is one aspect that led to the lack of a sense of crisis.
Hyakuta
The Soviet Union, the biggest threat during the Cold War, collapsed.
North Korea had been launching missiles since then, but their performance was still poor.
China's GDP was only one-tenth that of Japan.
GDP per capita is 1/100th.
The Japanese people's image of China was that of an impoverished country with a vast land area and a considerable population.
I had no idea that China would become such a terrifying country.
I had ultimately let my guard down.
Kadota.
With the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, communism came to destruction.
However, after the Tiananmen Square incident, China tightened its thought controls in a way that went against the times.
Instead of communism, it attempted to make the country monolithic by using nationalism.
From the beginning of 1990, military training of university students and anti-Japanese education by Jiang Zemin began in full force.
Hyakuta
Mr. Kadota has visited China many times for interviews.
Kadota.
I have visited China every year since the early 1980s, and at first, I had a favorable impression of the Chinese people.
Many of them were kind and simple people, and I didn't think they had any intention of expanding their own country's territory by invading other countries.
Neither the intellectual class nor the general populace showed any signs of aggressiveness.
The atmosphere changed in the late 1980s.
Three months before the Tiananmen Square protests, I visited China and found the society in such a state of disorder that the people quarreled with each other, and there were fistfights on the streets.
I was surprised.
As a result of the spread of money worship, there were fights over money everywhere.
Hyakuta
During the Great Leap Forward led by Mao Zedong, it is said that 60 million people died of starvation.
The Cultural Revolution followed this, and society was in shambles.
Under the maladministration of the Communist Party, the Chinese people were reminded of the hardships of poverty.
That may be why their eyes change color when money is mentioned.
Kadota.
Intuitively, I thought, "This country is in trouble," but shortly after that, the Tiananmen Square incident occurred.
The Communist government must have realized the need for thorough surveillance of the people and control of thought and speech.
The Xi Jinping administration was the total culmination of this process.
Xi Jinping accelerated the people's control while entirely using digital technology.
Over 500 million surveillance cameras are spread around the country like a mesh to check who is doing what at any moment.
In the case of the coronary disaster, under the guise of countermeasures against infectious diseases, the surveillance of the people was thoroughly strengthened.
Hyakuta
When you think about it, the Chinese Communist regime does not collapse easily.
No matter how bad the domestic economy or poor the people become, the Communist Party will suppress popular discontent by force.
It has been long since the theory of China's collapse has been advocated, but we cannot expect an internal collapse.
We must first contain China so it does not invade the outside world.
Second, be prepared to fight back if invaded.
That is all we can do.
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