Category: Social-Japan

[Ichiro Iiyama] “Devil” with Absolute Intention to Collapse Japan Exists!


Old Iiyama is not old for nothing.  Indeed, a person like Old Iiyma who has a deep insight into true nature of everything knows well about “the real villain” behind “CSIS or Heritage Foundation.”  If this part is focused on, many people make a fool of it as conspiracy theory.  However, if you read books by Dr. John Coleman and Fritz Springmeier, you must understand that conspiracy is not delusion, but it does exist as a fact.  Guaranteed conspiracy is about UFO information.  If this is disclosed, everything of conspiracy will fall apart to pieces.

Masatoshi Takeshita
November 26, 2012



English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Ichiro Iiyama’s LittleHP – Nov. 26, 2012 –


“Devil” with Absolute Intention to Collapse Japan Exists!

When I’ve got to a website of Nikkei Shimbun and searched for articles written about the subject “SHARP,” I’ve found many articles obviously with bad intentions to drive the share price of SHARP lower one after another.  “Nikkei Shimbun is a public relations magazine for U.S. hyena corps!”  I wrote it in “Ron yori Shouko (The proof is in the eating).”  The hyena corps aims:

l  to collapse SHARP, liquidate it, and run off with profitable technology alone,
l  to drive SHARP’s share price way down to around JPY50 and make a profit by short selling, and
l  to buy collecting stocks in the midst of a sharp fall of the SHARP share and take it over.

Reading Nikkei articles which give SHARP a bad name, it is easily understood.

The other day I wrote the text entitled “Does ‘Devil’ with Absolute Intention to Collapse Japan exist?”
In the text there is a sentence – ‘Bad intentions’ to purposely collapse Japanese corporations – (Link).  The Nikkei Shimbun has a lot of articles with intentions to drive SHARP’s share price way down.
We see obvious “bad intentions” to purposely collapse Japanese corporations.

Well, does the “devil” with intention to collapse Japan exist?
To speak plainly, it does exist!
CSIS (the Center for Strategic and International Studies) is it!

I’d like to write the name of another “devil” that has an evil mind to collapse Japan,
It is the “Heritage Foundation,” notorious as “Missile Foundation” among U.S. warmongers.  The Foundation may be considered as a genuine devil.
Shintaro Ishihara is a servant and cheap hoodlum of the Heritage Foundation.
The CSIS has served as a playmaker that advocates TPP, nuclear power generation and consumption tax hike.  There are innumerable slave politicians.  Junichiro Koizumi heads the top of the list.  I don’t mention others as it is a rather long story.
Oh, I’ like to note Kouzo Watanabe, Akihisa Nagashima, Kiyomi Tsujii and the Japan Communist Party.

Undoubtedly, devils are going to collapse Japan as I mentioned in “Does ‘Devil’ with Absolute Intention to Collapse Japan exist?”.
They are going to collapse SHARP Japan is proud of, a corporation which has addressed technological development of ultrahigh-performance electronics and to prey Panasonics and Sonny, or rather they are going to make the whole Japan contaminated with radiation and collapse it.

Additionally, U.S. devils have fomented Japanese hatred of China and Korea with the use of all mass media to have Japan and China at war with each other.

I have also such misperception that residents of Korean decent and North Koreans have done harm to Japan.  Real evil or the nerve center of evil is CSIS and the Heritage Foundation that have made residents of Korean decent and politicians of North Korean decent, and Nikkei Shimbun Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun all their slaves.
(However, there are inhuman villains behind the CSIS and Heritage Foundation.)

Therefore, if we hate Chinese and Koreans or neighboring countries such as China and Korea, it means that we will have been caught in a Japan-China divide and rule strategy mapped out by a group of U.S. warmongers.

Actually, Japan has been trapped by the plot of the Heritage Foundation and Shintaro Ishihara.  As a result Japan-China relations have been shattered, Japan’s economy has been terribly undermined, and all Japanese can do is to hate neighboring countries.

If this goes on, Japan will be helpless.  If this goes on!  If this goes on!

[Mr. Naoto Amaki] Asahi Never Minds Writing a False Article about “Calling off Island Recapture Plan”

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Information from Mr. Masatoshi Takeshita posted on his blog – October 28, 2012 –

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Blog of Amaki Naoto – October 28, 2012 –

Asahi Never Minds Writing a False Article about “Calling off Island Recapture Plan”

The Sankei and Mainichi newspapers reported for the first time on October 24 that the Japanese and the U.S. governments have abandoned a joint drill to recapture an uninhabited remote island in Okinawa Prefecture.

The newspapers gave it a reason that the two countries gave consideration to the backlash of Okinawa residents, which was triggered by the rape case.  However, I wrote in my web magazine No. 798 on October 24 that they lied.

I wrote that the real reason was because the U.S. avoided provoking China and Japan just followed suit.

Three days later, on October 27, the Yomiuri Shimbun admitted that.

The newspaper wrote an article that the two countries cancelled the plan with due consideration to China as well as the backlash in Okinawa.

However, the Asahi Shimbun, the last newspaper that covered the cancellation of the plan, has written an article on October 28 as follows:

“….(the reason of cancellation) is because an uninhabited island in Okinawas Prefecture scheduled to be used for a drill was not able to be used due to opposition from the local area and also it was difficult to find an alternative site.  …….. There were arguments against the cancellation in both (Japan and U.S.) governments that as China has taken a tough stance over the Senkaku issue, cancellation of the drill is likely to give a wrong message to China.  However, with increased backlash in Okinawa due to the deployment of Ospreys and the rape of a woman by U.S. servicemen, they decided that it’s difficult to carry out a planned drill…….”

I wonder what has made Asahi intentionally lie so much.

I don’t say that there was no backlash from Okinawa residents.

However, it is apparent that the biggest reason for cancellation of a drill was because they gave consideration to the backlash from China.

Actually, the Yomiuri wrote an article on October 27 as follows:

“…. In the Japanese and U.S. governments some insisted that “recapture drill to be conducted in Okinawa near the Senkaku Islands might provoke China.  They decided to just conduct a simulation exercise.  In this context, a website controlled by the Chinese government posted an article on 21st ‘When U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Williams Burns visited China (in the middle of October), Beijin told him that it would take a strict stance on it.  Washington finally cancelled the drill after giving a second thought.’….”

In a word, the U.S. stopped conducting a drill as a result of making concessions to China.

The article of Asashi on October 28 never mentioned that the U.S. had given consideration to China.

This is an intentional lie.

And yet, politely, they tell another lie.

The article of Asahi reads as if to say that the Japanese leaders decided about cancelling a drill after they racked their brains.

“….. On 26th Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto and Minister of Foreign Affairs Koichiro Genba consulted in the prime minister’s official residence and decided to cancel the drill…..”

This can be a joke.

The U.S. decided to cancel the drill.

Whether cancellation or decisive action it may be, Japan has no choice but to obey to the decision by the U.S.

The trilateral talk in the official residence on 26th was a mere meeting where a trio of Noda, Morimoto and Genba obedient to Washington shared a sense of relief after hearing about its decision of cancellation.

Readers who read the Asahi Shimbun alone will have serious misconceptions.

[Kaleidoscope] Repeated Rape Cases by U.S. Servicemen in Okinawa & Pathological Indifference of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Information from Mr. Masatoshi Takeshita posted on his blog – October 25, 2012 –

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Kaleidoscope – October 24, 2012 –


Repeated Rape Cases by U.S. Servicemen in Okinawa & Pathological Indifference of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs


Diehard physical assault
Victim woman outfacing “U.S. privilege”

Jane, who has been in Japan for 32 years, lives in Tokyo

If you raise an objection to the rapes and murders (by U.S. servicemen), you should have the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement revised.


A U.S. serviceman assigned to the base at Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture had Jane swallow sleeping pills and raped her.

Jane filed a civil suit against the perpetrator serviceman in 2002 and the Tokyo District Court ordered him to pay her compensation of three million yen.  However, surprisingly, the Japanese Defense Ministry made payment.

The U.S. serviceman left for the U.S. when the case was on the bench.
Such crimes have taken place every day at U.S. bases in Japan.  Victims are not only limited to Japanese women alone.  U.S. bases have become a den for heinous criminals.
Therefore, cases of rape, murder and hit-and-run by U.S. servicemen have not come to an end.

The villain of the problem is the Japanese government, which comes to terms with the Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement, and the nonchalant Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which helps such diabolical U.S. servicemen by using taxpayers’ money.

I do claim that uninterrupted assaults, rapes and murders of women in Okinawa since 1972 are due to the existence of the “Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement,” under which diabolical U.S. servicemen are treated as the privileged.

Is it the right thing to leave Jane alone with the fight against such crimes?
Scum reporters of major mass media, rouse yourselves to action!

[Shinshu no Izumi] U.S. Servicemen in Okinawa Consider Residents Living in the Vicinity of Base as Slaves?

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I also sometimes think that early settlement will be achieved if Okinawa goes independent as the Kingdom of Ryukyu and drives the U.S. forces out of it.

Masatoshi Takeshita

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English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Monju Bosatsu (source: Shinshu no Izumi) – October 18, 2012 –

U.S. Servicemen in Okinawa Consider Residents Living in the Vicinity of U.S. Base as Slaves? – Shinshu no Izumi – October 18, 2012 –

The number of crimes committed by U.S. servicemen exceeds 200,000 over the 55 years from 1952 to 2007.

In Okinawa, another woman was sexually assaulted by U.S. servicemen.  A numerous number of incidents where women and children in Okinawa got hurt by U.S. servicemen took place after the war.  Forty years have passed since Okinawa was returned to Japan.  However, U.S. servicemen frequently committed crimes before and after its reversion.

According to Wikipedia, the number of crimes by U.S. servicemen across Japan, which has been reported alone, exceeds 200,000 over the 55 years from 1952 to 2007.


(Quotation from Wikipedia)

According to the data submitted by the Defense Facilities Administration Agency, the number of incidents and accidents by U.S. forces in Japan, including on and off duty, from 1952 through 2007 is 200 thousand and that of Japanese killed due to involvement in the incidents and accidents is 1,076.  According to the Foreign Ministry document released in 2010, the annual number of the latter reached 1,000 as of 1965 before the reversion.  Additionally, the number of U.A. servicemen who faced a court-martial on a charge of incidents and accidents from 1985 to 2004 is one and the number of those who got disciplinary action is 318.  As for this, Seiken Akamine, a Lower House Member of the Japanese Communist Party, told “In spite of many number of incidents and accidents, only one military tribunal was convened (over the 20 years).  Crimes committed by the U.S. forces have gone unchecked.


On 16th in Okinawa, two 23-year-old U.S. servicemen attacked a woman (in her twenties), a worker at a restaurant, on her way home and sexually assaulted her.  On the Nippon Broadcasting System’s radio program, Mr. Masaru Sato, former Foreign Ministry bureaucrat, told on this incident that U.S. servicemen stationed in Okinawa have got the same feeling that U.S. servicemen had when Japan was occupied by U.S. after it lost the war and they might feel whatever they want to do to local residents.  I quite agree with him.    U.S. servicemen assigned to Japan look down on Japanese.  In the first place, Japan-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement is quite absurd.  The military top brass in the base do not seem to seriously educate fresh recruits about gentlemanly behavior in the local area.  U.S. forces have no sense of being under the Japan-US Security Treaty but have stationed in Japan with the sense that they as the occupation forces had at the end of the war.

As for this, this writer Shinshu no Izumi is angry with Japanese living in Honshu (mainland), too.  It is obvious that they impose bothersome problems on Okinawa and are going to get away with being friendly with U.S.  They don’t think empathically about base-related problems occurring in Okinawa as the same Japanese.  Mr. Kotaro Yamasaki, a literary critic, wrote about this situation: people in mainland show a nonchalant attitude toward Okinawa treated as a dump site.  I quite agree with him.  The government forces Okinawa to accept U.S. rascal servicemen and budgets nearly 200 billion yen (allegedly many times more in actuality) of “sympathy budget allocations” annually.  Now in Scotland and Catalonia, Spain, a momentum for independence is developing.  At this rate, Okinawa might also give up on the mainland and go independent.  

[Neta Rika] Citizens’ Voice Such As Anti-Nuclear Demonstration Acts As A Counterbalance To U.S. Pressure

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Information from our reader, Prema posted on our blog – October 14, 2012 –

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English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Neta Rika – October 10, 2012 –

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Citizens’ Voice Such As Anti-Nuclear Demonstration Acts As A Counterbalance To U.S. Pressure

 Mr. Ukeru Magosaki
(Photo taken by Taro Inoue)

 Mr. Ukeru Magosaki, called “one and only national strategist the Foreign Ministry has ever produced,” says, “Shigeru Yoshida, who is considered to be a politician who fought a battle with U.S., was also one of U.S. puppets.”

  Did you feel any pressure from the U.S. through your work in the Foreign Ministry?

“Of course, I felt it frequently.  The biggest pressure was felt at the time of development of oilfield in Iran.  A decade ago Japan acquired the right to develop the Azadegan oil field in Iran.  However, the pressure from the U.S., which had a hostile relationship with Iran, forced Japan to abandon the right.  At that time, Vice President Dick Cheney (then) directly got involved in excluding the Japanese person in charge from job site.”

It is a problem that a system to bow to U.S. wishes has been established in Japan, isn’t it?

“That’s right.  It dates back to the occupied period.  To give an example, Shigeru Yoshida served as prime minister from the occupied period to post-independence.  He is considered to be a politician who fought a battle with the U.S., but if examining various documents carefully, it is found that he bowed to U.S. wishes.  That is no surprise at all.  Occupied Japan had no freedom.  At that time, it was impossible for anybody to reach the center of power unless he bowed to U.S. wishes.  The problem is that Shigeru Yoshida remained to be prime minister even after Japan regained its independence by signing the San Francisco Peace Treaty.  This left behind a mechanism which forces Japan’s politics to bow to U.S. pressure.”

 Your book says that the situation everywhere is the same as in the political world and those who had gained power with backing of U.S. remained in the prosecution, the media, the bureaucracy and the university even after Japan’s independence.

“Especially the Special Investigation Department has played a role in sending into political limbo the politicians who often have problems with U.S.  The predecessor of the department was “Hidden, Hoarded Goods Incident Investigation Department.”  In occupied Japan, it was organized to find out the hidden assets of the Japanese Imperial Army and put them under the control of GHQ.  In a word, it was an investigation organization to make GHQ a present of Japan’s treasure.”

However, it was more than 65 years ago.  It is unlikely that the Special Investigation Department is under the thumb of the U.S.

“As is the case with Shigeru Yoshida, they didn’t get shut of it at the time of independence.  It is succeeded by into the elite of the Department to have a special connection with the U.S.  For example, the prosecutor in charge of Ozawa case worked as the first secretary at the Japanese Embassy in U.S.  The person in charge of questioning in the Lockheed Scandal, which led to the arrest of Kakuei Tanaka, was also the first secretary at the Embassy.  The person who was the prosecutor general at the scandal got involved with the Sorge case and Shimoyama case, where U.S. was active behind the scenes.

If such system has been firmly established, is there any hope in years to come?

“I think that the anti-nuclear demonstration is the very hope.  In the struggle over the U.S.-Japan Security Pact, left-wing activists got financed by top figures of the business world who was apparently influenced by U.S., to organize groups of demonstrators.  However, this time is different.  Ordinary citizens join in demonstrations though they are not mobilized by anybody.  U.S. cannot put direct pressure on Japanese citizens.  If more and more citizens raise their anti-nuclear voice, it would act as a counterbalance to U.S. pressure.



[Gendai Net] The Senkaku Islands: Do They Belong to China?

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I incline to the opinion that the Japanese government has kept on lying.

Masatoshi Takeshita

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English translation of a Japanese article: Gendai Net – October 10, 2012 –

The Senkaku Islands:  Do They Belong to China?
Here Comes Trouble.  “Official Document” of Foreign Ministry

Astonishing descriptions about the complicated Senkaku Island issue exist in official document of Foreign Ministry.

Foreign Ministry releases on its website “Japan Diplomatic Documents Digital Archives Vol. 18.”  The documents exchanged between Count Ariake Yamagata, then Interior Minister, and Count Kaoru Inoue, then Foreign Minister have been released there.   In the documents appears the phrase “Kumeakashima, Kubajima and Uotsurijima scattered between Okinawa Prefecture and China under the Manchus ……..,” which is descriptions over the Senkaku islands.

“Interestingly, on page 575 there is a description dated October 21, 1885 about construction of national signpost on the Senkaku islands planned by Japan at that time.  Therein Foreign Minister Inoue says, ‘These islands are near the border of the Qing dynasty and the dynasty also gives a name to the islands.  Recently the Qing dynasty’s newspapers have carried rumors that our country is going to occupy the islands belonging to the Qing dynasty located near Taiwan, and urged the Qing government to take precautions.  At this time if we openly take measures such as constructing the signs of the Japanese nation, it is sure to invite suspicion of the Qing dynasty.  We should wait for another chance to construct the signs of the nation and start clearing new land’ (Summary).  This can be interpreted as Meiji government’s compromise after recognizing China’s connection to the Senkaku islands.” (Journalist covering diplomacy)

In the near future, China might use this diplomatic document to kick up a row.  It’s really annoying.

[Tokyo Shimbun] True Nature of Kasumigaseki Bureaucrats Seen in Play of Pocketing “Reconstruction Budget”

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This article is about the second round of human folly.
Probably banks are positioned around business circles.  Central bank is above them.  I wonder when humanity will come to understand the self-evident truth that unless ambition to climb up the ladder to status as much as possible disappears, peace of mind is never attained.

Masatoshi Takeshita

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English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Ankoku Yakou – October 9, 2012 –

True Nature of Kasumigaseki Bureaucrats Seen in Play of Pocketing “Reconstruction Budget” – Opportunistic “Extended Interpretation” and “Exploitation” of People

♦*”Hissen”  Tokyo Shimbun’s column – October 8, 2012 –

Japanese bureaucrats are very kashikoi or clever.  Of course, the prefix “zuru” (cunning) is put before the word.  It is a piece of cake for them to stretch short wordings in laws and administrative documents which are seemingly difficult to understand.

▼One after another have been revealed facts that reconstruction budget was used for projects unrelated to reconstruction of disaster-stricken areas; approximately 4.2 billion yen for fusion energy research, 2.3 billion yen for research whaling project, 330 million yen for repair of Tokyo’s National Stadium, and so on.  It is said that a massive amount of money was also spent to renovated government office buildings in local regions other than disaster-stricken areas.

▼This has resulted from the inclusion of the wording “ to realize the rebirth of the whole of Japan as an affluent and active country into the basic policy for reconstruction compiled by the government in July last year.  Though there seemed to be political demands, reconstruction budget turned into the threshing floor of a killing field where ministries and agencies compete for it.

▼Approximately 63 percent of groups which applied for subsidies to support affected small businesses were rejected for the reason of “shortage of national budget,” our newspaper reports.  The money really needed by disaster-stricken areas never reach them.  What is reconstruction budget for?  That is like putting the cart before the horse.

▼The people have tolerated tax increases over 25 years because they believed that the budget would be used exclusively for earthquake disaster reconstruction.  Bureaucrats stubbornly insist that “We just act in accordance with government policy.”  They have not any sincerity.

▼Expecting sincerity of national officials could be just like expecting fishes of a greengrocer.  The government has major responsibility for letting bureaucrats want to do.

Governance Structure in Japan

[China Net] Can you Read “Kuki”? Strange Logic in Japanese Society

It sounds strange convention even to me, native Japanese.  Therefore, I think it is difficult for foreigners to understand this.
It is one thing to define oneself and cherish a spirit of harmony, and another to lose one’s identity and go with public opinion.  However, the average Japanese who is mentally immature and afraid of solitude seems to find it important to sense this “kuki” (atmosphere).  Such average Japanese does not seem to realize that almost unaware act hampers his/her mental development or even if he/she realizes it, he/she seems to prefer to stay the same due to a lack of courage.
Masatoshi Takeshita
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English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: China Net (Japanese version) – October 5, 2012 –

Can you Read “Kuki”?  Strange Logic in Japanese Society




In 2007, the word “KY” (Kuki Yomenai  - means "can't(NAI) read(YOME) air(KUKI)" - ) was awarded as the grand prize in “Japan’s Keywords-of-the-Year-Contest for 2007.”  I wonder what this word “kuki” means.  This writer and many foreigners living in Japan for many years and having no problem in speaking Japanese find it difficult to grasp the meaning of this “kuki.”

In group living, the majority of people tend to sense the “atmosphere” around them, judge the course of collective action, and behave to the rhythm of all.

This ability “to sense atmosphere” is cultivated from elementary school days.  Around a third or fourth grader starts to form a closed small group.  Once a group, which usually consists of several classmates, is formed, the group members do not allow others to join the group.  If there is a good leader within a small group, he gains respect from other members whom he takes care of, and a unified group is organized.  On the other hand, if a leader has a bad personality, he shares bullying and abuse with his followers, which creates the “atmosphere” of the group.  Also he himself is likely to be bullied.  Under such circumstances, children learn to behave, paying attention to the atmosphere around them even in a small group from an early age.  In Japan, when a husband is order to get transferred, he is worried that his child, an elementary school kid or a junior high school student, may not make friends with other classmates and may be isolated at a new school.  This is why husbands tend to live apart from his family at the new workplace.

It is true that every country has a bullying problem for senior children at elementary school, but in most countries there are “friends who stand for the weak.”  As children have a high fluidity of friendship, all a bellied child has to do is to go to other friends.

In Japan, however, there is not so clear distinction between home education and school education and there is a tendency to end safely and peacefully.  People who cannot be accepted by a small group are not good mixers, cannot sense the “atmosphere” and cannot be treated properly by the group.  Therefore, many children within a small group tolerate bullying and maintain a cautious distance from one another.  The only way to get away from such group is to transfer to another school.

In Japanese society under such “atmosphere,” whatever it may be, a small group or a whole society, sophisticated harmony and stability is required.  In Japan’s social life, we can hardly see frank discussion or rational debate in public.  Although this writer has lived and worked for almost thirty years, I have never seen quarrels in public places.  Fistfight is, of course, out of the question.  Therefore, a “hero of justice” never appears.

In an organization, it is necessary to first obtain agreement in advance before introducing a new plan.  After gaining the support of majority, the new plan is officially proposed.  Even if there are different opinions in a meeting, they are not expressed frankly.  They are expressed in roundabout ways at the right time and in the appropriate atmosphere.  It is because those who sense the atmosphere all know that this plan has already won their agreement behind the scenes.

In Japan, they can speak out over drinks.  There are no Japanese words describing “blunder due to alcohol” or “slip of the tongue due to alcohol.”  Generally, any act or remark is tolerated while drinking and causes no quarrel except for male-female relations.  This is the very reason why Japanese salaried workers don’t go straight home after work and they want to drink alcohol at Japanese-style pubs.  Some superiors want to quarrel with their subordinates because they think that listening to candid opinions of their subordinates is useful to incorporate their opinions in the work.



[Record China] Real Enemy is not Japan but U.S. – Conspiracy Having Led Japan into Economic Stagnation of “Lost Decade”

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Information from Mr. Masatoshi Takehsita posted on his blog – October 6, 2012 –

English translation of an excerpt of a Japanese article: Monju Bosatsu – October 1, 20121 -
  
Source: Record China 

<Senkaku Islands Issue> Real Enemy is not Japan but U.S. – Conspiracy Having Led Japan into Economic Stagnation of “Lost Decade” – China Media
Posted: September 23, 2012 6:19

On September 20, 2012, China Net posted an article “Worsening Japan-China Relations – U.S. Biggest Winner Having Fished in Troubled Waters.”

“Collapse of Japan-China economic cooperation and bilateral trade war is the very thing U.S. wants,” Mr. Ho Maochun, Chief of Tsing Hua University Economic Deplomatic Research Center and Senior Researcher of China Research Center for Public Policy, points out.  The U.S. has continued to respond ambiguously to the Senkaku issue.  According to Mr. Maochun, this reflects the U.S. secret intentions to weaken East Asia and maintain its grip on global economic hegemony.

Among anti-Japanese sentiment, some Japanese corporations in China have been forced to shut down operations.  This method will certainly impact Japan’s economy.  Furthermore, if Japanese corporations withdraw from China and Free Trade Agreement (FTA) among Japan, China and South Korea is postponed, it will have a negative impact on economic growth in Asia.

Chief Maochun points out that if so, it is he U.S. that will become happy.  In the 1980s, the U.S. tried to take every possible means in exchange rate, finance and trade to stop the rising Japan’s economic power.  It resulted in Japan’s “Lost Decade.”  And since 2008 the U.S. has started to target on China.  Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP) without China is a good example.

“I understand the patriotic fervor of Chinese citizens and I think that the incident has made Japan understood our non-negotiable line.  However, we have to make it clear that in the current world, the question is a competition between China and U.S., not one between China and Japan,” Chief Maochun argues.　　(Translating・Editing/KT)

[Weekly Asahi] Senkaku Islands Issue: “China’s Claim Likely to Gain Global Recognition,” Mr. Magosaki Points Out

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English translation of a Japanese article: Weekly Asahi – October 12 Issue –
  

Senkaku Islands Issue: “China’s Claim Likely to Gain Global Recognition,” Mr. Magosaki Points Out

The Senkaku Islands issue is far from over.  Japan insists “The Senkaku islands are effectively controlled by Japan and there is no territorial sovereignty issue.”  However, “It is a big mistake to think that this claim will gain global recognition,” Mr. Ukeru Magosaki, former Chief of Intelligence and Analysis Bureau, Foreign Ministry, 69, gives candid advice.

“After World War II, the territories including these islands Japan occupied were returned to China in accordance with the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Declaration.”

On September 27, China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi addressed the General Debate of U.N. General Assembly to make an appeal to the international community as follows:

The Cairo Declaration in 1943 stipulates that the territory Japan stole from the Qing Dynasty should be returned to China.  Japan accepted the Potsdam Proclamation calling for implementation of the Cairo Declaration.  Incorporation of the Senkaku islands into Japan’s territory in 1895 is likely to be interpreted as “the islands had been stolen from the Qing Dynasty.”  Based on so-called treaty agreement, I wonder how many Japanese know that it is likely that China’s claim will gain much recognition.  Japan has studied too little about history.

I think that Prime Minister Noda does not know the Cairo Declaration or the Potsdam Declaration.  If he reads them once, he should be too ashamed to say “No territorial sovereignty issue exists” in the U.N. General Assembly.

Most importantly of all, Japan should recognize that the Senkaku islands are debatable ground.  If Japan regards the island as the debatable ground at first, the next problem is how Japan should continue the effective control.  Then naturally comes up the theory of “putting the issue on the shelf.”  When China’s Premier Zhou Enlai met with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to talk about the normalization of bilateral diplomatic relations in 1972, the Premier said “We ignore minor differences for the sake of greater common interests.”  When the Japan-China Peace and Friendship Treaty was signed in 1978, Vice           Premier Deng Xiaoping said, “The problem which our generation has no wisdom to solve with will be left up to next generations.”  Thus the Senkaku islands issue has been practically “shelved.”  China has admitted the effective control of the islands by Japan.  “Being shelved” has put Japan in an advantageous position.  It is important to think again this advantage.

*Weekly Asahi October 12 issue