1. Pro-China Japanese politicians' visits to China
Japan's Komeito-party president Natsuo Yamaguchi led Komeito-party MPs will visit China on August 28th to 30th. Komeito-party is a pro-China and fundamentally peace-seeking party. It is expected that Komeito-party MPs' visit will enhance a good relations between China and Japan. [1]
Komeito-party is a part of ruling parties, forming the Japanese coalition government together with LDP. When Komeito-party MPs visit China, Chinese leaders will demand them to halt the discharge of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water to the Pacific Ocean.
[Natsuo Yamaguchi, President of Komeito-party and Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (at that time), January 2013]
Before they depart for China, Komeito-party should work on LDP so that the Japanese government would suspend the discharge of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water to the Pacific Ocean and start discussion with neighboring countries including China to find an appropriate handling measure of nuclear contaminated water.
[More than one million tons of nuclear contaminated water is stored in more than one thousand tanks around the disabled Fukushima nuclear power plant]
If Komeito-party succeeds in making the Japanese government suspend the discharge of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water to the Pacific Ocean and start discussion with neighboring countries including China to find an appropriate handling measure of nuclear contaminated water, Komeito-party MPs will be very much welcomed and appreciated in China.
After Komeito-party MPs visit to China, Chairman Toshihiro Nikai led MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association will visit China. Mr. Nikai is "the" most prominent pro-China politician in Japan.
Mr. Nikai is planning to visit China in late August or early September. When he visits China, he will take with him dozens of MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association and thousands of pro-China Japanese business persons from manufacturing industries, financial industries, transportation industries, IT industries, tourism industries and so on. [2]
[Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time) and President Xi Jinping]
China will welcome pro-China Chairman Toshihiro Nikai led MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association and thousands of pro-China Japanese business persons.
In early August, China announced that it approved Chinese people's group tourism to overseas countries including Japan, which had been banned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinese people's group tourism to Japan is very good news for Japanese transportation industries, tourism industries and other industries. [3]
[Chinese tourists to Japan]
The visit of pro-China Chairman Toshihiro Nikai led MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association and thousands of pro-China Japanese business persons will very much enhance a good relations between China and Japan.
China’s top diplomat Wang Yi and Mr. Nikai are long trusted friends. Let's see how Wang Yi is expected to handle Japan and a Taiwan issue.
2. Wang Yi shifts China's diplomacy focus toward Japan and Taiwan
On 25th July, it was announced that China's top diplomat Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, also assumes the post of foreign minister of China.
[Wang Yi, a director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese Foreign Minister]
As a director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Wang Yi is a top diplomat of China. He was China's foreign minister from 2013 to 2022. He has a doctoral degree in international relations. His resuming the post of China's foreign minister will accelerate and empower China's diplomacy.
Wang Yi is famous for his having brokered and succeeded in reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Wang Yi was China's foreign minister from 2013 to 2022.
Wang Yi was a Chinese Ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2007. He speaks perfect Japanese. He knows Japan very well.
Wang Yi was a Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of China's foreign ministry from 2008 to 2013. He knows Taiwan very well too.
Who could be a better person to be in charge of China's diplomacy than Wang Yi at this critical juncture on Japan and Taiwan?
Wang Yi and Mr. Nikai, Chairman of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association are long trusted friends. Mr. Nikai is "the" most prominent pro-China politician in Japan.
[State Councilor and Foreign Minister (at that time) Wang Yi met with Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time)]
Wang Yi has friends in Japan's Komeito-party too.
[State Councilor and Foreign Minister (at that time) Wang Yi met with Kazuyoshi Akaba (Komeito-party), Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan (at that time), November 25th, 2019]
Wang Yi's Japanese friends include not only Japanese central government people but Japanese local government people as well.
[State Councilor and Foreign Minister (at that time) Wang Yi met with Heita Kawakatsu, Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan, November 24th, 2019]
Wang Yi's long trusted friend, Mr. Nikai will play a critical role to improve and enhance the relations between China and Japan in the coming months.
Back in 2015, when Mr. Nikai visited China and met with President Xi Jinping, he took with him as many as three thousand (yes, 3,000) business persons to China. [4]
[Toshihiro Nikai, Chairman of General Council of LDP (at that time) and his delegation met with President Xi Jinping, Beijing in 2015]
[Yang Jiechi, Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission (at that time), Toshihiro Nikai, Chairman of General Council of LDP (at that time), and President Xi Jinping, Beijing in 2015]
After Mr. Nikai and his delegation's visit to China in 2015, economic relations between China and Japan was boosted very much.
In 2017, Mr. Nikai led his delegation to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation held in Beijing, despite the Japanese government's official position not to join the Belt and Road Initiative due to US intervention.
[Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time) and his delegation to the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation held in Beijing in 2017]
Mr. Nikai is now starting to use the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association as his new powerful political apparatus to exert pro-China political power. This time, he can exert power not only toward ruling parties but opposition parties as well because the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association is a multi-partisan association.
Mr. Nikai is planning to visit China in late August or early September. When he visits China, he will take with him dozens of MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association and thousands of pro-China Japanese business persons from manufacturing industries, financial industries, transportation industries, IT industries, tourism industries and so on.
Mr. Nikai's political power is not his personal individual power. He is powerful because the broad range of Japanese businesses, hundreds of thousands of Japanese companies and tens of millions of Japanese business persons who want to do business with China support him.
In his interview of February 2023, Mr. Nikai mentioned, "What is important is cultural, diplomatic, economic relations and, above all, the people's power that back up and support them. The people's power of expression and power of actions matter. Therefore, I took a large number of people to China as I had opportunities. Usually, politicians visit foreign countries alone arrogantly. But, nothing works unless the people understand." [5]
Mr. Nikai is representing pro-China Japanese people, businesses and industries. He is working for a good relations between China and Japan and prosperity of both countries.
When he visits China in late August or early September, Mr. Nikai will meet with President Xi Jinping. President Xi Jinping will welcome him and dozens of MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association as well as thousands of pro-China Japanese business persons.
And, President Xi Jinping will emphasize People-First Principle and the power of the people.
[Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time) and President Xi Jinping]
Mr. Nikai will meet with Mr. Wang Yi, top Chinese diplomat too. They are long trusted friends.
[Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time) and Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister (at that time)]
After the meeting with President Xi Jinping and Mr. Wang Yi, Mr. Nikai will make a joint statement together with Mr. Wang Yi in which followings will be confirmed.
- the importance of the People-First principle
- Japan's adherence to One-China principle
- the importance of preserving national sovereignty and territorial integrity
- the importance of Non-Interference in a nation's internal affairs
- recognition that peaceful reunification of China and Taiwan is pursued and supported while China reserves the option of taking all measures necessary
- recognition that it is already the multipolar world
- promoting equal win-win relations
- Japan would cooperate China's BRI, GDI, GSI and GCI
- facilitating digital economy
3. The establishment of pro-China government in Japan and prevention of Taiwan war
The bright prospect of better economic relations between China and Japan and peace in East Asia will not only contribute to the better relations between the two countries but strengthen Mr. Nikai's political influence in Japan. Japanese businesses and Japanese people will be impressed and highly appreciate Mr. Nikai's accomplishment.
So, it is possible that, after Mr. Nikai's visit to China, some LDP members of the Japanese Parliament would move to and join Mr. Nikai's faction. Mr. Nikai's faction could become the largest one within LDP. Mr. Nikai's faction would become the most influential faction within LDP, backed by the broad range of Japanese businesses, hundreds of thousands of Japanese companies and tens of millions of Japanese business persons who want to do business with China.
[PM Fumio Kishida and Toshihiro Nikai, Chairman of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association]
For example, PM Kishida's faction was originally pro-China faction. So, some members of PM Kishida's faction must be frustrated and even feel indignant to PM Kishida's such obedient and subservient attitude to the US. Some members of PM Kishida's faction could join Mr. Nikai's faction, damaging PM Kishida's standing.
Also, other factions within LDP would tend to cooperate with Nikai's faction.
Then, pressures within LDP and from the Japanese people that call for PM Kishida to resign will increase very much. PM Kishida's approval rate is as low as 26.6 % in polls even today. [6]
[The Kishida administration's approval rate plunged to as low as 26.6 % as of August 2023]
Under such pressures, even a small wrong comment of PM Kishida or a single defeat in a by-election could trigger a resignation of PM Kishida and his cabinet.
Or, as some ministers of the Kishida cabinet are from Mr. Nikai's faction, Mr. Nikai can let them resign one after another, which will force PM Kishida to resign.
PM Kishida would not be able to resort to a snap election because his defeat and decrease of LDP's seats in the Japanese Parliament is a sure thing.
After the resignation of PM Kishida and his cabinet, Mr. Nikai, working with other factions, would organize a new cabinet as a king-maker. He might pick up Mr. Taro Kono as the next PM since he is relatively popular among the Japanese people for his frank and untraditional style. Or, Mr. Nikai might pick up a female politician such as Seiko Noda or Yuko Obuchi as the next PM. Whoever becomes the next prime minister, he/she and his/her cabinet would be totally under the control of Mr. Nikai because it is Mr. Nikai who would make him/her a prime minister.
The new PM and his/her cabinet will be pro-China. Japan's restriction on exporting semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China will be lifted immediately.
Above all, the new pro-China PM and his/her cabinet would declare that Japan would not join intervening in Taiwan crisis and that Japan would not allow US military forces to use US military bases in Japan for the purpose of intervening in Taiwan crisis because China-Taiwan relations should be solved through dialogue between them.
[F-22 at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan]
This will significantly enhance the probability of peaceful reunification of China and Taiwan because US military forces would not be able to conduct effective operations to intervene Taiwan crisis without using US military bases in Japan.
Japan's declaration that Japan would not allow US military forces to use US military bases in Japan for the purpose of intervening in Taiwan crisis will affect Taiwan voters too and make them convince that a peaceful reunification with China is the only choice for Taiwan.
Consequently, in Taiwan's presidential election of January 2024, a pro-China KMT candidate will win over a pro-US candidate of DPP. Victorious KMT will pursue and facilitate a peaceful reunification of China and Taiwan.
4. The US and UK are staging a “puppet” theater in Asia
In case a Taiwan crisis, the US and UK themselves are unlikely to attack China directly because it could lead to a catastrophic nuclear war, exchanging ICBMs and ruining each other. Rather, the US and UK would wage a proxy war and let Japan to attack China just like the West is using Ukraine as a proxy to attack Russia. So, the West would try to transform Japan into a proxy to attack China and arm it with sufficient weapons including intermediate-range missiles and nuclear weapons.
In fact, the process of transforming Japan into a proxy to attack China is already underway. The US is currently promoting the Japanese far-right populist party Ishin No Kai that is very anti-China.
[US ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and the president of right-wing populist party Ishin No Kai Nobuyuki Baba, whom the US wants to promote as a "Japan's Zelensky"]
Ishin No Kai is advocating that Japan should implement "nuclear-sharing" with the US. Ishin No Kai substantially increased their seats in local legislatures in elections of 2023. They plan to be the largest opposition party in the next general election to form a grand coalition government with LDP.
The president of far-right populist party Ishin No Kai Nobuyuki Baba is a US puppet. Nobuyuki Baba is anti-China and anti-Communism. He received education only up to a high school. He knows nothing about international politics. Therefore, he raises no question to the US's order. He just obey the US's order.
The US and UK are currently buying time. And, as soon as they get ready (in other words, as soon as they accomplish transforming Japan into a proxy to attack China and arming it with sufficient weapons), they draw China into a Taiwan war.
[Intermediate-range missiles, if deployed in Japan, can hit deep into the Chinese mainland including Beijing and Shanghai]
Also, seeing the prospect that pro-China Komeito-party and pro-China Nikai led members of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association were about to visit China, the US and UK hastily sent Mr. Toro Aso, vice president of LDP, to Taiwan in early August.
The family of Taro Aso have been serving UK for generations. His grandfather, Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese ambassador to UK during WW2 and was a Japan's PM from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954. Shigeru Yoshida's grand-grandfather Kenzo Yoshida was a wealthy Yokohama manager for a UK's merchant company, Jardine, Matheson and Company.
Thus, Taro Aso is a born UK and US puppet. During his visit to Taiwan, Taro Aso met with Tsai Ing-wen. Tsai Ing-wen is a US puppet in Taiwan. [7]
[Smiles of Puppets: Taro Aso, a UK and US puppet in Japan met with Tsai Ing-wen, a US puppet in Taiwan, August 2023]
Also, Taro Aso met Chiang Wan-an, a grandson of Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Wan-an is a potential US puppet in Taiwan. [8]
[Taro Aso, a UK and US puppet in Japan met with Chiang Wan-an, a potetial US puppet in Taiwan, August 2023]
However, being an idiot, Taro Aso is not excellent as a puppet because he always make a misstatement without knowing people's sentiment. In Taiwan, he made a mistake again. During his visit to Taiwan, he said, "US and Japan must show resolve to fight for Taiwan!" [9][10]
Taro Aso was trying to incite a Taiwan war. But, his statement makes an adverse effect. Currently, Taiwan people are scared by Ukraine War. By emphasizing fighting against China, he has moved Taiwan people toward pro-China KMT candidate.
Back in June 2023, Taro Aso met with Ko Wen-je, Taiwan People's Party (TPP) candidate for Taiwan presidential election of 2024 when Ko Wen-je came to Japan. [11]
[Taro Aso met with Ko Wen-je, Taiwan People's Party (TPP) candidate for Taiwan presidential election of 2024, June 2023]
Ko Wen-je, Taiwan People's Party's candidate for Taiwan presidential election of 2024, is advocating maintaining status quo. So, Taiwan people are supporting him. According to polls, he is the most popular candidate at this moment.
The US and UK are using Ko Wen-je to make Taiwan people have a daydream. Ignorant Taiwan people don't understand that the US and UK try to maintain status quo so as to buy time, during which they transform Japan into a proxy to attack China, and arm Japan and Taiwan with more weapons.
Status quo will never continue forever. As soon as the US and UK get ready (in other words, as soon as they accomplish transforming Japan into a proxy to attack China and arming it with sufficient weapons), they draw China into a Taiwan war.
Incidentally, after visiting the US and receiving the US's order in July, Ishin No Kai president Nobuyuki Baba also visited Taiwan in early August and met with Tsai Ing-wen. [12]
[Nobuyuki Baba, a US puppet in Japan met with Tsai Ing-wen, a US puppet in Taiwan, August 2023]
Back in June, Ishin No Kai president Baba met with Ko Wen-je too. [13]
[Nobuyuki Baba met with Ko Wen-je, Taiwan People's Party's (TPP's) candidate for Taiwan presidential election of 2024, June 2023]
Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, LDP's Vice President Taro Aso, Ishin No kai President Nobuyuki Baba, Taiwan's Preseident Tsai Ing-wen are all puppets. There are so many puppets in Asia who are working for the interests of the US and UK, ignoring and betraying the interests of the people of their home countries. It's the US and UK's "puppet" theater in Asia.
The US and UK's plan is clear. By supporting DPP and TPP candidates in Taiwan presidential election of 2024, they want to maintain status quo and buy time, during which they transform Japan into a proxy to attack China, and arm Japan and Taiwan with more weapons. When they get ready (in other words, as soon as they accomplish transforming Japan into a proxy to attack China and arming it with sufficient weapons), they draw China into a Taiwan war, making Asia a blazing battlefield.
Even if the relations between China and the US is good, it will not necessarily prevent a Taiwan war from breaking out because it is Japan that would be a main offensive force to attack China, being used as a US proxy.
Instead, if a pro-China government is established in Japan, it would substantially reduce the possibility of breaking out of a Taiwan war and significantly increase the possibility of a KMT candidate's victory in Taiwan presidential election 2024.
5. Politicians truly representing the people will prevail
In stark contrast to US and UK puppets, Mr. Nikai is working for the Japanese people, representing Japanese businesses and industries that want to do business with China.
[Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time) and President Xi Jinping]
Also, Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki is working for people of Okinawa, Japan. He visited China together with the delegates of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade in July 2023.
[Chinese Premier Li Qiang (second from the left in the front raw) and Okinawa Prefectural Governor Tamaki (third from the left in the front raw) when he visited China together with the delegates of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade in July 2023]
Okinawa Prefectural Governor Tamaki sharply criticized Taro Aso for his inciting a Taiwan war. Okinawa Prefectural Governor Tamaki insisted that meticulous dialogue was important. [14]
[Okinawa Prefectural Governor Denny Tamaki]
The US and UK's puppets in Asia, ignoring and betraying the interests of the people of their home countries, will be ousted and perish soon.
Politicians who are working for the people and truly representing the interests of the people will prevail in Asia and ensure peace and prosperity of the region.
Pro-US subservient PM Kishida will be kicked out of the government soon.
Instead, pro-China politicians will form a Japanese government because that's in the interest of the Japanese people.
Thank you.
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(5) 「重鎮・二階俊博に田原総一朗がホンネ直撃！「勝手なことをするんじゃない！」 自民党が大揺れ！岸田首相軍拡路線に痛烈警告」、２０２３年２月２日、エコノミスト
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Japan's Komeito-party president Natsuo Yamaguchi led Komeito-party MPs will visit China on August 28th to 30th. Komeito-party is a pro-China and fundamentally peace-seeking party. It is expected that Komeito-party MPs' visit will enhance a good relations between China and Japan. [1]
Komeito-party is a part of ruling parties, forming the Japanese coalition government together with LDP. When Komeito-party MPs visit China, Chinese leaders will demand them to halt the discharge of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water to the Pacific Ocean.
[Natsuo Yamaguchi, President of Komeito-party and Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (at that time), January 2013]
Before they depart for China, Komeito-party should work on LDP so that the Japanese government would suspend the discharge of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water to the Pacific Ocean and start discussion with neighboring countries including China to find an appropriate handling measure of nuclear contaminated water.
[More than one million tons of nuclear contaminated water is stored in more than one thousand tanks around the disabled Fukushima nuclear power plant]
If Komeito-party succeeds in making the Japanese government suspend the discharge of Fukushima nuclear contaminated water to the Pacific Ocean and start discussion with neighboring countries including China to find an appropriate handling measure of nuclear contaminated water, Komeito-party MPs will be very much welcomed and appreciated in China.
After Komeito-party MPs visit to China, Chairman Toshihiro Nikai led MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association will visit China. Mr. Nikai is "the" most prominent pro-China politician in Japan.
Mr. Nikai is planning to visit China in late August or early September. When he visits China, he will take with him dozens of MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association and thousands of pro-China Japanese business persons from manufacturing industries, financial industries, transportation industries, IT industries, tourism industries and so on. [2]
[Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time) and President Xi Jinping]
China will welcome pro-China Chairman Toshihiro Nikai led MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association and thousands of pro-China Japanese business persons.
In early August, China announced that it approved Chinese people's group tourism to overseas countries including Japan, which had been banned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinese people's group tourism to Japan is very good news for Japanese transportation industries, tourism industries and other industries. [3]
[Chinese tourists to Japan]
The visit of pro-China Chairman Toshihiro Nikai led MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association and thousands of pro-China Japanese business persons will very much enhance a good relations between China and Japan.
China’s top diplomat Wang Yi and Mr. Nikai are long trusted friends. Let's see how Wang Yi is expected to handle Japan and a Taiwan issue.
2. Wang Yi shifts China's diplomacy focus toward Japan and Taiwan
On 25th July, it was announced that China's top diplomat Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, also assumes the post of foreign minister of China.
[Wang Yi, a director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese Foreign Minister]
As a director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Wang Yi is a top diplomat of China. He was China's foreign minister from 2013 to 2022. He has a doctoral degree in international relations. His resuming the post of China's foreign minister will accelerate and empower China's diplomacy.
Wang Yi is famous for his having brokered and succeeded in reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Wang Yi was China's foreign minister from 2013 to 2022.
Wang Yi was a Chinese Ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2007. He speaks perfect Japanese. He knows Japan very well.
Wang Yi was a Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of China's foreign ministry from 2008 to 2013. He knows Taiwan very well too.
Who could be a better person to be in charge of China's diplomacy than Wang Yi at this critical juncture on Japan and Taiwan?
Wang Yi and Mr. Nikai, Chairman of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association are long trusted friends. Mr. Nikai is "the" most prominent pro-China politician in Japan.
[State Councilor and Foreign Minister (at that time) Wang Yi met with Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time)]
Wang Yi has friends in Japan's Komeito-party too.
[State Councilor and Foreign Minister (at that time) Wang Yi met with Kazuyoshi Akaba (Komeito-party), Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan (at that time), November 25th, 2019]
Wang Yi's Japanese friends include not only Japanese central government people but Japanese local government people as well.
[State Councilor and Foreign Minister (at that time) Wang Yi met with Heita Kawakatsu, Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan, November 24th, 2019]
Wang Yi's long trusted friend, Mr. Nikai will play a critical role to improve and enhance the relations between China and Japan in the coming months.
Back in 2015, when Mr. Nikai visited China and met with President Xi Jinping, he took with him as many as three thousand (yes, 3,000) business persons to China. [4]
[Toshihiro Nikai, Chairman of General Council of LDP (at that time) and his delegation met with President Xi Jinping, Beijing in 2015]
[Yang Jiechi, Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission (at that time), Toshihiro Nikai, Chairman of General Council of LDP (at that time), and President Xi Jinping, Beijing in 2015]
After Mr. Nikai and his delegation's visit to China in 2015, economic relations between China and Japan was boosted very much.
In 2017, Mr. Nikai led his delegation to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation held in Beijing, despite the Japanese government's official position not to join the Belt and Road Initiative due to US intervention.
[Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time) and his delegation to the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation held in Beijing in 2017]
Mr. Nikai is now starting to use the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association as his new powerful political apparatus to exert pro-China political power. This time, he can exert power not only toward ruling parties but opposition parties as well because the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association is a multi-partisan association.
Mr. Nikai is planning to visit China in late August or early September. When he visits China, he will take with him dozens of MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association and thousands of pro-China Japanese business persons from manufacturing industries, financial industries, transportation industries, IT industries, tourism industries and so on.
Mr. Nikai's political power is not his personal individual power. He is powerful because the broad range of Japanese businesses, hundreds of thousands of Japanese companies and tens of millions of Japanese business persons who want to do business with China support him.
In his interview of February 2023, Mr. Nikai mentioned, "What is important is cultural, diplomatic, economic relations and, above all, the people's power that back up and support them. The people's power of expression and power of actions matter. Therefore, I took a large number of people to China as I had opportunities. Usually, politicians visit foreign countries alone arrogantly. But, nothing works unless the people understand." [5]
Mr. Nikai is representing pro-China Japanese people, businesses and industries. He is working for a good relations between China and Japan and prosperity of both countries.
When he visits China in late August or early September, Mr. Nikai will meet with President Xi Jinping. President Xi Jinping will welcome him and dozens of MPs of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association as well as thousands of pro-China Japanese business persons.
And, President Xi Jinping will emphasize People-First Principle and the power of the people.
[Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time) and President Xi Jinping]
Mr. Nikai will meet with Mr. Wang Yi, top Chinese diplomat too. They are long trusted friends.
[Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time) and Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister (at that time)]
After the meeting with President Xi Jinping and Mr. Wang Yi, Mr. Nikai will make a joint statement together with Mr. Wang Yi in which followings will be confirmed.
- the importance of the People-First principle
- Japan's adherence to One-China principle
- the importance of preserving national sovereignty and territorial integrity
- the importance of Non-Interference in a nation's internal affairs
- recognition that peaceful reunification of China and Taiwan is pursued and supported while China reserves the option of taking all measures necessary
- recognition that it is already the multipolar world
- promoting equal win-win relations
- Japan would cooperate China's BRI, GDI, GSI and GCI
- facilitating digital economy
3. The establishment of pro-China government in Japan and prevention of Taiwan war
The bright prospect of better economic relations between China and Japan and peace in East Asia will not only contribute to the better relations between the two countries but strengthen Mr. Nikai's political influence in Japan. Japanese businesses and Japanese people will be impressed and highly appreciate Mr. Nikai's accomplishment.
So, it is possible that, after Mr. Nikai's visit to China, some LDP members of the Japanese Parliament would move to and join Mr. Nikai's faction. Mr. Nikai's faction could become the largest one within LDP. Mr. Nikai's faction would become the most influential faction within LDP, backed by the broad range of Japanese businesses, hundreds of thousands of Japanese companies and tens of millions of Japanese business persons who want to do business with China.
[PM Fumio Kishida and Toshihiro Nikai, Chairman of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association]
For example, PM Kishida's faction was originally pro-China faction. So, some members of PM Kishida's faction must be frustrated and even feel indignant to PM Kishida's such obedient and subservient attitude to the US. Some members of PM Kishida's faction could join Mr. Nikai's faction, damaging PM Kishida's standing.
Also, other factions within LDP would tend to cooperate with Nikai's faction.
Then, pressures within LDP and from the Japanese people that call for PM Kishida to resign will increase very much. PM Kishida's approval rate is as low as 26.6 % in polls even today. [6]
[The Kishida administration's approval rate plunged to as low as 26.6 % as of August 2023]
Under such pressures, even a small wrong comment of PM Kishida or a single defeat in a by-election could trigger a resignation of PM Kishida and his cabinet.
Or, as some ministers of the Kishida cabinet are from Mr. Nikai's faction, Mr. Nikai can let them resign one after another, which will force PM Kishida to resign.
PM Kishida would not be able to resort to a snap election because his defeat and decrease of LDP's seats in the Japanese Parliament is a sure thing.
After the resignation of PM Kishida and his cabinet, Mr. Nikai, working with other factions, would organize a new cabinet as a king-maker. He might pick up Mr. Taro Kono as the next PM since he is relatively popular among the Japanese people for his frank and untraditional style. Or, Mr. Nikai might pick up a female politician such as Seiko Noda or Yuko Obuchi as the next PM. Whoever becomes the next prime minister, he/she and his/her cabinet would be totally under the control of Mr. Nikai because it is Mr. Nikai who would make him/her a prime minister.
The new PM and his/her cabinet will be pro-China. Japan's restriction on exporting semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China will be lifted immediately.
Above all, the new pro-China PM and his/her cabinet would declare that Japan would not join intervening in Taiwan crisis and that Japan would not allow US military forces to use US military bases in Japan for the purpose of intervening in Taiwan crisis because China-Taiwan relations should be solved through dialogue between them.
[F-22 at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan]
This will significantly enhance the probability of peaceful reunification of China and Taiwan because US military forces would not be able to conduct effective operations to intervene Taiwan crisis without using US military bases in Japan.
Japan's declaration that Japan would not allow US military forces to use US military bases in Japan for the purpose of intervening in Taiwan crisis will affect Taiwan voters too and make them convince that a peaceful reunification with China is the only choice for Taiwan.
Consequently, in Taiwan's presidential election of January 2024, a pro-China KMT candidate will win over a pro-US candidate of DPP. Victorious KMT will pursue and facilitate a peaceful reunification of China and Taiwan.
4. The US and UK are staging a “puppet” theater in Asia
In case a Taiwan crisis, the US and UK themselves are unlikely to attack China directly because it could lead to a catastrophic nuclear war, exchanging ICBMs and ruining each other. Rather, the US and UK would wage a proxy war and let Japan to attack China just like the West is using Ukraine as a proxy to attack Russia. So, the West would try to transform Japan into a proxy to attack China and arm it with sufficient weapons including intermediate-range missiles and nuclear weapons.
In fact, the process of transforming Japan into a proxy to attack China is already underway. The US is currently promoting the Japanese far-right populist party Ishin No Kai that is very anti-China.
[US ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and the president of right-wing populist party Ishin No Kai Nobuyuki Baba, whom the US wants to promote as a "Japan's Zelensky"]
Ishin No Kai is advocating that Japan should implement "nuclear-sharing" with the US. Ishin No Kai substantially increased their seats in local legislatures in elections of 2023. They plan to be the largest opposition party in the next general election to form a grand coalition government with LDP.
The president of far-right populist party Ishin No Kai Nobuyuki Baba is a US puppet. Nobuyuki Baba is anti-China and anti-Communism. He received education only up to a high school. He knows nothing about international politics. Therefore, he raises no question to the US's order. He just obey the US's order.
The US and UK are currently buying time. And, as soon as they get ready (in other words, as soon as they accomplish transforming Japan into a proxy to attack China and arming it with sufficient weapons), they draw China into a Taiwan war.
[Intermediate-range missiles, if deployed in Japan, can hit deep into the Chinese mainland including Beijing and Shanghai]
Also, seeing the prospect that pro-China Komeito-party and pro-China Nikai led members of the Japan-China Parliamentary Friendship Association were about to visit China, the US and UK hastily sent Mr. Toro Aso, vice president of LDP, to Taiwan in early August.
The family of Taro Aso have been serving UK for generations. His grandfather, Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese ambassador to UK during WW2 and was a Japan's PM from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954. Shigeru Yoshida's grand-grandfather Kenzo Yoshida was a wealthy Yokohama manager for a UK's merchant company, Jardine, Matheson and Company.
Thus, Taro Aso is a born UK and US puppet. During his visit to Taiwan, Taro Aso met with Tsai Ing-wen. Tsai Ing-wen is a US puppet in Taiwan. [7]
[Smiles of Puppets: Taro Aso, a UK and US puppet in Japan met with Tsai Ing-wen, a US puppet in Taiwan, August 2023]
Also, Taro Aso met Chiang Wan-an, a grandson of Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Wan-an is a potential US puppet in Taiwan. [8]
[Taro Aso, a UK and US puppet in Japan met with Chiang Wan-an, a potetial US puppet in Taiwan, August 2023]
However, being an idiot, Taro Aso is not excellent as a puppet because he always make a misstatement without knowing people's sentiment. In Taiwan, he made a mistake again. During his visit to Taiwan, he said, "US and Japan must show resolve to fight for Taiwan!" [9][10]
Taro Aso was trying to incite a Taiwan war. But, his statement makes an adverse effect. Currently, Taiwan people are scared by Ukraine War. By emphasizing fighting against China, he has moved Taiwan people toward pro-China KMT candidate.
Back in June 2023, Taro Aso met with Ko Wen-je, Taiwan People's Party (TPP) candidate for Taiwan presidential election of 2024 when Ko Wen-je came to Japan. [11]
[Taro Aso met with Ko Wen-je, Taiwan People's Party (TPP) candidate for Taiwan presidential election of 2024, June 2023]
Ko Wen-je, Taiwan People's Party's candidate for Taiwan presidential election of 2024, is advocating maintaining status quo. So, Taiwan people are supporting him. According to polls, he is the most popular candidate at this moment.
The US and UK are using Ko Wen-je to make Taiwan people have a daydream. Ignorant Taiwan people don't understand that the US and UK try to maintain status quo so as to buy time, during which they transform Japan into a proxy to attack China, and arm Japan and Taiwan with more weapons.
Status quo will never continue forever. As soon as the US and UK get ready (in other words, as soon as they accomplish transforming Japan into a proxy to attack China and arming it with sufficient weapons), they draw China into a Taiwan war.
Incidentally, after visiting the US and receiving the US's order in July, Ishin No Kai president Nobuyuki Baba also visited Taiwan in early August and met with Tsai Ing-wen. [12]
[Nobuyuki Baba, a US puppet in Japan met with Tsai Ing-wen, a US puppet in Taiwan, August 2023]
Back in June, Ishin No Kai president Baba met with Ko Wen-je too. [13]
[Nobuyuki Baba met with Ko Wen-je, Taiwan People's Party's (TPP's) candidate for Taiwan presidential election of 2024, June 2023]
Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, LDP's Vice President Taro Aso, Ishin No kai President Nobuyuki Baba, Taiwan's Preseident Tsai Ing-wen are all puppets. There are so many puppets in Asia who are working for the interests of the US and UK, ignoring and betraying the interests of the people of their home countries. It's the US and UK's "puppet" theater in Asia.
The US and UK's plan is clear. By supporting DPP and TPP candidates in Taiwan presidential election of 2024, they want to maintain status quo and buy time, during which they transform Japan into a proxy to attack China, and arm Japan and Taiwan with more weapons. When they get ready (in other words, as soon as they accomplish transforming Japan into a proxy to attack China and arming it with sufficient weapons), they draw China into a Taiwan war, making Asia a blazing battlefield.
Even if the relations between China and the US is good, it will not necessarily prevent a Taiwan war from breaking out because it is Japan that would be a main offensive force to attack China, being used as a US proxy.
Instead, if a pro-China government is established in Japan, it would substantially reduce the possibility of breaking out of a Taiwan war and significantly increase the possibility of a KMT candidate's victory in Taiwan presidential election 2024.
5. Politicians truly representing the people will prevail
In stark contrast to US and UK puppets, Mr. Nikai is working for the Japanese people, representing Japanese businesses and industries that want to do business with China.
[Toshihiro Nikai, Secretary General of LDP (at that time) and President Xi Jinping]
Also, Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki is working for people of Okinawa, Japan. He visited China together with the delegates of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade in July 2023.
[Chinese Premier Li Qiang (second from the left in the front raw) and Okinawa Prefectural Governor Tamaki (third from the left in the front raw) when he visited China together with the delegates of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade in July 2023]
Okinawa Prefectural Governor Tamaki sharply criticized Taro Aso for his inciting a Taiwan war. Okinawa Prefectural Governor Tamaki insisted that meticulous dialogue was important. [14]
[Okinawa Prefectural Governor Denny Tamaki]
The US and UK's puppets in Asia, ignoring and betraying the interests of the people of their home countries, will be ousted and perish soon.
Politicians who are working for the people and truly representing the interests of the people will prevail in Asia and ensure peace and prosperity of the region.
Pro-US subservient PM Kishida will be kicked out of the government soon.
Instead, pro-China politicians will form a Japanese government because that's in the interest of the Japanese people.
Thank you.
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(4) 「習主席が｢二階3000人訪中団｣に語ったこと」、２０１５年５月２４日、東洋経済
(5) 「重鎮・二階俊博に田原総一朗がホンネ直撃！「勝手なことをするんじゃない！」 自民党が大揺れ！岸田首相軍拡路線に痛烈警告」、２０２３年２月２日、エコノミスト
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