🇯🇵 The Prime Minister Beijing Fears Is Slipping, And That's No Coincidence. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says she "doesn't know" why her numbers are falling. Beijing knows exactly why, because it has spent months engineering the fall. The headline reads like ordinary politics. Takaichi's cabinet approval dropped below 50 percent for the first time since she took office, sinking to 49.2 percent in ANN's July poll, down nearly 11 points, with disapproval surging. Inflation is real. Voter frustration is real. But focus only on the price of rice and you miss the hand on the scale. Since Takaichi entered office in October 2025, pledging higher defense spending, missile deployments, and a new intelligence agency, the People's Republic of China has waged what analysts openly call a "cognitive warfare" campaign against her. The playbook is documented, not speculative: bot armies flooding Japanese social media, disinformation branding her an "extreme right-winger," fabricated stories about her family, and Chinese diplomats amplifying it all. Beijing weaponized her Taiwan "survival-threatening situation" remark into a manufactured outrage cycle. The genius of the operation is that it hides inside legitimate grievance. Real anger over living costs becomes the carrier signal; the troll farms and paid amplifiers, including sympathetic voices inside Japan itself, simply turn up the volume, sharpen the rage, and aim it at the one leader Beijing least wants in power. This is the point every democracy should absorb. Cognitive warfare doesn't invent your anger. It borrows it, then steers it. When a foreign authoritarian state can nudge the approval rating of a sovereign democracy's prime minister, the ballot box is no longer entirely yours. Takaichi may not know the cause. The rest of us should. Watch who benefits, and stay awake. ACI — Aric Chen | Insights

Reports from direct investigative inquiries indicate that Takeru Morokita—a member of the Japanese Communist Party who caused the death of a high school girl on a field trip by involving her in efforts to obstruct the relocation of a U.S. military base in Okinawa—has secretly vacated his home and gone on the run. Were the National Police Agency and the Public Security Police asleep on the job? Immediately verify the facts and place Morokita on the wanted list! 😡 If necessary, conduct raids on Japanese Communist Party facilities and affiliated locations across the country! @NPA_HOAN_OC1 @NPA_YAKUTAI @NPA_KOHO @MOJ_PSIA

This photo was taken in Suginami Ward, Tokyo—a ward led by a leftist mayor akin to figures like Starmer or Zoran Mamdani. It shows a violent protest group—affiliated with the Socialist and Communist parties—occupying a park under the guise of a rally; having driven away children and mothers, they are now holding a drinking party there. Practices such as sitting directly on the ground, or placing food, drinks, and tableware (which touch one's mouth) directly on the ground, are unthinkable according to the standards of hygiene and common sense held by Japanese people—who have sat on mats for outdoor dining, such as cherry blossom viewing and picnics, for over a thousand years. Such behavior indicates that these individuals come from non-Japanese households or from families with extremely low levels of education.

Imagine you are a dental hygienist and live in Sweden.. You are employed to help “migrant children” with their dental issues. As part of your job you examine the wisdom teeth development of the kids and you notice that 80% of those “kids” have fully formed wisdom teeth, implying they are not kids at all but adults older than the age of 18. You tell the Swedish Migration Agency and they advise you to put it in writing. When you send exact details, with examples of specific patients you are suspended, investigated and fired for disclosing private information relating to patients. This happened to Bernt Herlitz in 2017. When he appealed the unfair dismissal he ultimately lost and was fined about $50,000. He and his family faced financial hardship and almost lost their home, until some generous benefactors raised money for him. Bernt remains unemployed today, despite staff shortages for dentists in his area in Gotland. At the time, Sweden scoffed at the tests and claimed they were “discriminatory” but since then they have quietly brought in mass dental testing, for those whose age is in doubt, by the National Board of Forensic Medicine. Bernt deserves a medal. Not vilification and unemployment

>>When I was negotiating a translation with a French publisher, an editor from a major publisher said to me, "Japanese people these days think too much. They don't have the ability to think!" and "Thinking is our job as Europeans. You Asians just need to feel." I was completely taken aback. >>Hmm, very, very French (lol)