**"Trump at a Dead End? Possibility of Resignation or Quitting if Defeated in Midterm Elections; Will Prime Minister Takaichi’s 'Hug Diplomacy' with the Declining Trump Administration End as a 'Pro-American Flash in the Pan'?"**
*Money Post WEB, June 17, 2026 (Wed) 16:15*
**Caption:** Is the "Hug Diplomacy" already at its limit? (Illustration by Yasutoshi Igawa)
### Commentary
**[Comment 1]**
The ones truly in decline are not the Trump-led Republican Party, but the Democratic Party—a group of liberal hypocrites. It was under the Democratic Obama administration in 2014 that America’s GDP, based on purchasing power parity, was surpassed by China, marking the "era of Democratic dominance."
*Universal suffrage (elections without restrictions based on race or gender) was finally legislated in the United States in 1965.*
*Major milestones in the expansion of suffrage in the U.S. include:*
* *1870 (15th Amendment): Prohibited restrictions on voting based on race or color, granting voting rights to Black men.*
* *1965 (Voting Rights Act): Completely abolished unfair discriminatory practices used in Southern states—such as literacy tests and poll taxes—that hindered minority (primarily Black) voting, effectively realizing universal suffrage.*
**[Comment 2]**
Giving the right to vote to the "ignorant proletarian masses"—or what Yukichi Fukuzawa called "Gonsuke the apprentice"—who constantly scream that "cheap goods are for the benefit of the working class," only leads to a society that can think of nothing more than increasing the production of inferior goods (cheap knockoffs) and lowering prices.
**[Comment 3]**
Modern civil states established by the American and French Revolutions are intended to aim for a wealthy society where the bourgeois (propertied and intellectual) class, which creates new "normal goods," takes leadership.
**[Comment 4]**
An economy that only produces and consumes inferior goods (cheap knockoffs) fueled by recession will inevitably wither and self-destruct, just like the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.
The voting rights of the ignorant proletarian masses who are rebellious against the bourgeois (propertied and intellectual) class—those who create new normal goods—in other words, "Gonsuke the apprentice" as Yukichi Fukuzawa put it, should be revoked.
**[Comment 6]**
True equality under the rule of law and the liberal bourgeois constitution—which includes the emancipation of the Jewish people upon which the modern civil state stands—means that one must not discriminate against the bourgeois (propertied and intellectual) class, even if they are Black or Hispanic, provided they contribute to sustainable economic growth by creating new normal goods like Edison, the Wright brothers, or Henry Ford. It does not mean that one should overestimate those Black or Hispanic individuals who remain content as the "ignorant proletarian masses," or "Gonsuke the apprentice" as Yukichi Fukuzawa described them.
**《Google AI Overview》**
The ship that rushed to the scene upon receiving the distress signal from the RMS Titanic and rescued the survivors was the Cunard Line ocean liner, **RMS Carpathia**.
Key details regarding the Carpathia are as follows:
* **Dash and Rescue:** In the early hours of Monday, April 15, 1912, upon receiving the distress signal from the Titanic, Captain Arthur Rostron commanded the ship to steam at full speed through dangerous waters, covering a distance of approximately 107 kilometers (66 miles) to reach the scene.
* **Number of Survivors:** The ship rescued 705 survivors—who had either been cast into the freezing waters or were in lifeboats—and transported them safely to New York.
* **Aftermath:** This brave and swift rescue operation was praised around the world. The survivors presented Captain Rostron and his crew with commemorative medals and Tiffany-made pocket watches as tokens of their gratitude.
Are there any other episodes, details about the crew, or specific aspects of the rescue mission you would like to know about?
>>> **“Laws that penalize the expression of opinions about historical facts are incompatible with the obligations that the Covenant imposes on States parties…
>>> …Nor is it compatible with the Covenant for a State party to criminalize the holding of an opinion.
>>> **Laws should not provide for penalties for disrespect for a flag, or a symbol, or for the State, or its institutions, or for a public official.**”
>>> — *General Comment No.34, para. 38* [United Nations Digital Library System](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/715606?v=%5B%27pdf%27%5D)
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＞ご指摘の箇所は、国連自由権規約委員会（Human Rights Committee）の 「一般的意見第34号（General Comment No. 34）」第48段落 にあります。
＞原文は次のとおりです。
>>> "Accordingly, the Committee expresses concern regarding laws on such matters as, lese majeste, desacato, disrespect for authority, disrespect for flags and symbols, defamation of the head of state and the protection of the honour of public officials, and laws should not provide for more severe penalties solely on the basis of the identity of the person that may have been impugned. States parties should not prohibit criticism of institutions, such as the army or the administration."
>>> 38. As noted earlier in paragraphs 13 and 20, concerning the content of political discourse, the Committee has observed that in circumstances of public debate concerning public figures in the political domain and public institutions, the value placed by the Covenant upon uninhibited expression is particularly high. Thus, the mere fact that forms of expression are considered to be insulting to a public figure is not sufficient to justify the imposition of penalties, albeit public figures may also benefit from the provisions of the Covenant. Moreover, all public figures, including those exercising the highest political authority such as heads of state and government, are legitimately subject to criticism and political opposition. **Accordingly, the Committee expresses concern regarding laws on such matters as, lese majesty, desacato, disrespect for authority, disrespect for flags and symbols, defamation of the head of state and the protection of the honour of public officials**, and laws should not provide for more severe penalties solely on the basis of the identity of the person that may have been impugned. States parties should not prohibit criticism of institutions, such as the army or the administration.
**The AI War: "Who" Holds the Decision to Attack?**
*NHK, June 22, 2026 (Mon) 17:44*
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When I pointed out the absurd inaccuracies in the economic and financial commentary given by economist Toshihiro Nagahama—an alumnus of Waseda university I regard as substandard—on BS Fuji’s *Prime News* on June 23, 2026, Toru Hashimoto, another alumnus of the same university who was appearing on the program, allegedly joined forces with anti‑American, far‑right elements within Fuji TV to trigger an “artificial earthquake” in the Kanto region around 11:50 a.m. on Friday, June 26, 2026.
■ Earthquakes are believed to be weaponized using AI technology.
■ While it is believed that these earthquake weapons are operated using AI technology, there are scattered cases where it is doubtful whether they are being rationally managed to maintain the liberal bourgeois economies and prosperity of Western developed nations, which share the rule of law—including policies of Jewish emancipation—and liberal bourgeois constitutions.
■ In Japan, the *Emishi* of the Tohoku region—entrenched in militarism (anti-American/far-right) and inherent outlaws prone to unpredictable outbursts—control these earthquake weapons. It is strongly suspected that: 1) they are allegedly operated to target "anti-American/far-left" elements, but 2) the process for identifying these "anti-American/far-left" targets is far from rational, and their operation is left to the arbitrary whims of anti-American, far-right militarists.
■ Is Palantir truly capable of grasping the geopolitical risks inherent in Japan, where the *Emishi* of Tohoku—militaristic, unpredictable outlaws—control the current Japan Self-Defense Forces?
■ I also have doubts about whether Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has undergone sufficient security vetting.
■ Kanto Gakuin University, the alma mater of Shinjiro Koizumi, was a hotbed for the anti-American/far-left Red Army Faction, which 1) hijacked a Japan Airlines flight in 1970 to defect to the DPRK, and 2) carried out indiscriminate terrorism at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv in May 1972 using grenades and automatic rifles. Similarly, during the Vietnam War, Columbia University was a hub for anti-war movements alongside UC Berkeley and Harvard.
■ Despite this, the U.S. Republican Party seems to place immense trust in the Koizumi family. How do they evaluate the fact that in September 2002, they rushed to make a surprise visit to Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK—with which Japan had no diplomatic relations—immediately after President Bush designated Iran, Iraq, and the DPRK as the "Axis of Evil" in his 2002 State of the Union address, signaling potential military intervention to prevent them from acquiring weapons of mass destruction?
■ Why does the U.S. political establishment continue to entrust such die-hard anti-American/far-left individuals like the Koizumis?
■ To camouflage their true anti-American/far-left nature, the Koizumis have: 1) repeatedly visited the Yasukuni Shrine, which has become a spiritual pillar for militarists, with unusual zeal, and 2) belonged to the Seiwa Kai faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, led by Nobusuke Kishi—a subordinate of Hideki Tojo, who was the ringleader of the Tohoku *Emishi*, those inherent outlaws fixated on militarism (anti-American/far-right).
■ To the militarists (anti-American/far-right) who control Japan's current Self-Defense Forces and earthquake weapons, the Koizumis appear to be "masters of camouflage," effectively remaining in their blind spot.
■ It is also the current Self-Defense Forces, controlled by the Tohoku *Emishi*, that have repeatedly harassed critics of the absurd "Quantitative Monetary Easing" (2001–2006)—the policy that defined the "Lost 30 Years" of Heisei deflation and caused the massive decline of Japan, which was once the world's second-largest economy accounting for 10% of global GDP in the late Showa era—by flying JGSDF UH-1 helicopters at low altitudes over the critics' homes from morning till night for over a decade.
■ Given these points, I have serious doubts about whether U.S. military AI systems are capable of adequately addressing the dangers posed by the Koizumi family and the Japan Self-Defense Forces, both of which continue to act against the national interests of Western developed nations that share the rule of law and liberal bourgeois constitutions.
The absurd “quantitative monetary easing” (2001–2006) that decisively triggered Japan’s “Lost 30 Years of Heisei Deflation”—a period that greatly contributed to the decline of Japan, which at the end of the Showa era had been the world’s second-largest economic power, accounting for nearly 10% of global GDP—was met with criticism. In response, low-altitude flight training by Japan Self-Defense Force UH-1 helicopters from the Kita-Utsunomiya Garrison (in Hajime Funada’s home district of Tochigi 1st District) was repeatedly conducted from morning till night for over a decade directly above the residence of one such critic, as a form of harassment.
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The current Self-Defense Forces, dominated by figures such as Kenichiro Nagumo , Toshio Tamogami, and other Tohoku Emishi.
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The foolish members of the old Takeshita faction, who were pro-Chinese Communist Party and followed the “Sonno Joi” (Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians) tradition of hostility toward Western powers, were mostly remnants of the Ouetsu Reppan Domei (Tohoku domain alliance) or leftover idiots from the Tokugawa side. They include:
> Kakuei Tanaka (Nagaoka Domain), Yuji Tsushima (Tsugaru Domain), Seiroku Kajiyama (Ibaraki, affiliated with the Mito Tokugawa Domain), Ichiro Ozawa (Date Domain), Kozo Watanabe (Aizu Domain), Fukusiro Nukaga (Ibaraki, followed the Ashikaga Domain that aligned with Mito), Toshihiro Nikai (Kishu Tokugawa Domain), Hiromu Nonaka (Kyoto)...
*Hiromu Nonaka, despite being from Kyoto, publicly came out about his origins as a *burakumin* (outcast/eta) descendant.
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The old Takeshita faction—a hotbed of Tohoku Emishi who are hardcore militarists and unpredictable rogue elements liable to explode at any moment—also included the two top fools from Tochigi: Toshimitsu Motegi and Hajime Funada.
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Ichiro Ozawa and Hajime Funada, low-intelligence Keio university graduates from the old Takeshita faction who, following the “Sonno Joi” anti-Western tradition, were firmly in bed with the Chinese Communist Party.
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These low-intelligence Keio university graduate scum, a pathetic duo who have disgraced the face of Fukuzawa Yukichi, who tirelessly advocated “Datsu-A Nyu-O” (Leave Asia, Enter Europe).
A wild bear appeared near the Tochigi Prefectural Office in central Utsunomiya. (LOL)
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It’s ridiculous that they moved the Tochigi Prefectural Office to a backwater like Utsunomiya—which is basically a mispronunciation of “Ichinomiya” in southeastern Tohoku—turning it into a laughingstock.
Anyone weird enough to go all the way to Utsunomiya just to eat gyoza better watch out so they don’t run into a bear in the city center!
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In November 2003, under Koizumi and Takenaka’s deflationary policies, the absurd “quantitative monetary easing” (2001–2006) triggered another round of lending recalls by private banks. This caused funding troubles to worsen again, reigniting the non-performing loan problem. As a result, Ashikaga Bank—located in the home districts of Toshimitsu Motegi and Hajime Funada—was forcibly shut down.
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Toshimitsu Motegi and Hajime Funada, the two top fools from southeastern Tohoku, just stood by sucking their thumbs and watching.
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What the hell are these guys even in the ruling party for?!
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Toshimitsu Motegi, the “useless Tokyo University dropout” who failed the National Public Service Comprehensive Job Exam (which even many from Waseda and Keio pass), did absolutely nothing to resist the absurd “quantitative monetary easing” (2001–2006) under Koizumi and Takenaka’s deflationary policies. He just stood by sucking his thumb.
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Worse still, this worthless scoundrel Toshimitsu Motegi repeatedly ordered massive surprise blasting operations from the large Ogano Mine in his home district of Tochigi 5th District—crossing electoral boundaries—to target the residential area of someone who criticized the quantitative easing policy.
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Asking a consulting firm like McKinsey to advise when you have a complete incompetent like “Idiot Toshimitsu Motegi” (a Tokyo University dropout) on board is just throwing huge amounts of money down the drain. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Look at the disastrous state of that traitor “Pon-Gin” (Bank of Japan, allegedly the bank that hired McKinsey). That’s the result.
>>> **“Laws that penalize the expression of opinions about historical facts are incompatible with the obligations that the Covenant imposes on States parties…
>>> …Nor is it compatible with the Covenant for a State party to criminalize the holding of an opinion.
>>> **Laws should not provide for penalties for disrespect for a flag, or a symbol, or for the State, or its institutions, or for a public official.**”
>>> — *General Comment No.34, para. 38* [United Nations Digital Library System](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/715606?v=%5B%27pdf%27%5D)
>An absolute idiot of a Nihon University professor—the kind you could hit just by throwing a stone—who utterly ignores the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), has openly defied "General Comment No. 34" (Article 19 of the ICCPR on Freedom of Expression) by the UN Human Rights Committee, which is responsible for interpreting the ICCPR—a covenant the Japanese government is also obligated to implement immediately.
> Akira Momochi, an absolute idiot of a Nihon University Professor Emeritus (the kind you could hit just by throwing a stone), stated: "I support the bill. The true legally protected interest is not merely the 'protection of public sentiment that values the national flag,' but rather the 'prestige and honor of the nation as symbolized by the flag.' It is only natural to consider not just the act itself, but also the intent and purpose behind it."
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> 【Microsoft Copilot】
> To get straight to the point, the relevant paragraph regarding the punishment of disrespect toward national flags and symbols in "General Comment No. 34" (Article 19 of the ICCPR on Freedom of Expression) by the UN Human Rights Committee is Paragraph 38.
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> ## 📌 General Comment No. 34 (2011) Paragraph 38 (Original Text)
> The following is a quote from the official English version published by the UN Human Rights Committee:
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**“Laws that penalize the expression of opinions about historical facts are incompatible with the obligations that the Covenant imposes on States parties…
…Nor is it compatible with the Covenant for a State party to criminalize the holding of an opinion.
Laws should not provide for penalties for disrespect for a flag, or a symbol, or for the State, or its institutions, or for a public official.”**
— General Comment No.34, para. 38 United Nations Digital Library System
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> ## 📝 Key Points (Japanese)
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> * Laws that penalize the expression of opinions about historical facts violate the Covenant.
> * Criminalizing the holding of an opinion itself also violates the Covenant.
> * Laws that penalize "disrespect" toward a national flag, symbol, the State, public institutions, or public officials are incompatible with the obligations under Article 19 of the Covenant.
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> In other words, from a standpoint that places particular importance on freedom of political speech, the UN Human Rights Committee explicitly rejects criminalizing disrespect toward national flags and state symbols.
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> ## 🔍 For Further Verification
> * Read the full text of General Comment No. 34
> * Learn about the contents of ICCPR Article 19
> * Examine the detailed relationship between the crime of national flag desecration and international human rights law
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> If needed, a full Japanese translation or an explanation regarding its relationship to domestic debates can also be provided.
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〓 Akira Momochi, that absolute idiot of a Nihon University Professor Emeritus whom you could hit just by throwing a stone, is on the exact same level as the uncivilized Chinese who have still not ratified the ICCPR.
〓 Completely ignoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the ICCPR—which stipulate the rule of law underpinning modern civil states and the principle of legality (*nulla poena sine lege*) guaranteed by liberal bourgeois constitutions—anti-American, ultra-left elements are running rampant with kangaroo courts. They allow business owners and others who are not even legal experts to arbitrarily crack down on and punish breaches of manners (= harassment) or violations of political correctness (= political offenses).
〓 Particularly in government-designated cities, "Ordinances for the Prevention of Public Nuisance" (*Meiwaku Boushi Jourei*), which ignore the principle of legality, possess vague constituent elements, and vary wildly in sentencing from one municipality to another, have taken on a life of their own, effectively hollowing out the principle of legality guaranteed by the ICCPR.
〓 The reckless behavior of hypocritical liberals—namely the Socialist Party, Democratic Party, Communist Party, Labor Party, and their ilk—who comprise the anti-American, ultra-left and are hollowing out the rule of law on which modern civil states stand, liberal bourgeois constitutions, and the principle of legality guaranteed by the ICCPR, has reached an intolerable state.
〓 On top of that, openly defying the General Comment of the Human Rights Committee—which is responsible for interpreting the ICCPR—just like that absolute idiot of a Nihon University Professor Emeritus, Akira Momochi (whom you could hit just by throwing a stone), leaves me utterly dumbfounded by the anti-American ultra-leftism or backwardness of certain Japanese people, who are no better than the Chinese who still refuse to ratify the Covenant.
〓 In the 7th century, Emperors Temmu and Jito established Yakushi-ji Temple of the Hosso school, which holds the doctrine of *Goshou Kakubetsu* (Five Distinct Natures) as its fundamental dogma, thereby cementing the "syncretism of Yamato Shinto and the Hosso school (founded on *Goshou Kakubetsu*)."
〓 In the year 802 AD, Seii Taishogun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, who had founded Kiyomizu-dera Temple of the Hosso school (which holds *Goshou Kakubetsu* as its core dogma) and set out to subdue the Emishi, successfully forced Aterui, the chieftain of the Emishi in the Tohoku region, to surrender.
〓 The "San'ichi Gonjitsu Soron" (Dispute over the Three Vehicles and One Vehicle, 817–821 AD) was a sharp conflict between the Hosso school, which advocated *Goshou Kakubetsu*, and the Tendai school, which advocated *Hokke Ichijo* (The One Vehicle of the Lotus Sutra, rooted in the *Mahaparinirvana Sutra* doctrine that "all sentient beings possess the Buddha-nature").
〓 Following this, the Tendai school built temples throughout Tohoku to conduct missionary work. However, even after centuries had passed, they failed in their mission to lead the Emishi onto the right path through preaching. As a result, Emishi rebellions against the Yamato Court in the Tohoku region erupted repeatedly, such as the Former Nine Years' War and the Later Three Years' War.
〓 Consequently, the subduing of the Emishi was carried out by the Seii Taishogun of the Kawachi Genji, who were appointed by the Fujiwara Sekkan-ke (Regents and Advisers)—the family that ruled the Yamato Court and was devoted to the Hosso school and its doctrine of *Goshou Kakubetsu*.
〓 In the 14th century, the Emishi of Tohoku—lawless by nature and liable to explode at any moment—rallied around Chinjufu Shogun Kitabatake Akiie and repeatedly flooded into the Kinai region, conducting horrific plundering against the Yamato people along the way.
〓 In the 7th century, Emperors Temmu and Jito established Yakushi-ji Temple of the Hosso school, which holds the doctrine of *Goshou Kakubetsu* (Five Distinct Natures) as its fundamental dogma, thereby cementing the "syncretism of Yamato Shinto and the Hosso school (founded on *Goshou Kakubetsu*)."
〓 In the year 802 AD, Seii Taishogun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, who had founded Kiyomizu-dera Temple of the Hosso school (which holds *Goshou Kakubetsu* as its core dogma) and set out to subdue the Emishi, successfully forced Aterui, the chieftain of the Emishi in the Tohoku region, to surrender.
〓 The "San'ichi Gonjitsu Soron" (Dispute over the Three Vehicles and One Vehicle, 817–821 AD) was a sharp conflict between the Hosso school, which advocated *Goshou Kakubetsu*, and the Tendai school, which advocated *Hokke Ichijo* (The One Vehicle of the Lotus Sutra, rooted in the *Mahaparinirvana Sutra* doctrine that "all sentient beings possess the Buddha-nature").
〓 Following this, the Tendai school built temples throughout Tohoku to conduct missionary work. However, even after centuries had passed, they failed in their mission to lead the Emishi onto the right path through preaching. As a result, Emishi rebellions against the Yamato Court in the Tohoku region erupted repeatedly, such as the Former Nine Years' War and the Later Three Years' War.
〓 Consequently, the subduing of the Emishi was carried out by the Seii Taishogun of the Kawachi Genji, who were appointed by the Fujiwara Sekkan-ke (Regents and Advisers)—the family that ruled the Yamato Court and was devoted to the Hosso school and its doctrine of *Goshou Kakubetsu*.
〓 In the 14th century, the Emishi of Tohoku—lawless by nature and liable to explode at any moment—rallied around Chinjufu Shogun Kitabatake Akiie and repeatedly flooded into the Kinai region, conducting horrific plundering against the Yamato people along the way.
〓 By the end of the 16th century, Nankobo Tenkai, an Emishi hailing from Aizu, had completely hijacked the Tendai school.
〓 The Tokugawa, who became Seii Taishogun—wartime commanders-in-chief entrusted with full authority by the Imperial Court to subdue the Emishi—were mere upstarts born out of the chaos of the Sengoku period.
〓 Incapable of understanding the gravity of the Emishi rebellions from Tohoku that had recurred since ancient times, generations of Tokugawa upstarts, despite being appointed as wartime commanders-in-chief to subdue the Emishi, were completely manipulated from the time of the founder, Ieyasu, onward by Nankobo Tenkai of the Tendai school (an Emishi from Aizu) and others. Ultimately, they failed to execute a single expedition to subdue the Emishi up until the end of the Edo period.
〓 Furthermore, the *Dai Nihon Shi* (Great History of Japan), which Tokugawa Mitsukuni of Mito forcibly compiled, definitively labeled the Daikakuji line as the legitimate imperial lineage. This was a foolish attempt to realize direct imperial rule by eliminating the Fujiwara Sekkan-ke, who had devoted themselves to the Hosso school (with its *Goshou Kakubetsu* doctrine) and had appointed successive generations of the Kawachi Genji as Seii Taishogun to suppress the Emishi—the very Emishi of Tohoku who, as inherent outlaws, had backed Chinjufu Shogun Kitabatake Akiie to repeatedly swarm into the Kinai region.
〓 In other words, Mitsukuni's *Dai Nihon Shi* forced the legitimacy onto the Daikakuji line—a lineage that rolled down the slope toward natural extinction after defying the 7th-century Emperors Temmu and Jito (who had established the syncretism of Yamato Shinto, which views Amaterasu Omikami as the imperial ancestor and supreme deity, and the Hosso school). Instead, the Daikakuji line infatuated themselves with the syncretism of Ise Shinto (Watarai Shinto)—which equates Toyouke no Omikami with Amenominakanushi no Kami and Kuninotokotachi no Kami, elevating her to a supreme deity equal to or greater than Amaterasu Omikami—and the Tendai school (*Hokke Ichijo*, or the doctrine of "all sentient beings possess the Buddha-nature" from the *Mahaparinirvana Sutra*).
〓 The Daikakuji line, which relied on the military might of the Tohoku Emishi—inherent outlaws liable to explode at any moment—was overwhelmed by the Jimyoin line, which was backed by the military power of the Yamato people. Consequently, they were absorbed and merged under the Meitoku Peace Agreement (1392 AD), after which the bloodline of the Daikakuji line (the Southern Court remnants) naturally went extinct.
〓 After World War II, individuals like Hiromichi Kumazawa claimed to be descendants of the Southern Court, asserting a "legitimate right of imperial succession under the Daikakuji line."
〓 Unlocking the pages of history, the "Teibi War" in July of the 2nd year of Emperor Yomei's reign (587 AD), in which Soga no Umako attacked Mononobe no Moriya and destroyed the Mononobe clan, was the precursor to religious warfare between Shinto and Buddhism in ancient Japan.
〓 In this battle, the Buddhist fundamentalist Soga clan defeated the Shinto fundamentalist Mononobe clan, securing dominance within the administration.
〓 Spanning from the Teibi War (587 AD), through the Isshi Incident (645 AD), and leading to the Jinshin War (672 AD), the ancient Japanese syncretism (*shinbutsu-shugo*) established by Emperors Temmu and Jito emerged from these severe trials of Shinto-Buddhist religious warfare as a steadfast pillar of the Yamato people, a heritage to be proud of before the world.
〓 The Kitabatake father and son, backed by the inherently lawless Emishi of Tohoku who were ready to explode at any moment, pushed forward an easy syncretism of Ise Shinto (Watarai Shinto) and the Tendai school (*Hokke Ichijo*). This stood in defiance of Emperors Temmu and Jito, who had established the world-class, unshakeable syncretism of the Yamato people uniting Yamato Shinto—which reveres Amaterasu Omikami as the imperial ancestor and supreme deity—and the Hosso school. This defiance never stood a chance.
〓 Nariaki Tokugawa of Mito and Toko Fujita were deeply influenced by prominent Tendai temples of the Edo period, such as Toeizan Kan'ei-ji and Nikkosan Rinno-ji, which had been hijacked by the Tohoku Emishi. As if to say, "The true Emishi that the Tokugawa Shogun must subdue is not the Tohoku Emishi, but the Western powers," they championed *Sonno Joi* ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian"). They came to view the United States—which was pressing Japan to open up—as the enemy, becoming the pioneers of the anti-American, ultra-right ideology that persists to this day.
〓 Furthermore, the shallow Prince Fushimi no Miya Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, who became the chief abbot of the Tendai temples Toeizan Kan'ei-ji and Nikkosan Rinno-ji (which had been hijacked by the Tohoku Emishi), took the initiative to become the leader of the Ouetsu Reppan Domei (Northern Alliance) composed of Tohoku Emishi. Modeling himself after Emperor Temmu who won the Jinshin War, he arrogated to himself the title of "Emperor Temmu of Tohoku"—that is, "Emperor Tobu." Leading Tokugawa remnants such as Katamori Matsudaira and Gemba Sakai, he defied the government forces of Emperor Meiji who raised the Imperial Banner, standing at the forefront of an Emishi rebellion against the Yamato people known as the "Boshin War (1868–1869)."
〓 In the 20th century, pushed along by the anti-American, ultra-left Socialist Party, Democratic Party, Communist Party, and Labor Party—which spout pipe dreams similar to the Tendai school, such as "Minorities must not be discriminated against"—the Tohoku Emishi infiltrated the core of Yamato power for the first time in recorded history. Sure enough, just when it seemed they had engineered the Manchurian Incident behind the backs of the general Yamato public, they went on to force a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor far out of sight of the general Yamato citizens, plunging the peoples of both Japan and the United States into unmitigated misery.
〓 The Pacific War was an utterly reckless rebellion instigated by Hideki Tojo—a Tohoku Emishi who had successfully subjugated the Yamato people by making heavy use of the Military Police (*Kempeitai*) under the pretext of settling the chaos of the February 26 Incident—against the United States, the leader of the Western camp that upholds the rule of law on which modern civil states stand, liberal bourgeois constitutions, and the ICCPR.
〓 And now, in July 2026, they are charging blindly toward enacting the crime of national flag desecration regardless of appearances. They are showing a blatantly defiant attitude toward the global standard of advanced Western nations, which consists of the rule of law (including Jewish emancipation policies), liberal bourgeois constitutions, and the ICCPR.
〓 Going against Emperors Temmu and Jito, who in the 7th century established the "syncretism of Yamato Shinto (which positions Amaterasu Omikami as the imperial ancestor and supreme deity) and the Hosso school (founded on *Goshou Kakubetsu*)," an absolute idiot of a Nihon University Professor Emeritus, Akira Momochi—who has reduced himself to a lackey of the Tohoku Emishi alongside "Yamato dropouts" like Yosuke Matsuoka, Nobusuke Kishi, and Taro Aso, who champion the "evil Tohoku historical view" symbolized by the *Dai Nihon Shi* of the upstart Mito Tokugawa from the chaotic Sengoku period—is parading his foolish face and attempting to sweep through 21st-century Japan.
＞■ Under customary international law, foreign vessels enjoy the right of innocent passage through territorial seas in peacetime, as well as the right of transit passage through international straits connecting one area of the high seas or an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) with another. Accordingly, even if the waters are part of Iran's territorial sea, Iran would incur international responsibility for a wrongful act if it unjustifiably interfered with innocent passage.
■ Iran, however, seeks to justify its closure of the Strait by placing primary emphasis on its claimed right of self-defense during wartime.
■ Nevertheless, a closure of the Strait of Hormuz cannot be accomplished by Iran alone from the northern shore; the cooperation of Oman, which controls the southern shore, is indispensable.
«Although the northern shore of the Strait of Hormuz belongs to Iran, the southern shore (the Musandam Peninsula) is an exclave of Oman. Moreover, most of the deep-water shipping lane used by large commercial vessels and oil tankers lies within Omani territorial waters.»
■ Oman has long remained largely outside the international spotlight. Why, then, would it choose to align itself so closely with Iran—a state deeply committed to a rigid form of Shiite fundamentalism—and risk alienating the international community by facilitating Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz?
■ In response, the following argument has become widespread online in defense of Oman:
«Oman's fundamental policy is to maintain channels of dialogue with Iran in order to prevent Tehran from acting recklessly and turning the Strait into a full-scale war zone. Rather than "assisting" Iran's blockade, Oman is pursuing its own diplomatic efforts to steer Iran toward a peaceful accommodation with the international community—or at least to prevent military confrontation. This interpretation is consistent with Oman's long-established diplomatic tradition.»
However, there are also several well-established facts that deserve attention:
(1) According to recent research, while the 2026 blockade of the Strait inflicted enormous economic damage on the Gulf states, Oman was affected very little and, in fact, reportedly benefited economically from the wartime surge in demand.
(2) Although Iran has signed the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), it has never formally ratified it. Oman, by contrast, ratified UNCLOS in 1989. Nevertheless, Oman does not recognize the Strait of Hormuz as an "international strait" and instead asserts full sovereign authority over its territorial waters.
■ Even if Iran claims exclusive sovereignty over its territorial sea and attempts to obstruct innocent passage by laying naval mines or using drones and missiles, a complete blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would be impossible if most of the deep-water shipping lane used by large commercial vessels and oil tankers lies within Omani territorial waters.
■ Oman ratified UNCLOS in 1989 and therefore bears a clear obligation to recognize and respect the right of transit passage through international straits.
■ If Oman simply complied with international law governing transit passage, Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could not be effectively enforced.
■ The widely circulated online argument that Oman's basic policy is merely to "maintain channels of dialogue with Iran in order to prevent it from recklessly turning the Strait into a sea of fire" seems comparable to claiming that Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini and Japan under Hideki Tojo deliberately maintained an anti-American, far-right military alliance with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany in order to restrain Hitler from committing even more inhumane acts in the occupied Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
■ Such sophistry could never have justified the military alliance between Mussolini's Italy, Tojo's Japan, and Hitler's Nazi Germany, nor the series of military operations they conducted against the Allied Powers. It would have rung hollow then, just as it does now.
■ If Oman's conduct in cooperating with Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is fundamentally different from the conduct of Mussolini's Italy and Tojo's Japan in aligning themselves militarily with Hitler's Nazi Germany, then does Oman not bear the burden of explaining to the international community why the two situations should be regarded as materially different?
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**[Article Translation]**
> **SNS Founded by President Trump to Launch Paid Service for Faster Post Delivery**
> Friday, July 17, 2026, 17:43 NHK
> https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015179081000
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> President Trump frequently posts about foreign and economic policy via this SNS, often significantly moving financial markets. The prominent newspaper *The Wall Street Journal* reported, "This is the latest example of Mr. Trump conflating his family’s business interests with his official duties at the White House."
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**[Comments Translation]**
* **Comment 1:**
President Trump's SNS, Truth Social, is set to launch a paid express delivery service.
* **Comment 2:**
Because anti-American, far-left media outlets engage in pre-censorship and unilaterally shut down accounts, President Trump had no choice but to launch his own SNS out of his own pocket.
* **Comment 3:**
Compared to the spineless leaders of certain countries who cater to anti-American, far-left media out of fear of having their accounts unilaterally closed, President Trump is far more admirable.
＞"Jerome Powell and Lisa Cook should stop playing dumb indefinitely. They must promptly and deeply apologize to President Trump and the American people for 'triggering high inflation in 2022 through their erroneous high-interest rate policy,' and the FRB must compensate the American people on their behalf for the damages they sustained."
＞ * In 2022, the U.S. Federal Reserve (FRB) and other central banks repeatedly raised interest rates to combat cost-push inflation triggered by the supply shock that coincided with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
＞ * The theoretical justification for this was New Keynesian economics—which emerged after the end of the Cold War and was hailed as the "New Principles of Macroeconomics"—with the Taylor rule serving as its core foundation.
＞ * However, as repeated in previous essays, raising interest rates as an anti-inflation measure is effective only in cases of demand-pull inflation where the assumption of the "Divine Coincidence" holds true—meaning that as long as the inflation rate is stabilized at its target, the output gap automatically becomes zero (optimized).
＞ * Because they raised interest rates during a period of cost-push inflation like in 2022, the negative output gap widened. Meanwhile, interest rate hikes could not counteract the geopolitical supply shock itself; instead, they created a situation where "amidst an interest-rate-driven recession, an opportunity arose for commodity futures speculation, which transformed into a conspicuously highly lucrative business," ultimately leading to severe stagflation.
＞ * Thus, the 2022 interest rate hikes by the U.S. FRB achieved two things: ① they induced the inflow of Japanese investment funds into the U.S., bringing about a stronger dollar that served as a partial antidote to inflation, but ② more significantly, they triggered an influx of foreign capital and a concentration of speculative funds into the commodity futures market.
＞ * Consequently, in stark contrast to Japan, which maintained its low-interest rate policy, inflation accelerated in the United States, which remained obsessed with interest rate hikes as a countermeasure against cost-push inflation.
＞ * Against the U.S. FRB, which committed the grave and severe error of applying the New Keynesian Taylor rule to cost-push inflation, Mr. Trump—who repeatedly demanded interest rate cuts—can be highly praised as an eminently rational and uniquely patriotic American president.
＞ * The U.S. FRB's Jerome Powell and Lisa Cook must admit their grave mistake and apologize before President Trump and the American people, and the FRB should bear the responsibility of compensating the American people on their behalf for the damages they suffered.
＞ * The misuse of the Taylor rule applies to Japan as well.
＞ * Kazuo Ueda, the absurd head of the treacherous Bank of Japan (BOJ)—a financial terrorist organization tainted by Marxist communism—and Naoki Tamura of the crazy Kyoto University—a stronghold of communist Marxist economics identical to the useless University of Tokyo—were leaning heavily toward raising interest rates under cost-push inflation.
＞ * Fortunately, information sharing among the Japanese public had progressed regarding the nonsensical "Quantitative Easing" (2001–2006) implemented by treacherous BOJ and Ministry of Finance bureaucrats—useless University of Tokyo graduates who doomed Japan to the "Three Lost Decades of Heisei Deflation." As a result, a tense atmosphere pervaded Japan that refused to tolerate figures like the BOJ's absurd Kazuo Ueda or Kyoto University dropout failure Naoki Tamura (who couldn't even pass the comprehensive national civil service exam that plenty of students from Waseda and Keio pass) mindlessly mimicking America's Jerome Powell and Lisa Cook by repeatedly hiking interest rates. Thanks to this, Japan in 2022 escaped the worst-case scenario seen in the U.S. and Europe, which suffered from high interest rates and high inflation, and managed to maintain low interest rates and low inflation instead.
＞ * Nevertheless, the treacherous BOJ and the Ministry of Finance—financial terrorist organizations tainted by Marxist communism—have still not issued an official apology or made amends to the affected companies regarding their nonsensical "Quantitative Easing" (2001–2006).
＞ * The treacherous BOJ and the Ministry of Finance, financial terrorist organizations tainted by Marxist communism, must apologize immediately! Make amends to the affected companies now!
