Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 201 Hamada Yukichi's Counterattack

The most impenetrable fortress is conquered from within.

In 1997, the Shakushain Foundation, a Hokkaido NGO, conducted a public opinion survey on "armed suppression of Hokkaido separatism."

96% support, 4% are not interested, and 0% oppose.

When the survey was conducted again this year, the number of people who were not interested had increased to 11%, and the number of people who supported armed suppression of Hokkaido separatism had dropped to 89%.

Creating issues, pulling back and forth, consuming consensus and patience...

This is the meaning of the war of public opinion.

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You can't even convince a kindergartener to eat green peppers...

Public opinion wars cannot change people’s minds.

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According to the theory of public opinion warfare by experts from American think tanks, the significance of launching a public opinion war is not to "overthrow" but to "demonstrate strength"

The whole world is filled with “my voice”, do you, the opponent, still dare to speak out?
The fewer the voices of opposition, the greater the consequences of opposition...

Therefore, "believing in the mainstream" became the most advantageous option...

A survey conducted by the Hokkaido NGO Shakushain Foundation shows that the number of people who oppose "armed suppression of Hokkaido separatism" is still 0%.

However, the huge public controversy has caused some people to become desensitized, and the number of people who are not interested in this issue has exceeded 10%, increasing to 11%.

This caused the number of people supporting military action against Hokkaido to fall below 90% for the first time.

The purpose of the war of public opinion is not to improve the quality of public opinion, but to throw more dog shit and bugs into it, muddying the waters of this topic and making more and more people "uninterested."

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Through this round of public opinion warfare, artists such as Sayuri Ishikawa and Erika Sawajiri have successfully opened some cracks within Japanese public opinion.

Of course, they also suffered backlash, their vitality was severely damaged, their national popularity was destroyed, and the number of fans plummeted.

On the one hand, Takakura Group's Metaverse and Mimihaji PMC provide them with blood transfusions through endorsements, commercial activities and advertisements, and on the other hand, they whitewash them through the media resources of One Piece Entertainment.

There is also Totland Capital to help them connect with people in the political and financial fields.

I should be able to make a comeback in a few years...

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Normally, there are two ways to change the direction of public opinion: verbal struggle and physical struggle.

One is through the output of teaching materials, media, and cultural products, which requires more than ten years of subtle influence.

The most classic example is the time when Huo Yuanjia topped the Hong Kong ratings and the people sang The Great Wall Will Never Fall, with the streets empty. In just 180 years, by changing textbooks, controlling the media, and the way cultural products are exported, the attitude of the new generation of young people has actually taken a -degree turn.

The second is armed struggle, which is achieved through various forms of immigration and baby booms.

The most classic success case is the immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East, who transformed France into Black France through the "refugee wave" and "uterine war".

What the Takakura Group did in Hokkaido was a two-pronged approach: revising textbooks, controlling the media, exporting culture, launching historical books, and attracting a large number of "new Ainu."

In just three to five years, the balance of power within the Hokkaido Parliament changed, allowing the Yuki Shoji faction to gain control of the Hokkaido Parliament.

…………The three-day visit ended with the Japanese Self-Defense Forces on high alert.

The West Asia Earthquake Relief Foundation, an international NGO sponsored by Mimihaji PMC, and representatives of the water conservancy department of the visiting delegation, officially implemented the "Flood Control Law" on January 1 this year based on the Red Soil Continent.

The "Cooperation Agreement on Disaster Prevention and Rescue between the West Asia Earthquake Relief Foundation and the General Headquarters for Flood Control and Drought Relief" was signed.

西亚地震救援基金会捐助给红土大陆1000套雷达水位监测设备、1000套河道流速流量监测设备、5万件洪水水位监测仪、800台防水等级≥IP67的抗洪抢险类生命探测机器人。

This kind of civilian cooperation in natural disaster prevention has brought relief to the Japan Self-Defense Forces.

The Hokkaido Assembly did not sign a military agreement with the Red Earth Continent, which allowed the Japanese military to save face.

But the fight in Congress is not over.

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In politics, if you don't retaliate in time, your faction's organization will quickly disintegrate...

The localist Tanaka faction clearly understands this.

The Foreign Influence Transparency Act initiated by Congressman Yukiichi Hamada was passed by the Diet.

Organizations in Japan that earn 20% of their income from overseas must register for management purposes. Failure to register can result in a fine of up to 1 million yen.

Member of Parliament Yukiichi Hamada publicly stated: "This is to resolutely prevent foreign forces from infiltrating Hokkaido and to monitor foreign companies and NGOs for separatist activities."

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Faced with this situation, the Takakura Group held an emergency meeting.

NGOs have reached a "strategic" level in Western developed countries. Even the United States, which has always claimed to "defend freedom of speech", introduced the Foreign Agents Registration Act as early as 1938.

This time, Congressman Yukiichi Hamada of the Tanaka faction also used the United States Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to refute the obstruction of pro-American right-wing and neutral lawmakers, and quickly passed Japan's Foreign Influence Transparency Act.

In the foreseeable future, countries around the world will have similar laws.

This is not good news for Mimihaji PMC, which is responsible for the NGO business of the foundation.

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One of the three top decision-makers at Totland Capital, Attorney Choichiro Miki of Miki Law Firm, discovered this loophole in the Foreign Influence Transparency Act.

Mimihaji PMC is headquartered in Hong Kong and controls a number of NGOs, which naturally fall within the scope of control of the Foreign Influence Transparency Act.

However, Totland Capital's core business, Hokkaido Bank, is a domestic Japanese company.

It can ask Mimihaji PMC to stop sponsoring its 25 international NGOs, 281 Japanese NGOs, 72 Hokkaido NGOs, and 15 British NGOs.

Then, Metaverse Co., Ltd., the super cash cow of the Takakura Group, established dozens of charitable trust funds in countries where NGOs carry out key work.

All these trust products are entrusted to Hokkaido Bank, which has newly obtained a trust financial license.

Therefore, the trust business of Hokkaido Bank, a subsidiary of Totland Capital, was turned over to sponsor these NGOs to circumvent the Foreign Influence Transparency Act.

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This dazzling series involves events such as the three major European film festivals, entertainers, Hokkaido separatism, the military, charity disaster relief, and parliamentary struggles.

No one has remembered Bunta Takakura’s outrageous remarks before the Venice Film Festival, and no one has paid attention to it.

So, the third album of the Beasts band was released, and the warm-up began...

(End of this chapter)