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🚨 Breaking: Japan’s “rules-based” PM just got owned by her own AI smear factory. 🇯🇵 Sanae Takaichi is experiencing extreme anxiety. Over the past few weeks, Shukan Bunshun has bombarded her with over 67 pieces of evidence, including emails and chats. Her top secretary Kinoshita Takeshi allegedly ordered video producer Matsui Ken to pump out 100-200 AI-generated attack clips a day during last year’s LDP race and February’s election. 70% hammered rival Koizumi Shinjiro as a useless puppet. 10% buried Hayashi Yoshimasa. The rest shilled for Takaichi while trashing opposition “liars” and “amateurs”. Matsui revealed all the details on YouTube. Their transactions were entirely online, much like a shady deal arranged on Telegram and they never met in person. From China, the comparison is hard to ignore. Japan’s “rules-based” PM Takaichi is now caught up in another gift-giving scandal, handing out gifts to over 300 LDP MPs post-election, the kind of factional cash politics that has even Tokyo’s own papers asking questions. Meanwhile in China, that sort of thing gets you sacked, prosecuted and jailed. The anti-corruption drives here are not symbolic. Yet somehow, Beijing is still cast as the authoritarian problem while Japan’s political machine bleeds out in public with a shrug. The “sound democracy” narrative tends to go quiet when the facts don’t fit. This is the same Japan that lectures China daily about “democratic values” and “rules-based order,” and it can’t stop knifing itself with AI black ops and old-school slush funds. Internal conflict, illicit cash and now covert digital tactics. The whole operation looks ready to unravel. China is merely watching. A distracted and bleeding Tokyo is not really in a strong position to act as a regional enforcer in Taiwan or the South China Sea, is it? How long until the hawks in Washington realise their favourite anti-China attack dog is eating itself alive?

公安権力の皆さんは随分と私の発信を小まめに監視しているようなのでよーく目を凝らして読むように！最近の国会デモで警察が勝手に用意している「参加者とそれ以外」みたいなプラカードで集会参加者とそうじゃない人で通れる歩道を分けてるんだけど、まじでありえないから。 集会参加者だろうとそうじゃなかろうと、「公道」は誰でも歩く権利あるから。 憲法違反の警察の不当規制に断固抗議する。 言いたいこと山ほどあるんで警視庁や麹町署には近々申し入れに行く。 心ある国会議員の皆さんも一緒に不当な地下鉄出口封鎖や公道である歩道の規制に一緒に声を現場であげて欲しいです。 #0526ペンライト行動