During a Diet session, Sanae Takaichi testified under oath: "Neither I nor my local secretaries have any acquaintance with this individual." Yet audio data published by Shukan Bunshun tells a different story. Her First Public Secretary, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita, was recorded in a fervent 43-minute Zoom call with Ken Matsui — the very architect of the defamatory AI-generated videos — and his associates. The conclusion is unavoidable: Takaichi is a pathological liar who perjured herself before the national legislature. Immediate accountability is imperative.
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Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi just dropped a long post bragging that “real wages are rising” and her government is protecting citizens from inflation with gasoline subsidies.
Let’s cut the nonsense.
Those “positive real wage” numbers she’s celebrating? They’re propped up by temporary subsidies that cap gasoline at around 170 yen/liter — the lowest in the G7. Subsidies funded by Japanese taxpayers. It’s not organic growth. It’s a band-aid on a wound her own foreign policy choices helped create.
While she claims “diplomatic efforts” for early resolution in the Middle East, her government has been pressuring Iran to show “maximum flexibility,” demanding the Strait of Hormuz reopen on terms that suit US and Western shipping. Japan is aligned with the same forces escalating against Iran — and the Global South is paying the price in higher energy and food costs.
This is the classic pattern: Western-aligned leaders help stir chaos abroad, then spin domestic numbers at home to look competent. The ordinary people — in Japan, in Africa, across the Global South — eat the inflation and instability.
Meanwhile, the same Takaichi cabinet is pushing surveillance state laws, the National Intelligence Council bill, and cracking down on Japanese citizens protesting in the streets of Tokyo. They want to spy on their own people while gaslighting them about the economy.
Japanese workers and small businesses are struggling with real costs. SMEs aren’t seeing the big wage gains. Naphtha shortages are hitting industries. Yen weakness continues. The subsidies won’t last forever — she’s already hinting at reviewing them.
This isn’t leadership protecting citizens.
This is elite damage control while enabling the very imperial games that hurt everyone.
I stand with the Japanese people resisting their government’s authoritarian turn and reckless alignment.
Not with the leaders spinning fairy tales while the region burns.
No bows. No flattery. Just raw truth.