The following is from an article by Daigo Matsuura, a former member of the House of Councillors, which appeared in the June 1 issue of Sound Arguments, a monthly magazine titled "The U.S. Democratic Party's Plan for LGBT.
It is no exaggeration to say that this article is one of the articles that set a milestone in the postwar Japanese discourse.
At the same time, it is shocking that most Japanese people, including myself, were completely unaware of the facts in the article.
There is no such wonderful thing as freedom of the press in the Japanese media. There is only the freedom not to report.
I recently discovered a tweet from a person who said it best.
This article proves that he hit the nail on the head.
If the Japanese mass media were a group of actual journalists, they would have told the public exactly how the LGBT bill was passed, i.e., what the Rainbow Movement was all about.
As for me, I have written in this column about how I was outraged when I saw how U.S. Ambassador Emanuel openly (and unabashedly) pushed for the passage of the LGBT bill in the process of its path.
I did not know he was a vile and foolish man, but I translated the above article into English and contributed it to the U.S. Embassy's website.
As befitting a petty and vulgar scoundrel, as soon as he was posted to the Ambassador's office, he began to talk about how great Japan's subways are, how great the bullet train is, etc.! or "The bullet train is the best," or "Japan's technology is the best," and so on as if he were a true Japanophile.
I could not know his true intentions, but he easily fooled me.
It is now apparent that this man is an unmitigated racist of the GHQ, who was still alive in 2023.
Through this man and Biden's demeanor, I "transcended" the lowliness of the U.S. Democratic Party.
I watched a report of what Democrat and notorious anti-Japanese activist Mindy Kotler was saying at the hearing.
I was the first to point out the horseshit and lies of the Toyota bashing in this column.
Serious readers will know that I pointed out the lowdown of the U.S. Democratic Party when I saw the GHQ-like disrespectful atmosphere in the attitude of the Secretary of Transportation of the Democratic Party of the United States who visited Japan then.
The first time I saw such a thing as the Rainbow March was when I was on a bus recently while strolling in Kyoto.
A small group of people was marching in a pseudo-moralistic fashion, not a pretty sight, I muttered to my friend.
I thought it was a left-wing activist movement led by the Communist Party, just like the protests against nuclear power, and I didn't think much of it.
However, I was truly surprised and dismayed that the situation had progressed.
As you know, I wrote and sent out a paper in which I made a final judgment against Kishida.
The following is Mr. Daigo Matsuura's paper.
On May 12, at a joint meeting of the Special Mission Committee on Sexual Minorities and the First Subcommittee of the Cabinet, the LDP decided to entrust the subcommittee's chairman with the task of responding to the revised bill to promote LGBT understanding.
However, The participating Diet members voiced their opposition to the bill, saying that it could not be left to the chairperson when more than half of them opposed it.
Although the amendment changes the phrase "discrimination shall not be tolerated'' to "there shall be no unjust discrimination'' and replaces "gender identity" with "gender identity,'' it is unclear what the definition of discrimination is. It is merely a Japanese translation of the same gender identity, whether it is gender identity or gender identity. It is unclear whether the self-described gender identity is a gender or a gender identity. It says it is merely a concern that people will enter the women's space according to their self-identified gender.
However, the proposal was solemnly and unanimously approved by the Board of Governors on May 16 and was submitted to the Diet on May 18, before the G7.
Leftist LGBT activists, on the other hand, are vehemently opposed to this in the opposite sense.
On May 16, they held a rally called "LGBTQ Ten Urgent Diet - Protest against the Backtracking of the LGBT Bill" at the Second House of Representatives in the House of Representatives, claiming that LDP lawmakers' statement that the bill had "already been boned up enough" meant that it was an ancestor's bill.
Who will benefit from the revised LGBT Understanding Promotion Bill, which is not welcomed by the right or the left?
Behind the scenes, we can see the United States.
Some may recall that U.S. Ambassador to Japan Emanuel, a member of the U.S. Democratic Party, frequently interjects on Japan's LGBT policy through his Twitter account.
Since he took office, he has never missed addressing Japan's most prominent LGBT celebration, Tokyo Rainbow Pride.
He is the one who has repeatedly stated how Japan is an LGBT-backward country.
Some have expressed outrage at his colonialist, value-imposing attitude, saying, "This is the GHQ of The Reiwa Period."
But this is nothing new.
The U.S. Embassy is behind the growth of the LGBT movement in Japan.
From here, I would like to talk about the "U.S. LGBT Global Strategy" that I, as a gay man, have experienced firsthand.
Recruitment at the U.S. Embassy
In August 2013, the U.S. State Department invited the author to visit the U.S.
The purpose was LGBT training.
It was part of the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). This character exchange program has existed since 1940 and was the first LGBT training program to be included under the Obama administration.
The four members selected for the first class included Gon Matsunaka, a former Dentsu man who played a significant role in Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's apology in February of this year, as well as Haru Ono, one of the plaintiffs in the Tokyo District Court same-sex marriage lawsuit, who is a lesbian and representative of Nijiiro Kazoku, and later Mamako Ido, who is well known for the issue of statelessness. (a former member of the House of Representatives and a heterosexual woman), who later became well-known for her work on the subject of statelessness.
*These three people were also new to most of the Japanese public.*
We spent about three weeks traveling around the U.S., eating and sleeping together, and discussing the future of LGBT people in Japan.
At the time, I was so glad to be chosen as one of the four representatives of Japan's LGBT community and dealing with the unfamiliarity of living abroad that I did not give it much thought.
Still, in retrospect, it was a training program that had many strange surprises.
First, the U.S. State Department covered all travel and hotel expenses.
In addition, I was given a cash card to cover my living expenses.
I did not understand why I was treated so generously since the funds came from American taxpayers' money.
It is not clear how the author was selected.
One day, the U.S. Embassy suddenly called the Diet office and said, "You have been selected.
Several days later, Mr. Ido, who had also been selected as a trainee, invited me to a karaoke bar, where I met a young Caucasian man responsible for choosing the participants.
He was pretty handsome and spoke fluent Japanese.
He told me his last job in Japan was recruiting authors.
He then returned to the USA, and I was told he belonged to a Japanese language center.
Mr. Ido said he was "probably CIA."
Strange things happen, and on one occasion, I ran into him in the sauna of my favorite gym.
There is no way to confirm whether this was a coincidence, but it may be that he was checking my daily activities.
On social networking sites, critic Ukeru Magosaki criticized us, saying that "joining IVLP makes you a dog of America," but the author belittled, saying, "No way, that's not true."
Ten years later, however, Magosaki's intuition was right on the mark about the LGBT bill.
This article continues.
