I watched TV Tokyo's WBS while listening to the bizarre behavior of Akiko Sasaki, an announcer and a commentator who claims to be the editorial director of the Nikkei Shimbun when Ms. Takaichi appeared live on the program the other night.

Tonight, too, the behavior could only be described as the ultimate in excess.

As for the LDP's parliamentary seats, Kono, Kishida, and Takaichi, in the order of their votes, are in the lead, with Kishida slightly ahead at the moment, but the situation is highly fluid, which is the standard view of the general public.

In fact, I suspect that Ms. Takaichi's popularity among the public is overwhelming and that this reality will eventually take shape.

Even the Nikkei, on its front page this morning, carried a headline about the competition between the three, yet Akiko Sasaki, without mentioning Ms.Takaichi's name at all, said that it was a battle between Kono and Kishida, ignoring Takaichi to the top.

The above two journalists have continuously provided the most biased news coverage ever.
Why did they clearly ignore Ms. Takaichi before they were disqualified as journalists?

One can only surmise that the only explanation for this level of egregiousness is that Ms. Akiko Sasaki is, to use Jun Takada's terminology, a "Trojan horse" that China is unleashing on Japan.

When Ms. Takaichi appeared live on stage, Sasaki mentioned that Japan has few female Diet members, and their low participation in society is an important issue.

If that is their real intention, then the fact that Japan is about to have its first-ever female prime minister should be the biggest news.

In other words, they are so obsessed with something that they cannot even realize that they are showing the world the outrageous fact that they are just using the issue of women to undermine Japan, just as the anti-Japanese forces are using the UN to undermine Japan.

That is what China is about.