Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

If you string together the prices of rice and commodities, restrictions on foreigners and civil servants, foreign immigrant votes, and the support for the Liberal Democratic Party, you will end up with a series of policy reform proposals, such as suppressing agricultural cooperatives, opening up rice imports, and enhancing the legal rights of foreign permanent residents.

This is not Li Xinghe talking nonsense, but a problem that has long been noticed in Japanese politics. It is just that the Liberal Democratic Party has always been stable, so it is always unwilling to change. It must be delayed until there is no more time to find that small problems have become big problems. Now that the taxi guild is too old to be stopped, it is too late to open up online ride-hailing, which is the biggest example.

This is the difference between a superficial illness and a terminal illness.

Li Xinghe openly and secretly kept persuading Koizumi Shinjiro to make a policy shift, and he did not hide it for long.

Sitting in the secretary's office, Nitta Shohei was so angry that he gritted his teeth when he saw the reformist outline that Li Xinghe had written for Koizumi:

"This kid is like a giant octopus..."

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Author's note: Thank you for your support. This chapter ties together the political foreshadowing in the previous chapter.

Chapter 382: Revolutionary Rockets, She's Still in Primary School

Nitta Shohei really has no way to deal with Li Xinghe now.

Although he himself was the chief secretary, his authority was not as high as that of his British counterparts in the past.

If Koizumi Shinjiro is compared to the president of Japan, then the person in charge of the overall administrative affairs of Japan, similar to the position of the Prime Minister of Japan, is Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa, who also has his own subordinate secretaries. Therefore, Nitta Akira can only play a role in decision-making, and he has to stand aside when it comes to actual implementation.

Not only was the old man unable to do anything, but he was tortured by Li Xinghe instead.

Koizumi's secretary brought him a pile of documents and stuffed them in his hands:

"Secretary Nitta, please take a look at this new reformist program. The Prime Minister hopes to expand it into a governing program tonight, which will serve as the basic spirit of the Prime Minister's speech to the Diet tomorrow. In addition, write a press release about the US military agreement not involving funding changes, and send it to the official reporters of the News Media Club."

The fact that Koizumi was able to be elected this time was itself a very unlikely and bizarre event. He has no political team of his own. The reformist program written for him by Li Xinghe belongs to the serious center-left political line and is much stronger than Kishida Fumio's "new capitalism".

Some people may wonder why it turned out like this?

This is naturally the result of Japan's long-term isolated political operation.

Due to the long-term conservative and closed internal operations of the Liberal Democratic Party, not only do businessmen outside not know who to bribe with money, but the level of politicians inside has also been declining.

After all, as long as you stay in the conservative shell of the Liberal Democratic Party, listen to the factional bosses, and cooperate with a few limited chaebols, you can live a decent life. Who would be willing to venture out, fight, and change the status quo?

Even if they speak idiotically, behave foolishly, and break the law, as long as they have the LDP flag to protect them, the aristocratic families will not be cleared out, and they can even choose the prime minister (Koizumi). Therefore, a large number of weak and incompetent people continue to mix into the LDP, and each generation is worse than the previous one.

This paradoxical situation makes it difficult for outsiders to get in. The politicians inside are out of touch with the outside world and dare not easily expose their low level. However, in fact, the people outside have found that the politicians inside are very stupid, but the politicians inside can control Japanese politics.

The problem has accumulated for such a long time, and the result is that Li Xinghe can use money and loopholes to deal with the prime minister, and the prime minister does not have many good political team members.

"Reformism, how dare he..."

Nitta Zhangping couldn't help but curse, but when he looked at the outline written by Li Xinghe, he cursed while praising him for his good writing.

Naturally, Li Xinghe wrote about the important issues concerning Japanese society, and they are also the inevitable direction of future development. However, he has suffered losses from the conservatives, so he has not been able to push forward. Especially the rice price issue, opening up rice imports will greatly alleviate the disaster of people's livelihood, and in fact even the bureaucrats feel that they have to open it.

Now is a good opportunity to reverse the situation.

Looking carefully, I saw that Akihira Nitta started cursing again.

Li Xinghe ran away, but how to deal with the subsequent counterattack from the conservative right wing of the Liberal Democratic Party became a problem for Akihira Nitta.

He must be extremely eloquent and use his chief secretary's role to communicate with various political parties and hold meetings with government affairs ministers to promote this seemingly good reform of capitalism.

The old man was forced to work overtime all night, and the few hairs on his bald head began to fall out one by one.

"Damn it..." The secretary general screamed miserably in the dark night.

......

The next day.

Li Xinghe still has no time to go home.

Tsukishima Nansao and Musashi Hachimane brought some police officers to carry out a raid according to the target designated by Li Xinghe.

He was riding a police motorcycle outside, swiping his cell phone while watching various anti-gang leaders being arrested by the police again.

"What crime have we committed!?"

A group of people started arguing. After being in Japan for many years, their Japanese was so bad that they couldn't speak it anymore.

Some people started to brainstorm and began to push the police and scream: "I know, you must have been bought by China, you have all been brainwashed by the Communist Party, you are all robots!"

Anyway, I don't know how these three sentences are linked together. But it's like a button switch, causing other rebels to curse.

They shouted, "They have been brainwashed by the Communists and want to take us to concentration camps!"

Then they started to attack the police and special police.

This made Li Xinghe very happy.

As expected of a traitor who fled the country in the 90s, this abstract look is his familiar "civilian funny" behavior, and he looks like a mental patient.

"Hit me, hit me hard."

Li Xinghe raised his hand and signaled them to take action.

When the special police saw that their superior had given a guarantee, they swung their batons on the spot, and a few bangs made the eyes of the anti-traitors and civilians clear.

Under the blast of the special police's batons, the group got into the police car reluctantly.

"Where to send it?"

The leading SWAT captain came over and asked.

Li Xinghe took out an envelope from his pocket, handed it to him and said:

"Don't be too ostentatious at Yokota Base. Just hand the people over to a fat white man named Emanuel. Take the money and share it among everyone. No one should tell the media about this. The Americans are catching spies behind the scenes."

For the Japanese, the United States is indeed a country that they both love and hate. The SWAT captain's face confirmed this very well. He was angry about catching spies for the Americans on his own land, but also happy about the extra income. He was anxious about doing dirty work secretly, but secretly happy that the person he caught was a Chinese traitor.

These mixed emotions written all over his face are enough to illustrate some of the dark sides of Japanese society.

The SWAT captain stood at attention and saluted:

"I'm off then. Bye!"

Li Xinghe nodded and asked him to send him off.

When this group of anti-traitors fell into the hands of the CIA, they were naturally subjected to memory restoration, electroshock therapy, and iron rod beatings. With their habit of insanely reporting on each other and making up stories, they would definitely distract Emanuel for a few days.

After the SWAT team left, Tsukishima Nansa came over and acted like a spoiled brat:

"Boss, we will be sent to Yokota Air Base for duty tomorrow to deal with the protesting people. What should we do?"

She was in a dilemma. With Li Xinghe's money, she didn't have to run her own detective agency every day, but it was too difficult to take care of the child at home alone. If she was forced to go on a business trip, there would be no one to take care of the child.

"Don't worry, you can't go. I promise." Li Xinghe said.

"Boss, I...I want to buy some new equipment."

Musashi Hachimane came over and grinned, forgetting the embarrassment of yesterday.

The equipment she was talking about was actually a new high-end gaming computer.

Li Xinghe rolled his eyes and took out a stack of money for her: "Here. Don't buy toys secretly behind my back. My mother-in-law is the president of the toy company. If you want to buy, go to her and make some sales for me."

Musashi Hachimane happily took the money and kissed Li Xinghe, saying, "Does our team still need to buy toys? We have you here."

Then, Tsukishima Nansa and several female police officers were stunned.

The big white girl who said the wrong thing immediately lowered her head and ran away, but was chased and beaten by several female police officers.

Li Xinghe continued to turn on his mobile phone.

The live broadcast of Congress has begun.

Shinjiro Koizumi stood on the podium and announced to Congress and the mass media with certainty:

"The military agreement negotiations will never involve the issue of increasing military spending! The goal of this government is to improve people's livelihood. I personally announce here that this government will conduct extensive consultations with social institutions on the food shortage issue and increase the additional rations of imported rice, vegetables, and meat! It is hoped that by the end of the year, the price of rice will be reduced by 10 percentage points!"

In order to suppress the huge dissatisfaction in society, Koizumi is risking his own credibility and is determined to create a tough image.

“We need to create a reformed transitional justice society. We need to promote greater social inclusion and openness, and encourage people to express their opinions. We also need to create a social atmosphere of broad democracy and mass participation, take care of minority groups that have been neglected for a long time, and give them channels to speak out…”

Who would have thought that the male prime minister elected by the Conservative Party would be here talking about lowering prices and social welfare.

If the spokesperson is covered up, people might mistakenly think that this is a left-wing politician speaking on the stage.

After he finished talking about his policy proposals, he added:

"Reformism will be the keyword of this government. Gently adapting the government to the development of society has always been my firm ideal."

Things have come to this point. After consulting his father, Shinjiro Koizumi, who had long lacked his own political opinions, decisively adopted "reformism" as his political label. Just like Abe's three arrows and Kishida's new capitalism, people will know whose label it is as soon as it is mentioned.

He also wants to take a centrist approach and oppose the extreme conservatives.

The expressions of the Liberal Democratic Party leaders in the audience were all very unhappy. It was obvious that they did not support the "reformist" line that Koizumi Shinjiro had come up with a month after taking office. So whether Koizumi listened or not, there would be war in the next period of time.

The rice price issue, whether the newly established rice import and export company is state-owned or private, who will run it? How to cut this huge cake?

It's all problems.

The live broadcast has ended, but it seems like everything has just begun.

Is that all?

Li Xinghe disappeared quietly and got into a Toyota Alpha.

"Of course not. This is just the beginning."

Wu Jianzhong put on his windbreaker in a dashing manner, with his son's elementary school schoolbag next to him. He drove the Toyota Alpha from Li Xinghe's company, and sped along the streets of Tokyo with Li Xinghe and Dongchuan Bluebird.

When this major incident was exposed, the underground revolutionary leftists believed Dongchuan Bluebird's secret source.

But they still decided to go it alone and physically protest against the US military on their own.

"Want to meet? The leader of the revolutionary army of the Revolutionary Labor Union said he wants to talk to you."

Li Xinghe shook his head after hearing this:

"We won't meet again. These people are... well, hard to say."

The other side is a Trotskyist who shouts for world revolution and does not tolerate any compromise. In their eyes, we are not a good bunch either.

The three of them parked the car in the corner and waited for the battle to start.

The time came to 8 o'clock in the evening.

Several homemade rockets were suddenly launched from the rooftops of residential buildings, whistling towards the unprotected Yokota Base.

The rocket was not very powerful and fell to the ground after it blew through the concrete wall.

But the humiliation it caused was enormous. Air defense alarms sounded at the US military base, and soldiers from various battalions rushed out to look for the rocket launch site.

Left-wing journalists had already swarmed in and watched together with the public as the revolutionary army slapped the U.S. military in the face for the first time.

The revolutionary army of the GTU once again fired the first shot against the US military. They fired rockets as they did in the Iraq War, the Lebanon War, and all other times when they needed to stand up and resist. Just like the resistance fighters in Lebanon and Gaza, they fired the arrow of resistance day after day.

It seemed to remind the Japanese that these revolutionaries, who fired rockets at the US military and the puppet government to demonstrate their existence and power, had never left.

In the flames of the revolutionary rocket explosion, Dongchuan Qingniao emotionally hugged his son-in-law and kissed him on the mouth:

"Really, I wish I could eat you up in one bite. Put on some lip gloss next time. Your lips are a little chapped from all the busy work."

After the kiss, she also expressed cannibalistic thoughts.

Wu Jianzhong next to him curled his lips in disdain:

"Tsk."

Dongchuan Bluebird hugged her son-in-law and responded fiercely:

"What are you talking about? This is my son-in-law. If you like him, don't you have a daughter?"

"Get lost, my daughter is still in primary school, how shameless!"

Wu Jianzhong refuted on the spot.

After venting his joy by quarreling for a few minutes, Wu Jianzhong struck while the iron was hot and continued working.

He honked his car horn and cursed:

"We need to fire more rockets, dozens of them a day. Pull out the mortars and use slingshots to shoot homemade bombs. We must create the illusion that the revolutionary forces are powerful. Let the Americans know how powerful we are."

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Author's note: Thank you for your support. The Revolutionary Army did fire rockets at the Japanese government every few years, but if I hadn't looked it up, I wouldn't have known about it.