>An absolute idiot of a Nihon University professor—the kind you could hit just by throwing a stone—who utterly ignores the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), has openly defied "General Comment No. 34" (Article 19 of the ICCPR on Freedom of Expression) by the UN Human Rights Committee, which is responsible for interpreting the ICCPR—a covenant the Japanese government is also obligated to implement immediately.

> Akira Momochi, an absolute idiot of a Nihon University Professor Emeritus (the kind you could hit just by throwing a stone), stated: "I support the bill. The true legally protected interest is not merely the 'protection of public sentiment that values the national flag,' but rather the 'prestige and honor of the nation as symbolized by the flag.' It is only natural to consider not just the act itself, but also the intent and purpose behind it."
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> To get straight to the point, the relevant paragraph regarding the punishment of disrespect toward national flags and symbols in "General Comment No. 34" (Article 19 of the ICCPR on Freedom of Expression) by the UN Human Rights Committee is Paragraph 38.
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> ## 📌 General Comment No. 34 (2011) Paragraph 38 (Original Text)
> The following is a quote from the official English version published by the UN Human Rights Committee:
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**“Laws that penalize the expression of opinions about historical facts are incompatible with the obligations that the Covenant imposes on States parties…
…Nor is it compatible with the Covenant for a State party to criminalize the holding of an opinion.
Laws should not provide for penalties for disrespect for a flag, or a symbol, or for the State, or its institutions, or for a public official.”**
— General Comment No.34, para. 38 United Nations Digital Library System
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> ## 📝 Key Points (Japanese)
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> * Laws that penalize the expression of opinions about historical facts violate the Covenant.
> * Criminalizing the holding of an opinion itself also violates the Covenant.
> * Laws that penalize "disrespect" toward a national flag, symbol, the State, public institutions, or public officials are incompatible with the obligations under Article 19 of the Covenant.
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> In other words, from a standpoint that places particular importance on freedom of political speech, the UN Human Rights Committee explicitly rejects criminalizing disrespect toward national flags and state symbols.
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> ## 🔍 For Further Verification
> * Read the full text of General Comment No. 34
> * Learn about the contents of ICCPR Article 19
> * Examine the detailed relationship between the crime of national flag desecration and international human rights law
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〓 Akira Momochi, that absolute idiot of a Nihon University Professor Emeritus whom you could hit just by throwing a stone, is on the exact same level as the uncivilized Chinese who have still not ratified the ICCPR.

〓 Completely ignoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the ICCPR—which stipulate the rule of law underpinning modern civil states and the principle of legality (*nulla poena sine lege*) guaranteed by liberal bourgeois constitutions—anti-American, ultra-left elements are running rampant with kangaroo courts. They allow business owners and others who are not even legal experts to arbitrarily crack down on and punish breaches of manners (= harassment) or violations of political correctness (= political offenses).

〓 Particularly in government-designated cities, "Ordinances for the Prevention of Public Nuisance" (*Meiwaku Boushi Jourei*), which ignore the principle of legality, possess vague constituent elements, and vary wildly in sentencing from one municipality to another, have taken on a life of their own, effectively hollowing out the principle of legality guaranteed by the ICCPR.

〓 The reckless behavior of hypocritical liberals—namely the Socialist Party, Democratic Party, Communist Party, Labor Party, and their ilk—who comprise the anti-American, ultra-left and are hollowing out the rule of law on which modern civil states stand, liberal bourgeois constitutions, and the principle of legality guaranteed by the ICCPR, has reached an intolerable state.

〓 On top of that, openly defying the General Comment of the Human Rights Committee—which is responsible for interpreting the ICCPR—just like that absolute idiot of a Nihon University Professor Emeritus, Akira Momochi (whom you could hit just by throwing a stone), leaves me utterly dumbfounded by the anti-American ultra-leftism or backwardness of certain Japanese people, who are no better than the Chinese who still refuse to ratify the Covenant.

〓 In the 7th century, Emperors Temmu and Jito established Yakushi-ji Temple of the Hosso school, which holds the doctrine of *Goshou Kakubetsu* (Five Distinct Natures) as its fundamental dogma, thereby cementing the "syncretism of Yamato Shinto and the Hosso school (founded on *Goshou Kakubetsu*)."

〓 In the year 802 AD, Seii Taishogun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, who had founded Kiyomizu-dera Temple of the Hosso school (which holds *Goshou Kakubetsu* as its core dogma) and set out to subdue the Emishi, successfully forced Aterui, the chieftain of the Emishi in the Tohoku region, to surrender.

〓 The "San'ichi Gonjitsu Soron" (Dispute over the Three Vehicles and One Vehicle, 817–821 AD) was a sharp conflict between the Hosso school, which advocated *Goshou Kakubetsu*, and the Tendai school, which advocated *Hokke Ichijo* (The One Vehicle of the Lotus Sutra, rooted in the *Mahaparinirvana Sutra* doctrine that "all sentient beings possess the Buddha-nature").

〓 Following this, the Tendai school built temples throughout Tohoku to conduct missionary work. However, even after centuries had passed, they failed in their mission to lead the Emishi onto the right path through preaching. As a result, Emishi rebellions against the Yamato Court in the Tohoku region erupted repeatedly, such as the Former Nine Years' War and the Later Three Years' War.

〓 Consequently, the subduing of the Emishi was carried out by the Seii Taishogun of the Kawachi Genji, who were appointed by the Fujiwara Sekkan-ke (Regents and Advisers)—the family that ruled the Yamato Court and was devoted to the Hosso school and its doctrine of *Goshou Kakubetsu*.

〓 In the 14th century, the Emishi of Tohoku—lawless by nature and liable to explode at any moment—rallied around Chinjufu Shogun Kitabatake Akiie and repeatedly flooded into the Kinai region, conducting horrific plundering against the Yamato people along the way.

〓 By the end of the 16th century, Nankobo Tenkai, an Emishi hailing from Aizu, had completely hijacked the Tendai school.

〓 The Tokugawa, who became Seii Taishogun—wartime commanders-in-chief entrusted with full authority by the Imperial Court to subdue the Emishi—were mere upstarts born out of the chaos of the Sengoku period.

〓 Incapable of understanding the gravity of the Emishi rebellions from Tohoku that had recurred since ancient times, generations of Tokugawa upstarts, despite being appointed as wartime commanders-in-chief to subdue the Emishi, were completely manipulated from the time of the founder, Ieyasu, onward by Nankobo Tenkai of the Tendai school (an Emishi from Aizu) and others. Ultimately, they failed to execute a single expedition to subdue the Emishi up until the end of the Edo period.

〓 Furthermore, the *Dai Nihon Shi* (Great History of Japan), which Tokugawa Mitsukuni of Mito forcibly compiled, definitively labeled the Daikakuji line as the legitimate imperial lineage. This was a foolish attempt to realize direct imperial rule by eliminating the Fujiwara Sekkan-ke, who had devoted themselves to the Hosso school (with its *Goshou Kakubetsu* doctrine) and had appointed successive generations of the Kawachi Genji as Seii Taishogun to suppress the Emishi—the very Emishi of Tohoku who, as inherent outlaws, had backed Chinjufu Shogun Kitabatake Akiie to repeatedly swarm into the Kinai region.

〓 In other words, Mitsukuni's *Dai Nihon Shi* forced the legitimacy onto the Daikakuji line—a lineage that rolled down the slope toward natural extinction after defying the 7th-century Emperors Temmu and Jito (who had established the syncretism of Yamato Shinto, which views Amaterasu Omikami as the imperial ancestor and supreme deity, and the Hosso school). Instead, the Daikakuji line infatuated themselves with the syncretism of Ise Shinto (Watarai Shinto)—which equates Toyouke no Omikami with Amenominakanushi no Kami and Kuninotokotachi no Kami, elevating her to a supreme deity equal to or greater than Amaterasu Omikami—and the Tendai school (*Hokke Ichijo*, or the doctrine of "all sentient beings possess the Buddha-nature" from the *Mahaparinirvana Sutra*).

〓 The Daikakuji line, which relied on the military might of the Tohoku Emishi—inherent outlaws liable to explode at any moment—was overwhelmed by the Jimyoin line, which was backed by the military power of the Yamato people. Consequently, they were absorbed and merged under the Meitoku Peace Agreement (1392 AD), after which the bloodline of the Daikakuji line (the Southern Court remnants) naturally went extinct.

〓 After World War II, individuals like Hiromichi Kumazawa claimed to be descendants of the Southern Court, asserting a "legitimate right of imperial succession under the Daikakuji line."

〓 Unlocking the pages of history, the "Teibi War" in July of the 2nd year of Emperor Yomei's reign (587 AD), in which Soga no Umako attacked Mononobe no Moriya and destroyed the Mononobe clan, was the precursor to religious warfare between Shinto and Buddhism in ancient Japan.

〓 In this battle, the Buddhist fundamentalist Soga clan defeated the Shinto fundamentalist Mononobe clan, securing dominance within the administration.

〓 Spanning from the Teibi War (587 AD), through the Isshi Incident (645 AD), and leading to the Jinshin War (672 AD), the ancient Japanese syncretism (*shinbutsu-shugo*) established by Emperors Temmu and Jito emerged from these severe trials of Shinto-Buddhist religious warfare as a steadfast pillar of the Yamato people, a heritage to be proud of before the world.

〓 The Kitabatake father and son, backed by the inherently lawless Emishi of Tohoku who were ready to explode at any moment, pushed forward an easy syncretism of Ise Shinto (Watarai Shinto) and the Tendai school (*Hokke Ichijo*). This stood in defiance of Emperors Temmu and Jito, who had established the world-class, unshakeable syncretism of the Yamato people uniting Yamato Shinto—which reveres Amaterasu Omikami as the imperial ancestor and supreme deity—and the Hosso school. This defiance never stood a chance.

〓 Nariaki Tokugawa of Mito and Toko Fujita were deeply influenced by prominent Tendai temples of the Edo period, such as Toeizan Kan'ei-ji and Nikkosan Rinno-ji, which had been hijacked by the Tohoku Emishi. As if to say, "The true Emishi that the Tokugawa Shogun must subdue is not the Tohoku Emishi, but the Western powers," they championed *Sonno Joi* ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian"). They came to view the United States—which was pressing Japan to open up—as the enemy, becoming the pioneers of the anti-American, ultra-right ideology that persists to this day.

〓 Furthermore, the shallow Prince Fushimi no Miya Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, who became the chief abbot of the Tendai temples Toeizan Kan'ei-ji and Nikkosan Rinno-ji (which had been hijacked by the Tohoku Emishi), took the initiative to become the leader of the Ouetsu Reppan Domei (Northern Alliance) composed of Tohoku Emishi. Modeling himself after Emperor Temmu who won the Jinshin War, he arrogated to himself the title of "Emperor Temmu of Tohoku"—that is, "Emperor Tobu." Leading Tokugawa remnants such as Katamori Matsudaira and Gemba Sakai, he defied the government forces of Emperor Meiji who raised the Imperial Banner, standing at the forefront of an Emishi rebellion against the Yamato people known as the "Boshin War (1868–1869)."

〓 In the 20th century, pushed along by the anti-American, ultra-left Socialist Party, Democratic Party, Communist Party, and Labor Party—which spout pipe dreams similar to the Tendai school, such as "Minorities must not be discriminated against"—the Tohoku Emishi infiltrated the core of Yamato power for the first time in recorded history. Sure enough, just when it seemed they had engineered the Manchurian Incident behind the backs of the general Yamato public, they went on to force a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor far out of sight of the general Yamato citizens, plunging the peoples of both Japan and the United States into unmitigated misery.

〓 The Pacific War was an utterly reckless rebellion instigated by Hideki Tojo—a Tohoku Emishi who had successfully subjugated the Yamato people by making heavy use of the Military Police (*Kempeitai*) under the pretext of settling the chaos of the February 26 Incident—against the United States, the leader of the Western camp that upholds the rule of law on which modern civil states stand, liberal bourgeois constitutions, and the ICCPR.