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Summary

Second thread of the sweep: the named network and its overlaps. Snapshot note: the PSAJ page recorded Nippon Kaigi at ~38,000 members, 47 prefectural headquarters and 242 municipal branches, and recorded 18 of 20 ministers in the October 2015 Abe reshuffle as members of the Nippon Kaigi and/or Shinto League caucuses.

Findings

  • documented Nippon Kaigi: ~38,000 members; Diet caucus 281 (2015) / ~260 (2017); Shinto League caucus 303 (2015); 18 of 20 cabinet ministers in the Oct 2015 reshuffle.1
  • documented Shindō Yoshitaka has held: MIC minister (2012–14), J-NSC founder and lifelong secretary-general, LDP press bureau chief (2010), IC Strategy Research Commission vice-chair (2019), constitutional-revision HQ deputy head, Nippon Kaigi caucus vice-chair.2
  • documented The LDP commission drafting broadcast law is chaired by Noda Seiko (MIC minister 2017–18) with its Broadcast Act subcommittee chaired by Ishida Masatoshi (MIC minister 2018–19).3
  • documented The 2014–2015 chain: PM complaint (18 Nov 2014) → LDP document to stations (20 Nov) → PM aide demands reinterpretation at the ministry (26 Nov) → ministerial Diet answer enabling single-programme findings (12 May 2015).4
  • contested Whether the chain was authorised from the top: the government first questioned the documents' authenticity before publishing them; the aide's quoted remarks are recorded but not corroborated as instructions.

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Footnotes

  1. Peace Studies Association of Japan, "100 Points: 23" (2021). ↩

  2. Shindō Yoshitaka official profile. ↩

  3. LDP Policy Research Council officer roster, 11 Sep 2026. ↩

  4. RKB Mainichi Broadcasting (2023), citing the disclosed administrative documents. ↩