The Gazafication of Tokyo
The hidden role of Israel
Emanuel Pastreich
Jul 21, 2026
Some Japanese are vaguely aware of the genocide being carried out against the Palestinians. However, Japanese are completely unaware of the manner in which urban spaces, especially in Tokyo, are being transformed into highly restrictive and prison-like environments by employing the know-how and technology that was developed by Israel in Gaza over the last ten years. The transformation of Tokyo, which is similar to what is being done in Seoul, Beijing, Bangkok, and other cities, is part of a plan to slowly train citizens without their consent to be obedient, to grow accustomed to living in a highly regulated environment, and conforming to orders from opaque sources of authority in an increasingly totalitarian technocratic society run by multinational corporations.
The transformation of Tokyo is profound. Citizens have been dumbed down by the Covid reign of terror; their understanding of society is simplistic and their attitude passive and impulsive, inclined to pursue immediately desired objects for consumption like food, sex, exciting experiences, fashion. Citizens have no choice but to watch videos on the train, television broadcasts at home, advertisements on the internet, movies and soap operas that glorify thoughtless consumption, promote narcissistic behavior and short-term thrills. It seems that if one does not have an enormous home, an automobile, and has the leisure to engage in wasteful activities, then one is not normal.
This indulgent culture was not created by the people, but imposed by multinational corporations as part of a strategy to create a self-indulgent population that is incapable of focusing, or understanding complex issues, let alone effectively organizing so as to advocate for change. Commuters riding trains are forced to watch advertisements and broadcasts that promote a banal and narcissistic consumption lifestyle, and make the rich an object of envy while completely ignoring the suffering of working people. These advertisements, especially those forced on commuters by the new Train TV, are not for the purpose of selling a product. These foolish and childish advertisements are meant to modify thinking and behavior and create a passive population that cannot resist the increasing fascistic governments serving the ultra-wealthy.
A slow-motion (months and years) transformation of the urban environment is being carried out right now in Tokyo that restricts freedom of movement. The daily experience of the citizen, which defines how he or she sees his or her role in society, is being made narrower, made that of the passive prisoner who can only move within narrowly defined paths.
Since the Covid operation started, citizens are forced to walk following narrow paths determined in advance, in buildings, in the subway, and on sidewalks. They must listen to recorded messages giving orders to turn right or turn left, and also not to do anything that will inconvenience others. The vast majority of people do not even notice the radical transformation of Tokyo’s urban environment. But being subject to constant recorded orders telling you want to do, and not to do, is a classic strategy for modifying behavior and restricting thinking for the population as a whole.
This transformation is accompanied by the replacement of government with rule by private security firms and public-private partnerships under which basic infrastructure is administered in an opaque and unaccountable manner.
Privatized surveillance systems that record in detail the actions of every person, and do so over time so as to allow for the tracking of shifts in mood and behavior, are everywhere and there is no way to know where that information goes or who is feeding it into supercomputers for detailed analysis of how to modify the behavior of each citizen.
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