The Shores of Land: The Diplomacy of Japan, an Alien Nation

Chapter 38 - Interplanetary and International Media Relations Meeting (Part 1)

On the day before the historic events of the credential dedication ceremony, the treaty signing ceremony, and the summit meeting between two nations of differing planets, the decision was made to invite media representatives of any nationality to Eustre. The first thing to think about then was security.

While at the previous press conference, it was enough to simply guard against terrorist attacks based on a sense of insecurity toward Japan, this time the main focus will be on thwarting any efforts by Japan and Illyharan to hold hands. Japan would be an ideal villain material, and if either Erma or King Hauer were to fall to a deadly bullet, this planet will forever think that Japan is evil.

Japan has no such feelings whatsoever, and Illyharan trusted them on that, but the rest of the world and the general public have no way of knowing. Even if the cracks don't appear between the two countries in the unlikely event that someone fired a deadly bullet, an unspecified number of other people will not think so. That was why they had to smash even one percent of the possibilities, and they had to be more careful in their inspections than the last time.

In addition to the general inspection at the entry into the country, there was one inspection each at the entry and exit of the nearest floating city, Mallus. In addition, they will be inspected twice at the Rassalon Floating Base, where they will be based, for a total of five times, and their personal information and equipment will be inspected. On top of that, Rassalon's soldiers will be inspecting at their own discretion to prevent any slip-up.

The hiding of weapons in equipment is familiar from spy movies, but that kind of thing existed in real life as well, so inspections will be thorough down to the smallest detail. These hidden weapons were usually handmade. They may not look like weapons at first glance and may be disassembled into pieces to blend in with the equipment, or they may be used as part of the equipment and go unnoticed.

To deal with this, the Rassalon Floating Base had taken control of all of the equipment. The owner of the equipment is only allowed to touch it when he or she is available for interviews and must leave it with a soldier otherwise. This way, if the owner wanted to take parts out of the equipment and assemble them, they would have to do it in public, thus increasing the level of safety.

As an additional safety measure, Illyharan had also decided to evict anyone who does not look like a member of the media, at any time and at their own discretion. Of course, there is a possibility that the person is really a member of the media, and there is also the possibility that it is someone you would not expect to be a member of the media, so the disadvantage is greater.

However, even this cannot be said to be absolutely safe because of the social life woven by the Lians. Even if they take multiple precautions and take measures that seem excessive, they will find some loopholes and take measures to get out of it.

The discovery of a large quantity of phoronites made it impossible for the Committee on Alien Nation Response to make poor decisions. The statements that disturbed the distorted but well-oiled economy and logistics had to be dealt with by Altaran and the rest of the world, especially Illyharan.

If they decided to push the policy of serfdom, which could cause further disruption in the midst of this situation, there would be a backlash from the rest of the world. It was the psychology of the world to try to calm the turmoil at hand before lingering on Japan, which will do nothing. Illyharan took this gamble of disrupting the economy and succeeded in silencing Altaran.

But if they can use the coming four events to hurt Japan's reputation (making them look bad), they will gain public opinion to the point where they can punish them to some degree, although serfdom is an unknown factor. No one knows what would make Japan an enemy of the world when an unprecedented quantity of phoronites will be obtained if they do nothing, but they want to get things done without allowing outside intervention at any cost.