It was kind of scary, kind of cool, and definitely eye opening. Our Japanese-language reporter Go Hatori has been hard at work helping the team spruce up the SoraHouse, our middle-of-nowhere, up-in-the-mountains house in Saitama Prefeture, by giving it zero-cost electricity and de-roachifying it. All that work and no play makes our reporters dull, of course, so Go brought up a shortwave radio to experiment with and see what kind of interesting international channels he could find. As he shuffled through the available frequencies, he heard some very surprising statements in Japanese: “The secretary of our beloved and respected leader…