This text argues that the immediate, total nuclear shutdown forced Japan to buy oil and gas at heavily inflated prices with a “Japan premium,” producing losses exceeding 10 trillion yen in only a few years. It frames this as money that could have instantly helped children in poverty, criticizes the political and media dynamics behind the decision, contrasts Switzerland’s referendum-based realism, and urges readers to reduce TV dependence and read serious monthly journals.

If this amount of money could have been used for food and education expenses for children growing up in impoverished households, then all of them could have been saved instantly.
2016-11-30.
It was the prime minister at the time—whom the majority of the Japanese people were demanding resign immediately—who decided on the utterly foolish policy of an immediate, total shutdown of nuclear power plants, a policy equivalent to the hysteria of kindergarten children.
As a major scoop in the morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun that day, political donations from foreigners (which violate the Constitution) were reported, and at last his fate was sealed.
Because it was a huge headline on the front page of the very Asahi Shimbun that had elevated him all the way to the office of prime minister.
As already stated, it was on the afternoon of the day when most of the people sighed in relief, thinking, “Will he finally resign now,” that the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred.
The Japanese people remember in detail that his single-minded desire to cling to the post of prime minister—meaning that he was a mass of selfish private greed—was exactly what he was.
As already stated, so were the articles from around that time.
To Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Masayoshi Son—also a mass of selfish private greed, and a man who was plotting to expand his business into fields beyond telecommunications—suddenly loaded a Geiger counter into his car and headed for Fukushima, even though he had had nothing to do with Tohoku, as serialized in that Weekly Post.
As Monthly Wedge reported, just before this he had acquired a major natural energy power generation company under strict gag orders.
He apparently whispered to Naoto Kan that they should cover the disaster areas with solar power panels.
As already stated, so were the circumstances of that time.
In addition to them, it is a fresh memory that local leaders—who can only be described as truly foolish, meaning exam-elite honor students raised on subscriptions to the Asahi Shimbun and who had made the editorials of its editorial writers their own brains—rushed, each vying to be first, to attend the meetings hosted by Masayoshi Son.
To these two was added Mizuho Fukushima, a lawyer who not only jumped on the Asahi Shimbun’s “comfort women attached to the military” reporting and took on the defense of prostitutes, but even coached them on how to speak at public press events, acted with the utmost energy, and spread it to the world despite it being fabricated reporting.
As already stated, an interview article in Weekly Asahi or AERA also reported that she proudly claimed it was she who pressed Naoto Kan and made him decide on the immediate shutdown of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant.
It was by these three unbelievable people, and by the fools who pandered to them, that policies concerning energy—policies that relate to the very core of Japan—were decided.
As a result (because it was a country that could act only in ways even below kindergarten children), international dealers—masses of private greed even greater than they were—saw through Japan’s weakness, and Japan had to keep purchasing oil and natural gas at prices more than double international prices, with a large “Japan premium” added.
As a result, even from this alone, Japan suffered an enormous loss of more than 10 trillion yen in only a few years.
If one considers that this amount of money could have been used for food and education expenses for children growing up in impoverished households and could have saved all of them instantly, even an elementary school student should understand how terrible and tremendous their evil was.
So-called cultural figures kept saying, “Learn from Germany.”
Likewise, they kept saying, “Learn from Switzerland,” the perpetually neutral state.
But Switzerland is not a foolish, self-abasing country that would make decisions affecting the core of the state based on three people like those above, a country that moves with the discernment of kindergarten children.
It goes without saying that the SoftBank commercials—the foundation of Masayoshi Son, who kept attacking NTT as a monopoly company at every opportunity and finally became a monopoly company itself—are, without any exaggeration, below kindergarten children, and are tailored to a mental age of twelve (as I wrote in a chapter long ago).
But the Swiss people are not a people who would allow such commercials to be broadcast endlessly into their living rooms.
That the company that kept producing such commercials was a leader of Japan’s advertising world, and that in Japan, where the declining birthrate had been pointed out repeatedly as a problem, it was an unimaginably foolish company that drove a young person who graduated from the University of Tokyo (all the more so because she was also beautiful) to suicide through long working hours, is surely not mere coincidence.
As I have mentioned many times, it is also the case that South Korea and China—anti-Japan states with an obvious intent to weaken Japan’s nuclear technology (and, as already stated, Nazi and fascist states that still continue anti-Japan education)—have decided as national policy on major expansions of nuclear power plants.
Moreover, all the new nuclear power plants that South Korea will massively expand from now on, unlike before, will be built facing the Sea of Japan.
That is, they will be built on Japan’s opposite shore.
That the people who filed lawsuits from neighboring prefectures to stop the operation of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant have taken no action whatsoever regarding this fact also tells the truth.
In other words, it would not be an exaggeration to say that those who are waging anti-nuclear movements—movements that the intelligence agencies of those countries must be smirking about—are under their influence.
But among Japanese people who are easily brainwashed by them, I especially want to say this, as a fellow Tohoku person, to the people of Niigata Prefecture.
I understand that winters are harsh.
So I suppose the time spent watching television together in the living room as a family is overwhelmingly longer than for people living in big cities.
But that alone is not enough.
The monthly magazines I keep mentioning cost an average of 780 yen.
No matter where you live, you are still a person living in the 21st century, so you should reduce the time spent watching programs from television stations that are subsidiaries of Asahi and the like, and you should read the monthly magazines I mention.
The time spent reading the monthly magazines I mention, while sitting under a kotatsu or in a heated living room, is time to learn facts, to learn truth, in warm and calm time.
Just like, “Is it not a joy to have friends come from afar,” it enriches your life.
The following is from yesterday’s evening edition of the Asahi Shimbun.
All in-text emphasis other than the headline is mine.
Switzerland Rejects “Accelerating” the Nuclear Phaseout.
In Switzerland, on the 27th, following the accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a referendum was held on whether to achieve a “nuclear phaseout by 2029,” and it was rejected by a majority of voters.
The result was 45.8% in favor and 54.2% against.
Opposition was the majority in 20 of the 26 cantons.
After the Fukushima accident, Switzerland indicated a policy of phasing out nuclear power in the future, but no clear timing has been set.
In response, the “Swiss Green Party” and others pointed to the dangers of aging nuclear power plants.
In the referendum, voters were asked whether to stop three of the five nuclear power plants that would reach 45 years of operation before next year, and whether to implement a plan to complete the final nuclear phaseout by 2029.
On the other hand, the federal government and industry opposed the plan as “premature,” citing the current situation in which around 35% of total electricity generation has been supplied by nuclear power.
According to the French-language newspaper Le Temps, since 1979 Switzerland has held 16 referendums and local votes on nuclear power, but all proposals that would lead to abandoning nuclear technology or shutting down nuclear power plants have been rejected.
(Bern = Ichiro Matsuo).