This article examines criticism of Japan outside the COP25 venue, China’s massive reliance on coal-fired power generation and severe air pollution, Japan’s advanced high-efficiency thermal power technology, the suspension of nuclear power under the Naoto Kan administration, and the renewable-energy-centered reporting of NHK’s News Watch 9.

July 4, 2020
There is a technology that could not be achieved even if the country of the man holding up a placard outside the COP25 venue turned itself upside down trying.
It is Japan’s advanced thermal power generation technology, which increases the efficiency of coal-fired power generation and reduces carbon dioxide emissions per unit of electricity generated as far as technologically possible.
There is no state broadcaster more foolish and idiotic than NHK.
The people who control this broadcaster’s news division continue again tonight to report as though Japan were responsible for causing global warming.
The facts are exactly the opposite.
Among the advanced nations, there is no country that has worked harder than Japan to develop clean energy and, as a result, achieved such clean air.
When Japan suffers from PM2.5 air pollution, it is widely known that one of the major causes is polluted air arriving from the Chinese mainland.
It is no exaggeration to say that, if they genuinely wish to prevent air pollution, all they have to do is tell China, “Do something about it.”
NHK, which is completely incapable of saying something so simple, is effectively a Chinese state broadcaster.
In other words, Japan behaves like a complete fool in its dealings with China.
The special dialogue titled “Know the True Nature of the Chinese People,” between Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, and Tadanobu Bando, a former Metropolitan Police Department detective and interpreter-investigator, appears in this month’s issue of the monthly magazine WiLL.
It is essential reading not only for the Japanese people but also for people throughout the world.
The Japanese people must go to their nearest bookstore tomorrow and purchase a copy.
To be continued.
I would like to add a further explanation concerning the opening passage.
It concerns the people who control NHK’s news division.
On News Watch 9, Ōkoshi, who regained his influence after the NHK president was replaced, is, so to speak, exercising power from behind the scenes.
I am certain that my assessment is 100 percent correct.
People of genuine insight must already have recognized, and felt extremely uncomfortable about, the fact that News Watch 9 is shaped by a self-denigrating view of Japanese history, the anti-Japanese ideology arising from it, pseudo-moralism, political correctness, opposition to nuclear power, and the international campaign against global warming promoted by China.
Recently, its support for the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan has become slightly less blatant.
The Constitutional Democratic Party has become so appalling that Ōkoshi probably concluded that continuing to support it any further would endanger his own position.
Whenever they report on campaigns to prevent global warming, they invariably broadcast footage of foreigners of unknown nationality standing outside an international conference venue and holding up placards directed against Japan bearing such words as “Fossil of the Day.”
The people who control NHK’s news division and foreigners of this kind are probably birds of a feather.
The facts, however, are exactly the opposite of what is written on their placards.
It is China that continues to operate coal-fired power generation on an overwhelmingly massive scale.
Moreover, large amounts of outdated technology and equipment remain in use in China.
For the past several decades, China’s air pollution has remained so serious that it can be described, without exaggeration, as among the worst in history.
That remains the case even at this very moment.
Any genuine discussion of global environmental problems cannot avoid confronting China’s coal-fired power generation and air pollution.
Coal-fired power generation is not the only issue.
It was initially reported that the sale of low-quality gasoline by state-owned oil companies was also a major cause of China’s air pollution.
Judging from the realities of Chinese society, it is difficult to believe that low-quality gasoline has completely disappeared.
There is a technology that could not be achieved even if the country of the man holding up a placard outside the COP25 venue turned itself upside down trying.
It is Japan’s advanced thermal power generation technology, which increases the efficiency of coal-fired power generation and reduces carbon dioxide emissions per unit of electricity generated as far as technologically possible.
One of the major reasons the proportion of Japan’s electricity generated by coal-fired power plants rose so rapidly lies with Naoto Kan during the Democratic Party of Japan administration.
This is because nuclear power generation, which had provided a major part of Japan’s electricity supply, was effectively driven toward a complete shutdown.
Japan had been one of the world’s largest nuclear-power-generating nations, second only in scale to the United States.
Naoto Kan, the most incompetent and repellent prime minister in history, shut down nuclear power generation and brought about a rapid increase in Japan’s dependence on thermal power as a substitute.
The Asahi Shimbun, which had continued to praise such a man, finally concluded that his time was up and published a major scoop concerning political donations from a foreign national, an issue potentially fatal to any politician, on March 11, 2011.
That afternoon, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred.
Images of the disaster were broadcast continuously as events unfolded.
The hearts of people not only in Japan but throughout the world were crushed.
Was it the following day?
Naoto Kan, whose political survival was secured by the Great East Japan Earthquake and who used the catastrophe to prolong his administration, boarded a valuable helicopter and, in a manner entirely befitting the most incompetent man in history, headed toward the disaster area on what he called an inspection visit.
As readers already know, this column was the first in the world to make clear that it was Naoto Kan who turned Fukushima into “Fukushima.”
It was reported that the government had decided on a policy of decommissioning aging thermal power generation facilities.
On News Watch 9 last night, Wakuda referred only to renewable energy.
This was intended to divert viewers’ attention from the fact that restarting nuclear power plants is indispensable.
It might still be possible to forgive them if they were merely idiotic pseudo-moralists.
However, using the public airwaves of Japan’s state broadcaster and constantly invoking their favorite word, “public,” News Watch 9 continues to manipulate information and public impressions.
They cannot simply be laughed off as fools.
It is no exaggeration to describe them as the worst kind of criminal group and as people who betray their own country.
Japan’s thermal power generation facilities, equipped with some of the finest technology in the world, are to be dismantled, while the world’s worst thermal power facilities in China, the country with the world’s most serious air pollution, are left untouched.
To make matters worse, NHK engages in maliciously manipulative reporting by claiming that renewable energy should provide the replacement power.
A substantial disparity will probably emerge between electricity prices in Japan and those in South Korea and China.
In other words, Japan’s national strength will decline dramatically.
There are only two countries or regions in the world that would celebrate the deterioration of Japan’s industrial competitiveness and the decline of its national strength, or that work day and night to spread anti-Japanese propaganda throughout the international community in order to bring about precisely that outcome.
They are China and the Korean Peninsula.
The people who control NHK’s news division are under their influence.
It is therefore no exaggeration whatsoever to say that they are the ultimate betrayers of their own country.