2024-01-10
The following is from Masayuki Takayama’s column at the end of today’s issue of Weekly Shincho.
This article once again proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
A long time ago, an elderly female professor from the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, who commanded tremendous respect from prima ballerinas throughout the world, visited Japan.
These were the words she spoke at that time about the significance of the artist’s existence.
“Artists are important because they are the only people capable of shining a light upon hidden and concealed truths and giving them expression.”
No one could object to her words.
It is no exaggeration whatsoever to say that Masayuki Takayama is not only the one and only journalist in the postwar world, but also the one and only artist in the postwar world.
On the other hand, Oe—although I do not wish to speak ill of the deceased—or, following Masayuki Takayama’s example below, Murakami and many others who call themselves writers and imagine themselves to be artists are not even worthy of the name “artist.”
That is because, far from shining a light upon hidden and concealed truths and giving them expression, they have merely expressed the lies created by the Asahi Shimbun and others.
People like them are surely found not only in Japan but in countries throughout the world.
In other words, true artists exist only in exceedingly small numbers.
This article also brilliantly proves the correctness of my statement that no one in the world today is more deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature than Masayuki Takayama.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people throughout the world.
Japan’s False Accusations
Isabella Bird thought that Gyeongseong, present-day Seoul, was the dirtiest place in the world.
But she wrote that when she went to Beijing, she discovered that Beijing was even dirtier.
Epidemiology also confirms this.
The Chinese character for “house” depicts a pig beneath a roof.
A world in which people live together with pigs that eat their excrement has repeatedly produced epidemics that threatened humanity.
Tracing the DNA of the Black Death in Europe led back to Shina, while it has also become known that the Spanish flu was carried into Europe by migrant coolies.
More recently, the coronavirus that produced SARS was also an epidemic that could only have been created by the bat-eating people of Shina.
The Japanese Army fought the First Sino-Japanese War without knowing that it was fighting in such a place.
Although 1,417 men were killed in battle, another 11,000 died from cholera and dysentery.
After the war ended, 230,000 returning soldiers were isolated on Ninoshima and elsewhere in Hiroshima Bay and subjected to quarantine to wash away the germs of Shina.
From this experience, the Japanese Army established an Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Unit in every division.
On the battlefields of Shina, these units worked to prevent infectious diseases and secure clean water.
A record left by Shinzaburo Nakajima of the Fifth Division survives.
“When we entered Jiujiang in pursuit of Chiang Kai-shek’s army, the enemy forces had breached the embankments of the Yangtze River and spread cholera bacteria into every well.”
“Our forces repaired the embankments, purified the well water, and then advanced north.”
The work performed by Unit 731 of the Kwantung Army’s Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department in Manchuria was the same.
Manchuria was an even more pestilential land than Shina, with high rates of trachoma and syphilis, while cholera and typhus were also endemic.
The previous female director of the Meidaimae Proctology Clinic, who had been dispatched there, said that the first step in treatment was to take a bath.
That was how filthy it was, she said.
That should give some idea of how busy Unit 731 was, but after the war, the story changed completely.
Keiichi Tsuneishi, professor emeritus at Kanagawa University, Masaki Shimozato of the Communist Party, and others began claiming that “Unit 731 used 3,000 Chinese and others as human test subjects in experiments for germ warfare.”
As for what kind of experiments they supposedly conducted, it was claimed that plague bombs were fired into groups of people to infect them.
It was also claimed that rooms were turned into vacuums, causing the subjects’ blood to boil and their bodies to explode.
It was further claimed that Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii, an army medical officer, kept detailed records of these experiments and that the U.S. military granted immunity to every member of the unit in exchange for the valuable data.
But if one stops to think about it, detonating a germ bomb would kill the germs.
Indeed, when a 600-kilogram bomb was detonated beneath the World Trade Center in New York, the cyanide gas that was supposed to be released was consumed by the intense heat.
As the Soviet Soyuz accident demonstrated, the vacuum experiment did not cause blood to boil or the human body to explode.
The story of “immunity granted by the U.S. military” is also strange.
The United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
It was an act of brutality for which there can be no excuse.
At the time, the United States was desperate to prove that “the Japanese military was even more brutal” in order to justify what it had done.
But nothing emerged.
That is why it lined up absurd lies such as the Nanking Massacre and the Bataan Death March.
If Unit 731 had truly committed such atrocities, the United States would have been delighted.
See, it would have said, the atomic bomb was justified.
Tsuneishi’s claim that “the U.S. military, which had nothing to do with human experimentation, wanted the data” is equally laughable.
That is because Americans loved human experimentation and conducted it as they pleased.
In 1942, the year penicillin was discovered, syphilis bacteria were injected into 1,146 Guatemalan prisoners, killing 69 of the subjects.
Once the atomic bomb had been developed, plutonium was injected into 18 terminally ill cancer patients to investigate its toxicity.
In Cincinnati, patients who had failed to pay their medical bills were exposed to 250 millisieverts of radiation and then observed.
None of the subjects was told that they were being used in human experiments; they merely suffered and died.
When the truth came to light, Clinton and Obama offered embarrassed apologies.
That is the undisguised face of the United States.
Incidentally, during the Matsumoto sarin incident, Tsuneishi exposed his ignorance by claiming that “sarin can be made from agricultural chemicals,” thereby creating a false-accusation uproar.
Now, in Iida City, an elderly man claiming to be a former child soldier of Unit 731 is making a commotion, saying that “human experiments did take place,” apparently having been put up to it by someone.
This is an excellent opportunity.
I want to think carefully about the false accusations made against Japan.

2024/1/9 in Kyoto

2023/5/15, in Osaka