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I heard that many people were evacuated because of this, but upon investigation, it turned out to be plutonium dispersed by China’s nuclear tests.
March 12, 2018
The following is a chapter I published on December 7, 2017.
It is taken from an article by Masayuki Takayama, a journalist without equal in the postwar world.
In this chapter, too, he demonstrates that my assessment of him is correct.
A friend bought me today’s issue of the Weekly Shincho.
The purpose was to read the column appearing in the latter pages of this weekly magazine by Masayuki Takayama, a journalist without equal in the postwar world.
It was also to read Yoshiko Sakurai’s column, which appears before his.
His article in this week’s issue is also the genuine article and will once again confirm the accuracy of my assessment to discerning people around the world.
The emphasis in the text, except for the headings and passages between asterisks, is mine.
The Asahi Shimbun of Rumor
Merkel saw Fukushima, said she would abandon nuclear power, and declared that they, being the clever ones, would manage with renewable energy.
The Germans still resent their defeat and capture at Qingdao and have continued to dislike Japan.
＊That is why the Asahi Shimbun and the Germans have marched in step.
The Asahi Shimbun’s editorial writers’ praise of Germany demonstrates their abnormality.＊
Consequently, her policy of looking down on Japan and abandoning nuclear power was greeted with unreserved praise.
However, fine words do not always work.
Renewable energy is a pipe dream, and Germany’s economy will easily collapse if it relies on it.
In the end, the nuclear power plants will probably remain.
But this is the country of Volkswagen.
It has the technology to deceive the world about exhaust emissions.
They will probably install smoke-producing devices at the nuclear plants and disguise the situation by saying, “Look, we’re burning coal.”
Emi Kawaguchi-Mahn, a German living in Japan who knows what goes on behind the scenes, traveled through Fukushima and wrote a book entitled “On Rebuilding Japan,” exposing a deception surpassing Germany’s.
The book’s subtitle is “The Fukushima No One Wrote About.”
These are painful words for newspaper reporters who, despite being in Japan, wrote nothing about this issue.
On March 11, the world marveled at the Japanese people’s patience, discipline, and consideration for one another.
But now, several years later, Mahn felt that the Japanese had clearly deteriorated.
Tracing the roots of that change, she found seemingly good-natured media organizations at the end of the trail.
Under the pretext of attacking the great evils of big business and the state on behalf of residents, they spread foolish rumors and stirred residents toward misery.
The newspaper is not specifically named, but it must have been the Asahi Shimbun.
I am certain it was the Asahi Shimbun.
Rumor and agitation are the Asahi’s specialties.
＊NHK must not be forgotten either.
On the seven o’clock news on Sunday, November 26, Asahi Inoue spoke at length about Fukushima, thyroid cancer, and other matters without any medical basis.
In other words, it was propaganda.
The propaganda about “Fukushima” and “thyroid cancer” was reporting in the service of propaganda.＊
Immediately after March 11, plutonium was detected at TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear plant.
Plutonium has a half-life of more than twenty thousand years.
Freelance writer Takashi Uesugi wrote that inhaling it would mean the end because of internal radiation exposure, and the Asahi Shimbun joined in and made a great fuss.
Many people consequently evacuated their homes, but upon investigation, it turned out to be plutonium dispersed by China’s nuclear tests.
The Asahi, as usual, is not even forgiven.
When the Sendai nuclear power plant resumed operations, the Asahi again spread rumors on its front page.
With an article full of vivid detail, it inflamed people’s aversion to nuclear power plants.
It claimed that radiation-monitoring equipment was useless and that residents did not know where to flee in an emergency.
The entire article was a lie.
Shunichi Tanaka of the Nuclear Regulation Authority also condemned the article’s outrageousness, saying, “Using even an editorial to stir up residents’ anxiety with baseless lies is now a crime.”
Another issue Shunichi Tanaka raised concerning the Asahi’s reporting was the contaminated-water problem at TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear plant.
Large amounts of groundwater flow into the contaminated area, contaminating the entire zone.
However, ninety percent of the contaminated water is said to be tritium, which is considered harmless.
The water can be discharged into the sea, but fishermen oppose it.
They say they fear rumors.
Tanaka says newspapers should curb rumors and convey accurate knowledge.
The Asahi does not do so.
On the contrary, it writes about contaminated water and frightens fishermen.
Recently, the same newspaper devoted an entire page to reporting that the frozen-soil wall, which cost 34.5 billion yen and was intended to prevent groundwater inflow, was not working.
Regarding the eight hundred tanks holding contaminated water, it sarcastically remarked that, thanks to the wall, their number had already ballooned to eight hundred.
In a calm writing style, Mahn denounces the Asahi Shimbun, the “news organization” that does not even try to dispel rumors.
At the same time, she also portrays prefectural residents who, despite knowing much of the truth, pretend to know nothing and receive one hundred million yen per household.
Fukushima has indeed deteriorated.