This essay argues that Japan’s massive financial aid to China, promoted by Asahi Shimbun and its allies, should instead have been used to reinforce old housing and unsafe buildings—measures that would have drastically reduced earthquake fatalities.

2016-04-19
There are no villains more harmful to Japan than Asahi Shimbun and the scholars and so-called cultural figures who have aligned themselves with it.
Think about it carefully.
Asahi and its sympathizers treated a man scarcely different from a gangster, named Katsuichi Honda, as a major journalist.
It was only natural that the Chinese Communist Party, whose single-party rulers regard propaganda and foreign manipulation as critical missions, made use of this Honda.
It was only natural that they continued to make use of Asahi Shimbun.
This is what can be called a kindergarten-level strategy.
Honda wrote, as a popular serialized column, exactly what was written in the materials handed to him by the Chinese Communist Party, published them, and even turned them into bestsellers.
It goes without saying that Asahi Shimbun continued to report his articles as major scoops and disseminated them worldwide.
Not only that, but they led the charge in demanding that Japan, which had committed such grave evils, should provide 30 trillion yen to China—mostly as grant aid—exactly as the Chinese Communist Party desired, and made the government carry it out.
As I have said repeatedly, until August of the year before last, people across all fields and classes in Japan were readers of Asahi Shimbun.
In other words, Asahi Shimbun dominated Japan.
It is a chilling story, but it is an undeniable fact.
That is why Japan fell into prolonged stagnation.
It is no exaggeration to say that Asahi Shimbun and the scholars who aligned with it created today’s extremely unstable world.
If this 30 trillion yen had been invested in the old houses, houses near cliffs, and buildings constructed under outdated building standards that I pointed out in the previous chapter, far fewer Japanese citizens would have died in earthquakes than is the case today.
Without noticing such a simple fact at all, Asahi fills its front pages with the words of a champion of superficial moralism every time people die in earthquakes.