This article addresses the worsening yellow sand conditions and the silence of Japan’s old media. It also serves as an introductory record explaining why a crucial primary source on yellow sand, pathogens, and immunity is republished separately.

I am publishing this article today because the yellow sand assault is even worse than yesterday.
The intensity is such that the buildings around Umeda are completely obscured by haze.
Yesterday, I addressed the media, which continues to report nonexistent nuclear damage while remaining entirely silent about the serious health hazards of yellow sand.
Yellow Sand and the Silent Old Media — The Abnormal Party Reorganization on the Eve of the General Election | The Turntable of Civilization.
It was Masayuki Takayama who demonstrated, as a matter of fact, how severely harmful yellow sand is to human health.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that no one else deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than he does.
Foreign correspondents who habitually disparage Japan are desperately searching for what makes us different | The Turntable of Civilization.
I am republishing those writings.
Because all Japanese citizens must reconfirm and recognize the reality of yellow sand.
2022-03-07.

Separately from this article, I am republishing in full, as an independent primary source, Takayama’s essay “Sad Immunity,” originally published in Shukan Shincho on July 30, 2020.
That essay constitutes the second article linked from this page.