During the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant served as a refuge for local residents.
This essay dismantles anti-nuclear falsehoods through firsthand experience and historical evidence.

2016-08-28
The following is an essay that exposes the falsehoods of anti-nuclear arguments, which it is no exaggeration to say are childish, foolish, and the result of manipulation by China and South Korea, and which no one had written before.
I was born and raised in Yuriage, Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture. From Mount Hiyoriyama, on clear days, one could see far in the distance Kinkasan, located beyond the Oshika Peninsula. At the base of this Oshika Peninsula lies Onagawa.
During the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Tohoku Electric Power Company’s Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant located here became an evacuation site for local residents.
In other words, the claims made by anti-nuclear advocates—who can hardly be said to be anything other than childish, foolish, and manipulated by China and South Korea—are the complete opposite of the facts.
During the recent major Kumamoto earthquake as well, the safest facility that did not budge at all was the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant.
However, this is something that even kindergarten children should be able to understand. Among modern structures, there is nothing built with greater or stronger fortification than a nuclear power plant. No other structure is built to withstand impacts at the level of an airplane collision. That super-high-rise buildings would be helpless was proven by 9/11 in the United States.
Few people across Japan know this, but when Osaka was entirely depressed and looking downward, it was I who proposed building a super-high-rise condominium on a well-shaped parcel of land along the southern road between Yodoyabashi and Honmachi on the Midosuji Line. Today there is a rush to build super-high-rise condominiums in city centers, but at that time, only one trading company representing Japan recognized the excellence and correctness of my proposal and even obtained presidential approval. Another company, Sumitomo Realty, also approved it at the departmental level.
Needless to say, during the so-called bubble period, selling condominiums in city centers was impossible. After this bubble collapsed and land prices plunged without bottom, when I was working for Japan’s leading condominium manufacturer, the owner of a nearby building went bankrupt and it went to auction. Since none of us could afford to purchase it ourselves, I recommended it to a provincial asset holder whom I had come to know by chance and had him acquire it. These are my associations derived from super-high-rise buildings.
To return to the main topic.
As readers know, I was the first person in Japan to write, at the moment after 3.11 when the then prime minister went by helicopter to the Fukushima nuclear plant, that Fukushima became “Fukushima” because of the prime minister at the time. This was because it was the Naoto Kan administration, elevated and brought into being by the Asahi Shimbun—whose leading promoter, as readers also know, was Hiroshi Hoshi.
This was because I had been granted by God the finest perspective in Japan to closely observe the circumstances at that time.
Because I had been a subscriber to the Asahi Shimbun for many years, until last year I was completely unaware that Japan had a journalist named Masayuki Takayama, who could be said without exaggeration to be unique in the postwar world.
That is only natural, for he was not only a Sankei Shimbun reporter but also someone who continuously wrote essays that most severely criticized the lies of the Asahi Shimbun with unmatched accuracy and correctness.
Although I carefully read the Asahi Shimbun, including its Sunday book review section, I never once saw his name in its pages.
He perfectly taught me not only the process by which Fukushima became “Fukushima,” which I had witnessed as a simultaneous participant in history, but also the origins of the Fukushima nuclear plant, of which I had known nothing at all.
That Fukushima was Japan’s first nuclear plant built with a GE reactor. That GE’s carelessness and sloppiness at the time—including the unbelievable background of the responsible personnel—led naturally to numerous defects. And that these defects were perfectly resolved by Japan’s representative group of engineers, centered on TEPCO and major corporations such as Toshiba and Hitachi.
It is a fact requiring no explanation that the greatest reason Fukushima became “Fukushima” was that the emergency power sources were installed near the plant and were lost.
Regarding this as well, Masayuki Takayama taught me a shocking fact.
GE notified all countries around the world that had adopted GE reactors that there were problems with the placement of emergency power sources in its reactors at that time. Even South Korea followed this notification and made improvements. Yet the only government that ignored this notice was the Japanese government at the time. Takayama also taught that this government was none other than the Junichiro Koizumi administration.
Therefore, I now condemn Junichiro Koizumi’s anti-nuclear statements, made as though he were a sympathizer of the Asahi Shimbun, as attempts to gloss over his own guilt.
In any case, it is no exaggeration at all to say that those who advocate anti-nuclear positions are truly unforgivable, foolish, childish, and manipulated by China and South Korea.
They are an incorrigible group who brandish superficial moralism and delude themselves into believing they are righteous, yet in reality they are so unintelligent and naive that they fail even to recognize that their anti-nuclear movement is causing all manner of disasters, including the continuing reputational damage to Fukushima—led by South Korea—to this very day, and they are irredeemably arrogant and self-important individuals.