An open letter addressed to publishers of online magazines and newspapers with established readerships and influence over public opinion.
Drawing on firsthand experiences of internet crime and reverse SEO attacks that effectively erased the author’s pen name, the essay asks for a platform to write freely—without compensation if necessary—to correct Japan and the world.
A call to make the Turntable of Civilization a regular column for the sake of true intelligence and freedom.

September 28, 2016
To those around the world who, like myself, live not for private gain but as true elites, possessing the intelligence appropriate to the twenty-first century.
Among you, I address those who publish online magazines and newspapers that have a steady readership and influence the formation of public opinion in their respective countries and in the world.
I believe you are aware that my essays are great works.
As the facts I have personally encountered clearly demonstrate, the weakness of the internet lies in the fact that it is a world inhabited by criminals.
No matter how much one writes for the sake of Japan or the world, it is only natural that any decent person who is not a public celebrity would hesitate to appear in such a world under their real name.
When I struggled to choose a pen name for writing The Turntable of Civilization, it was formed by combining two people important to me, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Kenji Miyazawa.
Naturally, I felt a deep attachment to that pen name.
I cherished it.
However, as readers know, the criminal in question not only extorted a large sum of money from us,
but despite a court judgment having been issued, we have, regrettably, not recovered even a single yen.
The moment I announced publication from my hospital room, he committed unbelievable acts online,
not only tampering with search pages but also filling pages one through ten with foolish blogs created under nearly thirty different handles.
This continued for more than two years.
It goes without saying that this was fatal to my book as an unknown author.
Disgusted by an internet world in which such evil brazenly thrives, Kūkai appeared before me.
Urged on by his words, “Impress good deeds upon the world,” I resolved to continue writing, as you know.
Yet the port-scan attacks discovered on July 20,
and the search pages for my pen name, which at their peak displayed nothing but my essays with hundreds of thousands of hits,
have now been reduced to mere thousands through the truly malicious act known as reverse SEO, plastered with irrelevant and foolish sites.
In other words, my pen name has been effectively killed.
It has been only thirty years since the advent of the internet.
Neither Japan nor the world has any effective means of dealing with crimes committed online.
Even I am growing weary of it.
At such a moment, a thought came to me.
Those who publish online magazines and newspapers with a steady readership and influence over public opinion in their countries and in the world.
Would you allow me to write freely in your magazines or newspapers.
No compensation is necessary.
I write to correct Japan and the world.
I write to advance the Turntable of Civilization and to transform today’s extremely unstable and dangerous world into one filled with true intelligence and freedom.
Make the Turntable of Civilization a serialized column in your magazine, in your newspaper.