Originally published on April 17, 2018.
This chapter examines Masayoshi Son’s remark in South Korea that “Japan has become a criminal,” while at the same time saying, “Phasing out nuclear power is Japan’s issue. I highly value South Korea’s nuclear plants,” and argues that this exposed the double standards and deception of the anti-nuclear movement.
It also touches on the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation, Ryūichi Sakamoto, ties to Korean interests, and the author’s own continued writing while enduring grave illness and severe online harassment.

2019-04-16
At that time, he also made the remark, “Phasing out nuclear power is Japan’s issue.
I highly value South Korea’s nuclear plants.”
While advocating a nuclear phase-out in Japan, he praises nuclear power in South Korea.
Is this not the very definition of double standards?

This is a chapter I published on 2018-04-17 under the title:
“While saying ‘Japan is a criminal,’ he also evaluates South Korea’s nuclear power as safe.”
What follows is a chapter I wrote and published from a hospital room during the seven months in which I was hospitalized with a grave illness after being told that my chance of survival was 25 percent.
In the original text, the pen name I was using at the time was written, but that pen name, to which I had deep attachment, also…
was targeted by a criminal possessing the DNA of a country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies”…
who launched unbelievable attacks against Google’s search pages…
after creating more than 30 handle names…
and using criminal methods themselves, such as so-called reverse SEO measures…
by attaching my “The Turntable of Civilization” to slanderous, vile, and intolerable blogs run by this criminal in order to push my search results downward….
As a result, what had at one point exceeded 20 million search results, with pages in Japanese and in various other languages appearing throughout in order of popularity based on content…
was one day suddenly reduced to less than one one-hundredth of that number, and from page 1 through page 10 of the search results there appeared only slander and idiotic blogs.
Our company’s attorney said this was an obvious crime…
obstruction of business, defamation, false accusation, and so forth…
and that I should file a criminal complaint….
After leaving the hospital, I did in fact file a criminal complaint.
The superior officer at the police station with jurisdiction grumbled quite a bit, saying there were far too few personnel who understood the internet…
but fortunately there was a young detective who was knowledgeable about the internet and PCs, and thanks to him a formal investigation was launched.
At the time, the criminal in question was already imprisoned after being arrested for swindling a large sum of money from a certain bank…
so I believe the written statement was prepared in prison…
and the person admitted that it had all been his own doing.
Nearly three years passed after I filed the complaint before the case finally reached the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, but as I have already written, the Osaka prosecutors did not indict.
At that time, I deeply regretted from the bottom of my heart that I had lived in obscurity.
Blogs were created under handle names that inserted a dot into my pen name, and I was impersonated under that pen name at Turkish baths in Ogoto, Shiga Prefecture, and sex establishments in Gotanda, and I felt it was the very end, my anger rising to the heavens…
but since I changed my pen name to the current Nara Haruo, I have rendered the earlier pen-name portions simply as “I.”
A little while ago, when I was watching a TV Asahi news program…
2011-06-20 18:53:57
(Honorifics omitted in the text.)
What Masayoshi Son said in his keynote address at the Global Green Growth Summit held at the Seoul Lotte Hotel on 2011-06-20 was, astonishingly, this:
“Japan is a criminal.”
And he said this in South Korea, which, even after Fukushima, had decided to continue its own nuclear power policy and the promotion of nuclear-plant exports.
In an instant, I sensed something akin to the discourse about Japan that had enveloped the country immediately after the war….
“An Appeal to the Japanese People: A Nation Without Pride Will Perish,” by Komuro Naoki.
Masayoshi Son, you should read this book at once.
At the same time, any prime minister who can be instantly taken in by someone who makes such remarks should be dismissed immediately.
There is no longer a moment to spare.
They are among the most extraordinary traitors in Japanese history.
The following is from page 202 of the book Baikoku Kanryō introduced in the previous chapter.
Anti-nuclear groups, Korean companies, and SoftBank.
If the damage caused by the earthquake and tsunami was beyond all assumptions, then the reconstruction budget was also on a scale beyond all assumptions.
Reconstruction projects led by both the public and private sectors were set to begin, and amid that process the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation was also established.
According to the foundation’s website, it was established with the aim of creating a society that shifts toward renewable natural energy, but what kind of organization is it really?
Looking at the list of officers on the website, I found the names of Masayoshi Son, representative of the SoftBank Group, and the musician Ryūichi Sakamoto.
Masayoshi Son, who at the Global Green Growth Summit held in Seoul after the earthquake said that “Japan has become a criminal,” serves as its representative, and Ryūichi Sakamoto, who said “It is only electricity” at an anti-nuclear rally, is also listed as an officer.
Chairman and Founder: Masayoshi Son, President and Representative Director of SoftBank Corp.
Councilor: Ryūichi Sakamoto, Representative of More Trees General Incorporated Association.
From the website of the “Japan Renewable Energy Foundation.”
It is a well-known fact that Ryūichi Sakamoto was involved in the anti-nuclear movement.
It is said that Masayoshi Son, who brought Sakamoto in as an officer, had a strong conviction in favor of phasing out nuclear power.
His statement that “Japan is a criminal” was probably also based on that conviction.
But was Son’s anti-nuclear stance based only on conviction?
While saying “Japan is a criminal,” he also evaluates South Korea’s nuclear power as safe.
At the Global Green Growth Summit held in Seoul, SoftBank President Masayoshi Son apologized for the trouble Japan’s nuclear accident had caused neighboring countries and spoke the words quoted at the beginning.
Omitted here.
During this visit to South Korea, Mr. Son also paid a courtesy call on President Lee Myung-bak.
At that time, he also made the remark, “Phasing out nuclear power is Japan’s issue.
I highly value South Korea’s nuclear plants.”
While advocating a nuclear phase-out in Japan, he praises nuclear power in South Korea.
Is this not the very definition of double standards?
(From FLASH, August 4, Heisei 23 [2011].)
To be continued.