Originally published on April 16, 2018.
Upon learning of the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, this chapter expresses profound sorrow while also sharply criticizing the anti-Japan reporting of French and Japanese media, especially NHK.
It conveys the author’s deep love for Paris and French culture, disappointment in outlets such as Le Monde and figures such as Le Clézio, and strong anger toward the left-wing tendencies the author believes dominate the world’s media.

2019-04-16
As my readers know, I once wrote that Woody Allen and I stand as the two people in the world who love Paris most…
and that if this was divine punishment, it should not have fallen upon Notre-Dame Cathedral, a World Heritage site…
because it is simply too heartbreaking…

A friend of mine, one of the most devoted readers I know, said to me that Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was on fire…
and asked whether I had seen the news.
I had not, of course, because in the morning I watch nothing but sports broadcasts such as MJB.
The first thing I thought was this:
whether they had believed or taken advantage of the anti-Japan propaganda of that country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” when, the year before last, a heavily surgically altered woman calling herself Sasaki Kume, obviously not a genuine Japanese, deliberately published in Paris a laughable book saying, “My life was ruined by molesters,” and Paris television stations seized on it to bring on young women and engage in criticism of Japan,
and NHK, the most foolish television station among those of the advanced nations, likewise seized on this, first on Watch 9 and then the following night on its BS international news broadcast, giving it long airtime and gleefully reporting it as ideal material for attacking Japan.
When one thinks that NHK was even more malicious, divine punishment should have fallen not upon Notre-Dame Cathedral, but upon NHK…
For one who loved France, the sight of Notre-Dame Cathedral burning down…
as is also seen on the internet, was something that brought tears of sorrow like 9/11.
If that was divine punishment…
then when I came close to saying, “This is the end,” and almost severed my ties with France because of Le Monde’s unmistakably white-supremacist criticism, openly dripping with contempt for Japan, of the interrogation of Ghosn, a man like the embodiment of greed, even though Japan is in fact the country that is most overly cautious in the world in its questioning of criminals,
and when I denounced Le Clézio and told him to know shame, as my readers know,
I also came to realize that France itself was not the evil…
rather, it was the work of the left-wing infantilists who dominate the media throughout the world.
As my readers also know, I have written that Woody Allen and I are the twin figures who love Paris more than anyone else in the world.
If that was divine punishment…
then it should not have fallen upon Notre-Dame Cathedral, a World Heritage site…
because it is simply too heartbreaking…
but rather upon the broadcasting station of a certain country, ruled by left-wing infantilists who are the very embodiment of the masochistic view of history and anti-Japan ideology imposed by GHQ brainwashing.
That was what I found myself thinking.