Published on July 18, 2019.
This essay presents the author’s inference that the immediate total shutdown of nuclear power plants and the anti-nuclear movement after 2011 may have led to Japan’s loss of national wealth, air pollution, photochemical smog, and an increase in torrential rains.
With strong anger toward the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, Kan Naoto, Son Masayoshi, and Fukushima Mizuho, it argues that the heart and soul of the Japanese people are not found in Tokyo or Osaka, but in Japan’s mountains, rivers, forests, lakes, fields, and seas.

July 18, 2019.
The heart of the Japanese people, their soul, their spirit, exists in Japan’s mountains and rivers, forests, lakes, fields, and seas.
The following is a chapter I posted on July 18, 2018.
From my house, one can command a panoramic view of Osaka City.
Therefore, I can tell in an instant whether the atmosphere is clean or not.
Yesterday and today, I thought, “Something is strange.”
That is because both the city and the mountain ranges surrounding Osaka City looked hazy.
Today, convinced that photochemical smog must be occurring, I checked the distribution map of PM2.5.
https://pm25.jp/
Readers, please check it immediately.
All of Japan except Hokkaido and northern Tohoku is bright red.
Needless to say, I felt anger toward media such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK.
Ever since the immediate total shutdown of nuclear power plants begun in 2011 by the three villains in question, I have felt anger toward the anti-nuclear movement that the Asahi Shimbun began in agreement with it, and toward all those who went along with it.
Needless to say, neither the Asahi nor NHK reports even a word today about this terrible air-pollution situation.
They are the true villains, and people like them are what one calls wicked scoundrels.
They never report any truth that is inconvenient to them.
Yesterday, while watching NHK news, I was bothered by the announcer repeatedly saying about the high-temperature conditions now attacking Japan, “There is a danger to life, so please be careful.”
Of course, such high-temperature conditions are continuing.
But if photochemical smog is added to this heat, will not the danger of smog multiply?
I am the type of person who, if anything, is fine with heat and poor with cold, but this summer alone, for some reason, I instinctively did not want to go outside… because not only was the temperature high, but the air was dirty.
The other day, I searched for the amount of electricity generated by nuclear power at the time when the nuclear power plants were immediately and totally shut down in 2011, and the percentage it occupied in Japan’s total electricity generation, and I introduced the results as well, presenting an inference that no one had pointed out regarding the cause of the unprecedented torrential rains that struck all of western Japan this time, and the cause of the torrential rains and tornadoes that have begun occurring frequently since 2011.
As readers know, nearly all of my inferences were correct.
A friend who always reads my essays said to me, “You did well to find out that nuclear power generation amounted to 30 million kW…”
Needless to say, I found it in an instant on the Internet, the greatest library in human history.
In 2011, it was only natural that the majority of Japanese citizens, including myself, who were devoting themselves day after day to work in the business world for the sake of society and people, knew nothing about those figures, Japan’s total electricity generation, and the total amount and percentage of nuclear power generation within it.
But media such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, and the scholars and commentators who agreed with them, are different.
Because they make their living from knowledge about such matters.
The same is true of politicians.
In the most important national field of electricity generation, politics could never consist of immediately and totally shutting down fifty-four nuclear power facilities that accounted for more than half of total electricity generation, namely 30 million kW.
It was hysteria below the level of kindergarten children, and the selfish desires of Kan Naoto, Son Masayoshi, and Fukushima Mizuho, people whom it is no exaggeration to call the three worst villains in Japanese history.
Because of that, Japan was forced to spend as much as 15 trillion yen of national wealth, namely tax money, on fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and LPG in just a few years.
But the fact that it had created an even greater problem was first announced by the reappearance of photochemical smog for the first time in forty years.
The result of spending the enormous sum of 15 trillion yen and continuing to burn fossil fuels equivalent to 30 million kW, continuing to emit greenhouse gases, is this unprecedented torrential rainfall.
What makes this unavoidable is that it has begun destroying Japan’s hometowns, Japan’s satoyama, and Japan’s rivers, which are the soul of the Japanese people.
The heart of the Japanese people is never made in Tokyo or Osaka!
The heart of the Japanese people, their soul, their spirit, exists in Japan’s mountains and rivers, forests, lakes, fields, and seas.
The reason the three villains in question are all said not to be genuine Japanese is that the evil they committed not only can be called, without exaggeration, a plot to reduce Japan’s national strength, but also that, merely by the fact that they tried—and are trying—to destroy the foundations of Japan and fill all of Japan with hideous things such as solar panels and wind turbines, it should be clear that their evil has reached its extreme.
In 2011, when the three villains in question committed the lowest evil, there was only one person among so-called scholars and commentators who declared that their decision was wrong.
That was Yoshimoto Takaaki.
I have not read any of his works… I have never once wanted to read them, but I remember it clearly because, for the first time, I had a favorable impression of him, thinking that he was not treated as a great philosopher for nothing.
Yoshimoto Takaaki declared, “It is a decision that goes against civilization, and it is a mistaken and foolish decision…”