Published on September 6, 2019.
This essay discusses TRON, invented by Ken Sakamura, and the foresight of the Japanese government, which sought to place it at the foundation of Japan’s education and the coming PC era.
It argues that Japan’s independent OS initiative was crushed by Bill Gates, the U.S. government, and Masayoshi Son, while also criticizing the Sankei Shimbun for retaining Asahi-like intellectual defects.
Through Sankei’s series on the Korean Peninsula, its use of Kang Sang-jung, and the remarks of historian Isoda Michifumi, the essay questions the problems of Japanese newspapers and intellectuals.

September 6, 2019.
In the final chapter of what had been a true laborious series on the Korean Peninsula…to have Kang Sang-jung appear on every page…must have been a catastrophe so great that all the labor up to that point vanished in an instant.
This is a chapter I sent out on January 5, 2019, under the title “It Was Not Only That Ken Sakamura, One of the Geniuses Born in Japan, Invented TRON, but Also That the Japanese Government, Naturally Aware of the Importance of This, Took Notice of It.”
The number of people who think that the only newspaper in Japan that can now be called a newspaper is the Sankei Shimbun must be increasing day by day.
But the fact that the Sankei Shimbun is not 100 percent perfect is shown by its recent article that seemed to praise Kimura Kan, or by the truly disastrous failure in its series on the Korean Peninsula, which had been a real work of labor, as if it lacked the finishing touch that brings the dragon to life…for, unbelievably, in the final chapter, the person it made appear on every page was Kang Sang-jung.
It must have been a catastrophe so great that all the labor up to that point vanished in an instant.
Until August four years ago, I did not know that Masayuki Takayama existed.
Nor did I know the reporters who now write genuine articles in the Sankei Shimbun…nor did I know Fukushima Kaori, who graduated from Osaka University, served as Beijing correspondent, left the newspaper, and now works as one of Japan’s leading China experts.
In the special feature article on January 1 titled “Looking Ahead to Japan’s Course,” the Sankei placed at the center Isoda Michifumi, who calls himself a historian and whose mind is clearly one formed by having subscribed to and closely read the Asahi Shimbun; this is probably the clearest proof that even the Sankei Shimbun is not 100 percent secure.
Opening part omitted.
However, when Japan was told, at the height of the bubble in the 1980s, to “create something new,” Japanese money flowed into land investment.
It was the moment when the bottom of the Japanese people was exposed.
Japan did not create Google, Windows, or Macintosh.
Recently, there have been many splendid people, such as Yamanaka Shinya, who produced iPS cells.
Remainder omitted.
The mind of this Isoda Michifumi, completed by the Asahi Shimbun…the hopelessness of his attitude, in which he takes pleasure in denouncing and criticizing Japan without even noticing his own foolishness!
Isoda Michifumi.
Listen carefully.
The Japanese people and the Japanese government…
Not only did Ken Sakamura, one of the geniuses born in Japan, invent TRON ten years before the greed of Bill Gates, which may be called the lowest in history, conquered the world with Windows, but the Japanese government, naturally aware of the importance of this, took notice of it—the Liberal Democratic Party government, that is…you must know that the only one who did not notice, the only one who knew nothing, was you, Isoda!…
Precisely because the Japanese government thoroughly knew that the coming age would be the age of the Internet and the age of the PC, it decided to equip every elementary and junior high school throughout Japan with PCs loaded with TRON and to conduct PC education.
The one who fiercely moved to crush this was Bill Gates, and the one who served as his vanguard was Masayoshi Son.
Naturally, against the Japanese government that rejected this, Bill Gates moved the U.S. government and forced the Japanese government to submit.
The fact that even the Sankei Shimbun placed, at the center of its January 1 special essay section, an essay by a man who does not even know such obvious facts shows that there are Asahi-like elements even within the Sankei Shimbun…the New Year’s edition of the Sankei Shimbun was 100 yen cheaper.