Published on September 18, 2019.
This essay discusses the prolonged power outage in Chiba Prefecture, typhoon damage, the anti-nuclear reporting of the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, criticism of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Lee Teng-hui’s advice to Japan, and media-driven populism surrounding Koizumi Shinjiro and Yamamoto Taro, criticizing the media and politicians for damaging Japan’s national interests.

September 18, 2019.
They say the same thing about Yamamoto Taro.
Even former politicians called veterans and those who call themselves commentators do the same, and the way they so easily drift into populism is truly beyond help.
It was also the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others that caused the problem in Chiba Prefecture, where power outages are still continuing even now.
A friend living in Tokyo was worried about the typhoon that struck the metropolitan area this time, so I too was checking the news.
When I heard that it would make landfall with exactly the same strength as the typhoon that struck Osaka, where I live, last year, I cried out in surprise, “What!”
The reason is that the ferocity of the typhoon that struck Osaka last year was tremendous.
After all, the high-rise condominium where I live shook for an hour.
Unlike this time, when the metropolitan area was struck, Osaka was struck during the daytime.
The violence of the strong wind was beyond description, and when I saw various flying objects beyond the veranda racing through the air at tremendous speed, I moved away from the window.
A friend born in Osaka stayed by the window recklessly, saying it was the first time he had seen such a sight.
Tokyo would be hit late at night.
After the typhoon passes, there will be considerable damage, I told my friend living in Tokyo.
Before interviewing Chiba residents suffering from continuing power outages, the mass media such as NHK should interview Sakamoto Ryuichi, formerly of YMO, who said at an anti-nuclear rally, “It is only electricity…”
To begin with, I feel truly nauseated by the media that call a person of this level a professor, and by those who parasitize such media.
Lee Teng-hui, the mature statesman of Taiwan who studied at Kyoto University, offered this advice to Japan, a country that has continued to provide enormous funds to the United Nations comparable to those of the United States and has continued to provide enormous amounts of ODA to foreign countries, especially the worst examples being the largest financial assistance in human history to China and South Korea.
“Japan should stop assisting foreign countries.
The time has long since come for it to use that enormous money for its own country.”
He also saw through the need for Japan to improve its domestic infrastructure and for Japan, a disaster-prone country, to strengthen its national land.
In other words, that mature statesman was worried that if Japan continued as it was, it would leave behind a source of future disaster for itself.
What kept Japan as the foolish country he worried about were media such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, which were agents of China and South Korea, or, without the slightest exaggeration, completely under their operations, and politicians such as Miyazawa Kiichi, who blindly followed them.
Now, the Asahi Shimbun, although I stopped subscribing to it in August five years ago and the following conjecture is almost certainly not mistaken, NHK, and other media are trying to elevate Koizumi Shinjiro, who frankly is a person utterly lacking in ability.
Those who think politics is the same as the entertainment world will say foolish things such as that he is good at speeches.
They say the same thing about Yamamoto Taro.
Even former politicians called veterans and those who call themselves commentators do the same, and the way they so easily drift into populism is truly beyond help.
The reason the media are forcibly turning Koizumi Shinjiro, a person of a level at which one might say he has ability if he were an entertainer, into a candidate for party president is this.
Koizumi Shinjiro is a person who says exactly what the public opinion created by the media says.
One may also call it public opinion created by television wide shows.
In other words, he is a person whom the media can move as they please.
What he says is only what appeals to the media.
In other words, on issues that Japan truly faces, such as national defense and diplomacy, apart from pseudo-moralism, a self-abasing historical view, political correctness, opposition to nuclear power, and the like, it is unlikely that he will ever produce answers in line with the national interest.
It is fair to state categorically that the answers he produces will be answers that appeal to the mass media, answers for television wide shows, in other words, nothing but answers that damage Japan’s national interests.
The attitude of being unable to see through the fact that his ability and his mind are only at that level is what is called being a frivolous fan.
The enormous assistance that Japan has continued to provide to China and South Korea after the war.
The grant aid was also the largest in human history.
In China’s case, it continued until last year!
The course of these events is as I have referred to in previous chapters.
I estimate that the amount for China is no less than 100 trillion yen.
As for South Korea, I have also specifically introduced the large amount of assistance provided since the conclusion of the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea.
If part of these sums had been used, for example, for burying utility poles underground throughout Japan, the power outage in Chiba Prefecture this time would not have occurred.
It goes without saying that the beauty of towns throughout Japan would also be far greater than it is now.
There is something else for which the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others must be further condemned.
The attitude and reporting they have taken toward Tokyo Electric Power Company since the Great East Japan Earthquake is one of the true causes of the prolonged power outage this time.
In the past, electric power companies were companies where Japan’s most outstanding people found employment.
Now that is surely not the case at all.
It goes without saying who caused their decline.
Moreover, the minds that merely pander to them, although they are exam honor students.
I have told people around me since I was much younger that even a clever monkey can enter the University of Tokyo.
All the more so, because the average IQ of University of Tokyo students is apparently in the 120s.
One person of that sort graduated from Kyoto University and became governor of Niigata Prefecture.
Since then, I have been considerably disillusioned with the people of Niigata Prefecture.
As readers know, I was furious from the bottom of my heart and continued to denounce the attitude of this despicable man as he bullied the chairman and site manager of Tokyo Electric Power Company as he pleased.
Just as I intuitively sensed, this man was not merely a disgrace to Kyoto University.
He was also an outrageous governor who, when he went to Tokyo, was buying sex.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, made into a thorough villain by the Asahi Shimbun and NHK.
For the sake of the pitiful neighbors of my home region who are thinking of making money without working by taking advantage of this situation, and as has also been reported, antisocial people who are making money by taking advantage of this can be seen here and there, TEPCO has been forced to pour in far more than 8 trillion yen since 2011.
In the past, it surely secured abundant personnel who would not be defeated even by sudden disasters.
However, in an age when management efficiency is loudly called for, major personnel reductions and the reorganization and separation of divisions must have been carried out all the more.
In other words, this incident is not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster.
Who created it?
Needless to say, the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, and the political operators and so-called cultural figures who have gone along with them.
Of course, among those now suffering from the disaster, those who subscribed to the Asahi, watched NHK, and went along with them cannot escape responsibility either.
What is truly malicious about the Asahi and NHK is their attitude of keeping silent about the fact that this is their responsibility while reporting as though the government were responsible.
But this time, even those villains must, after all, feel their own responsibility.
All people with discerning eyes should have noticed that they are not attacking the government as they have done in the past.
This essay continues.