Published on September 18, 2019.
This essay discusses Osaka Ishin, Osaka Mayor Matsui Ichiro, Osaka Governor Yoshimura Hirofumi, treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the proposal to accept it in Osaka Bay, Koizumi Shinjiro’s response, and South Korea’s continued slander of Fukushima, contrasting genuine statesmanship with pseudo-moralism.

September 18, 2019.
Koizumi should have directed his entire statement at South Korea, and he does not even understand that those were not words to be addressed to Matsui and Yoshimura, who raised their voices as genuine politicians and patriots.
In order to sum up Osaka, which I had chosen as the stage of my life, I placed an opinion advertisement titled “From Osaka To Osaka” on February 26, 2003, as an insert in every household in Osaka Prefecture subscribing to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, despite having endured tremendous hardship since the total volume control order issued in March 1990, which brought about Japan’s “lost twenty years.”
I put all my emotions into that advertisement.
This advertisement had a tremendous impact on Osaka.
One person even said, “It is the February 26 Incident…”
Also, one of Osaka’s leading wealthy men, who had usually called me frequently, called me timidly after some time had passed.
“How many months did it take you to write that?”
No, I wrote it in half a day.
“Half a day!! We could not write that even if we spent a month…”
Because the governor of Osaka Prefecture at that time was Ota Fusae, I was able to write it in one burst.
I realized that if I addressed it to her, I could write it all at once, and this opinion statement, beginning with “Dear Governor Ota Fusae,” was immediately taken up the next day in the Osaka Prefectural Assembly.
Suzuki, then vice governor in charge of Osaka revitalization, was asked by an assembly member inspired by my opinion statement, “What should be done to revitalize Osaka?”
He too had read my work.
He answered as follows.
“I believe Osaka’s revitalization can only be achieved when each and every resident of Osaka Prefecture thinks about matters from the standpoint of the governor.”
Last night, on the BS news after World Sports, the MLB Hour, Osaka Mayor Matsui announced that he would accept Fukushima’s contaminated water in Osaka Bay.
Although it is called contaminated water, it is treated water containing tritium at a level equivalent to ordinary water, harmless water that nuclear-power countries around the world all discharge into the sea after similar treatment.
The South Korean government and South Koreans in fact know nothing even about the nuclear power plants in their own country.
Through this matter, South Korea, with its maliciousness, is proving by itself that it is a country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
Taking advantage of the accident that occurred in Fukushima, it continues endlessly to slander and defame Japan and Fukushima, in other words, to engage in hate speech.
I am convinced that the time has long since passed for the Japanese people and people throughout the world to know that against such a country, a country that is the extreme of evil, a country that continues Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education, Japan must tighten export controls even further and crush Samsung.
Unless it does so, this country will never become normal, and not only that, it will become a country that commits terrible evil against Japan, which in turn will become the greatest disaster for the world.
Osaka Mayor Matsui announced that Osaka Bay would accept Fukushima’s treated water.
“The time has long since come for the nation to do what must properly be done.
It cannot be stored forever.
Moreover, that is simply water.”
People around me recognize that my opinion statement gave birth to Osaka Ishin.
I myself recognize it that way as well.
As readers know, I once fiercely criticized Hashimoto Toru’s television remarks concerning historical recognition with South Korea, saying that they were worth less than toilet paper, or that “a mere lawyer should stop becoming a geisha of the airwaves and speaking about national politics.”
Compared with Hashimoto’s habit of verbal blunders, I had strongly agreed with the words and actions of Mayor Matsui and Governor Yoshimura.
This news made me feel most proud of the life in which I chose to die as a citizen of Osaka City and a resident of Osaka Prefecture, because it showed that this judgment had been entirely correct.
A friend who is one of the most avid readers brought me the evening edition of the Sankei Shimbun, since I do not take the evening edition, and this morning’s Sankei Shimbun article in the evening.
Those who read this morning’s Sankei Shimbun should have realized that the criticism I wrote today of Koizumi Shinjiro was entirely on the mark.
He also said, “It must not happen that people in Fukushima are hurt by someone outside the competent jurisdiction speaking carelessly.”
This statement by Koizumi is the very height of pseudo-moralism and is utterly empty language.
In Kansai dialect, he is nothing more than an “eekakkoshii,” someone who merely wants to look good.
The baseness of the media’s intention in elevating such a person will be discussed later.
Koizumi should have directed his entire statement at South Korea, and he does not even understand that those were not words to be addressed to Matsui and Yoshimura, who raised their voices as genuine politicians and patriots.
To begin with, has it not been the very conduct of the Koizumi father and son to speak carelessly outside their jurisdiction and criticize the Abe administration?
The time has long since come for the Japanese people to realize that this statement proves he is an irresponsible person who only makes ad hoc remarks while keeping the mass media in mind.