Published on September 23, 2019.
This essay argues that the prolonged blackout in Chiba after the typhoon was not merely a natural disaster, but a man-made consequence of anti-nuclear reporting, excessive attacks on TEPCO, misplaced foreign aid priorities, delayed national infrastructure reinforcement, and the responsibility of media outlets such as Asahi Shimbun and NHK.

September 23, 2019.
It was Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others that caused the problem in Chiba Prefecture, where power outages still continue even now.
It was Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others that caused the problem in Chiba Prefecture, where power outages still continue 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 the report that it would make landfall with exactly the same force as the typhoon that struck Osaka, where I live, last year, I cried out in surprise, “What?”
Because the ferocity of the typhoon that struck Osaka last year was tremendous.
After all, the high-rise condominium in which I live shook for an entire hour.
Unlike this time, when the typhoon struck the Tokyo metropolitan area, Osaka was hit in the daytime.
The ferocity of that wind was beyond description, and when I saw various flying objects hurtling past beyond the balcony at tremendous speed, I moved away from the window.
A friend born in Osaka stood fearlessly by the window, saying it was a sight he had never seen before.
The typhoon would make landfall in Tokyo late at night…after it passed, there would be considerable damage, I told my friend living in Tokyo.
Before interviewing the people of Chiba Prefecture who are suffering from the continuing power outages, NHK and other mass media should interview former YMO member Sakamoto Ryuichi, who said at an anti-nuclear power rally, “It is only electricity…”
To begin with, I truly feel so disgusted that I want to vomit toward the media that call a person of this level a professor, and toward the people who parasitize such places.
Lee Teng-hui, the great adult of Taiwan who studied at Kyoto University, advised Japan, which had continued to provide the United Nations with enormous funds comparable to those of the United States, and which had continued to provide foreign countries with massive amounts of ODA, especially the worst cases, China and South Korea, with the greatest financial aid in human history, saying, “Japan should stop aiding foreign countries. The time has long since come for Japan to use that enormous money for its own country.”
He had also seen through the need for Japan, a disaster-prone nation, to improve its domestic infrastructure and strengthen its national land.
In other words, this great adult was concerned that Japan, if it continued as it was, would leave future troubles for itself.
It was media such as Asahi Shimbun and NHK, which are China’s and South Korea’s agents, or which, without exaggeration, were completely under their operations, and politicians such as Miyazawa Kiichi who blindly followed them, that kept Japan as the foolish country that Lee Teng-hui worried about.
Now, Asahi Shimbun, although I stopped subscribing to it in August five years ago, I am almost certainly not mistaken in the following supposition, and media such as NHK are trying to force Koizumi Shinjiro, a person who, frankly speaking, completely lacks ability…those who think politics is the same as show business will probably say such foolish things as that he is good at giving speeches.
They say the same thing about Yamamoto Taro…even former politicians called veterans and people who call themselves commentators do the same, so the ease with which they drift into populism is beyond remedy.
The reason the media are forcibly trying to turn Koizumi Shinjiro, a man whose level is such that one might say he has ability only if he were a celebrity, into a candidate for party president.
It is because Koizumi Shinjiro is a man who says exactly what the public opinion created by the media, which is to say the public opinion created by wide shows, dictates.
In other words, he is a man whom the media can move as they like.
The only things he says are things that please the media.
In other words, concerning pseudo-moralism, a masochistic view of history, political correctness, opposition to nuclear power, and so on, and beyond these, concerning the issues Japan truly faces, such as national defense and diplomacy, it is inconceivable that he would produce answers aligned with the national interest.
It is fair to assert that the answers he produces can only be answers that please the mass media, answers for wide shows, that is, answers that damage Japan’s national interest.
The manner in which people cannot see that his ability and his intellect are only at that level is what is called “Mi-chan Ha-chan.”
The enormous aid that Japan has continued to provide to China and South Korea after the war…grant aid too has been the largest in human history…and to China, it continued until last year!
The course of these events is as I have mentioned in previous chapters.
I estimate that the aid to China alone is no less than 100 trillion yen.
Regarding South Korea, I have also specifically introduced the enormous amount of aid provided since the conclusion of the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and Korea.
If even part of these sums had been used, for example, for underground burial work for utility poles 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 have been far greater than it is now.
There is something else for which Asahi, NHK, and others must be condemned even further.
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the attitude and reporting they have taken toward Tokyo Electric Power Company is one of the true causes of the prolongation of the power outages this time.
Electric power companies were once companies where Japan’s most outstanding people went to work.
That is surely no longer the case at all.
It goes without saying who caused their decline.
Moreover, there are brains that merely pander to them…but they are examination honor students…I have been saying to those around me since I was far younger…even a clever monkey can enter the University of Tokyo…and all the more so because the average IQ of University of Tokyo students is apparently in the 120s.
One of that sort graduated from Kyoto University and became Governor of Niigata Prefecture…I have been deeply disillusioned with the people of Niigata ever since…my readers know well that I was truly furious and continued to denounce the manner in which this vile man bullied the chairman and plant manager of Tokyo Electric Power Company as he pleased.
As I had intuitively sensed, this man was not merely a disgrace to Kyoto University, but was also an outrageous governor who went up to Tokyo and bought sex.
The governor before this governor was also a man who bullied TEPCO to the utmost possible degree.
TEPCO was thoroughly made into a villain by Asahi Shimbun and NHK.
For the sake of the pathetic neighbors of my home region who, taking advantage of this, think of making money without working, and as has also been reported, anti-social people who are making money by taking advantage of this can be seen here and there,
TEPCO has been forced to pour in an amount far exceeding 8 trillion yen since 2011.
In the past, it would have secured abundant personnel who could withstand even sudden disasters.
But in an age when management efficiency is being shouted about, all the more so, large-scale personnel reductions, departmental restructuring, separation, and the like must have been carried out.
In other words, what happened this time is not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster.
Who created it?
Needless to say, Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and the political operators and so-called cultural figures who have gone along with them.
Of course, even among those currently affected by the disaster, those who subscribed to Asahi, watched NHK, and went along with them cannot escape responsibility.
What is truly malicious about Asahi and NHK is the manner in which they keep silent about the fact that it is their responsibility, and report as though the government were responsible.
However, this time at least, even those villains must be feeling some responsibility of their own.
All people of insight must surely have noticed that they are not attacking the government as they have done until now.
This essay will continue.