Published on October 17, 2019.
This essay argues that the Kansai Electric Power scandal must not be confused with nuclear power generation, nuclear research, or the development of the nuclear industry.
It insists that issues involving local power brokers, influential land figures, or organized-crime-related individuals—matters familiar to those in real estate and construction—have nothing to do with nuclear technology as a product of civilization’s progress.
It also criticizes left-wing forces that remain silent about corruption and bribery among Chinese Communist Party officials while attacking Japan’s nuclear industry.

October 17, 2019
The problem of influential local figures, or organized-crime-related individuals living nearby, which anyone who has worked in the real estate or construction industries must surely have experienced, has absolutely nothing to do with the issue of the progress of nuclear power, which is the result of the progress of civilization!
As far as I know, in so-called elite high schools, where the first- and second-ranked students from junior high schools in each prefecture—the people who will become central figures in Japan—gather, the only people who, while still high school students, stood at the teacher’s podium and lectured in place of teachers were probably myself and Komuro Naoki of Fukushima High School in the neighboring prefecture.
What I am thinking now should have been understood by readers of keen insight from the chapter I republished yesterday about China’s nuclear power situation.
To be safe, I will issue this message in the style of Komuro Naoki.
I say to the Japanese people…the present Kansai Electric Power matter and nuclear power plants, and by extension departments of nuclear engineering, research and development in nuclear power, and the development of the nuclear industry, are completely separate issues.
The problem of influential local figures, or organized-crime-related individuals living nearby, which anyone who has worked in the real estate or construction industries must surely have experienced, has absolutely nothing to do with the issue of the progress of nuclear power, which is the result of the progress of civilization!
To begin with, is it not said that the powerful figure in question became a local power broker by seizing on every kind of matter and denouncing it by saying, “That is discrimination…”?
The so-called leftists who try to destroy the nuclear industry over such a matter should understand that the reality of corruption and bribery among the officials of the Chinese Communist Party, which is probably your own headquarters as well…cases like Kansai Electric Power would not even be worth talking about in China, and would not be at any level that would become a problem at all.
Anyone with intelligence above that of a kindergarten child can understand this.
Those who advance the foolish argument that the Kansai Electric Power case should cut off the life of the nuclear industry should ask: what kinds of sums are involved in the bribes taken by China’s men of power?
What kinds of sums, exactly, are the bribes that people connected to the Chinese Communist Party, or its officials, or local power holders, receive and hoard?
Why do you remain completely silent about their conduct, while in the present Kansai Electric Power case you adopt an attitude of crushing Kansai Electric Power and crushing nuclear power generation?
Who would rejoice if Japan’s nuclear power plants were destroyed…if Japan’s nuclear technology and industry were destroyed?
Who can say that you are not agents of China and the Korean Peninsula!
This essay continues.