Published on February 18, 2020.
Based on Masayuki Takayama’s column in Shukan Shincho, this essay examines the international structure surrounding Maurice Strong, the Rio Earth Summit, CO² emissions rights, the United Nations, COP25, Greta Thunberg, Chinese NGOs, and Japan’s ODA.
It criticizes the reality that China escaped responsibility for CO² emissions by calling itself a “developing country,” while Japan continued paying huge sums through emissions rights and ODA, and argues that restoring tied aid and reviving nuclear power are the way to end Japan’s folly.

2020-02-18
Yet China, which currently emits the most CO², was declared free of responsibility because it was a “developing country.”
Strong, backed by China, became chairman of the Rio Earth Summit and spread this fraudulent story in the name of the United Nations.
China’s NGOs became its arms and legs.
The following is from Masayuki Takayama’s serialized column, which closes the February 13 issue of Shukan Shincho.
A friend of mine, one of the most well-read people I know, once said that he and I are in a complementary relationship, and this essay proves that this assessment too was right on the mark.
With his extraordinary skill, Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, proves the correctness of what I have been doing in recent days: confronting the United Nations, COP25, and Greta Thunberg with PM2.5 pollution maps and continuing to criticize them.
Not only the Japanese people but people all over the world will surely marvel and say that Masayuki Takayama is extraordinary.
The passages between ＊ and ＊ are mine.
Are You Fools?
The air in China is filthy.
It contains soot, exhaust gas, and the terrifying PM2.5.
But what is remarkable about the Chinese is that they wondered whether even such pollution could be turned into money.
Thus, as Soki Watanabe wrote in the Sankei Shimbun the other day, China teamed up with the Canadian fraudster Maurice Strong.
They first spread the theory that recent abnormal warm winters and other forms of climate change were caused by “excessively concentrated CO².”
They said that the concentration had increased because “advanced industrial countries such as Japan had emitted it for many years,” and therefore those countries should reduce their emissions.
If they could not reduce them, they should buy CO² emissions rights from developing countries.
Yet China, which currently emits the most CO², was declared free of responsibility because it was a “developing country.”
Strong, backed by China, became chairman of the Rio Earth Summit and spread this fraudulent story in the name of the United Nations.
China’s NGOs became its arms and legs.
Japan, weak before the authority of the United Nations, was easily deceived and has been paying China 100 billion yen every year in the name of emissions rights.
Recently, Strong’s true nature has been exposed, and the biological community has also warned that if CO² decreases any further, plants that use it as nourishment will die.
With the situation turning against it, China has tried to put forward the climate-change girl Greta Thunberg, but how effective will that be?
＊What I still remember is the reaction of the two people who call themselves anchors on NHK’s Watch 9 when Greta appeared.
The two of them, who showed no suspicion whatsoever, simply agreed with her and praised her without reservation, have absolutely no qualification to be involved in a news program.
Moreover, before the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize, Kuwako, with a broad smile on her face, commented to Arima beside her, “It might be that person…,” and Arima responded with another broad smile.
It is no exaggeration to say that they, or rather the people who control NHK’s news department, possess no intellect other than pseudo-moralism and pseudo-political correctness.
I was relieved when I learned online that Kuwako would be leaving the program from the new fiscal year, but I have also read online criticism of Wakuda for a similar kind of attitude.
Perhaps one cannot expect much, but at the very least, I hope they will stop adding unnecessary comments, simply report the news, and broadcast properly verified footage.
Editing carried out by minds steeped in a masochistic view of history and anti-Japanese thought, minds that merely read the Asahi Shimbun controlling the news department, is in fact a clear crime.＊
There was another international fraud of this kind in the same 1990s.
The fraudster was Clare Short, the British Secretary of State for International Development.
The victim was again Japan.
The stage was the countries south of the Sahara, where HIV was raging at the time.
Patients came one after another to Britain, France, and other former colonial powers in search of better medical care.
The social medical expenses of Britain and France were bursting.
They wanted to drive out the HIV refugees, but doing so would make them look inhuman.
Clare thought.
What if the advanced countries wrote off their repayable aid claims to the sub-Saharan countries?
The poor countries could use the money they would otherwise have repaid to build hospitals locally.
They would no longer have to go to the trouble of traveling to Britain.
It was a beautiful story, but Britain’s aid amount was zero.
The largest donor was Japan, which had provided as much as one trillion dollars.
If the debts were to be written off, she should have bowed her head to Japan, but instead she declared, “Japan gives tied aid. It is a ruthless dinosaur that preys on the poorest countries.”
For the sake of Japan’s honor, it should be said that tied aid accounted for only about ten percent of the total, in specialized fields such as medical care.
It was nothing more than a false accusation, but it was spread by Jubilee 2000, an NGO supported by Britain.
In Japan, the Tokyo Catholic Church and the Asahi Shimbun spread Clare’s lies, saying such things as “stand with the vulnerable.”
In the end, Japan abandoned a total of six trillion yen in repayable aid and other claims scheduled to mature over the ten years from 2003, and at the same time decided to abolish so-called tied aid.
Britain, meanwhile, used the claims Japan had abandoned to build hospitals locally, played the role of the former colonial power standing with the vulnerable, and was also able to prevent medical refugees.
Speaking of standing with the vulnerable, Japan has Shinjiro Koizumi.
As soon as he became environment minister, he stood with the fishermen of Fukushima and said, “Even if it is harmless, we will not release tritium.”
The fishermen receive fishing rights free of charge.
There is also the option of buying those rights up.
But he cannot do anything that would cause friction.
On top of that, at COP25, he was insulted with the Fossil Award by a climate-change NGO.
Could he not even say that China, their employer, was far more deserving?
Shinjiro, who fails at everything he does, recently and unusually raised his voice in protest against aid for the construction of a thermal power plant in Vietnam.
He merely tried to look virtuous by saying that he would not permit the export of thermal power generation that emits CO², but he did voice the simple question, “Why are all the construction contracts going to China?”
In fact, after Japan stopped tied aid, almost all of Japan’s ODA, nearly one trillion yen every year, has been won by China.
Japan has given China many trillions of yen in ODA and has also purchased CO² emissions rights.
On top of that, with Japanese money, Chinese people have gone abroad and carried out aid projects.
China’s prosperity bloomed on top of Japan’s foolishness.
Enough of China.
If Japan takes to heart the fact that Shinjiro struck upon, restores tied aid, and revives nuclear power, which does not emit CO², no one will ever again be able to call Japan foolish.