Originally published on October 29, 2019. Quoting Masayuki Takayama’s serialized column in Shukan Shincho, this article discusses the Y chromosome, the male-line imperial succession, the continuity between modern Japanese people and the Jomon people, criticism of the horse-riding people theory, and the issues surrounding the Japanese Communist Party and the Asahi Shimbun’s advocacy of a female-line emperor.

2019-10-29
Now, the Japanese Communist Party and the Asahi Shimbun advocate a female-line emperor.
They believe that this is the best way to defile the Japanese people.
Do not ignorance and malice reek from Asahi?
I am republishing the chapter originally published on 2019-07-11 under the title, “Do not ignorance and malice reek from Asahi?”
The reason goes without saying.
Because it is a truth that every Japanese citizen must know.
As I have already written, I subscribe to Shukan Shincho every week in order to read the serialized columns of Masayuki Takayama and Yoshiko Sakurai.
In this week’s issue as well, Masayuki Takayama fully demonstrates that he is a journalist without equal in the postwar world.
Everyone who read it must have thought that he was extraordinary.
Yoshiko Sakurai, too, is a person worthy of the People’s Honour Award…together with the late Shoichi Watanabe, from the days when the Asahi Shimbun dominated Japan until the present day, she has truly fought a solitary battle, exposing the abnormality of this newspaper, correcting its many fabricated reports rooted in its anti-Japanese ideology, and continuing to criticize the reality that it has persistently sided with anti-Japanese propaganda from China and the Korean Peninsula.
First, I will deliver Masayuki Takayama’s splendid essay to all the people of Japan and to people throughout the world.
＊The passages between ＊ marks are mine.

The Smell of Asahi
Masayuki Takayama

Even when she has been a bad wife, when a man loses his wife before him, for some reason he loses his vitality and dies as though following her.
Conversely, when a husband dies, most wives instead become full of vitality and absolutely do not follow their husbands in death.
The average life expectancy of Japanese people is 80 for men and 87 for women.
This shows that after the troublesome husband has gone, the wife spends another seven years in peace.
Why do men die earlier?
It is because they are men, that is, because they possess a Y chromosome, and that is how it is determined.
It is sad, but that is their fate.
The following is something I learned in interviews with Kumiko Takeuchi and Mary Batten: at the fertilized-egg stage, everyone was “female.”
The proof is the nipples on a man’s chest.
They produce no milk and are not even an erogenous zone.
They serve no purpose whatsoever, but they are evidence that before becoming male, he was female.
Then when does a man become a man?
Six weeks after fertilization, once cell division has begun, the sex-determining factor on the Y chromosome causes the seminal vesicles to begin functioning and releases large quantities of the male hormone testosterone.
Like a shower, it drenches everything from the brain to every corner of the body in testosterone and tells it, “You are a man.”
The male genitalia also develop because of this.
However, the genitalia of congenitally homosexual men grow one size larger than those of normal men.
Why God went to such waste is still unknown.
Those who are born male in both mind and body are constantly admonished by the brain, “You are a man; behave more like a man,” and they grow beards and body hair that women do not have, while their muscles become increasingly powerful.
MacArthur was mocked by his first wife, who said, “You may be a general by day, but at night you’re only a private,” but men are thus required to strive day and night.
In fact, it is also the Y chromosome that supports that striving: it prevents cells from becoming cancerous, prevents arteriosclerosis, and even removes amyloid plaques that attach themselves to the brain.
Thanks to this, a man can keep striving without falling ill, marry a beautiful wife, and father children.
But once he has passed reproductive age, the Y chromosome gradually begins to lose its function.
As a result, hardening of the arteries begins.
Plaque accumulates in the brain and senility begins, while cancer cells also start running rampant.
The fatigue accumulated through constant striving also builds up.
“Pin-pin korori” refers to the ideal way of life in which one remains vigorous and then dies suddenly before becoming a piece of bulky household waste.
The decline of the Y chromosome seems precisely like a law of nature designed to make that possible.
A man continues striving as a man, does his best, and yet, once his role has ended, is swiftly scattered away; Japanese men likened this fleeting way of life to cherry blossoms.
Motoori Norinaga, who had lived a full life and reached the age of sixty, wrote:
“If someone asks what is the Yamato spirit of Shikishima, it is the mountain cherry blossoms fragrant in the morning sun.”
Saigyo, too, wrote:
“I wish to die beneath the blossoms in spring, around the time of the full moon of Kisaragi.”
The sadness of being a man is expressed well.
As for that Y chromosome, however, it has now become known that the base sequence of its genes differs according to ethnic group.
According to a sequence map of the Y chromosome recently announced by graduate students in the Faculty of Science at the University of Tokyo, present-day Japanese people and the Jomon people are the same.
In other words, for more than ten thousand years, since the days of the Sannai-Maruyama site, the Japanese have remained Japanese.
When this Jomon factor was compared with that of Chinese and Koreans, there was almost nothing in common.
Surely this is a major discovery.
Ryotaro Shiba said, “We share the same ancestry as Koreans.”
Namio Egami also said, “Horse-riding peoples came across and created the Yamato Court,” but all of that turned out to be complete nonsense.
In Japanese history, we are taught that Yayoi culture was brought by immigrants, but no such immigrants existed.
As for ethnic identity, Hiroaki Nagahama also writes in The Birth of Japan that traditionally “verification was carried out on the basis of female mitochondrial DNA, but that is child’s play.
The Y chromosome is decisive.”
Even so, the Japanese are extraordinary.
At an early stage they understood the sadness of the Y chromosome, and for that reason they not only cherished cherry blossoms, but also maintained the imperial line through the Y chromosome, as a male-line succession, as a means of preserving the purity of the people.
＊The other day, in a special dialogue between Kumiko Takeuchi, who became a splendid scholar worthy of a Kyoto University graduate, and Moe Fukada, I learned of this, and I felt exactly the same way as Masayuki Takayama…even so, the Japanese are extraordinary.＊
Now, the Japanese Communist Party and the Asahi Shimbun advocate a female-line emperor.
They believe that this is the best way to defile the Japanese people.
Do not ignorance and malice reek from Asahi?