Masayuki Takayama’s “A Fifty-Year Nightmare”: Fifty Years of Japan–China Relations and Shinzo Abe’s Warning

A Must-Read for Every Japanese Citizen and People Around the World! Shinzo Abe Warned the World of the Danger Posed by China. That Is Why He Was Killed under the Leadership of the Asahi Shimbun.

September 29, 2022

The following is from Masayuki Takayama’s regular column, which closes the issue of Weekly Shincho released today.
This article, too, proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
This article, too, proves that he is the person most deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people throughout the world.

A Fifty-Year Nightmare

Xi Jinping spoke of “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
That is going too far with a tall tale.
To begin with, no ethnic group with a name that sounds like a ramen shop association ever existed, and Xi himself really wanted to say “the great Han people.”
But Xi knew that saying so would be a lie.
The Han are the people who live in the Central Plain, where the Yin and Tang dynasties had their capitals.
Yet they were rarely its rulers.
In other words, for most of their 4,000-year history, they were ruled by peoples who came from outside and lived as their slaves.
Slaves have no dreams.
They have no culture beyond foot-binding, either.
Even Chinese characters were created by Qin Shi Huang, who came from the Eastern Yi.
Search as you may, there is nothing great about the Han people, nor any culture whose revival would be welcomed.
But having grown up that way, they are good at lying.
They are exceptionally good at deceiving people.
Among their deceptions, the “Chinese nation” Xi Jinping spoke of is a masterpiece.
He included every non-Han dynasty that had flourished in the Central Plain in his “Chinese nation.”
He made the Western Rong, who founded the Yin dynasty and brought bronze culture, and Genghis Khan of the Yuan dynasty, who conquered Eurasia, members of the Chinese nation.
The Manchus who founded the Qing dynasty are members too, so he has also made Mongolia, the Uyghur region, Tibet, and Taiwan, all of which the Qing ruled, possessions of the Xi regime.
This is the fraud known as “One China.”
The magic words that allowed the Han people, who had long been slaves, to become a great power that now even possesses Mount Everest are “the Chinese nation.”
Fifty years ago, Kakuei Tanaka restored diplomatic relations with such a country.
Behind that foolish act was agitation by the Asahi Shimbun, which had joined forces with China.
First, Shoichi Midoro used Kaheita Okazaki, who came from the same region, to spread the claim that “Japan committed in China the atrocities the Nazis committed in Europe.”
That was the beginning of diplomacy based on atonement.
Midoro’s successor, Tomoo Hirooka, had Katsuichi Honda publish a series of lies about “the Japanese military behaving like the Nazis.”
Tanaka flew to Beijing amid that strange atmosphere.
He felt no need for atonement, but as a diplomatic courtesy he said, “We have caused you considerable trouble.”
The interpreter rendered that as tian le mafan.
It means something like a minor inconvenience.
Zhou Enlai seized on it.
“Millions of Chinese died because of Japan’s aggression. How can you call that minor?” he said.
Tanaka was angry at the Chinese man’s character for exploiting a minor translation error, but he restrained himself from leaving the table.
For one thing, Zhou Enlai had visited Japan twice when he was young.
He took entrance examinations for several universities and failed them all.
He even failed to get into an easy-to-enter teacher-training school.
In the end, the only place he could enter without an examination was the Chinese Communist Party.
That means he was fluent in Japanese.
If the interpreter had mistranslated Tanaka’s words, Zhou could have laughed and corrected him.
But the mentality of a slave was ingrained in him.
This gave him control of the negotiations.
“Millions of victims” was bound to be effective too.
So he arrogantly demanded ODA and technical assistance and eventually began speaking as though even the Senkaku Islands belonged to him.
Tanaka snorted.
What “millions of victims”?
Most were the work of Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communist Party.
Take, for example, the breaching of the Yellow River dikes, which killed 300,000 people.
Guo Moruo acknowledged that “Chiang’s army did it to stop the Japanese army’s pursuit.”
In fact, the Japanese army stopped its pursuit and sent out boats of various sizes to rescue the flood victims.
The flood devastated Henan Province’s farmland, causing a great famine in which a million people starved to death.
“The Japanese troops who entered the area released food supplies. We gladly became collaborators with Japan. We helped the Japanese troops annihilate 300,000 of Chiang’s soldiers,” says Liu Zhenyun’s The Human Condition 1942.
Chiang’s army and the Chinese Communist army also set fire to the city of Changsha for the same purpose, burning tens of thousands of people to death.
The Han people established dynasties twice in the past.
But because they came from slavery, they did not know how to govern.
The people suffered terribly.
They are now governing for a third time, but the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution have already killed another 100 million people.
It is the worst Han regime.
Tanaka knew that.
That is why the Asahi Shimbun brought him down.
Shinzo Abe warned the world of the danger posed by China.
That is why he was killed under the leadership of the Asahi Shimbun.
Fifty years were spent forging friendship with China.
But there is no need for a fifty-first.

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