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I hear that many people evacuated because of this, but upon investigation, it turned out to be plutonium dispersed by Shina’s nuclear tests.
March 12, 2018
The following is a chapter I published on December 7, 2017.
It is taken from an essay by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
In this chapter, too, he proves that my assessment is correct.
A friend bought me the issue of Weekly Shincho released today.
It was to read the column by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, which appears toward the back of this weekly magazine.
It was also to read Yoshiko Sakurai’s column, which appears before his.
His essay in this week’s issue is also the genuine article, reaffirming the correctness of my assessment to discerning readers around the world.
Emphasis in the text, other than the heading and the passages enclosed in ＊～＊, is mine.
The Asahi Shimbun of Rumors
Merkel looked at Fukushima and announced that she would abandon nuclear power, declaring that they, being clever, would manage with renewable energy.
The Germans have continued to resent their defeat and capture at Qingdao and have disliked Japan.
＊That is precisely why the Asahi Shimbun and the Germans have kept in step.
The Asahi Shimbun editorial writers’ adulation of Germany demonstrated their abnormality.＊
Accordingly, her policy of looking down on Japan and abandoning nuclear power received unstinting praise.
Fine words, however, do not always work.
Renewable energy is a pipe dream, and relying on it would easily bring down the German economy.
In the end, the nuclear power plants will probably remain.
But this is the country of Volkswagen.
They possess the technology to deceive the world about exhaust emissions.
They will probably fit their nuclear power plants with smoke-producing devices and get away with saying, “Yes, we’re burning coal.”
Emi Kawaguchi-Mahn, a German living in Japan who knows the inside story, traveled through Fukushima and wrote Reconstruction: A Study of the Japanese, exposing deception surpassing even Germany’s.
Its subtitle is The Fukushima No One Wrote About.
Those are painful words for newspaper people who have been in Japan yet written nothing about it.
On March 11, the world marveled at the Japanese people’s patience, discipline, and consideration for one another.
Yet now, several years later, Mahn felt that the Japanese had clearly deteriorated.
When she traced that change to its roots, she found the media wearing a benevolent face.
Under the pretext of attacking evil big business and the state on behalf of residents, they spread foolish rumors and stirred residents toward misery.
The newspaper in question is not identified, but it must have been the Asahi Shimbun.
Still, I am certain it was the Asahi Shimbun.
Rumor and agitation are Asahi’s specialties.
＊NHK must not be forgotten either.
On the seven o’clock news on Sunday, November 26, Asahi Inoue spent a considerable amount of time discussing Fukushima, thyroid cancer, and related matters without medical evidence.
In other words, it was propaganda.
The messaging about “Fukushima” and “thyroid cancer” was propaganda.＊
Immediately after March 11, plutonium was detected at TEPCO’s Fukushima plant.
Plutonium has a half-life of more than twenty thousand years.
Freelance writer Takashi Uesugi wrote that inhaling it and suffering internal radiation exposure would mean it was all over, and the Asahi Shimbun joined in the uproar.
I hear that many people left their homes and evacuated because of this, but upon investigation, it turned out to be plutonium dispersed by China’s nuclear tests.
As usual, Asahi did not even apologize.
When the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant resumed operations, Asahi again spread rumors on its front page.
With an article brimming with vivid detail, it stoked people’s aversion to nuclear power.
It wrote that radiation monitoring equipment was useless and that residents did not know where to flee in an emergency.
The entire article was false.
Shunichi Tanaka of the Nuclear Regulation Authority also criticized its egregiousness, saying, “Using even editorials to stir up residents’ anxiety with baseless lies is nothing short of a crime.”
Another problem Shunichi Tanaka identified in Asahi’s reporting concerned contaminated water at TEPCO’s Fukushima plant.
Large quantities of groundwater flow into the contaminated area, becoming contaminated in their entirety.
However, ninety percent of the contaminated water is tritium, which is considered harmless.
The water can be discharged into the sea, but those in the fishing industry oppose it.
They say they fear damaging rumors.
Tanaka says newspapers should counter rumors and convey accurate knowledge.
Asahi does not do that.
On the contrary, it writes extensively about contaminated water, frightening those in the fishing industry.
The other day, the same newspaper devoted a full page to reporting that the 34.5-billion-yen frozen soil wall intended to stop groundwater inflow was not working.
It sneered that, thanks to this, the number of contaminated-water tanks had already ballooned to eight hundred.
With a quiet pen, Mahn indicts the Asahi Shimbun, the “media” that will not even try to dispel rumors.
At the same time, she depicts prefectural residents who, despite knowing a considerable part of the truth, pretend not to know and receive one hundred million yen per household.
Fukushima is indeed deteriorating.