September 1, 2020
I am convinced that Japan’s true strength lies in having as many as four monthly magazines that are essential reading not only for the Japanese people but for people throughout the world.
For example, Toshiyuki Hayakawa’s essay, published in this month’s issue of WiLL on pages 100–105 in a three-column layout under the title “The Communist Revolutionary Movement Stirring in America,” is essential reading not only for the Japanese people but especially for Americans.
Everyone who reads it will recognize that events in America today are unfolding exactly as his painstaking work describes.
I have no unfavorable impression whatsoever of Naomi Osaka, but I do believe that political positions should not be expressed lightly.
If people judge an incident solely by its outward appearance without investigating the truth, and the machinations so clearly exposed in his work actually materialize into a terrible situation, there is a strong possibility that future generations will conclude that the actions of Osaka and others at that time ended up playing straight into the hands of those behind these schemes.
To begin with, if Black people were truly being discriminated against in America today, surely we would not see so many of them flourishing in so many fields, nor would there be countless Black millionaires, particularly in sports and music.
Above all, surely a Black president could never have been elected and served two terms.
America, the American mass media—indeed, the mass media throughout the world—why not finally put an end to this pseudo-moralism?
The only people delighted by your pseudo-moralism are people such as Xi Jinping.
When will you finally recognize that the only people who relish the pseudo-moralism and political correctness spreading throughout the free world are communists and totalitarians?
Surely this is no time to be doing such things in the first place.
I am convinced that the finest aspect of American society is the atmosphere created by spectators at Major League Baseball stadiums.
Ballparks that embody baseball’s status as the national pastime.
That appeal has now been ruined.
For a fan like me, the present atmosphere at Japanese ballparks is most welcome, and I look forward to professional baseball broadcasts more than ever before.
I can hardly wait for six o’clock, when the evening games begin.
I have never liked the organized cheering groups that dominate Japanese ballparks.
Their loud noise was an intolerable distraction.
Consequently, after Ichiro went to America, I came to enjoy watching Major League Baseball far more than Japanese baseball.
This year, however, the situation has been completely reversed.
With 5,000 spectators at each Japanese ballpark, no shouting, and only applause, the atmosphere resembles that of Major League Baseball, and for the first time a world has emerged in which the sound of a pitcher’s fastball striking the mitt and the sound of the bat offer the soul-cleansing pleasure of a clean hit and the thrill of mighty hitting and powerful pitching.
In America, meanwhile, the situation is precisely the opposite.
The stands remain empty because games continue without spectators, yet recordings of crowd noise or something similar are played as sound effects, and these are not only grating but make the absence of that carefree atmosphere—the finest of America, once created by its national pastime—even more palpable.
The atmosphere of the national pastime, the atmosphere of packed crowds at sporting events, the atmosphere of concerts, the atmosphere of theaters—
These are entirely unnecessary and useless to totalitarians and dictators, such as China’s Communist Party dictators and South Korea’s anti-Japanese ideologues.
Because of the Wuhan virus that China spread throughout the world, people in the free world, outside countries such as China, have been deprived of the various pleasures they once took for granted.
Who took them away?
Ironically, it was Xi Jinping, the chief of China—a country that does not recognize as valuable the enjoyment that we regard as an absolutely essential value—who took them away.
And yet the fools in America continue to create turmoil in the very country where they enjoy their freedom, exactly as Xi Jinping’s schemes would have them do.
They continue to attack the Trump administration.
Why not stop and think carefully about whose interests you are serving?
Your failing begins with not even knowing the geographical relationship between Beijing and Tokyo.
You do not understand the difference between China and Japan.
Without understanding the realities of China or South Korea, you have the audacity to criticize Japan.
That kind of sweeping generalization, in the worst sense, is your failing.
Has this Black Lives Matter movement not gone too far?
Is it not far too foolish?
Surely Black people account for an overwhelmingly larger share of the millionaires in American sports and music.
Before expressing your support, have you even investigated the funding sources of the organizations leading Black Lives Matter or the realities of the activists involved?
If you are merely an ignorant fool joining the turmoil, you will never amount to much, whether you are white or Black.
Nor will you become a high earner.
In your own terminology, it is only natural that such a person should be a loser.
One should judge matters only after learning the truth.
That is the natural attitude of anyone possessing intelligence and living in the twenty-first century.
Was it President Trump who took away our enjoyment?
Surely not.
Surely it is self-evident that China did.
Or is America, like Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and other television media, concealing the history of the Wuhan virus out of deference to China while merely stoking fear of the virus?
Surely not.
President Trump has explicitly called it the “China virus.”
It was none other than Obama who emboldened China and allowed the South China Sea to be turned into a military stronghold.
He was the one who was fundamentally unfit to be president of the United States.
He emboldened Xi Jinping, and the result is the predicament the world now faces.
At a time when he needed to confront China, he instead delighted in using his presidential privileges to invite the biggest names in rock music to perform at the White House.
At one time he invited Paul McCartney, at another Bruce Springsteen, cultivating an image of himself as an appreciative connoisseur of music.
Obama is Black.
Who claims that he was being discriminated against?
Needless to say, holding a rock concert at the White House is not a crime, so he was not arrested.
Because he was not a criminal, he was neither arrested nor detained by the police.
Is enforcing the law against criminals now called discrimination in America?