A Great Loss for Japan and the World—And an Indictment of Media Bias
August 9, 2018

Takayama Masayuki is the one and only journalist of his kind in the postwar world.

It was in August, four years ago, that I first came to know of his famous column Henken Jizai in Shukan Shincho.

People who subscribe to and carefully read the Asahi Shimbun, watch NHK, TV Asahi, and TBS news programs, and spend the rest of their days striving diligently in the real world for the good of society—these people will never even know the name Takayama Masayuki.

That fact alone represents a tremendous loss for both Japan and the world, and it clearly proves just how outrageously biased the reporting by media outlets like Asahi Shimbun and NHK truly is.

Why? Because they deliberately hide Japan’s most precious intellectual treasures like Takayama, while elevating shallow pseudo-intellectuals and self-proclaimed cultural figures to espouse their masochistic historical view and false moralism.

The following is from the latest issue of Shukan Shincho, released yesterday:

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The Enemy of the White Man

At the end of the 19th century, white people dominated 99% of the world, utterly overpowering both yellow and black races.

They were narcissistic, eager to display their supposed superiority in visible form.

First, they chose to glorify their intellect.

From space to medicine, they made discoveries and solved mysteries beyond what people of color had imagined.

Thus, the Nobel Prize was born.

Then they sought to celebrate physical beauty and kinetic grace.

This is why Pierre de Coubertin advocated reviving the Olympics.

A believer in Social Darwinism, Coubertin never imagined that “short-legged and awkward yellow people” or “black people who can’t even distinguish front from back” would participate in the games.

But then, their self-congratulatory world began to be mocked.

One major blow came from the ukiyo-e prints displayed at the Art Nouveau galleries in Paris.

Van Gogh was floored. Toulouse-Lautrec and Monet were stunned into silence.

There before them lay a world of beauty that surpassed the white man’s supposedly supreme aesthetic sense.

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Those Who Preach False Moralism and Political Correctness Are Never to Be Trusted
August 9, 2018

While writing the previous post, another thought came to mind.

Just look at the so-called “victorious” nations—China and Russia—and how they conduct themselves. It’s obvious without need for further proof.

Takayama Masayuki reminds us that in the United States, some truly idiotic congressman once said, “Two atomic bombs weren’t enough,” supposedly using Japanese anime as a pretext.

What about the politicians who’ve kowtowed to such thinking? What about Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and the so-called scholars, cultural figures, human rights lawyers, and civic groups that have gone along with it?

They are, without exception, utterly unworthy of trust.

Those who peddle fake moralism and throw around “political correctness” are, without exception, people of no integrity.