From an ordinary conversation at a rest stop in Arashiyama, the hidden structure behind Japan’s soaring electricity bills comes into sharp focus. This essay indicts the political alliance between Naoto Kan, Mizuho Fukushima, and Masayoshi Son, exposing how their policies on nuclear shutdowns and solar power devastated national strength and imposed severe burdens on ordinary households.

In reality, the life of this person consisted of continuing activities as a traitor to Japan.
January 31, 2016.

I was at a rest area in Arashiyama, at a place I like. This is a conversation I overheard among the people who were there that day. One man had come by bicycle from Shijō–Kawaramachi, taking an hour and a half. Another had taken a similar amount of time. First, the conversation began with how long it had taken each of them to get there—almost as if they were boasting to one another that they had come all that way.

“When the electricity bill goes over 10,000 yen, it really hits hard…”
I thought to myself, “Go tell that to Masayoshi Son…”

The lowest politicians in history—indeed, it is presumptuous even to call them politicians—can be said without exaggeration to include all of the opposition parties, with the Democratic Party at the forefront. That is their true nature. For they are merely people who possess the ideology of the Asahi Shimbun and act only as spokesmen for that ideology.

Accordingly, what they have done is to oppress Japan, weaken Japan’s national power, and continue to undermine Japan’s international credibility, all the while firing off superficial displays of moralism.

A man who symbolized how contemptible they were was Naoto Kan. What he did after being elevated to the position of prime minister by the Asahi was nothing but the ultimate act of evil: driven by an abnormal obsession with clinging to power, he made the passage of policies in the Diet that would diminish Japan’s national strength the condition for his own resignation.

At that time, the one who advised Naoto Kan to push forward the infantile policy of an immediate and total shutdown of nuclear power plants—an idea beneath even kindergarten-level thinking—was Mizuho Fukushima, a person whose life in reality has consisted of continuing activities as a traitor to Japan, a human being truly intolerable and unforgivable.

Perhaps believing that mobile phones alone would eventually reach their limit, Masayoshi Son sought a new source of revenue for his company by acquiring a majority stake in a major natural energy power generation company and bringing it under his control. He forced strict gag orders on all those involved so that nothing would leak outside. Meanwhile, he himself went to Fukushima carrying a Geiger counter to search for radiation leaks.

Not only did he lend his power to prolong Naoto Kan’s grip on office, but he also succeeded in forcing the government to purchase electricity generated by solar power at the world’s highest prices—twice the global market price at that time. He was, in every sense, a political merchant.

In other words, it was Mizuho Fukushima and Masayoshi Son who created the surge in electricity prices for households all across Japan. Needless to say, neither of them feels the slightest pain from it. Both are extremely high-income earners.