Using a Newsweek exposé on fabricated coral reef reporting as evidence, this essay exposes the gulf between genuine first-class leaders who sustain Japan—corporate executives, civil servants, and physicians—and second-class elites such as media figures and lawyers who merely excel at exams, revealing the vast, fundamental divide between them.

The opening article tells us that there is in fact a heaven-and-earth difference between the truly first-class and the second-class. What follows is an essay that I published on July 19, 2015. In reality, the mass growth of the coral reef exists several kilometers offshore, and what remains at the planned relocation site consists almost entirely of shoots and remains that do not affect the ecosystem. Even so, when newspapers are given a photograph of a concrete block placed on coral that had already been dead from the very beginning, they report it as a top-level news story as if “the coral reef was damaged,” without any verification whatsoever. (From Newsweek magazine) This fact also proves the correctness of my argument. I have been the first in the world to point out that Asahi Shimbun and lawyers are not the most elite players in Japan, that they are merely outstanding test-takers, and that although they can speak about their own interests—meaning that they are nothing more than people living within selfishness—they are not qualified to discuss the fate of the nation. Who, then, are Japan’s true elite players. They are the presidents, executives, and employees of the companies that Japan proudly presents to the world. They are the bureaucrats who serve in Kasumigaseki to run the nation. They are the people who become doctors in order to save the lives of complete strangers. The opening article declares that between the truly first-class and the second-class there is, in fact, a vast gulf like that between heaven and earth. The truly first-class people of the world should be able to grasp the gravity of this observation without a single word being spoken.