While photographing Japanese irises cherished since the Edo period, the author documents severe pm2.5 pollution and exposes the deliberate silence of Japanese media. This essay records health concerns, China’s concealed air pollution, and the betrayal of public interest by major newspapers and broadcasters.
2017-05-31
This year, for the first time in several years, I have been photographing every day the Japanese irises that even samurai of the Edo period cherished as part of their cultural refinement and cultivated at home.
Before the irises began to bloom, I had an opportunity to dine with a woman from Finland who was visiting Japan, a textbook example of Nordic beauty.
She was such a devoted plant lover that she abandoned the path of becoming a physician and chose instead to become a landscape gardener and garden designer.
Among plants, she especially loved wisteria and irises, and she said she had gone to see wisteria in the Ikoma area.
Around that time, I myself had gone to Kinkaku-ji four times to photograph kakitsubata irises, so I recommended that she go as well, but it was her last day in Kyoto and her schedule was already full.
This year, in order to photograph what I consider Japan’s finest wisteria, I visited the site four times, from the moment it reached peak bloom until the very end, and like her, I too have a special fondness for wisteria and irises.
If I had been, for example, the Picasso of Japan, that is, a master whose name resounds throughout the world, I would have made this incomparable Nordic beauty my wife on the spot, and that alone I regret deeply.
Now, to change the subject.
NHK’s News Watch 9 spoke only about yesterday’s heat, yet for some reason made no mention whatsoever of pm2.5.
Masayuki Takayama has informed us that China Central Television (CCTV) has a Japan bureau inside NHK.
That is why NHK is likely being asked not to say anything inconvenient for China, or anything that would spread negative information about China.
Yesterday was not merely hot, and sensing something extremely unhealthy, I immediately stopped photographing and returned home early.
When I checked my smartphone, which I had left at home, just as expected, Japan was entirely covered in red due to pm2.5.
Next, I opened pm information on my computer, which I had frequently checked last year.
Even so, I thought that conditions like this could not possibly be caused within Japan itself, and when I tried to look at the Chinese mainland, I found that this year the situation in China was no longer being displayed.
So I searched for “China pm2.5,” and found that the Chinese mainland was not merely red but a dark, murky red, and when I clicked, the values were numbers unimaginable in Japan, displayed as “danger.”
Until the Communist Party Congress, economic priority must have taken precedence, and no improvement in air pollution has been made at all.
Because China wants to conceal this fact, for example because it does not want people like me to transmit it to the world, it must have had China removed from “pm2.5 summaries.”
The reason newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun do not report this severity at all is likely because, as the mastermind behind the anti-nuclear movement that benefits China, it would be extremely inconvenient for them to be pointed out that this air pollution is occurring precisely because nuclear power plants have been shut down.
Here again, the Asahi Shimbun and those who follow in its footsteps are all proving that they are either acting to realize their distorted ideology, or in fact are agents of Chinese or Korean intelligence services, that is, they are the Hideomi Ozaki who exist here today.
A man said to be a former Ministry of Education official is, needless to say, a typical example, and a textbook case of someone completely caught in the honey trap commonly used by intelligence agencies.
They are proving that they are true villains who give no thought whatsoever to Japan’s national interests or to the health of the Japanese people.
To be continued.