A critical essay dated March 9, 2016, examining the Otsu District Court’s injunction against Japan’s nuclear power plant operations. It exposes the ideological bias of so-called civic groups and legal activists who target Japanese nuclear technology while remaining silent on the rapid expansion of nuclear power in South Korea and China, to the detriment of Japan’s national interests.

2016-03-09

It is not difficult to imagine what kind of person Judge Yoshihiko Yamamoto, the presiding judge of the Otsu District Court, is.

More than twenty years ago, I was stunned when I heard a judge at the Tokyo District Court declare before my eyes, “That is why I say that land belongs to no one.”

Both that judge and the current presiding judge come from an era when university law faculties were dominated by Marxism, the time when they advanced to higher education.
Many universities are probably still like that today.

In any case, this ruling is appalling.

I learned of it while watching the NHK Kansai regional news in the 6 p.m. time slot, and for a while I was led to believe that there was a nuclear power plant located in Otsu City itself.

Only later did I realize that the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant is located in Fukui Prefecture, facing the Sea of Japan.

The so-called civic groups and their lawyers must now apply for provisional injunctions to halt construction and suspend operation of the nuclear power plants that will be rapidly built along the Sea of Japan coast in South Korea and China, and the presiding judge of the Otsu District Court must issue the same kind of ruling as this time.

Otherwise, their words and actions have no meaning whatsoever.

Their arguments have no legitimacy at all.

South Korea and China are competitor nations to Japan.

Their ideas are aimed at degrading Japan’s nuclear technology, which has been refined to one of the highest levels in the world, and at producing the same result as when excellent engineers once flowed from Japan’s former electronics manufacturers to South Korea and China.

It is common knowledge that nuclear-related technologies in South Korea and China are overwhelmingly inferior to those of Japan.

The Japanese state and the Japanese people must not forget that both South Korea and China are countries that possess their own intelligence agencies.

Moreover, both nations have pursued anti-Japanese propaganda as a national policy ever since the end of the war.

For intelligence agencies, manipulating so-called civic organizations—most of which consist of former leftists—is as easy as twisting a baby’s arm; rather, it is a matter of elementary operations for them.

If one thinks about who would rejoice at the loss of nuclear technology from Japan, even an elementary school student should be able to understand the answer.

The only ones who do not understand are the very people who are being manipulated.