An online article revealed truths invisible to television and newspapers.
Japan’s electronics industry decline reflects the collapse of the TRON initiative, extreme yen appreciation, nuclear shutdowns, and media complicity.
These developments contributed directly to the erosion of national economic strength.

2016-03-24
The other day, I watched a program on NHK that featured a certain high school baseball coach.
As I observed the training scenes, I remembered thinking that this high school must be strong.
Yesterday, believing that a game had been scheduled, I searched for information.
The coach’s name was one that baseball fans would recognize.
However, I was astonished by what I found.
It was written that he had once served as an executive at one of Japan’s leading electronics manufacturers, and that he had been the first to be dismissed at the time of a presidential succession.
After reading this article, I once again realized, with deep regret, that one cannot understand the truth by watching television and reading newspapers alone.
Several years ago, reports emerged that this major electronics company had engaged in practices resembling so-called “banishment rooms,” akin to those of black companies.
Many people must have felt a deep sense of gloom, thinking, “Even this company did such things?”
While reading this article that conveyed truths unique to the internet, I simultaneously thought of something else.
Not only had Ken Sakamura’s TRON revolution been crushed, but also the strong yen and extreme yen appreciation continually tolerated and promoted by media outlets such as the Asahi Shimbun had driven Japan’s electronics manufacturers into a situation where they could no longer compete properly.
The tragedy of these companies was clearly laid bare as reality.
The article was titled, “Former Panasonic Executive, ‘Culprit’ Behind 10,000 Layoffs, Faces Backlash After Becoming High School Baseball Coach.”
It is no exaggeration to say that all of this was brought about by the telecommunications company executive who acted as an advance agent for Bill Gates in crushing Sakamura’s TRON revolution.
He caused Japan’s world-renowned electronics manufacturers to carry out layoffs totaling well over 100,000 workers.
Needless to say, this is one of the major causes behind today’s reality in which one in six children grows up in households earning less than 1.8 million yen annually.
As if that were not enough, he conspired with what would become the worst prime minister in history to shut down all nuclear power plants across Japan.
It goes without saying that this created the present hardship of Toshiba, which had invested enormous funds to acquire Westinghouse.
Toshiba has now just been reported to be laying off 30,000 employees.
There is no doubt that Toshiba was once an electronics manufacturer of which Japan could be proud worldwide.
Bill Gates visited Japan many times, learned of the excellence of the world’s smallest nuclear reactor developed by Toshiba, and even considered joint ventures.
The late Steve Jobs frequently visited Japan, and on each visit he went not only to Sony but also to Toshiba.
The executive who drove even Toshiba into distress will almost certainly never employ 30,000 people as regular employees.
The twenty-year collapse of Japan’s once world-leading electronics manufacturers directly corresponds to the collapse of Japan’s national strength that I have repeatedly mentioned, amounting to an enormous loss of approximately 1,400 trillion yen.
Meanwhile, this executive, indifferent to Japan’s massive losses, quickly amassed assets exceeding 500 billion yen, becoming one of Japan’s top one or two wealthiest individuals.
That it was media outlets such as the Asahi Shimbun, which lowered national power and continued to erode trust and honor through outrageous fabricated articles, that created such absurdity in our country is now a historical fact.