This chapter exposes the decisive difference in location value between Nakanoshima and Osaka’s North Yard, how Asahi Shimbun prioritized its own corporate interests, and how later land price data proved the author’s arguments entirely correct.

2016-03-28
What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.
They elevated Katsuhisa Honda, a man who stands alongside Yayori Matsui as one of the greatest and worst fools of postwar Japan, a literal traitor to the nation, into a so-called star reporter.
In response to the anti-Japan propaganda continuously carried out by the Chinese Communist Party’s one-party dictators to legitimize their regime, Asahi Shimbun cooperated fully by using Honda, spreading stories such as the “Hundred-Man Killing Contest” and, above all, the greatest and worst fabrication of all, the so-called Nanjing Massacre.
Honda himself stated without hesitation that he wrote exactly what was handed to him by the Chinese Communist authorities, without any verification whatsoever.
Asahi Shimbun then broadcast the articles of this man, who cannot be regarded as a journalist in any sense, to the world as major scoops.
Not only that, it strongly promoted the provision of 30 trillion yen in ODA to China.
This same Asahi Shimbun later moved to secure its own corporate survival, threatened by the rise of the internet, by staking its very future on the most important urban planning project in Osaka, a project vital to the city’s revival.
It pressured the government to raise the floor-area ratio of its own land in Nakanoshima from 1,000 percent to 1,600 percent and launched the Nakanoshima Twin Towers project.
This project directly overlapped with the redevelopment of the North Yard.
In terms of location, the difference between Nakanoshima and the North Yard is, to put it bluntly, like that between the moon and a turtle.
What I have consistently argued about the North Yard has now been proven to be 100 percent correct as an established fact.
According to the officially announced land price survey, the most expensive location in Osaka is now the South Building of Grand Front Osaka, the first phase of the North Yard development.
It is common knowledge that in the past, Hankyu Department Store held that position.
The facts demonstrate that the North Yard possesses an even greater, outstanding value.
Readers may therefore read all of my arguments with complete confidence in their correctness.
“ The Turntable of Civilization ” is, in the strongest sense, an unprecedented and unparalleled thesis.