Grounded strictly in verifiable facts and data, Masayuki Takayama’s journalism exposes the distortions of major media outlets such as The New York Times and Japan’s Asahi Shimbun. His work substantiates earlier critiques and reveals the deeper structure behind persistent anti-Japanese narratives.

April 27, 2016

The brilliance of Masayuki Takayama’s commentary, grounded solely in facts as a true journalist, is something that anyone should admire.

At the same time, he has also demonstrated—through facts themselves and through concrete numerical data—that my own arguments and insights were entirely correct.

As readers know, I have long continued to criticize harshly the deplorable understanding that The New York Times has of Japan and the Japanese people.

Today, a friend of mine, an outstanding and well-read individual, recommended that I read the following passage.

After finishing it, I muttered to myself: New York Times, know shame.

These are shocking facts that Japanese citizens who read newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun will never be told.

People around the world, too, will learn for the first time just how contemptible The New York Times truly is.

Takayama has shown us, for the first time, that the newspaper has in fact served as an agent for China—a one-party dictatorship of the Communist Party that continues anti-Japanese propaganda to maintain its regime—and for South Korea, which in reality functions as a Nazi-like state.

I also became convinced that the fact The New York Times has continued to publish articles that are so vicious, so malicious, and that could even be called enemies of humanity, can only be explained as proof of the arguments I was the first in the world to articulate.

What the United States committed against Japan in the final stage of the war constitutes the greatest original sin in human history; therefore, the United States can atone for it only by continuing to act as the world’s policeman.

This is because the Japanese people, unlike the Chinese or the Koreans—who fabricate facts to do so, revealing a national character rooted in bottomless evil and plausible falsehoods—possess a completely different national character, and therefore did not condemn you, nor did they demand reparations.

The reality of The New York Times proves that my arguments were correct.

Takayama’s commentary will be introduced in the next chapter.