Who truly possesses firsthand economic knowledge, not secondhand narratives from Japan’s Ministry of Finance. This article argues that Yoichi Takahashi and Hideto Tamura stand alone, and shows how Tamura’s Sankei Shimbun column confirms the accuracy of my previous analyses while exposing truths ignored by Japan’s old media.

I have repeatedly stated that, to put it bluntly, there are only two commentators in Japan who possess genuine, self-derived, firsthand economic knowledge, rather than secondhand narratives handed down by the Ministry of Finance.
They are Yoichi Takahashi and Hideto Tamura.
What follows is taken from Hideto Tamura’s regular column published today in the Sankei Shimbun.
This column also proves that my recent short commentary struck the mark precisely.

President Donald Trump’s sudden action in Venezuela came at a moment when the evil ambitions of Xi Jinping, the worst dictator in history, were on the verge of pulling the trigger for World War III.
In every conceivable sense, it shattered those ambitions into pieces with unmatched brilliance and prevented a third world war.

When he first appeared on the scene, at a time when most people opposed or dismissed him, he asked,
“Why doesn’t Japan arm itself with nuclear weapons?”
This perspective was grounded in the obvious reality that Japan is surrounded by three dangerous nations armed with nuclear weapons—nations that could rightly be called states run by madmen—and that one of them launches missiles toward the Sea of Japan on an almost daily basis.

I wrote that he was, in a positive and accurate sense of the word, the greatest trickster of the postwar era.
This was in the context that, if the United States were to forget entirely and Japan were to be completely dominated by masochistic self-denial, the world itself—that is, humanity—would cease to exist.

When I emerged as “The Turntable of Civilization” in 2010, Japan’s GDP stood at approximately 550 trillion yen.
Since then, I have consistently written about the transformations of Japan and the world.

The United Nations, Trump, the SDGs, COP26, China, Maurice, Al Gore, and Sanae Takaichi.
That my many essays on these subjects were on target is proven by Tamura’s column.

At the same time, his article is filled with truths that the old media—beginning with the Asahi Shimbun and NHK—have completely failed to report out of deference to their master, China.
It is essential reading not only for the Japanese people, but for the entire world.