This essay argues that Japan’s natural beauty—its mountains, coastlines, forests, and rivers preserved for over two millennia—must not be destroyed by wind power installations. Nature is landscape itself, and any ideology that ignores this truth is fundamentally hollow.

The beauty of Japan’s landscapes—its mountain ranges, coastlines, forests, and rivers—handed down for more than two thousand years.
2016-08-27
The following is an essay published on September 1, 2012.
Honorifics omitted in the text.
For example, on last night’s news program, 中沢新一 appeared as a thinker and stated, “From now on, we must place greater importance on nature and agriculture…”
In that instant, Akutagawa became certain of one thing.
That in Nakazawa Shinichi’s mind, there was not the slightest trace of what Akutagawa finds most terrifying—the combination of wind power generation and nature.
Needless to say, he is likely the type to say that wind power is all well and good, and that nuclear power should be opposed.
As those readers who have been presented with Akutagawa’s many photographs, as well as those who have decided to subscribe today, will understand, for Akutagawa, nature is landscape itself.
The beauty of Japan’s landscapes—its mountain ranges, coastlines, forests, and rivers—handed down for more than two thousand years.
Akutagawa resolutely opposes ruining that beauty with the grotesque structures of wind power generation.
As previously introduced, articles have been published criticizing the fact that the representative player in this movement—who had quietly become a major shareholder in a wind power company—turned out to be SoftBank, and Akutagawa will not permit SoftBank to ruin Japan’s landscapes.
By what right do you seek to destroy Japan, a country of beautiful landscapes since the dawn of creation.
Japan is not a barren land of treeless mountains like the Korean Peninsula.
If you insist on doing it, then line the barren mountains of the Korean Peninsula with wind turbines, generate electricity there, and sell it to Japan.
Akutagawa will never allow Japan’s landscapes to be ruined by wind turbines for wind power generation.
I repeat: if you are going to do it, do it in a country that has been barren for more than a thousand years.