This essay criticizes media-favored intellectual figures in Japan and examines the structural decline of Japan’s electronics industry.
It highlights the suppression of TRON, the global dominance of Windows under Bill Gates, and the political pressures that undermined Japan’s technological leadership.

2019-01-06

Even if television finds you convenient because you look good on screen, articulate clearly, and are not overly talkative, you must know this: you are in no way an intellect representing Japan.
There must be a growing number of people who believe that the only newspaper in Japan worthy of being called a newspaper is the Sankei Shimbun.
Yet the fact that Sankei is not one hundred percent flawless is evident in its article that seemed to praise Kan Kimura, and in the grave blunder in its otherwise serious series on the Korean Peninsula—culminating, unbelievably, in featuring Kang Sang-jung across the entire final chapter.
It was a catastrophe so severe that all prior efforts seemed to vanish in an instant.
Until August four years ago, I did not even know that Masayuki Takayama existed.
Nor did I know the journalists now writing genuine articles in Sankei.
Nor did I know Kaori Fukushima, a graduate of Osaka University, former Beijing correspondent, and now one of Japan’s foremost China specialists.
Placing at the center of the January 1 feature titled “Looking Ahead at Japan’s Course” a historian called Isoda Michifumi—whose intellect clearly reflects lifelong immersion in the Asahi Shimbun—demonstrates that Sankei too is not perfectly sound.
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Yet when told during the peak of the 1980s bubble to create something new, Japanese money flowed into land investment.
That was the moment Japan’s limitations were exposed.
We produced neither Google, nor Windows, nor Macintosh.
Recently there have been admirable individuals such as Shinya Yamanaka, creator of iPS cells.
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This Asahi-formed intellect of Isoda Michifumi… his inability to recognize his own foolishness while delighting in criticizing Japan is beyond intolerable.
Isoda Michifumi, listen carefully.
The Japanese people and the Japanese government…
More than ten years before the greed-driven Bill Gates conquered the world with Windows, Ken Sakamura—one of Japan’s geniuses—had already invented TRON.
The Japanese government naturally understood the importance of this.
The only one who failed to understand, who knew nothing, was you, Isoda.
Because the Japanese government knew that the coming era would be the age of the internet and personal computers, it decided to deploy TRON-equipped computers in all elementary and junior high schools across Japan.
It was Bill Gates who moved fiercely to crush this, with Masayoshi Son acting as his advance agent.
When the Japanese government resisted, Gates mobilized the U.S. government to pressure Japan into submission.
As a result, Japan’s world-class electronics and heavy electrical manufacturers were forced to use Windows—the heart of the PC—and were reduced to merely producing hardware boxes.
In manufacturing these boxes, Japanese companies faced state-supported competitors.
South Korea grants Samsung preferential electricity rates and priority access to power.
In competing with Samsung, Japanese manufacturers must run 150 meters while Samsung runs only 100.
No company in the world can win under such absurd conditions.
Driven by Gates’s greed to dominate the world through Windows, Japanese electronics manufacturers were pushed into hardware-only roles, and their suffering continues to this day.
Since when did fools like Isoda become central figures in Japan’s intellectual discourse.
Even Sankei has allowed it.
Sharp has already fallen into Taiwanese hands, and Toshiba nearly faced acquisition by Chinese or Korean capital due to the outrageous reality surrounding Westinghouse.
Sony barely escaped hardship thanks to sensor technology that commands more than half of the global market, yet Panasonic continues to struggle.
Its stock price fell nearly by half over the past year, resembling that of a company on the brink of collapse.
Even so, not a single executive has faced meaningful accountability.
If you criticize Japan over such realities, Isoda, that at least would be legitimate.
But because NHK and other traitorous institutions find your Asahi-formed intellect convenient—good on television, articulate, not verbose—do not imagine that you represent Japan’s intellect.
That is what true humility means.
The modest demeanor you display on television is but an illusion.
That Sankei placed such an ignorant essay at the center of its New Year feature shows that even it contains Asahi-like elements.
Its New Year issue was discounted by one hundred yen.