Figure skating is not merely a sport but an artistic expression of humanity’s joy of living, freedom, and intellect.
Using the emergence of Rika Kihira as a starting point, this essay explores the essence of figure skating and the relationship between true beauty and a free civilization.
It also examines the Olympic judging controversy surrounding Mao Asada and Kim Yuna, highlighting the role of international propaganda and political influence in global sports.

March 29, 2019.
If a nation itself is not beautiful, if its people are not free, and if it lacks genuine intellect, then athletes from such a country can never express true beauty.
A chapter I published on March 26, titled “The Freedom Ranking Announced by the United Nations Exposed Their Ignorance, Stupidity, and Malice to the Whole World,” has entered the official hashtag ranking at number fifteen under Mao Asada.
Here I republish the chapter I released on March 6 titled “Figure Skating Expresses, in an Instant, the Priceless Joy of Being Human and the Joy of Living in This Wonderful Moment.”
Why did I write that Rika Kihira is the absolute queen.
As readers know, I have already explained the reason why I am so strongly drawn to figure skating.
Among all sports, figure skating alone exists in coexistence with beauty.
The joy of being alive, the joy of being free as a human being, the joy of intellect, and the gratitude of living in the twenty-first century while inheriting the brilliant legacy of great predecessors.
All of these priceless human joys are expressed in an instant, and that is what figure skating is.
With the emergence of Rika Kihira, many people first realized that these athletes possess bodies with astonishingly low body-fat percentages, comparable to the greatest athletes.
In order to maintain their bodies in top condition, figure skating, especially the jumps, places unbelievable stress on the body just like any other true sport.
To cope with this and prevent injuries, they travel with dedicated trainers.
Even if Chinese and Russian skaters spin quadruple jumps endlessly, they can never express the true beauty that belongs to figure skating.
If a nation itself is not beautiful, if its people are not free, and if genuine intellect does not exist there, athletes from such a country can never express true beauty.
When Mao Asada won the silver medal at the Olympics and Kim Yuna won gold, it was nothing more than the full manifestation of the characteristics of the country called South Korea.
In other words, in order to push through their claims, they conduct massive propaganda campaigns in the international arena without the slightest sense of shame.
Their anti-Japan propaganda has demonstrated this repeatedly.
Unlike the Japanese, they know in a rather unpleasant way how to manipulate the international community.
However, the international community itself is nothing more than a gathering of people of astonishing ignorance, lack of study, and pseudo-moralism.
The freedom ranking recently announced by the United Nations exposed their ignorance and stupidity to the entire world.
Japan, unbelievably, was ranked fifty-eighth, even below South Korea.
And NHK, controlled by those who disgrace the Japanese people, broadcast this gleefully as another opportunity to criticize Japan.
As I have pointed out many times, their vulgarity knows no bounds.
In the past, I once reprimanded a woman who dominated the Japan Skating Federation with a voice like that of Nobunaga.
I did so because she kept repeating naïve statements without understanding the reality of the international arena.
What did South Korea do.
Before the Olympics, they manipulated the scoring so that Mao Asada’s triple Axel would be scored lower than Kim Yuna’s triple-triple combination.
Kim Yuna won the Olympic gold medal.
Meanwhile Mao Asada, from a truly beautiful country and a master of the most difficult jump, the triple Axel.
Despite landing three triple Axels in a single Olympic competition for the first time in history, she ended with only a silver medal.
This was the result of the intrigues of a country characterized by bottomless malice and plausible lies.