Published on July 14, 2019.
Based on an essay by Masayuki Takayama, this article records criticism of Asahi Shimbun’s assumptions in its reporting on the Ōma Nuclear Power Plant, full MOX fuel, and solar power, as well as questions about its postwar 70th-anniversary editorial narrative of “harm done to Asia.”

July 14, 2019
He cites “full MOX, which Germany gave up on,” but the idea that because Germany failed, Japan must also fail is probably another “white people are superior” assumption.
The following is a chapter I opened after receiving a notification from goo saying, “This is a chapter you published today last year.”
Upon reading it once, I was immediately awakened.
After all, JR Central’s superconducting maglev was also pursued by Germany’s Messerschmitt, and they gave up on it.
It is a chapter I published on July 14, 2018, under that title.
The following is a continuation from Masayuki Takayama’s latest book.
The emphasis in the text, apart from the heading, is mine.
New President Watanabe Is Also “Arrogant Asahi”
The Ōma Nuclear Power Plant has not even been approved for operation by that intellectually disabled group, the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
On top of that, full MOX is also a problematic fuel that “Germany tried to use and gave up on.”
In other words, he concludes that “Ōma, which no one even knows will operate, is being treated as if it will generate electricity, in order to shut out Son’s solar power.”
Upon reading it once, one understands that Ueda wrote the article based on the “assumption” that “nuclear power is bad and solar power is right.”
He cites “full MOX, which Germany gave up on,” but the idea that because Germany failed, Japan must also fail is probably another “white people are superior” assumption.
After all, JR Central’s superconducting maglev was also pursued by Germany’s Messerschmitt, and they gave up on it.
The miniaturization that placed quartz, once the size of a wardrobe, into a wristwatch was also something Germany could not accomplish, while Seikosha succeeded and then released its patent to the world free of charge.
A reporter who is both servile and poorly informed can, in the end, write articles only through assumptions and prejudices.
This is probably a good example of that.
Watanabe, too, is Watanabe.
Why did he allow an article that ignored his own statement to appear in the paper on the same date?
His response was as if to say, “No, that was only lip service.”
In fact, the paper afterward remained exactly as it had been before: nothing but arrogant Asahi.
First, the New Year editorial discussing the 70th anniversary of the end of the war began from the outset by criticizing Prime Minister Abe, saying that “he did not mention responsibility for harm done to Asia, which successive prime ministers had expressed.”
But what does “harm done to Asia” even mean?
Japan did not fight against Asian countries in the last war.
It fought against the Western countries that had colonized Asia and imposed tyrannical rule there.
This essay continues.