Published on July 15, 2019.
This chapter records the author’s criticism of Ryuichi Sakamoto, SEALDs, Okuda, Christian Aishin High School, and the posture of the Japanese media.
It questions the image of SEALDs as “ordinary young people” and criticizes what the author sees as an Asahi Shimbun-shaped intellectual sphere and the childishness of Japan’s media.

July 15, 2019.
The main members of SEALDs were activists who had received a special peace? education at Christian Aishin High School.
As for Ryuichi Sakamoto, the physiognomy I had sensed in him was that of an unbearably repulsive man who made one’s skin crawl, but the search results related to yesterday’s chapter proved that my judgment by facial appearance had been entirely correct.
The following facts are not merely something that truly makes one’s skin crawl; they show a man who grew up only by subscribing to and absorbing the Asahi Shimbun, a brain made only of Asahi Shimbun editorials… and yet the Japanese media treated such a person as if he were someone of importance, which means their level is below that of kindergarten children.
＊A quotation of words by Tatsuru Uchida, a man who in fact is nothing more than an Asahi Shimbun favorite, who once made a remark to the effect that the Asahi Shimbun is below kindergarten level compared with high-class newspapers in Europe and America, and who, furthermore, was cleverly currying favor with Asahi.＊
The following is from http://blog.livedoor.jp/aryasarasvati/tag/%E5%9D%82%E6%9C%AC%E9%BE%8D%E4%B8%80.
Opening part omitted.
Then, introduced by Mr. Okuda with the words, “We have a big senior here today, and he has come rushing over, so I’ve really been waiting for this,” the person who next took the stage was, incredibly, the musician Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Mr. Sakamoto praised them, saying, “Seeing the young people of SEALDs speaking out, I thought that there is still hope in Japan.”
Middle part omitted.
ーーAre you happy to be getting attention from the media?
“I am not happy.
I am not doing this because I want attention.
My dreams are not that grand.
I grew up seeing something like poor households in Kitakyushu, so I do not have great expectations for this society.”
Mr. Okuda was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1992.
After graduating from a junior high school on Hatoma Island, a remote island north of Iriomote Island, he went on to a boarding Christian high school in Shimane Prefecture.
He is currently a fourth-year student at Meiji Gakuin University.
Middle part omitted.
Mr. Okuda’s father is a pastor who has long continued support activities for the homeless in Kitakyushu City, and he has also been featured on NHK’s Professional: The Way of Work.
“He worked steadily for twenty years and has finally come to receive attention, but I have also seen the lonely struggle up to that point.
I learned that in this society, the most important thing is to tenaciously and reluctantly do what must be done.
I left home at the age of fourteen, and I learned that whatever one does, one must decide for oneself, and must accept the results of the path one has chosen.”
Middle part omitted.
Then what does he think about the reality of Japan’s security?
“Within SEALDs, views on security strategy differ from person to person.
However, the content of this full-spec exercise of the right of collective self-defense is something with a considerably high hurdle, considering the Constitution and the path the state has followed up to now.
And yet the Constitution is being treated so lightly that an adviser to the prime minister even said, ‘Legal stability is irrelevant,’ so we share the point that the Constitution must be protected.”
（Eh, isn’t “full spec” wrong?）
ーーWhom would you like to meet?
“Shinjiro Koizumi.
I have watched speeches by various politicians, but he is on a different level.
What was impressive was that at the graduation ceremony of the National Defense Academy, he said to those who would not become Self-Defense Force officers after graduation, ‘Because you know the inside reality and are going out into society, I want you to convey what your comrades are doing.’
Rather than someone who moves in tricky ways, I prefer someone who follows the royal road and does not waver.”
＊This troublesome young man and the Japanese media are probably exactly the same.＊
Ordinary young people raising their voices against the security legislation.
They emerged from a place completely unrelated to existing political organizations or ideologies.
That was not the case.
“SEALDs and the Christian Left.”
The main members of SEALDs were activists who had received a special peace? education at Christian Aishin High School.
→http://togetter.com/li/873269
The claim that they naturally gathered through SNS was, for the time being, a lie.