Published on July 25, 2019.
This essay criticizes NHK’s Watch 9 coverage of Hansen’s disease lawsuits and the attitudes of so-called human-rights lawyers and NHK’s news department.
It discusses how the Japanese government protected patients by establishing national sanatoriums, and introduces a former classmate, a doctor who was decorated by the Emperor for his long years of treatment and research at a national Hansen’s disease sanatorium, presenting this as an example of the true Japanese spirit.

July 25, 2019.
Most children, and people who have simply grown into adults while remaining like children, cannot distinguish good from evil, so the patients would have had no choice but to live miserable daily lives.
It was because the country was Japan that such consideration was possible.
I am now in the middle of translating into English facts that are extremely important for Japan and the world.
I am working while half-watching NHK’s Watch 9.
The distorted minds of the producers of this program, and their attitude of attacking the Japanese government with extremely childish, yet most malicious, brains, while not even becoming suspicious of the schemes of so-called human-rights lawyers who abuse the State Redress Act, one of the things GHQ gave Japan for the permanent weakening of Japan,
or of the schemes of vulgar Japanese who try to wring even more money from the state under the pretext of opposing nuclear power,
truly make me want to vomit.
They make me sick.
I had already felt truly unforgivable anger toward the news about the recent lawsuits concerning Hansen’s disease, or leprosy, and the district court’s judgment, but now I have exceeded the limit of my patience.
Regarding the patients afflicted with this disease, the fact is that the response taken was one that only Japan could have made… a form of response that no country other than Japan could have achieved.
The “self-serving pseudo-moralism” of human-rights lawyers and the people at NHK truly makes me want to vomit.
If you people truly say that the Japanese state and the Japanese government did nothing for them, and discriminated against them, then speak only after you yourselves, or your own daughters and sons, become the wives or husbands of Hansen’s disease patients.
Japan, which it is no exaggeration to call the best government in the world, built national rest homes and sanatoriums for them in scenic places and quiet places where they would not be exposed to the gaze of others.
What would have happened if Japan had not done so and had left them in the middle of towns?
Your sons and daughters would have been mean to them, bullied them, and discriminated against them to the utmost.
Most children, and people who have simply grown into adults while remaining like children, cannot distinguish good from evil, so the patients would have had no choice but to live miserable daily lives.
It was because the country was Japan that such consideration was possible.
Recently, after my younger sister told me that all my classmates from Yuriage Elementary and Junior High School wanted to see me, I attended the gatherings in succession.
At the final gathering, it was announced that a classmate, the son of a doctor who had himself become a doctor, had been awarded a decoration by His Majesty the Emperor.
Because I had not kept up with him frequently, I had even forgotten that we had attended the same high school.
Everyone said that was wonderful, applauded greatly, and praised him.
Why had he been decorated?
When we heard the reason, we praised him even more.
For many years, he had treated and researched patients at a national Hansen’s disease sanatorium.
For that achievement, he had been decorated by the Emperor.
The red-and-white rice cakes that he had ordered from a famous Sendai confectionery maker and distributed to everyone in celebration were truly delicious.
A real Japanese person is like this, and such a person differs as much as heaven from earth in human quality and conduct from so-called human-rights lawyers and the people who control NHK’s news department, people of whom it is not even clear whether they are Japanese.
What kind of mind does the former vice president of Mitsubishi Corporation and current chairman of NHK have?
You are not merely a great fool who was an exam-taking honor student; you are also a traitor.
You may be complacent, thinking that you are innocent under the laws of this world, but King Enma in hell is waiting for you with the greatest torment prepared.
Naturally so… the honor and credibility of Japanese citizens who lived, or died, for the sake of the world, for the sake of people, and for the sake of the nation,
the people who have worked hard while demonstrating the world’s highest intelligence,
and the achievements and blood-soaked efforts of all the people connected with the Japanese government,
are being trampled underfoot by low-life men represented by Ōkoshi, who receive Japan’s highest average salaries from the taxes of the Japanese people and, night after night, hold discussions in drinking establishments attacking the government.
There is no way such conduct can be permitted.
Far from that, the torments of hell by King Enma await you as some of the greatest villains in human history.
At the same time, you are nothing but a disgrace to Mitsubishi Corporation, which has worked hard for the nation.