Published on October 17, 2019.
This article criticizes the silence of Japan’s anti-nuclear mass media, intellectuals, and citizens over South Korea’s nuclear power construction and falsification of performance test certificates for critical piping, while reflecting on the weight of Tadao Umesao’s phrase “a country of plausible lies,” reached through his fieldwork across China.

October 17, 2019.
It is only natural that Japan’s mass media, intellectuals, and citizens who advocate anti-nuclear power must all go to South Korea to carry out protest activities.
Without doing so, their anti-nuclear stance has no meaning whatsoever.
You are the very people who should know that phrase most of all.
This is a chapter published on May 31, 2013, under that title.
Needless to say, a country that falsifies performance test certificates for important piping is building nuclear power plants.
Even if it were only for that country’s own sake, it is a very close neighboring country.
Moreover, it is a country planning to export as many as eighty nuclear power plants, not only for itself but throughout the world.
It is only natural that Japan’s mass media, intellectuals, and citizens who advocate anti-nuclear power must all go to South Korea to carry out protest activities.
Without doing so, their anti-nuclear stance has no meaning whatsoever.
After all, it is also a country where the falsification of automobile exhaust-gas certificates was recently discovered in the United States.
Unlike you people, who live in luxury resorts around the world or in hotels in great cities while writing novels,
Tadao Umesao conducted fieldwork across the whole of China for several years in an era harsher than the present.
He was a scholar greater than Jared Diamond.
The phrase he reached as his conclusion as a result—“a country of plausible lies”—carries great weight.
You are the very people who should know that phrase most of all.