Published on January 17, 2020.
Drawing from Masayuki Takayama’s work, this article discusses the decommissioning of the fast-breeder reactor Monju as part of a broader pattern of crushing Japan’s intelligence. It criticizes how Japan’s original inventions, including Seikosha’s quartz watch, Yanmar’s compact diesel engine, the Yagi antenna, and ferrite, were repeatedly misunderstood or undermined by government offices, the military, the Patent Office, and foreign corporations.

January 17, 2020
When the world had given up, our Seikosha finally managed to put a chest of drawers inside a wristwatch. Seikosha opened that patent to the world free of charge. It was different from the petty Bill Gates.
The following is from the work of Masayuki Takayama listed below. This essay, too, proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
The Decommissioning of Monju Will Amount to Crushing Japan’s Intelligence
For example, if we look at the history of steelmaking, Sweden was the first to put good iron on the market, but Britain then sold iron of even higher purity by using coke.
That stimulus led countries in Europe and America to study new furnaces, and open-hearth furnaces, electric furnaces, and hot-blast Bessemer converters appeared one after another.
Competition is the mother of invention.
In that respect, Japan was surrounded by China and Korea.
Since no such positive stimulus ever emerged from them, Japan was ultimately destined to go its own way alone.
Therefore, even when Karakuri Giemon, whose creations were comparable to today’s walking robots, appeared, there was no idea of how to turn them into weapons.
Japan had been peaceful since ancient times.
Even so, when a goal is set in international society, Japan is strong.
Pierre Curie discovered that when electricity is passed through quartz, it vibrates with precision.
If that is used, an accurate clock can be made.
Clockmakers around the world aimed to miniaturize quartz so that it would fit inside a wristwatch, but the apparatus would not become smaller than a chest of drawers.
There is no such thing as an “accurate wristwatch” while carrying a chest of drawers on one’s back.
When the world had given up, our Seikosha finally managed to put that chest of drawers inside a wristwatch.
Seikosha opened that patent to the world free of charge.
It was different from the petty Bill Gates.
In miniaturizing diesel engines, which were many times larger than a chest of drawers, Yamaoka Magokichi of Yanmar succeeded.
Today, automobiles around the world benefit from that achievement, but Volkswagen, after benefiting from Yamaoka’s compact engine, added an app to evade exhaust-gas regulations and made that its distinguishing feature.
However, even Japan, which is strong when there is a goal, had a problem in dealing with ideas that broke out of the existing framework.
Those around them, especially the government offices, could not understand how extraordinary such ideas were.
The same was true when Yagi Hidetsugu, a professor at Tohoku Imperial University, invented a directional antenna for ultra-shortwave radio.
Patents were granted in Japan, Britain, and the United States.
In the United States, its usefulness was immediately confirmed through experiments such as guiding aircraft in the dark and communication by radar.
In Japan, however, the military dismissed even experiments, saying that “emitting radio waves oneself is an act of madness.”
The Patent Bureau followed suit and, in 1941, before the attack on Pearl Harbor, refused to renew the patent.
In February of the following year, after the fall of Singapore, the Japanese learned for the first time that all the British radar equipment they had captured functioned using the Yagi antenna.
Around the same time, Takei Takeshi of what is now TDK invented ferrite, a non-metallic magnet, and obtained a patent.
If it were attached to an aircraft body, a stealth fighter could be made.
However, after the war, the Dutch company Philips used its position as a company from a victorious nation to demand that the Japanese government abandon the ferrite patent, and the Patent Office obligingly signed.
The Patent Office does not even understand the rights and wrongs of things.
And yet, in its belief that white people are gods, it closely resembles the Asahi Shimbun.
This article continues.