Published on February 5, 2020.
This article republishes a chapter originally posted on September 26, 2019, discussing the opinion advertisement “From Osaka To Osaka,” reporting on Fukushima treated water, anti-Japanese education in Korea, issues in the figure-skating world surrounding Mao Asada and Kim Yuna, Shizuka Arakawa’s responsibility, and the beauty, flexibility, and strength of Japanese women symbolized by Rika Kihira, Rikako Ikee, and Hinako Shibuno.
It argues that Rika Kihira should be presented to the world as an inheritor of the Japanese female tradition represented since ancient times by Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon.

2020-02-05
It is no exaggeration at all to say that people formed by history and scholarship made entirely of lies are a people who possess nothing but hatred toward the Japanese.
I am republishing the chapter posted on September 26, 2019, under the title:
“Rika Kihira, Rikako Ikee, and Hinako Shibuno Are on the Exact Opposite Horizon from Mizuho Fukushima, Kiyomi Tsujimoto, and Others; They Are the True Descendants of Yamato Nadeshiko.”
This is an expanded version of the chapter posted on September 18, 2019, under the title:
“Those Who Read This Morning’s Sankei Shimbun Must Have Realized That My Criticism of Shinjiro Koizumi Today Was Entirely on the Mark.”
In order to sum up Osaka, the city I had chosen as the stage of my life, despite having suffered tremendous hardship ever since the total-volume lending restrictions issued in March 1990, which brought about Japan’s “lost twenty years,”
on February 26, 2003, I placed an opinion advertisement titled “From Osaka To Osaka,” filled with countless emotions, as an insert advertisement in every household in Osaka Prefecture that subscribed to the Nikkei Shimbun.
This advertisement had a tremendous impact on Osaka.
One person even said, “It is the February 26 Incident, isn’t it…”
Also, one of Osaka’s leading wealthy men, who had usually telephoned me frequently, called me timidly after some time had passed.
“How many months did it take you to write that…?”
No, I wrote it in half a day.
“Half a day!!
Even if it took us a month, we could not write that…”
Because the governor of Osaka Prefecture at the time was Fusae Ota, I was able to write it all at once.
When I realized that I could write it all at once if I addressed it to her, this written opinion, which began “Dear Ms. Fusae Ota,” was immediately taken up the next day in the Osaka Prefectural Assembly.
Mr. Suzuki, then deputy governor in charge of Osaka revitalization, was asked by an assembly member who had been inspired by my written opinion, “What should be done to revitalize Osaka?”
He too had read my writing.
He answered as follows:
“I think Osaka revitalization can only be achieved if each and every resident of Osaka Prefecture thinks about matters from the standpoint of the governor…”
Yesterday, Osaka Mayor Matsui announced that Osaka Bay would accept treated water from Fukushima.
The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others continue to report this treated water as contaminated water, but in reality, it is treated water that is equivalent to ordinary water and only contains tritium.
It is harmless water that nuclear-power countries around the world all discharge into the sea after taking the same kind of measures.
The South Korean government and South Koreans are probably so ignorant that they do not actually know at all that their own country’s nuclear power plants discharge water into the sea in the same way.
In South Korea, which has continued for seventy-five postwar years an education of anti-Japanese sentiment that is nothing other than Nazism, there is no such thing as scholarship or art.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that people formed by history and scholarship made entirely of lies are a people who possess nothing but hatred toward the Japanese, just as Germans once had toward the Jews.
In the past, they not only praised Kim Yuna, who was a false image created by such a country, but when Korea, in order to have Kim Yuna win the gold medal, committed the malicious act of bringing down Mao Asada, who was the absolute obstacle to that goal, by not only making the scoring standards for Mao Asada’s triple axel, the most difficult jump in women’s figure skating, stricter, but also lowering its base value and raising the scoring standards for triple-triple combinations, Shizuka Arakawa, who was already an executive of the Japan Skating Federation at the time and is now vice president, did not raise a single voice of objection.
On the contrary, as a television commentator, she constantly praised Kim Yuna and gave only harsh evaluations to Mao Asada.
Many viewers should be able to recall this.
I had found it strange that around the time of her retirement she repeatedly spoke about ice shows and the like, but when I searched the internet, it seems that the profits she made by organizing ice shows were enormous.
However, with the emergence of Rika Kihira, and as if in response to her, with young skaters who can jump quadruples appearing in Russia, a country that has originally produced many ballerinas, figure skating has long since entered an era worthy of an Olympic sport: an era in which beauty is expressed through competition in technique.
Shizuka Arakawa bears the responsibility, no, the sin, of having failed to help Mao Asada, who was unmistakably a genius, win the gold medal.
Since ancient times, and as further proven by Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon, Japan has been, from olden times, the country in the world where women were most cherished and where being a woman was happiest.
Women with the world’s highest level of physical ability, embodying the beauty, flexibility, and strength of Japanese women, have now appeared in various fields.
I am speaking of Rika Kihira, Rikako Ikee, Hinako Shibuno, and others.
Women such as Mizuho Fukushima and Kiyomi Tsujimoto, whom the Asahi Shimbun and NHK have supported, continue activities that, while receiving large amounts of Japanese taxpayers’ money as their living expenses, may without exaggeration be described as demeaning Japan and selling it out to the Korean Peninsula and China.
They continue activities that slander Japan, keep Japan forever in the position of a political prisoner in the international community, and allow the Korean Peninsula and China to strip large amounts of Japanese taxpayers’ money from Japan whenever and however they like.
They do this while receiving an annual income of approximately 50 million yen from Japanese taxpayers’ money!
Rika Kihira, Rikako Ikee, and Hinako Shibuno are on the exact opposite horizon from Mizuho Fukushima, Kiyomi Tsujimoto, and others.
They are the true descendants of “Yamato Nadeshiko.”
In other words, they are the descendants of Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon, who since ancient times were among the greatest women in the world.
As vice president, Shizuka Arakawa must make every possible effort to have Rika Kihira, the greatest talent to appear in the world of figure skating, win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
She must perfectly arrange the training environment necessary for Kihira to perfect the quadruple jump she has already mastered.
Rika Kihira, the world’s greatest talent, who can jump the greatest triple axel in history and a quadruple jump,
is at the same time a descendant of Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon.
Kihira is the essence of Japan, the country where women have been happiest in the world since ancient times.
The Japan Skating Federation must make this known to the world.
That is because anti-Japanese states such as the Korean Peninsula and China, which continue to carry out Nazism under the name of anti-Japanese education, continue activities throughout the world and at the United Nations to slander and defame Japan.
There are also people who call themselves Japanese and, in sympathy with them, go so far as to set up offices in Switzerland while continuing activities to slander and defame Japan.
The Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others, which are their backbone and supporters, report in such ways.
They say the utterly outrageous thing that Japan is a country that discriminates against women, and every time there is an opportunity, they have the United Nations issue human-rights recommendations against Japan.
Shizuka Arakawa must make them understand that The Turntable of Civilization is turning toward Japan.
Japan is a country that, for the next 170 years, must lead the world alongside the United States.
Arakawa must make the world recognize that Rika Kihira, too, is the essence of that.
If she cannot do that, Arakawa must immediately resign as vice president.
It is no exaggeration to say that only specific enthusiasts gather for ice shows.
It is precisely because figure skating is a sport that elevates superlative techniques and speed into the realm of beauty
that fans have increased all over the world, and that it has become the flower of the Winter Olympics.
That is because, ultimately, the speed inherent in skating and the tremendous techniques it produces create incomparable beauty.
That is truly the essence of sport.
To be continued.