June 3, 2015
Yesterday, I wrote that I can now only skim Asahi’s reading section.
Today’s Asahi proved that my impression was entirely correct.
The ample space on page 13 carried three opinion pieces titled “What We Expect of a Leader.”
Anyone with a sound mind can see that now, unlike last August, Asahi intends to criticize Prime Minister Abe.
Nevertheless, Asahi, like the Communist Party dictatorship in China and the totalitarian regime in South Korea, is a group of relentless and repugnant people.
I was the first person in the world to point out that Asahi Shimbun employees rank among the middle to lower levels of my former classmates.
However, I must repeatedly make it clear that none of my classmates are such fools.
That is how bad Asahi’s reporters are.
Among the three authors mentioned above was a nonfiction writer named Masayasu Hosaka.
I first learned of this man through Asahi’s book review section.
Of course, I have not read a single one of his books and have no desire to read them.
Nevertheless, I was appalled by the childishness of his opinion piece.
Opening passage omitted
Such figures include former Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibashi, who envisioned a UN-centered approach rather than an exclusive orientation toward the United States, and a territorially limited Japan rather than militarism, as well as former Chief Cabinet Secretary Masaharu Gotoda, who was a “guardian” of peace and democracy throughout his life.
In relation to the “American era,” they neither pandered to it, nor allowed themselves to be swept along, nor wavered.
＊He probably does not know that only he and those who share his views consider them ideal leaders for Japan.
Most Japanese people, including myself, do not consider Tanzan Ishibashi, Masaharu Gotoda, and others like them ideal leaders for Japan.
They were by no means ideal leaders for Japan.＊
They were broadly informed and viewed history rooted in reality with accuracy.
That is why they had their own coordinate system for thinking about security and the shape of the country.
＊Most people know that this description applies precisely to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe himself.＊
In his speech to the US Congress at the end of April, he spoke of “deep remorse” but did not apologize.
Although he appears extremely dangerous, most people support him and sometimes applaud him.
This may be because the public does not know history and its sensitivity toward those who have suffered harm is declining.
＊He does not understand at all that this is precisely what China and South Korea are doing through their relentless and repugnant anti-Japanese propaganda.＊
Leaders like Ishibashi and Gotoda do not emerge because we, the public, prioritize courage and appearances over thinking things through for ourselves.
＊This Asahi-style, baseless arrogance and disrespect toward the Japanese people are truly beyond remedy.＊
True leaders cannot develop in a society that lacks intelligence.
＊That is what he should say out loud to the rulers of China, a one-party Communist dictatorship.
He should say it out loud to China’s one-party Communist regime and to the South Korean government and its followers.
This hopelessly totalitarian state has conducted anti-Japanese education for seventy years, ever since the end of World War II.
These are not words that should be directed at the Japanese people, who, together with the United States, possess the world’s highest levels of intelligence and freedom.
How on earth does this man’s brain work for him to say such disrespectful things to the Japanese people?
He should read my book “The Turntable of Civilization” immediately.
Then why is the turntable of civilization turning in Japan now?
Unless he knows the reason, he will not be able to pass through the gates of heaven, and only the judgment of the sternest King Enma awaits him.