2019-6-13
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In 1995, the success of Se7en and Fight Club brought Fincher sudden attention as a hitmaker.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Social Network. (From Wikipedia)
＊I see; so, as I thought, it was that kind of encounter….
As readers probably know, after watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,
I decided that Cate Blanchett, who played a ballerina active in Paris in this film, was the greatest actress of our time.
Queen Elizabeth, Bob Dylan, and a ballerina…what she expresses…it would be no exaggeration to say that it embodies everything magnificent that the West possesses.
But here, I want to state something clearly to Japan and the world.
The world needs to know the undeniable fact that long before them…for more than 1,000 years…Japan and its people were a country…and a people…who created supreme art…were moved by it…and appreciated it….
If the world knew this, there could be no utter fools on the San Francisco city council…nor a New York Times that has outrageously presumed that Asahi represents Japan…
nor influential German newspapers that are the very epitome of baseness.
＊Readers…
must know that I am one of Japan’s most avid television viewers of Major League Baseball, and that when Shohei Ohtani set out to take on the major leagues, I hoped he would not join the San Francisco Giants, of all teams…because I would not be able to support him wholeheartedly…
This is because the city is ruled by people even more malicious than those whose propaganda they take at face value, completely dominated by China and the countries of the Korean Peninsula—the lands of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
At the same time, readers must know that I went so far as to declare that, as long as the city remained like this, its baseball team would never become world champions.
The following year, they made lavish additions to their roster, including a former MVP, so I was ever so slightly concerned, but the results are there for all to see…
The same goes for this year’s dismal performance.
Recently, when a friend and I were watching NHK broadcast footage under a title such as “San Francisco, a Beautiful City,”
we both exclaimed in unison, “What’s beautiful about it?!”
For the footage showed a city that, far from being beautiful, would more accurately have been described as “a shabby, dirty city.”
It was a reality befitting a city ruled by “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”＊

Those who doubt my words…
if they possess the highest intelligence, need only spend at least a week strolling through Shiga (Mount Hiei, Mii-dera, Ishiyama-dera), Nara (Todai-ji, Toshodai-ji, Yakushi-ji, etc.), and Kyoto (every conceivable place, and all the gardens I continue to visit in spring, summer, autumn, and winter)…and they will understand the correctness of my argument without a word being said.
At the same time, they will also naturally come to understand just how fraudulent the criticisms of the imperial system by the Asahi Shimbun and others are.

＊As I have already written, the late Shoichi Watanabe, one of the greatest and most genuine scholars of the postwar era, taught us that the term “imperial system” was coined by communists, and that Japanese people should properly call it the Imperial Household…that this is what they have always called it.＊

Kenzaburo Oe and the like are nothing more than minor figures to Japan and its people.
To venture a harsh assessment, it would be no exaggeration to call him “a fool infatuated with the West.”
Another man, manufactured by the mass media and exalted by people who mistakenly believe that life consists of making merry along with the mass media,
is, as I have been pointing out recently, nothing more than someone who has plagiarized the ideas of a genuine American woman writer from beginning to end.