May 5, 2018
Tomoo Hirooka, president of the Asahi Shimbun, was delivering the closing address on the final day of the midsummer Koshien baseball tournament.
It was a particularly gloomy-looking day.
This may be an apt description, considering that high school baseball at the time was in its era of “grit and determination,” when baseball powerhouse schools were flourishing.
Invited by the Chinese government, he stayed in China for more than a month, neglecting even the shareholders’ meeting.
After he returned to Japan, the Asahi Shimbun became unbelievably pro-China.
Nothing could have demonstrated more clearly that the Asahi had become the advance guard of China’s propaganda operations against Japan.
The Asahi subsequently went on to further disparage the Japanese nation and its people.
Through official development assistance, the Asahi Shimbun has had astronomical amounts of our tax money funneled into China.
It is now an obvious fact that Katsuichi Honda’s “Travels in China” was one of the factors that supported the growth of the communist one-party dictatorship and its unreasonable undertakings.
Since the adoption of Hirooka’s editorial line, all the current editorial writers must have visited China.
The other day, it occurred to me that many of them must have visited China while maintaining close ties with the Chinese Communist Party.
At the same time, I suddenly became convinced that the probability that all of them had been caught in honey traps from the outset was close to 100 percent.
I am the person who visits Kyoto most frequently in the world.
In recent years, Chinese tourists have flooded not only Kyoto but also Osaka.
The text asserts that it is a well-known fact that Koreans are rather ugly in their natural appearance without plastic surgery.
By contrast, many Chinese women are as beautiful as Japanese women.
It is no exaggeration to say that their manner and presence are also close to those of Japanese women.
After all, this is a country of 1.4 billion people.
Even in terms of probability, finding a beautiful woman should not be particularly difficult.
When I mentioned this to a book-loving friend, he replied as follows.
“Yes, that is true.
China is a country of mixed ancestry.
In ancient times, neighboring countries presented princesses from the Korean Peninsula to China, and China was conquered by other ethnic groups every few hundred years.”
Moreover, Japan had a tradition, especially among the elite, that “it is shameful to turn down a woman’s advances.”
Page eight of today’s Yomiuri Shimbun carried prominent headlines such as “Nuclear Power and Railways: An Export Offensive,” “Pillars of Belt and Road Infrastructure,” and “Improving Technological Capabilities and Advancing Domestic Production.”
It was presumably part of a series.
It was the second installment of “Forty Years of Reform and Opening Up,” entitled “A Scientific Powerhouse.”
My immediate reaction was, “What is this?”
Like my previous conjectures, this one is almost 100 percent correct.
The anti-nuclear movement advocated by Mizuho Fukushima, Naoto Kan, and Masayoshi Son, with the Asahi Shimbun at its forefront, has been a major factor in China’s nuclear power and railway export strategy.
There is no doubt that Japan is China’s most formidable competitor in nuclear power and railways.
Japan is a thorn in the side of the industries that form the pillars of China’s export strategy.
Japan—or rather, the Asahi Shimbun—wants nuclear technology to decline in the name of a kindergartener’s pseudo-moralism.
If that happens, it will be a great success in every sense.
China will be the first to rejoice, followed by the Korean Peninsula.
Because China’s influence operations have spread to every corner of the world, most mass media still do not report on the frequent episodes of PM2.5 pollution in recent years.
I can tell simply by looking at the sky over Umeda from my home.
When I check conditions in China to make sure, I find scattered black spots indicating unbelievable PM2.5 pollution readings.
Even PM2.5 is frequently carried here by winds in the upper atmosphere.
Our neighbor China is pursuing a plan to operate more than 100 nuclear power plants by 2030 and rival the United States.
All the Asahi Shimbun editorial writers who persistently oppose nuclear power must have fallen into some kind of Chinese trap.
My conjecture must be entirely on the mark.
The following is from the Yomiuri Shimbun article.
Nuclear Power and Railways: An Export Offensive
Trucks travel back and forth, trailing smoke along a coastal road lined with thatched-roof houses.
Their destination is the Shidaowan Nuclear Power Plant in Rongcheng, Shandong Province, near this port town where fish and shellfish farming thrive.
Numerous cranes are visible on the site, where construction is underway on a demonstration high-temperature gas-cooled reactor, regarded as a promising next-generation nuclear reactor.
Japan also has a research reactor for basic experiments, but this is the world’s first demonstration reactor designed to test electricity generation.
Liu Xugang, 42, an associate researcher at Tsinghua University with expertise in nuclear power plants, says, “We will begin operation by the end of this year.
We expect to gain a variety of new insights.”
In China, which lagged behind Japan, Europe, and the United States in nuclear power plant construction, the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in Zhejiang Province finally began supplying electricity to the grid in 1991.
Delegations from a Japanese electric power industry association sometimes visited the plant to help tighten bolts on its piping.
Since then, however, China has introduced technologies from the United States, France, Russia, and other countries, while investing heavily in personnel training.
According to the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, 37 nuclear reactors were operating as of January 2018, placing China third in the world after the United States and France.
This contrasts with Japan, where most reactors are shut down because of stricter regulations introduced after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.
Seeking to become a “nuclear powerhouse,” China is accelerating construction to meet domestic energy demand and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It plans to operate more than 100 nuclear reactors by 2030, putting it on a par with the United States.
In high-speed rail, too, China has narrowed the gap with other countries by introducing foreign technologies.
May 5, 2018
Until August four years ago, the Asahi Shimbun ruled Japan.
To use their favored terminology, it is an obvious fact that the Asahi Shimbun dominated every field as Japan’s Nazis.
There is no doubt that everyone at the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, including its Special Investigation Department, subscribes to and reads the Asahi Shimbun.
Furthermore, an article by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, presents a clear fact.
According to him, the Asahi Shimbun repeatedly drove prosecutors-general who did not conform to its wishes out of office by giving extensive coverage to affairs involving women and other matters, just as it does in its current campaign to bring down the government.
There is no doubt that Chinese people are engaged, directly and indirectly, in various operations to discredit Japan’s nuclear power and railways, their most formidable and powerful competitors in the world.
Japan has begun constructing the Linear Shinkansen, featuring the world’s most advanced railway technology, which will put it even further ahead of China.
Japan’s major construction companies, possessing cutting-edge technologies that Japan takes pride in and the world recognizes, are being investigated for “bid rigging” in a manner that even former prosecutors have questioned.
It is clear that China is the only country in the world delighted by this.
The following continues the Yomiuri Shimbun article quoted in the preceding section.
In high-speed rail, too, China has narrowed the gap with other countries by introducing technologies from overseas.
In September 2005, the Fuxing high-speed train began operating, boasting the world’s highest speed of 350 kilometers per hour.
Named after the Xi Jinping administration’s slogan, “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” the train connects Beijing with Shanghai, approximately 1,300 kilometers away, in four and a half hours.
China has introduced railway technologies from Japan, Germany, and other countries, but Yang Zhongping, 47, a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, says, “The Fuxing is a wholly domestically produced train: China has done everything independently, from design to testing.
Our technology has advanced to the next stage.”
Under its Belt and Road Initiative, China seeks to export infrastructure technologies overseas.
Its two pillars are nuclear power plants and high-speed railways.
At a nuclear industry symposium held in Tokyo on April 10, an executive from a Chinese company involved in nuclear power plant exports presented the domestically produced Hualong One reactor, emphasizing, “Our nuclear safety systems enable us to fully meet our customers’ requirements.”
Hualong One is a new type of reactor based on French technology.
Taking lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi accident, it is said to be capable of withstanding major earthquakes and tsunamis.
It has already been exported to the United Kingdom, Argentina, and other countries.
In high-speed rail, China has also secured construction contracts in Laos, Indonesia, and elsewhere.
Professor Yang explains, “Our strength lies in having developed rolling stock capable of handling Japan’s diverse terrain and climatic conditions.”
Japan is also seeking to sell nuclear power plants and high-speed railways, but China, once its “pupil,” has become a formidable competitor.
However, Hualong One has no operating track record, and it is unclear whether it can genuinely cope with accidents and technical problems.
A Japanese researcher points to the lack of transparency in information disclosure, saying, “Once the technology is established, foreigners are no longer allowed into the facilities.”
In high-speed rail, too, numerous projects have stalled because of aggressive methods of securing contracts and overly optimistic projections.
Wei-Yue Zhou, 55, a professor at Guangxi University specializing in the nuclear fuel cycle, points out, “There is still much to learn from Japan, which has many years of experience.”
Meanwhile, operating data from nuclear power plants and high-speed railways constitute valuable material for research and development even for Japan, where research funding is stagnating.
Drawing on 30 years of observing China, Watanabe Keisuke, 66, a researcher at the Overseas Electric Power Research Institute, says, “China needs Japan for its development, and Japan can also make use of China.
We should build our relationship strategically.”
(End of article. This series was written by Kazuhiko Makita and Sho Funakoshi.)
*The end of this article suggests that the Yomiuri, like Keidanren, has somehow been drawn into China’s orbit, exposing the folly of Japan’s mass media.