December 23, 2022
Quite some time ago, an elderly female professor from Monaco’s Royal Ballet School, deeply respected by prima ballerinas around the world, visited Japan.
These are the words she spoke then about the significance of artists’ existence.
“Artists are important because they alone can illuminate truths that have been concealed or remain hidden, and give expression to them.”
Surely no one would dispute her words.
It is no exaggeration whatsoever to say that Masayuki Takayama is not only a journalist without equal in the postwar world but also an artist without equal in the postwar world.
Meanwhile, many of those who call themselves writers—Oe, Murakami, Hirano, and others—and imagine themselves to be artists do not even deserve the name.
For, far from illuminating concealed or hidden truths and giving expression to them, they have merely given expression to lies manufactured by the Asahi Shimbun and others.
The same must be true of people like them not only in Japan but in countries throughout the world.
In other words, true artists are exceedingly few.
This book, too, poignantly demonstrates the correctness of my assertion that no one in the world today is more deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature than Masayuki Takayama.
The “Carthaginian Peace” GHQ Imposed on Japan
Takayama:
Returning to the earlier discussion of “attacks on civilian facilities,” it is certainly true that Japanese people do not openly attack civilian facilities or carry out acts of sabotage.
But when we look at other countries, that is not necessarily the case.
For example, General Sherman was one of the heroes of the American Civil War.
The Sherman tank, named after him, would also appear later.
After capturing Atlanta, this general destroyed towns, railways, and everything else all the way to Jacksonville on the East Coast, creating an uninhabited belt fifty kilometers wide.
It is called “Sherman’s Path” or something of that sort, and they carry out such destruction without hesitation.
The atomic bomb would presumably be the ultimate form of destruction, but the essence of war is plunder, rape, slaughter, and destruction.
This is taught in the Old Testament.
I mentioned Moses earlier, and Moses commands: “Plunder everything that can be plundered.
Kill all the men and all the married women who might be carrying a man’s seed.
Take the remaining virgins as your ‘reward’ and use them for your pleasure.”
So when soldiers return after killing only the enemy’s men, he orders them, “What, you have not killed the others?
Go back and do it again,” and they carry out slaughter and plunder.
Nothing remains afterward.
Later, in Roman times, Carthage and Rome competed for supremacy in the Mediterranean, and when Scipio defeated Carthage, he took away its ships and colonial cities, reduced it to an agricultural state, imposed reparations, and deprived it of its army, warships, and right of belligerency so that the maritime trading nation could never recover.
This is said to be the model for Article 9 of Japan’s Constitution.
GHQ likewise demanded that Japan relinquish Korea, Taiwan, and the southern islands, maintain no armed forces, and renounce the right of belligerency, imposing an occupation policy of “reducing its industrial capacity to the level of making pots and pans and turning it into an agricultural nation.”
And Rome’s Scipio ordered, “Send all the children of Carthage’s influential families to Rome.”
In short, they were hostages, but in postwar Japan, the equivalent is the “Fulbright scholarship program.”
They Romanized the people of Carthage and transformed the country into an agricultural state.
Once Carthage was defenseless, neighboring Numidia began seizing its possessions at will.
Carthage therefore took up arms in self-defense and fought the invaders.
But that constituted a violation of its terms of surrender to Rome: “Do not wage war without Rome’s permission.”
Using that as a pretext, Rome launched the Third Punic War and attacked Carthage, burned the city, slaughtered all the nobles, sold the common people into slavery, and finally scattered salt over the leveled remains of the citadel, turning it into a wasteland where not a single blade of grass or tree would grow.
This is what is known as the “Carthaginian Peace.”
That is the form warfare has taken in lands outside Japan.
Even if Japanese people try to understand it, they may find it rather impossible.