This week’s editorial issue also proves that my critique of him is correct.
April 21, 2017

It is from Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, from his famous column in the weekly Shincho.
His editorial in this week’s issue also proves beautifully that my assessment of him is absolutely correct.
A long time ago, an elderly female professor of the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, highly respected by prima ballerinas worldwide, visited Japan.
At that time, she spoke about the significance of an artist’s existence.
She said, “Artists are important because they are the only ones who can shed light on hidden, concealed truths and express them.”
No one would dispute her words.
It is no exaggeration to say that Masayuki Takayama is not only the one and only journalist in the postwar world but also the one and only artist in the postwar world.
On the other hand, Ōe, I don’t want to speak ill of the deceased, but (to follow Masayuki Takayama’s example below), Murakami and many others who call themselves writers or think of themselves as artists are not even worthy of the name of artists.
They have only expressed the lies the Asahi Shimbun and others created rather than shedding light on hidden truths and telling them.
Their existence is not limited to Japan but is the same in other countries worldwide.
In other words, there are only a few true artists.
This paper is another excellent proof that I am right when I say that no one in the world today deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Masayuki Takayama.
It is a must-read not only for the people of Japan but for people all over the world.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.

Malice in the Bread
On the morning of Japan’s defeat, Americans arrived with a bang.　
As is still the case today, their intellectual level is considerably lower than that of the Japanese.　
For example, Leon Becker, a GHQ staff member, believed from the beginning that Japan was behind the U.S. and still had slaves.　
After much searching, he decided to use a coal mine in Hokkaido as a prison cell and “freed 13,000 slaves” (Shinchosha, “MacArthur’s Japan”).　
He reported that they were respectable enslaved people who were made to work 24 hours a day, but the black diamonds were booming then.　
In fact, after this prison room bust, GHQ ordered “24-hour operations to increase coal production” (Shinchosha, “MacArthur’s Japan”).　
The miners who were suddenly enslaved must have been astonished.　
Americans also considered Japanese literacy to be a factor in the cultural lag.　
With a 26-letter alphabet, the literacy rate of Americans is barely 60%.
The Japanese use more than 10,000 kanji characters, kana, and the alphabet, so “85% of the Japanese cannot read a newspaper,” he estimated.　
“It is delaying Japan’s democratization,” he said, “We should first romanize the Japanese language and eventually convert it to English.”　
In 1948, the Ministry of Education conducted a nationwide Japanese reading and writing test for children and older people to warn such fools.　
The result was a 98% literacy rate.
There is a story that John Pelzel, the GHQ officer in charge of the test, pleaded with the Japanese side, “Can you at least change the literacy rate to that of Americans?”　
The U.S. medical community was also at a low level, believing that newborns would be in a “vegetative state for a year.　
Therefore, GHQ medical officers were astonished when they saw mothers and children sleeping together from early on.　
Because sleeping together was dangerous and unclean, GHQ ordered maternity hospitals to separate mothers and children, leading to an increase in unfortunate accidents involving mistaken pregnancies.　
Not until the WHO officially approved the practice in the 1980s did Americans learn that sleeping with mothers positively affected babies’ emotional stability.　
Up to this point, we can sense good intentions somewhere in the ignorance, but there are quite a few GHQ policies that are not so good.

Crawford Sams was the man who pelted the Japanese with DDTs to the head, and the next thing he did was enforce birth control using Margaret Sanger and Shizue Kato.　
Franklin Roosevelt testified that the Japanese should be destroyed and confined to the four islands.
It is like Carthage, which was defeated at the Battle of Pawnee.　
So, except for the “four” islands, Taiwan and Korea were confiscated.
The army was dismantled, and the right of belligerency was taken away.
It was the same as the surrender treaty that Rome presented to Carthage.　
In addition, this restriction on births reduced the population and hastened the nation’s demise.　
In fact, Japan’s population would eventually fall below its pre-war level.　
Samus did another trick.
Japanese-Americans started the so-called “la-la-la goods” to help alleviate the poverty of their homeland.　
The U.S. government offered nonfat milk powder for livestock feed, and they took advantage of the school lunches that were started.
It is the spread of eating bread.
They granted about 180,000 tons of wheat for priming, and in return, they made “school lunches with bread as the main ingredient” the law.
According to Akiyoshi Yamamura’s “GHQ’s Brainwashing of Japan,” Senator McGovern said, “This made Japan a significant wheat buyer for years to come.　
The legend that “eating rice makes you stupid” was also propagated during this period.
The Asahi Shimbun advertised bread with money from the United States, saying, “Don’t let the next generation’s children eat rice.” (1964).
The shift away from rice has continued, and by 2011, the purchase amounts of bread and rice had reversed.　
In a first-grade morality textbook, the word “bakery” was changed to “wagashiya” (Japanese confectionery shop), and the textbook passed the examination.
The purpose was that Japanese tradition and culture cannot be described in terms of bread.　
Asahi bit into it.
“Is there no tradition or culture in bread?”
Yes, it does. Nothing.
Instead, it’s chock full of brain-fool gluten and seasoned American cunning.
Eat rice.
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