It is from Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, from his famous column in the weekly Shincho, released today.
His editorial in this week’s issue also proves beautifully that my assessment of him is 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.

A People of National Shame
I had a chance to peek into the former royal residence in Niavaran, in the upper part of Tehran.　
One corner of the parlor was an alcove that extended outside with a stylish table.
They used to enjoy opium there until Khomeini came out.　
In the good old days, it was also a good medicine.　
Rubbing fresh opium in the form of Jintan (Japanese medicine) behind the ear would make any lousy headache seem like a lie and fly away.
When the British tried to bring it to China, the Manchu Qing dynasty refused to accept it.　
It is because the Chinese (Han Chinese) have no sense of self-control. 
If they learned about opium, they would become a cat sniffing matatabi.　
However, such considerations from the government do not apply to the Han people.
They secretly traded directly with British ships off the coast of Hong Kong and brought opium into the country.　
The opium epidemic spread, and by the time of the Opium War, the number of addicts had reached two million.　
The British won the war, opium was liberalized, and even Hong Kong Island was taken.　
The Han Chinese, who had lost the taste for smuggling, began to grow their poppy. 
The aim was to achieve consistency in production.　
Meanwhile, the number of suckers amounted to 5% of the population, or 20 million people, before the Sino-Japanese War, as far as the Qing Dynasty was concerned.　
That is also terrible, but not Jardine Matheson or the Russell Chamber of Commerce financed the demand.　　
The Han Chinese organizations, the Green Gang, and others broke in with cheap domestic products and drove out the foreigners.　
In such anti-social fields, the Han Chinese were strangely competent.　
Looking at the history of Shina, foreign nationalities built the country and continuously enslaved Han people. 
It is said to be the cause of their bad character.　
During the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Five Hu States, the barbarians who lived with the Han Chinese scorned them, saying they were like the Han Chinese. 
The words “rascal,” “pervert,” and “unreliable” were born from this,” says Suyama Taku, professor emeritus at the University of Nagasaki.　
The Qing dynasty had the same impression, forbidding intermarriage between Manchu and Han Chinese and never allowing a beautiful woman like Xi Shi into the imperial palace.　
Such Han Chinese showed tremendous talent when it came to opium.
In fact, the Green Gang has even taken up the highly addictive heroin refining business, developed a simple refining technique, and has become a world leader in narcotics.　
It even has a brand name, China White, compared to the brown heroin produced in Europe.　
He now claims that “poppy is obsolete” and is involved in the synthetic drug fentanyl.　
Fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin, and 30,000 people die each year in the United States from an overdose.　
The U.S. government has issued arrest warrants for four Chinese chemical companies and eight of their executives, and at the recent meeting between Brinken and Wang Yi, this Chinese drug was a significant topic of discussion.　
The Han Chinese are a different breed of people regarding the underworld.　
In his book “Manchu, Hong Kong,” Katsuo Hiizumi, a leading authority on Chinese studies, describes the people of colonial Hong Kong as having a talent for “ruling while being ruled.”　
It applies equally well to the Han Chinese, who have been ruled for most of their 5,000-year history.　
The Han Chinese are now unusually on the ruling side, having established a dynasty called the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and Xi Jinping, for example, cites the Opium War as the first “national disgrace of the past century.　
However, the Han Chinese were solely responsible for the smuggling of opium, even though the Qing Dynasty forbade it, and they sided with the British during the Opium War.　
Wasn’t it the Han Chinese who brought shame to the nation?　
Xi Jinping also included the Sino-Japanese War in the list of national disgraces.　
He blames the defeat on Empress Dowager Cixi’s misappropriation of war funds to build the Summer Palace.　
However, Empress Dowager Cixi also purchased the large 7,000-ton battleships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan and the newest cruisers Guangjia and Jiyuan.　
She also spared no effort to train Han Chinese officers. Many of them, including Fang Bojian, studied at the Royal Naval College.　
Heihachiro Togo, who studied in the U.K. simultaneously, was admitted to the merchant marine college preparatory school instead of the naval academy.　
When the Japanese navy faced the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Fang Hak-ken, the “Ji-yuan” captain, made an unprecedented escape before the enemy.　
The Chinese lost the battle, and Admiral Ding Ru-chang committed suicide with opium.　
Empress Dowager Xi did well. 
It was just that the Han officers needed to be better.　
The shame of the country was your Han Chinese, Mr. Xi.