The Asahi Shimbun is boring, and I don’t mean that in a flattering way.
One of its selling points, Tenseijingo, is an explanatory column that is not even a column, citing books and personalities no one knows. It ends with, “Still, I think Japan is wrong.”
March 01, 2019
A friend of mine, who is a prolific reader, bought me today’s issue of Weekly Shincho.
It wanted me to read an article by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
As I translated the following paper by Masayuki Takayama into English, I now realize that this paper proves that my “Turn Table of Civilization,” one of the best papers of the 21st century,” is correct.
I translated Masayuki Takayama’s paper below into English. His paper proves that one of the best thesis = transcendence of the 21st century, “Turntable of Civilizations,” is entirely correct. I noticed something.
*The following annotations are mine.
Japan’s Century
The Asahi Shimbun is boring, and I don’t mean that in a flattering way.
One of its selling points, Tenseijingo, is an explanatory column that is not even a column, citing books and personalities no one knows. It ends with, “Still, I think Japan is wrong.”
Regarding the atrocity of South Korea, they switched the subject to “Japan ruled as a colony,” ignoring the fact that Korea was annexed, not colonized.
The Last War is also discussed only from the U.S. perspective, saying that it was a war of aggression and that Japan exploited the Asian people and put them out of their misery.
Such distorted columns are advertised as “You will take the exam, so you should copy them exactly as they are.”
It is worse than MacArthur’s brainwashing.
Political coverage is also terrible.
They make fun of Olympics Minister Sakurada by saying he has a lisp and misspoke.
How different is this from saying that a stutterer stutters?
They criticize Japan to no end but give warm consideration to China and Korea.
China has been making money by stealing advanced technology from other countries and imitating it.
Imitation of the Shinkansen is a good example.
However, as soon as Trump and Pence took the initiative and said they would no longer allow intellectual property to be stolen, they barely kept themselves afloat.
In addition, there is the theory that the communist state has existed for 72 years.
There have been many communist states.
But they were all short-lived and collapsed.
Even the longest one, the Soviet Union, collapsed after 72 years.
Next year, the Communist regime in China will mark its 72nd year.
History and Kaori Fukushima both say that that is the limit.
However, Masato Hara, an Asahi editorial board member, said, “I have been to Shina, and everyone is okay, and the executives of Ali Baba said they are not worried in the slightest.”
Instead, he said, China’s GDP “is closing in on that of the U.S., which is in the twilight, and will reverse the trend somewhere in the 2020s,” and that “it looks like the U.S. is struggling and scared to start a trade war.
He predicts that the ruthless and vulgar China, which makes a living as an intellectual property thief and is engaged in the horrific ethnic selection of Uyghur and Tibet, will become the superpower of tomorrow.
The mere thought of such a country ruling the world disgusts the Japanese, but Hara seems to think it is a happy event.
One would like to see Japan give China a painful reproach.
Still, the Asahi Shimbun brings in Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, president of the Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), to tell us that “that will not happen.”
According to Kobayashi, “Japan’s technological superpower is a thing of the past. China has stolen Japan’s technology, and Huawei is now the sole provider of telecommunications services. Still, the Japanese are in a state of being like boiled frogs, unaware of the situation.”
He also criticizes the Japanese people as being “degraded and lacking the energy to take on new challenges.”
However, Japan has been challenging itself for a long time.
In the 1970s, for example, Japan followed the U.S., Soviet Union, and Germany in creating nuclear-powered ships using its technology.
Japan was the first country in the world to commercialize the dream nuclear reactor, the fast breeder reactor, but both of these efforts were destroyed by the fake news led by Asahi.
Kobayashi needs to learn about this fact due to his lack of education.
He would not be talking about Japan’s “boiling frog” theory in Asahi if he knew that.
Kobayashi also considers “Japan’s 175 trillion yen debt” a problem and laments that “the next generation of technology development expenses” cannot be quickly funded.
No, an enormous amount of money is available for Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research.
However, it has been dispersed to anti-Japanese leftist Jiro Yamaguchi and others in the humanities.
Kobayashi needs to be made aware of this.
So, does the world also have a pessimistic view of Japan?
Michael Schuman, author of “Confucius and His World,” asserts, “The challenge of the 21st century is establishing a robust industrial power that can overcome international competition. Japan, not surprisingly, is a model for this.”
“We have entered an era in which the power of tradition, not the faux pas of China, is the key to success.”
Adair Turner, an authority on economics in the U.K., shares the same view as Yoichi Takahashi: “Japan’s aging society has made it possible for technological innovation to keep people in the labor force until they are 70 years old,” and “The national debt, which is more than twice the GDP, is said to be a drag on the economy, but it is only 60% of GDP because government assets offset it and includes interest paid by the Bank of Japan.”
He concludes, “Learn from Japan in the 21st century.”
Bloomberg’s Daniel Moss also says, “The eyes of the world, which used to be on China, will now turn to Japan, which has cleared aging and deflation.”
Japan will be fine when Asahi and Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) disappear.

*The redevelopment of the Umeda-Kita Yard was a consequential detriment to the Asahi Shimbun’s efforts to recruit tenants for the Nakanoshima Twin Tower building, which was the company’s most important asset.
The Umeda-Kita Yard is the best location in Japan, left by God as the catalyst and trump card for Osaka’s revitalization.
That is why Yodobashi Camera Umeda ranks first in sales among all stores.
The Asahi Shimbun has made a mess of the North Yard business using Yukiko Takenaka of the Osaka Keizai Doyukai (Osaka Association of Corporate Executives).
Incidentally, the Nakanoshima Twin Tower Building, on which Asahi staked its corporate fortunes, was constructed by Takenaka Corporation.
Thanks to the Asahi Shimbun’s plan to destroy the North Yard and the booming economy thanks to Abenomics, Asahi could secure tenants.
As a result, the Asahi Shimbun is now a profitable company in real estate. Will God continue to allow this company of treasonists and traitors to survive?