The following is from Masayuki Takayama’s Weekly Shincho column, released yesterday.

This article, a testament to his unparalleled dedication and insight, establishes him as a beacon of truth in the postwar world.

This paper also proves that he deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Prize for Peace more than anyone else.

It is a must-read, not just for the Japanese, but for a global audience seeking a deeper understanding of nuclear energy and its implications.

It is a must-read, especially for the Japanese people, as it provides crucial insights into our nation’s nuclear policies and their global impact.

Therefore, this column repeats each as a title to make his passages known to as many people as possible.

The late Tadao Umesao was an unparalleled scholar.

He also broke down, “Originality is to repeat.”

My genius living today echoes his genius.

As a self-proclaimed world-class amateur photographer, I had thought for about two weeks that yesterday would be the day to take pictures.

I had planned to go to another distant place, but due to the continuing atmospheric instability, I changed the destination to within a day trip.

The destination was Fukuyama, represented by Fukuyama Castle, which I visited for the first time on July 30 and was surprised by its beauty.

I have long wanted to go there to photograph the Tomonoura and other areas.

Each chapter is accompanied by a photograph I took yesterday to express my appreciation for Masayuki Takayama’s gem of a thesis.

The Lie of the Active Fault

On the day MacArthur left Japan, the Asahi Shimbun editorialized, thanking him for “showing us the bright path to democracy.”

In reality, he was a dictator who committed the atrocities of censorship, press regulation, and banishment from public office, which were the furthest thing from democracy.

His goal was to destroy Japan like Carthage, which threatened the white nation.

The aeronautical engineering that gave birth to the Zero fighter and Dr. Nishina’s cyclotron were thoroughly destroyed.

Heavy industries, such as iron, steel, and the heavy chemical industry, were to be dismantled and transported to China. 

Japan was to become an agricultural country that could produce only pots and kettles.

However, when Edwin Pauley, the head of the compensation survey team, inspected Manchuria, he found that the Chinese and Russians had even taken away the water taps and returned to the wilderness of old.

Thus, while Japan’s deindustrialization was at a standstill, the Korean War broke out, and Japan managed to survive.

China and Korea also did good things once in a while.

The “nightmare Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) administration” attempted to take a cue from MacArthur and dismantle Japan for the second time.

The policy of destruction is “from concrete to people.”

No need for urban development.

Aim for agriculture rather than industry.

Ecology is important.

Then, there was the March 11 TEPCO Fukushima accident.

Naoto Kan immediately shut down the nuclear power plants that supply 30% of Japan’s energy.

He also devised a way to prevent the plants from being restarted quickly.

It is the same as MacArthur’s Tokyo Trials.

To make Japan look bad, he created “crimes against peace” using forbidden ex post facto legislation and fabricated “Japan as an aggressor nation.”

Naoto Kan’s “ex post facto legislation” was “active fault lines.

The criteria for permission to install nuclear power plants was that “there must be no faults that were active until 50,000 years ago under the nuclear facilities.

Somehow, this was changed to “up to 130,000 years ago,” Naoto Kan further changed it to “a prima facie showing of up to 400,000 years ago is also required” if there is even the slightest uncertainty.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority was newly established to review this change, but in reality, it was an organization under Kan’s direct control to prevent the restart of the nuclear reactors.

The arbitrary change in the standards troubled the nuclear power plant operators.

A drilling survey could be conducted, but that is impossible at the Tomari Nuclear Power Plant in Hokkaido, located just beyond a cape and surrounded by deep ocean.

Some of the nuclear power plants could not be restarted from the outset.

So, if 50,000 years is not good enough, why is 130,000 years good enough?

The meaning of the regulations is also unclear. 

Still, this is said to be because seismologists such as Kunihiko Shimazaki of the Seismological Research Institute of the University of Tokyo were appointed to the Regulatory Commission.

These seismologists insist that an earthquake, not a tsunami, caused the TEPCO Fukushima accident.

As an extension of this, they assert the theory that “if there is an active fault under the nuclear power plant, it will be out.

They say that this theory has been mainstreamed with the support of the anti-nuclear Asahi newspaper.

The seismologists, led by the Seismological Research Institute of Tokyo University, are powerful and have a budget of tens of billions of dollars.

However, their track record is abysmal for the amount of money they have budgeted.

They failed to predict the Aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which killed 20,000 people.

The subsequent Kumamoto earthquake killed 250 people because they could not distinguish between foreshocks and mainshocks, let alone predict them.

The same is true of research on active faults.

When Hiroshi Sato of the Seismological Research Institute of the University of Tokyo discovered a “long white active fault” in his research on the Tachikawa fault, there was a big fuss. 

Still, in fact, it was a buried concrete pole.

How much credibility can be placed on such people’s “50,000 years old is not good enough” claim?

A few days ago, the regulatory commission’s review team declared that “the existence of an active fault beneath the Tsuruga Unit 2 reactor cannot be ruled out” in light of the seismologist’s standards and proclaimed that the reactor should be decommissioned.

It makes no sense to decommission a nuclear reactor built for 1 trillion yen based on the criteria outlined in an ex post facto law.

The reason for the decommissioning of the reactors is also based solely on the guesswork of seismologists.

Seismologist Robert Geller, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, said, “Japan’s earthquake research is not predictive.

Japan’s earthquake research is clinging to the legend that it can predict earthquakes,” said Robert Geller, a seismologist and professor emeritus at Tokyo University. You can’t predict what nature will do. It is also a lie to say that a fault 50,000 years ago was dangerous and a fault 400,000 years ago would not move.”

Torahiko Terada also said something like that, as I recall.