The following is an excerpt from Takayama Masayuki’s serialized column in Weekly Shincho, released last Thursday.
This article also proves that he is a journalist like no other in the post-war world.
Long ago, an elderly professor from the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, highly respected by prima ballerinas worldwide, came to Japan.
At that time, she said the following about the significance of artists
‘Artists are essential because they can only shed light on hidden, concealed truths and express them.
‘I don’t think anyone would argue with her words.
Masayuki Takayama is not the one and only journalist in the world after the war, but it is not an exaggeration to say that he is also the only artist in the world after the war.
This thesis also beautifully proves the correctness of my statement that, in the current world, no one deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Masayuki Takayama.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but also for people worldwide.

Regretting Assad

Kunihiko Miyake, who is in charge of international affairs, wrote in the Sankei Shimbun newspaper that he had a simple question about the “traditional friendship” between Japan and Iran.

It is undoubtedly true that the current Islamic clerical regime, which has been in power for nearly half a century, cannot be described as friendly.

I even sense their hostility.

In fact, that is exactly right.

The only time they were friendly was during the Pahlavi dynasty that preceded it.

In the first year of the Showa era, Reza Shah overthrew the old Islamic dynasty and set out to create a modern nation.

Modernization began with the construction of a railway to replace the camel.

Japanese companies supplied the rails and also provided construction guidance.

In 1939, Japan even sent a domestically-produced transport aircraft to congratulate the wedding of Crown Prince Mohammad and Egyptian Princess Fawzi.

The Crown Prince was deeply moved that a country in the same part of Asia was flying an airplane on par with the West and asked to join the celebratory formation flight.

However, two years later, Iran was occupied by Britain and the Soviet Union, the father emperor was exiled, and the railways were requisitioned to transport aid supplies to the Soviet Union.

At that time, Roosevelt (FDR) had proclaimed national self-determination in the Atlantic Charter.

Mohammad, who had just succeeded the Emperor, flew to the United States to ask that the occupation of Iran be lifted.

However, FDR loved the Soviet Union.

The meeting was refused, and the heartbroken Emperor set off on the China Clipper on his way home.

Soon after, he encountered the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at a place called Oahu Island.

The plane made an emergency water landing at Hilo on the island of Hawaii, but what he saw there was the sight of arrogant white people turning pale and fleeing in all directions.

Japan, a single country, fought against the group of white nations that had become highly arrogant over the next three years.

Although we lost, all the Asian countries were able to gain their independence.

After the war, Pahlavi, following Japan’s example, aimed to modernize and abandon Islam.

In the 1970s, the Emperor, who had gained strength, brought together the oil-producing countries of the Middle East and unified the price of oil, which had been at the mercy of the West, to $40 a barrel.

The West was furious.

The United States incited the Iranian people to oust the Shah and instead put the ancient-looking Islamic cleric, Ayatollah Khomeini, in power.

The modern nation of Iran disappeared, and people were prohibited from drinking alcohol or dancing, and they sank into a foolish society where adultery was punishable by death.

The man who succeeded the mantle of Pahlavi was Saddam Hussein of neighboring Iraq.

He nationalized oil, freed women who had been confined to their homes under Islamic law, and gave them an education.

The women went out to work in the city, and the country’s strength doubled.

UNESCO commended Saddam for his achievements in liberating women.

He liked spare ribs, forbidden in Islam, and loved wine.

The modernization of the Middle East had come that far.

However, the West thought, “The Middle East doesn’t need a hero. It’s fine if they keep producing cheap oil in silence.”

So when the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened, they started saying things like, ‘Saddam is suspicious,’ and they started a war to get rid of him.

Now, Iraq is ruled by Islamic madness.

Gaddafi tried to get rid of Islam in the same way as Saddam.

He liberated women in the same way as Saddam and made them go to school.

Although there was opposition from the mosques over the Islamic practice of polygamy, the second and subsequent wives were effectively made to be monogamous on the condition that they had the permission of the primary wife.

The West devised the “Arab Spring” to bring him down.

They used social networking services to inflame religious sentiment in Islam and sent weapons in abundance to pit the tribes against each other.

Gaddafi was shot dead by Islamic fanatics at the end of the desert.

His four wives were restored.

The last Muslim to renounce Islam was Bashar al-Assad of Syria.

In Damascus, the chador had long since disappeared, women ran the shops, and even Christians were in the cabinet.

It was something that the Islamic fanatics of al-Qaeda could not tolerate.

Hillary backed them up, and Assad’s lonely struggle continued.

The newspaper the other day was reporting, for some reason, that the Assad regime had fallen.

The Middle East has now returned to the world of fanatics.

That’s not a happy thing.

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