The following is an excerpt from a serialized column by Masayuki Takayama, published in the weekly magazine Shinchō, which was released yesterday. This article is of significant importance and will provide you with valuable insights.

This article is a testament to the unparalleled journalistic prowess of Masayuki Takayama, making him a unique figure 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.

No one would dispute her words.

Not only is Masayuki Takayama the one and only journalist in the post-war world, but it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the one and only artist in the post-war world.

This thesis also beautifully proves the correctness of my statement that, in the current world, no one is more deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature than Masayuki Takayama.

It is a must-read for not only the Japanese people but also people all over the world.

The Asahi Shimbun reported that “graffiti was found on the coral in Iriomote’s ocean” with a photo.

Journalist Furihata Kenichi’s explanation for the picture was that “they are poor in spirit and have hardened hearts, and are not ashamed to instantly injure something that has been cultivated over a hundred years…” as he arrogantly criticized the Japanese.

Then, the people of Taketomi Island cried out, “The coral was not damaged until the Asahi reporter dived in.”

The Asahi brushed off the comments of the ordinary people with a sneer, and this angered the people of Taketomi Island.

The media also started making a fuss.

There was a practice in the newspaper industry not to criticize other newspapers.

Shortly before the coral graffiti incident, Asahi reported that the smoke screen that had been burned in Central China was “poison gas from the Japanese army” with a photo.

Sankei could not hold back any longer and hit back, saying, “Don’t tell lies. “Asahi responded, “We’ll destroy Sankei,” and a big fuss broke out.

Since then, the newspaper industry has abandoned its long-standing practice of ignoring Asahi’s lies.

The newspapers also severely criticized the coral graffiti incident.

Asahi tried to shrug it off, but after a month, they finally admitted that they had lied.

The photographer who had made the graffiti was dismissed, and President Ichiyanagi Toichiro resigned.

However, Asahi’s habit of lying remains.

It was good that the Recruit scandal was exposed under the next president, Toshitada Nakae.

Still, it was discovered that Nakae, Katsuichi Honda, and Keiichiro Hikita were all being blackmailed by Hiroshi Ezoe of Recruit.

Nakae was fired.

It was even worse during the next president’s tenure, Shinichi Hakoshima.

Early in the new year, the Asahi Shimbun reported that Shinzo Abe and Shoichi Nakagawa had “put pressure on NHK to change the content of a program.”

The program in question was a recording of a “pseudo-courtroom in which North and South Koreans pursued the Emperor for his responsibility.”

The fact that such a program was broadcast in the first place was a problem, and there was a lot of fuss about it before it was aired, but Masakazu Honda of the Asahi Shimbun took notice of this.

Honda took advantage of this commotion and fabricated an article that seemingly linked Abe and Nakagawa.

Asahi thought this would be the end of Abe and Nakagawa’s political careers, but here NHK, which they thought was on their side, turned its back on them.

Ultimately, they distanced themselves from the story, saying it was “false reporting by Asahi.”

Asahi tried to justify itself and make excuses, just as it had done with the coral graffiti incident.

If it were revealed that the reporting was intentional and false, the president’s job would not be the only thing at stake.

In fact, even before the false report about the poison gas, they had been asked by Kim Il-sung to spread the lie that “North Korea is a paradise on earth” for many years, sending 90,000 Koreans living in Japan to their deaths.

With multiple convictions, it was confident that the paper would be closed down.

In the middle of all this commotion, it was discovered that the Weekly Asahi had extorted 50 million yen from Takefuji.

Furthermore, they reported that “Shizuka Kamei and Yasuo Tanaka had discussed the launch of a new political party in Nagano.”

It was an entirely fictitious article about a fictitious meeting.

One after another, lies and scandals were exposed, leaving the Japanese people dumbfounded.

However, Asahi took a surprising turn here.

It said that it had left the false reporting of the NHK program changes to a “third-party committee of neutral and impartial experts.”

It was a well-crafted con.

The chairman was Itochu’s Niwa Uichiro, a close ally of Asahi with pro-China ties.

The following is the president of Kyodo News, a fellow conspirator in the slander of Japan.

Then there is Asahi’s pet constitutional scholar, Hasebe Yasuo.

It was clear to everyone that they were in this together.

In fact, the third-party committee concluded that “Honda’s reporting was insufficient” and Asahi “did not need to apologize.”

Since then, whenever there was a major false reporting incident, such as the comfort women lie issue, they would immediately set up a third-party committee, and people familiar with the paper, such as Hayashi Kaori and Hosaka Masayasu, would become committee members and pass down light sentences.

Fuji Television, rocked by the troubles of Nakai Masahiro with women, recently held a 10-hour press conference and announced that they would be handing the matter over to a third-party committee in the Asahi style.

Then, Asahi criticized the fairness of the “third-party committee that does not follow the guidelines of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.”

They got away with their misconduct by holding a press conference that lasted just 10 minutes and then claimed that the third-party committee, which was made up of their people, was “fair and neutral.”

What right did they have to say anything to Fuji Television?