This essay argues that the only effective solution to persistent Internet crimes is the imposition of the severest penalties: life imprisonment for individual offenders and collapse-level financial sanctions for nations or corporations that commit or allow such abuses. Drawing on years of relentless attacks against “The Turntable of Civilization,” the author details the failures of major tech companies—Google, Meta, Twitter, Facebook—whose lack of accountability enables criminals to manipulate search results, hijack accounts, and carry out reverse-SEO. The text calls for structural reform, legal responsibility, and the establishment of the Internet as the greatest library of humankind, protected from malicious actors through uncompromising justice.

If the criminal is an individual, they should be imprisoned for life.
If it is a nation or a major corporation, they should be forced to pay compensation so large that the state or company collapses financially and can no longer continue to exist.
June 1, 2024.

“The Turntable of Civilization,” the one and only blog in the postwar world, will begin crowdfunding.
April 7, 2021.

Today, June 1, 2024.
Just now.
While watching the recorded second round of the U.S. Women’s Open, I was rereading this chapter.
On the first day, astonishingly, Nelly Korda—the overwhelming favorite to win the tournament—took 10 strokes, seven over par, on the short 12th hole.
She fell repeatedly into the creek that lay next to the green.
The cut line was seven over par.
Nelly now stood at nine over.
She hit her tee shot on the 12th.
On the broadcast, it looked as though the ball had fallen into the creek again, and the announcer screamed.
But the ball miraculously stopped just short—one step before the creek.
She hit her second shot from there, leaving a long putt for par.
If she made bogey here, advancing to the weekend would become difficult.
As I was rereading this chapter, a loud roar erupted from the screen.
Nelly had sunk the long putt.
My eyes grew hot.

I stepped onto the balcony to hang the laundry.
While doing so, the solution to this chapter suddenly came to me.
In a sense, it was simple.
The Internet began in earnest more than thirty years ago and will remain one of the most important things for humanity.
Therefore, it is enough to impose the strictest punishment on those who commit crimes here, and on the operators who earn unbelievable profits while leaving criminals untouched.
The Internet has become extremely important to humanity.
Whether the perpetrator is an individual or a nation, and whether those who leave them unpunished are global corporations, they must be given penalties so severe that they can never commit crimes again.
If an individual, imprison them for life.
If a nation or a corporation, make them pay compensation so large that their state or company cannot survive.

“The Turntable of Civilization,” the one and only blog in the postwar world, will begin crowdfunding.
April 7, 2021.
This matter ended unfinished because I am not familiar with computers and the internet, but its content precisely hit the mark.
Now, Yusaku Maezawa, who gained immense wealth with ZOZOTOWN, has finally done what I had wanted to do, by taking legal action against Meta.
His claim for damages is one yen.
Its spirit is exactly the same as this column.
I hope he wins completely.
Japan’s judiciary must strike a heavy blow against corporations that have long sneered at ordinary Japanese lawyers and Japan’s entire administrative and judicial systems.
The reason Mr. Maezawa bravely initiated a lawsuit against Meta’s unforgivable and negligent response is precisely because he built a great success through ZOZOTOWN—an online apparel platform—and therefore understands that the vile criminals who soil the Internet, and Meta, which continues to ignore them, must be punished.

Just as Masayuki Takayama is the one and only journalist in the postwar world, “The Turntable of Civilization” is the one and only blog in the postwar world.
Through this crowdfunding, I seek limitless support from around the world so that I may continue this work for the next 170 years.

Since it suddenly appeared in July 2010, it has clarified truths for both Japan and the world, transmitting them to the world in an average of 40 languages nearly every day.
In May 2011, I fell gravely ill with acute myeloid leukemia and was told by doctors that my chance of survival was 25%.
While living eight months in the hospital, on June 1, from my room in Kitano Hospital, I announced that “The Turntable of Civilization” would be published on December 1 and asked people to read it.
At that moment, the criminal who had stolen over one hundred million yen from my company began committing crimes online against my work.
Because I had been defrauded of a large sum and had also incurred enormous hospitalization costs, the lawyer I consulted recommended that I go alone to the police station with only a criminal complaint document, because I could not afford the fees.
The subsequent events are already known to readers.

The Internet is the greatest library in human history.
Why, then, do persistent crimes like those committed by this criminal continue?
There are two reasons.
Unlike the United States, where legal fees are success-based, Japan requires payment in advance.
Victims who have been defrauded of large sums cannot afford this.
As my own 2012 experience shows, if one goes alone or hires an ordinary law office, it can take about three years just to reach the prosecutor’s office.
And the probability of indictment is almost zero.
But if I were a celebrity and hired one of Japan’s most prestigious law firms and paid a large fee, the outcome would be entirely different.
Around that time, extremely famous actresses like Masami Nagasawa and Keiko Kitagawa were victims of password theft crimes.
The 28-year-old offender from Osaka received a guilty verdict in about a year and a half.

Unless one hires a major, elite law firm, one cannot win a case like this and obtain criminal penalties for the villains who commit online crimes, nor can one eradicate them.
It is well-known that the minimum cost is over one million yen.
Thus many victims simply give up, and criminals continue their acts.

Their crimes include reverse-SEO attacks on Google search results to obstruct the victim’s business, hijacking Twitter accounts and causing massive damage, creating countless fake accounts on Facebook and sending obscene images under the guise of “friend requests,” and other extremely malicious acts, repeated relentlessly.
Why do these crimes never cease?
Because Google, Twitter, and Facebook are the problem.
These three companies do not even list a consultation phone number online.
Moreover, their Japan offices are located in first-class buildings in Tokyo and Osaka, yet they operate as virtual extraterritorial zones that outsiders cannot even visit.
Victims have almost no means of having them correct anything.
I submitted feedback to Google—the only method they provide—each time, in both Japanese and English.
The number exceeded one hundred.
Not a single correction was made.

Since 2018, the criminal has committed crimes via Hatena and Nifty.
Both companies provide dedicated email addresses for such cases.
Each time, they deleted the criminal’s infringing blogs.
Hatena no longer allows such crimes.
Nifty deletes them immediately as well.
The number has already exceeded one hundred, yet the crimes continue.

The criminal’s main objective is to falsify Google’s search results.
On June 1, 2011, when I announced publication from my hospital room, the search count for “the turntable of civilization” exceeded twenty million.
The results showed only the chapters I had posted in multiple languages—pages one through more than seventy.
The criminal reduced this to less than one-hundredth, created countless foolish blogs, illegally posted one chapter of “The Turntable of Civilization” on each, and made them appear across the first several pages of search results.
This is called creating fake search pages—a crime.
I submitted countless feedback messages to Google requesting correction.
There has been no response whatsoever.

This time, I will also sue Google.
For this, I must hire one of Japan’s elite law firms.
In the lawsuit, I will demand that Google hire phone staff to handle victim consultations and publicly list a contact telephone number online.
As for the enormous damages I have suffered, I will seek only reimbursement of my legal and transportation costs.
On March 25, I went to Google Japan’s office on the 6th floor of Shibuya Stream—which unbelievably is a limited liability company—but I could not even visit or consult with anyone.
I will claim those transportation costs.
Needless to say, any litigation costs awarded will be returned to supporters.

After February 19, the criminal finally began a new crime: suppressing all chapters and all languages of “The Turntable of Civilization” from appearing in search results.

Since July 2010, nearly every day until today, we have continued to send genuine essays that reveal the truth to Japan and the world.
This criminal has stolen our enormous labor and enormous time in an instant.
In the real world, this is equivalent to murder.

We can no longer allow this criminal to pollute the Internet space and continue committing crimes.
We must impose severe punishment, establish the Internet—the greatest library in human history—as a true library, and permanently expel such criminals.
To be continued.