This column exposes Xi Jinping’s “Chinese nation” as a fabricated political myth designed to absorb non-Han civilizations and justify territorial claims.
Japan’s 1972 normalization with China was driven by Asahi Shimbun’s guilt-manipulation campaign, including fabricated reports equating the Japanese army with Nazi atrocities.
Tanaka Kakuei understood China’s historical falsification and was politically crushed, while Shinzo Abe, who warned the world about China, was assassinated under similar media influence.
After fifty years of deception-filled “friendship,” the author argues Japan needs no fifty-first year.

September 29, 2022.
The following is from Masayuki Takayama’s regular column, which decorates the final page of this week’s issue of Shukan Shincho.
This essay once again proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It also demonstrates that he is the most deserving candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Peace Prize.
It is essential reading not only for the Japanese people but for readers around the world.

Fifty Years of Nightmare
Xi Jinping said, “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
That is an outrageous bluff.
To begin with, such a “Chinese nation,” with a name like a ramen-shop association, never existed, and Xi himself really wanted to say “the great Han nation.”
But he knew that would be a lie.
The Han are the people who live in the “Central Plain,” where the Shang and Tang dynasties built their capitals.
But it was rare for them to be the rulers there.
In other words, for most of their 4,000-year history, they were ruled by foreign peoples and lived as their slaves.
Slaves have no dreams.
Their only “culture” was foot binding.
Even Chinese characters were created by the Eastern Yi emperor Qin Shi Huang.
Nowhere in Han culture can one find “greatness” or any tradition worthy of being “restored.”
But because of such an upbringing, they became skilled liars.
Deceiving people is what they are best at.
And among their many lies, Xi’s concept of the “Chinese nation” is truly exceptional.
He folded into it every non-Han dynasty that once flourished in the Central Plain.
The Western Rong, who established the Shang and introduced bronze culture, and even Genghis Khan of the Yuan, who conquered Eurasia, were rebranded as part of the Chinese nation.
The Manchus who founded the Qing were included too, so by that logic, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Taiwan—all ruled by the Qing—became the property of the Xi regime.
This is the fraud known as “One China.”
The magical phrase “Chinese nation” transformed a people who had been slaves throughout their history into a “great power” that even claims Everest.
And it was such a country that Kakuei Tanaka restored diplomatic ties with fifty years ago.
Behind that foolish decision was the agitation of the Asahi Shimbun, which had aligned itself with China.
First, Mitoji Shoichi used his fellow Niigata native Okazaki Kaheita to spread the narrative that “Japan committed in China the same atrocities the Nazis committed in Europe.”
That was the beginning of “atonement diplomacy.”
Then Hirooka Tomo’o, Mitoji’s successor, had Motoya Katsui run a series of lies claiming “the Japanese army behaved like the Nazis.”
Tanaka flew to Beijing amid this grotesque atmosphere.
He felt no guilt himself, but he said as a diplomatic courtesy, “We caused you considerable trouble.”
The interpreter translated that as “添了麻煩”—meaning nothing more than a minor inconvenience.
Zhou Enlai immediately snapped at him.
“How dare you call it trivial when millions of Chinese died from Japan’s invasion!”
Tanaka was angered by how the Chinese pounced on a trivial mistranslation, but he restrained himself from walking out.
Zhou Enlai had twice come to Japan when he was young.
He applied to many universities but failed them all.
He even failed the easy teachers’ college.
The only place he managed to enter was the Chinese Communist Party, which had no entrance exam.
That means he was fluent in Japanese.
If the interpreter mistranslated, he could have laughed and corrected it.
But slave mentality was ingrained in him.
By creating a scene, he seized the initiative in the negotiation.
“Millions of victims” was also an effective tool.
Then he arrogantly demanded ODA, technological assistance, and eventually even spoke as if Senkaku belonged to him.
Tanaka sneered.
What “millions of victims”?
Most were killed by Chiang Kai-shek and the CCP themselves.
For example, the Yellow River flood that killed 300,000 people.
Guo Moruo admitted, “Chiang’s forces did it to stop the Japanese advance.”
In fact, the Japanese halted their pursuit and sent out countless boats to rescue flood victims.
Because of the flood, Henan’s farmland was devastated, a great famine broke out, and over a million starved to death.
In Liu Zhenyun’s Human Condition 1942, it says, “When the Japanese army distributed food after entering, we willingly became collaborators. We assisted the Japanese and wiped out Chiang’s 300,000 troops.”
Chiang’s forces and the CCP also set fire to Changsha for the same purpose and burned tens of thousands of civilians to death.
The Han people have founded two dynasties in the past.
But because they came from slave origins, they lacked governing ability.
The people always suffered in misery.
Now they are in their third era of Han rule, but through the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, they killed another hundred million.
It is the worst Han regime in history.
Tanaka knew this.
That is why he was destroyed by the Asahi Shimbun.
Shinzo Abe warned the world of China’s danger.
That is why he was killed through the guidance of Asahi.
Fifty years of “friendship” with China.
But we do not need the fifty-first.