An analysis of Japan’s nuclear shutdown arguing that contextual evidence makes the alleged solar-power agenda unmistakably clear.

2016-02-23

I went to a bookstore with a friend who is also one of Japan’s most avid readers, and we purchased the March issue of Voice (780 yen), published by PHP Institute.
We stopped by Starbucks and read it there, and once again, this month’s issue was filled with essays that every Japanese citizen must read.
I was reading with complete concentration.
I am convinced that everyone who subscribes to newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun and forms their judgments based on the news programs of those television networks should read this magazine.
The contents of these essays can only be described as astonishing.

My friend, meanwhile, was reading A Testament to the Japanese (Tokuma Shoten, 1,300 yen), a collection of dialogues between Shōichi Watanabe and Hidetsugu Kusaka, who—alongside Yoshiko Sakurai—revealed their true nature to readers like myself, former subscribers to the Asahi Shimbun, beginning in August the year before last.

As I was reading the March issue of Voice with single-minded focus, my friend handed me a passage and said, “Please read this.”
What was written there was not only directly related to my own arguments, but was something that would provoke anger in any Japanese citizen.

All emphasis within the text, except for the headline, is mine.

The True Nature of the Democratic Party Lies in the Postwar “Total Peace” Faction!

Watanabe: Returning to the issue of nuclear plant operation, the Kan administration hastily shut down all nuclear plants across Japan at once, but I believe there was absolutely no need to stop them.
Safety measures could have been strengthened while continuing operation, and a once-in-a-thousand-years earthquake was not about to occur immediately.
It would have been possible to raise seawalls while keeping the plants running.

So why were they all shut down at once?
This is only a rumor, and its truth cannot be confirmed, nor do I have the ability to verify it, but there is a theory that Masayoshi Son of SoftBank whispered to Naoto Kan, “Even if they are wiped out by a tsunami, let’s do solar power.”
If this is true, it is an extremely malicious story.

As readers know, I was the very first person in Japan to write about the circumstances at that time.
Judging from those circumstances, anyone with ordinary intelligence should be able to understand that this was very likely the truth.

Kusaka: If that is the case, then the two of them lack any sense of patriotism toward Japan.
It is truly strange that Japan allows such people to become prime minister or corporate executives.

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