On my way to the Osaka Philharmonic subscription concert at Festival Hall, a post on X triggered a rapid reassessment of the public statements of university professors and the structural bias of major broadcasters and newspapers.
A chain of details—including a magazine advertisement and the conduct of media figures—became the catalyst for what I call “transcendence,” culminating in a demand that authorities verify travel records and contacts connected to China.
This is a record and indictment of a diseased public sphere that, in my view, undermines Japan’s national interest.

Yesterday, I left home early to attend the Osaka Philharmonic’s subscription concert at Festival Hall, which began at 3:00 p.m.
Before that, I looked at TotalNewsWorld’s X account, and, exasperated, I replied with only this.
“So Yōko Katō is a professor at the University of Tokyo…Is that what the University of Tokyo has become?”
Yōko Katō is a person who, for some reason, has continued anti-Japan activities even at the United Nations.
As readers know, long ago I learned the reality of her conduct and sounded the alarm in this column.
Yesterday, that “vantage point” on her and on those realities led me to what I call “transcendence.”
It goes without saying that the honey-traps and money-traps that China deploys habitually do not discriminate by gender.
Because in advanced nations—just as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has now come into being—women are active on equal footing with men in every field and every layer of society.
Moreover, broadcasters beginning with NHK typically place female staff and employees as hosts of news programs.
It is a plain and undeniable fact that most of these old media outlets continue biased reporting that falls into the category of pro-China.
In reaching the “transcendence” above, the existence of a man named Tōru Tamagawa also played a part.
As I have written, this man—unbelievably—has the background of Sendai Second High School, Kyoto University, and TV Asahi, the very alma mater I love eternally.
In other words, unbelievably, he is a junior of mine.
Regarding the staggering stupidity, baseness, and viciousness of this man, I had thought it was not my alma mater’s fault, but rather Kyoto University’s—one of the “red universities” across Japan, as Kumiko Takeuchi has put it.
Then I saw, on social media, an article asserting that he is not an authentic Japanese, and it seemed highly possible that it might be true.
At that time, I accepted it, thinking, “So that is what this was.”
But then, in the following YouTube program by Yoshiko Sakurai—whom I regard as a “national treasure” as defined by Saichō, indeed the supreme national treasure—she conveyed the atrocious state of the Asahi Shimbun’s pages, and I re-confirmed the foolish, base, and vicious nature of the public remarks made by three individuals bearing the title of university professor, beginning with Yōko Katō.
In that instant, I “transcended.”
The trigger was this.
In a weekly magazine advertisement that had appeared some time earlier in the lower section of a newspaper page, Tōru Tamagawa was boasting that he was frequently being treated to meals by a younger woman colleague who had gone independent and become a freelance announcer.
This is not a boast, but I have never once had a woman treat me—never once had a woman pay my food or drink.
I have lived an unusual life, so I have no younger women colleagues at all, but still.
Among the vast majority of Japanese men who work properly, there should not be a single person who made a woman pay his dining expenses—much less a junior.
Public Security must examine every part of Tōru Tamagawa’s travel history to China.
For what stated purpose did he go, which hotel did he stay in, and what were the details of the Chinese side’s entertainment—everything.
Likewise, the travel histories to China of Yōko Katō and the other two men who call themselves scholars—three people in total—must also be examined immediately.
If Public Security is indeed acting to protect Japan’s national interest.