This chapter examines the pitfalls of postwar Japanese democracy through incidents during the spread of the novel coronavirus: a young woman returning to Okinawa despite government requests, the forced staging of a K-1 event despite the Saitama governor’s request, and crowded Tokyo restaurants shown on television. It questions the responsibility of the media, opposition politicians, so-called human-rights lawyers, civic groups, and excessive concentration in Tokyo.

2020-03-26
There was a reason why I published a chapter on Okinawa from a dialogue book by two genuine scholars who are now among the highest peaks not only in Japan but in the world.
The other day, there was a reason why I published a chapter on Okinawa from a dialogue book by Masayuki Takayama and Masahiro Miyazaki, two genuine scholars who are now among the highest peaks not only in Japan but in the world.
Except for those who subscribe to the Asahi Shimbun and similar newspapers and watch only television media such as NHK, opposition-party political operators, so-called human-rights lawyers, and so-called civic groups that are in reality organized by resident Koreans and others, the great majority of Japan’s decent citizens must all have felt anger.
I am referring to the case of a 19-year-old woman who returned from a family trip to France or somewhere else, returned infected, ignored the government’s request, traveled by public transportation from Narita to Haneda, and then returned to Okinawa Prefecture by airplane.
The two Okinawan newspapers, which are nothing other than children of the Asahi Shimbun, dominate Okinawa.
This woman is a product of that.
In other words, responsibility for that outrageous behavior lies with the two Okinawan newspapers.
Needless to say, television media such as NHK and opposition-party political operators also bear great responsibility.
It goes without saying that in China, to which the likes of Onaga and Denny Tamaki, whom they elected, curry favor, such behavior by this woman would be impossible.
No, it is behavior that would be impossible in any country in the world other than Japan.
This was an incident that proved there is a great pitfall in postwar Japanese democracy.
Of course, those mentioned above are the ones who have continued to create that pitfall.
Another case is that the people who call themselves the organizers of K-1 forced the event to be held, ignoring the request of the governor of Saitama Prefecture.
To begin with, I have always hated these so-called martial arts other than boxing, such as K-1.
As readers know, I am a person who has touched the very essence of sports.
Those martial arts are not sports at all.
They are nothing other than the very worst product of capitalism.
They make something like a gamecock fight take place inside a cage called a ring, and evil, or fools, and foolish media, which exist in a certain number in capitalist society, pay high admission fees and broadcasting-rights fees for it.
It is no exaggeration at all to call it an ugly spectacle that is evil itself.
The Asahi Shimbun and the Pope should condemn precisely such things.
This incident made clear that the organizers of such groups are not genuine Japanese.
Yesterday, by chance, I watched a Fuji Television wide show and was truly astonished.
It made me realize that the concentration of everything in Tokyo is synonymous with the concentration of fools there as well.
At such a time, in narrow spaces.
One was footage of a standing restaurant where young people and men and women called regular customers were crowded together, a restaurant that satisfied all three conditions which the government had expressly publicized as ones to avoid.
Another showed people, in a manner peculiar to Tokyo, sitting in seats with absolutely no space from those next to them, eating and drinking in a full restaurant.
The words of one of them were the very manifestation of the most foolish hypocrisy imaginable, which they have created in postwar Japan.
“I thought that refraining from going out to eat would shrink the economy…”
What a mind.
What an attitude.
When I was working furiously, I frequently received massages at hotels in Tokyo and other places during business trips.
In other words, through massage, I somehow brought back to a normal condition the physical state caused by lack of exercise and lack of sleep from drinking too much.
At that time, I heard the same thing many times.
“Foreigners are truly filthy. They do not even properly take showers, and as a result, even their toes are covered with grime.”
The pandemic now spreading in Europe and America teaches us that the complaints of those massage therapists were true.
The footage on yesterday’s wide show made clear that in Tokyo there are gathered the worst kind of fools, who can in an instant reduce to nothing the admirable quality of the Japanese people, the cleanest people in the world.
In recent years, the flow of Japan’s most outstanding athletes toward Tokyo has not stopped.
Even Osaka is no exception.
It is surely time already to realize the foolishness of this.