The following is from the serial column of Masayuki Takayama, who brings the weekly Shincho released today to a successful conclusion.
A friend of mine who is one of the best readers and who subscribes to Shukan Shincho every week to read him and Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai's serial columns called me and said, "You and Masayuki Takayama resonate with each other.
I replied, "Indeed.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
Is Japan a small country?
Seeing that France had succumbed to the Nazis, Thailand invaded French Indochina at the end of 1940.
The intention was to reclaim former Thai territories, including Cambodia, which had been taken by France.
They could not expect any support from their home country.
They thought they could trounce them, but the French and Indian armies were strong.
It sunk the Thai navy in Ko Chang Bay, and the army was surrounded by the French Foreign Legion in Battambang and was on the verge of destruction.
Japan, one of the most powerful countries in the world, intervened.
It would have blown the French and Indian armies away in an instant.
Representatives from both sides were summoned to Tokyo, and Japan accepted Thailand's argument and had part of the territory taken by the French and Indian forces returned to them.
Having won the war, Thai Prime Minister Pibun erected a Victory Monument in Bangkok and granted the Japanese army harmless passage through Thai territory.
When war broke out, Japanese troops were able to leave Thai territory and invade British Malaya and Burma.
In the meantime, Pibun had his ambassador to the U.S., Seni Pramoj, establish an anti-Japanese government-in-exile.
It was in case it defeated Japan.
After the war, Thailand could survive without becoming a defeated nation, thanks to this government-in-exile.
Small countries have their wisdom to survive even though they are hurt.
The same is true for the Joseon Dynasty.
In the face of the war between Japan and Russia, the overwhelming white power, Daewon-gun, approached Russia, while Ye Wanyong approached Japan, just in case.
The result was the result of the two alternatives, or rather, the cautiousness of Ye Wanyong.
He saw through Japan's good-naturedness and thought that Chosun would live on the blood of Japan in the future.
The annexation of Japan and Korea was an ingenious plan.
Thus, Japan has been sucking lifeblood for years from the giant bloodsucker called Chosun.
Moon Jae-in calls it "Japanese imperial rule.
Such sophistry is the wisdom of a small country.
After the war, with the United Nations' establishment, the sun began to shine on such small countries.
It has become the practice to leave important UN posts, such as Secretary-General, to small countries, as these posts are likely to become complicated if held by large countries.
It is why U Thant of Burma and Kofi Annan of Ghana became Secretaries-General.
South Korea's Ban Ki-moon also came out of the small country category.
After Japan lost the war, the GHQ and the Communist Party tore the "heart of the Japanese people" to shreds.
Nevertheless, Japan paid wartime reparations to Europe and the United States' former colonies and supported their independence.
As shown by the Look East policy, they learned from Japan and became independent as a small country without any shame.
Japan also worked hard to rebuild the yen, which the U.S. feared, and quickly returned to being an economic powerhouse with the world's second-largest GDP.
However, the Japanese people's hearts had not yet returned.
The Asahi Shimbun had Yasuhiko Yoshida write, "Japanese for UN Secretary-General.
It was the man who had insisted that North Korea had never abducted anyone.
The post is still supposed to belong to the small country.
They got to know their homeland's name and then got involved in the post to earn money.
Ban Ki-moon's replacement of all televisions in the UN building with Samsung in the Secretary-General's name is one example.
If you are Japanese, you should know the reason for this.
The Asahi Shimbun, on the same level as Ghana and South Korea, recommends that a Japanese person should take the post of UN Secretary-General.
I wonder if they have a corporate policy that they want to reduce Japan to a small country.
When I was surprised by this, the Sankei Shimbun also wrote an editorial saying, "Send out people to take the top positions in UN organizations.
Not only do the Chinese, who are still pretending to be a backward country, hold the posts of the four UN agencies, including ICAO, but UNESCO and WHO are also occupied by people who are dirty with Chinese money.
As a result, the fictional Nanking Massacre was made into a memory heritage, and the Asahi Shimbun's fabricated sexual slavery was made into a story for the UN Human Rights Commission.
I know you don't want that, and you want to bring in decent people, but when has the UN ever been decent?
Japan should scold by other diplomatic means, such as stopping the contribution or removing the other party from A White Country.
Japan is not a small country.