The following is from a serial column by Ms. Yoshiko Sakurai, who brought the weekly Shincho last week to a successful conclusion.
She is a "national treasure" as defined by Saicho and a supreme national treasure at that.
This paper is a must-read, especially for the Japanese people and for people around the world.
Does Beijing deserve to host the Olympic Games?
Although the Olympics are supposed to symbolize international peace and friendship and be a sports festival that transcends politics, they have always been highly politicized and financially controlled.
That is why we should now be wary of the Chinese Communist Party's plan to expand its influence through the Beijing Winter Olympics' success in about a year.
The Tokyo Olympics, scheduled to open in July before the Beijing Olympics, have been restarted with Seiko Hashimoto's appointment as president of the Olympic Organizing Committee.
Former president Yoshiro Mori's comment that "meetings with a large number of women take a lot of time" caused a fierce backlash both at home and abroad, as it was considered "disrespectful to women" and extremely contrary to the spirit of the Olympic Charter.
Mr. Mori's comment was indeed inappropriate, and he apologized and resigned.
However, if we look at the situation from a slightly more distant perspective, we can see that it is important to consider the opposition to Mori's comments in the context of the Beijing Olympics.
This is because the Chinese government's actions, which is hosting the Beijing Olympics, are seen as the ultimate crime against humanity, on a different level from Mori's comments.
By pulling down the Beijing Olympics' success, China is trying to solidify its position as a trusted power in the international community.
The Beijing government keeps one million Uyghurs under strict surveillance and takes away all their freedom of religion, thought, language, culture, and ethnic characteristics.
Uyghur women are taken away every night and subjected to mass rape by soldiers.
Many Uyghurs, both men, and women are forced to undergo sterilization and live in a hell on earth under the CCP's ethnic cleansing campaign.
When I write like this, the CCP government denies it outright.
They say that the Uyghur issue and other problems are all China's domestic issues and will not allow any foreign government or foreigner to interfere.
Besides, he has a third party to write an article praising the Chinese government's Uyghur policy.
In the past, Mao Zedong got an American reporter, Edgar Snow, to his side and let him portray the Chinese Communist Party as an ideal party.
Now Xinhua is active behind the scenes in Paris.
On February 18, Xinhua distributed an interview with a French writer titled "Two Visits to Xinjiang Expose the West's Lies.
Crimes Against Humanity
He says that Xinjiang is "developing rapidly" and that genocide is a hoax. These are words that fit perfectly with China's agenda.
Even though the times have changed, the strategy of the Chinese remains basically the same. I felt a kind of deja vu.
How many Uyghurs are oppressed and how many Uyghur women are raped and killed has already been summarized by cartoonist Ms. Tomomi Shimizu and Shizuoka University professor Mr. Kaiying Yang "Testimony at the Risk of Life" (WAC).
Incidentally, Ms. Shimizu will soon publish a book on Mongolians.
The U.S. Congress has already released a detailed report on the Chinese Communist Party's suppression of ethnic groups, which has become a common understanding among both Republicans and Democrats.
At the time of the government's change from Republican to Democrat, both parties shared the recognition that the Chinese Communist Party's actions against the Uyghurs were genocide.
Genocide is a crime against humanity and has no statute of limitations.
The determination of the United States is firm.
On February 16, former Secretary of State Pompeo appeared on Fox News to compare the Beijing Olympics to the 1936 Berlin Olympics hosted by Nazi Germany and said he would propose to the IOC and the Biden administration to change the site of the Winter Olympics.
On January 22, seven Republican senators introduced a resolution to the same effect.
The question that needs to be asked is whether the government of Beijing, which is suspected of genocide, should be given the right to host the Olympics.
We must face the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party head-on.
Until now, Japan and the international community have misread the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party.
We must not make the same mistake as in the past.
During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the world turned a blind eye to Tibet's oppression by the Chinese Communist Party.
Tibetans chose the most painful way to die, burning themselves to death, to let the world know about the atrocities of the CCP.
Nevertheless, we participated in the Beijing Olympics.
Before that, in 1989, the Beijing government killed many students and citizens in Tiananmen Square.
However, our country, in particular, was reluctant to impose sanctions against China.
A month after the Tiananmen Square incident, the Bush administration sent Scowcroft, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, as a secret envoy to Deng Xiaoping in Beijing to support the Chinese Communist Party.
The Beijing government must have laughed at our lenient and tolerant response.
The evidence of this is that as time went on, they intensified their repression until today.
The Chinese Communist Party will not stop its bloody repression of Han Chinese and non-Han Chinese to protect its one-party dictatorship.
It will continue to do so. If they don't, the regime will not survive.
Tibet, Uyghur, Mongolia, Hong Kong, and Han Chinese like Liu Xiaobo stand up against the one-party dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party.
There is a danger that China will soon take away Taiwan.
Okinawa is not an exception.
There is no shortage of examples of crimes against humanity that the Chinese government has committed.
Change the venue for the Winter Olympics.
Despite this, Japan and the rest of the world are disillusioned by the Chinese market's size and are chasing short-term profits.
Or they are so fascinated by the deep history and civilization that they misunderstand China's true nature.
It is hard to argue with the horror of the Communist regime, characterized by autocracy, undemocratic, ocracy, cruelty, and international law violation.
Half of the responsibility for today's situation lies with those of us who have not spoken out.
That is why we should first ask ourselves.
Do we want to dye the world with Large Sinocentrism?
Do we want to allow the suppression of human rights and let democracy die out?
Do we want to establish Chinese law in place of the current international law and bring about a sea change in the world order?
If we continue to accept China's words and actions, China will rule the entire world one day.
No one wants that to happen.
Even if the current democracy is imperfect, the global society would be happier under a democratic system.
That is the only way to comply with international law, respect human rights, and protect all peoples' freedom and dignity regardless of race, ethnicity, or religion.
Human beings will be hauled away and abandoned to a place far from happiness under the Chinese empire.
President Biden has pledged to hold a global summit on democracy this year. This is the beginning of a battle of values.
As the U.S. explores a path that is the exact opposite of China's one-party tyranny, Japan is beginning to cooperate.
The non-partisan Diet Members' Caucus on Policy toward China calls for an investigation into the alleged genocide.
The "Japan Uyghur Parliamentarians' Union" of the Liberal Democratic Party will be reorganized into a non-partisan parliamentary group under the leadership of Mr. Keiji Furuya.
As a concrete action, we need to call on the world to change the Beijing Winter Olympic Games' venue.
It is important for Japan, a major power in Asia, to raise its voice. It is important for Japan, a major power in Asia, to raise its voice and clearly cooperate with the United States.
In the fierce battle of values with China, any concessions now will result in a loss of democracy.