The following is from a series of columns by Masayuki Takayama in the monthly subscription magazine Themis, which arrived at my house today.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read for the Japanese people and people around the world.
Diplomatic Papers Revealed: Foreign Bureaucrats Undermining Japan
Sakutaro Tanino, former director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led the Emperor's visit to China and initiated the Kono Statement.
Tanino hides the Emperor's political use.
Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released diplomatic documents dating back 30 years.
When Toshiki Kaifu, who recently passed away, was prime minister.
The newspapers chose quite different subjects out of the many documents released and published them in their papers, which was quite funny because it showed the color of each newspaper.
For example, the Sankei Shimbun pointed out the Kaifu administration's "overly pro-China" response to the Tiananmen Square protests (1989).
I hadn't heard before that Kaifu had walked around convincing European leaders that economic sanctions would not lead to democratization in China.
There is no way that China will become a democracy.
It is said that Ichiro Ozawa directed Kaifu, but his last job was as an advisor to a think tank at Tsinghua University.
He was an earnest advocate of China.
The Chinese don't miss such things.
To put out the fire of the Tiananmen Square incident, Vice Premier Wu Xueqian approached Japan the following year about a visit to China by the Emperor.
However, Sakutaro Tanino, the director of the Asian Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who was present at the Emperor's political use, said in a public document that he "turned down at his own discretion."
It was a decision entirely on the side of the Chinese, saying, "Now, if we publicize it, all the Japanese people would dislike it, and we cannot realize Our Majesty the Emperor's visit to China."
Thus, it realized the Emperor's visit to China without the people's knowledge.
The Chinese were confident that they could use the Emperor and manipulated the panda hugger faction to start sponging on Japan.
In addition to the enormous amount of ODA, the Chinese stole the wisdom of the Japanese people and grew steadily larger.
And the current grotesque Xi Jinping administration was born.
However, there is no gratitude in the Chinese people.
Two years later, Li Peng, the prime minister who welcomed the Emperor, said, "Japan will disappear in another 30 years."
Incidentally, Sakutaro Tanino, in the next cabinet of Kiichi Miyazawa, made the "forced conscription of comfort women," which was a mass of lies, into a historical fact and published it in the form of the Kono Statement, humiliating the Japanese people.
This man will never die a good death.
Japan's Responsibility for Not Amending the Constitution
The Asahi Shimbun did not publish anything involving China but instead covered the Japan-US relationship from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait to the Gulf War.
When the Cold War was over and the meaning of Japan-US security had diminished, the U.S. has, on the contrary, increased the burden of Japan's stationing costs of U.S. troops.
That's not all.
As the Gulf War became a reality, the U.S. threatened Japan to join the multinational force.
When the Japanese government protested, "No, even if we wanted to send troops, it would be impossible because of the Constitution imposed by the U.S.," they replied, "That's a matter that the U.S. has no control over."
Although the document does not mention it, a source at the time explained, "The U.S. imposed U.S. constitutions on the Philippines, Cuba, and Panama, which it occupied in the past, but those countries abandoned them as soon as they regained their sovereignty."
"But Japan has had it for half a century and is still holding it, and it is now Japan's own responsibility."
It means that bringing up the "Constitution imposed by the U.S. a long time ago" as a reason for refusing to join multinational forces is no excuse.
Trump, incidentally, has said something to the same effect.
Therefore, Kaifu finally paid 1.5 trillion yen (13 billion U.S. dollars) to solve the inability to send troops to the multinational army.
The British complained that it was too little.
In my personal opinion, Japan should have opposed Iraqi bashing, regardless of the Constitution.
Because, as I wrote in my book, "Saddam Hussein was great," Saddam was a big man.
He liberated his people from Islamic precepts, removed the chador from women, and educated them.
UNESCO even honored him for his role in modernizing the Middle East.
By the way, Saddam's favorite foods are pork spareribs and wine. He was entirely out of touch with Islam.
Following Saddam's footsteps, both Assad of Syria and Gaddafi of Libya tried to modernize the Arab world, but the Western press kept reporting the exact opposite.
Saddam did indeed invade Kuwait.
Because Kuwait was not a country of Arabs but the British "Kuwait Petroleum Company."
It set up the Arabs as kings and gave them a portion of the oil revenue to make it look like an Arab nation.
Demanding an end to fingerprinting of Korean living in Japan
So when the Iraqi army invaded, there were 3,000 British citizens in Kuwait.
To help them escape, the British immediately mobilized the Special Air Service (SAS) to rescue them.
The multinational force was literally a violent device to get back the British property.
It is appalling to hear that the British are hiding this fact and asking Japan for more money.
Saddam survived, but ten years later, the U.S. used the 9/11 terrorist attacks as an excuse to start another war, killing Saddam and then Gaddafi.
It is the actual state of the "Arab Spring," which was said to be a good thing.
Japan has contributed 13 billion dollars to such Britain and the United States.
Only one-half of the 3 trillion yen in ODA that Japan contributed to China, but it is an embarrassing story.
There is one public diplomatic document that overlooks Japan.
It is diplomacy with South Korea.
Since the Japan-Korea Treaty, South Korea has been asking for billions of yen every ten years, but at the time, Tae-Woo made an astonishing demand.
When he was running for president, Japan gave him the custody of Kim Hyon-hui, captured by the Japanese embassy staff in Bahrain.
Therefore, the elucidation of the abduction of Japanese people in North Korea has been delayed for more than 20 years.
In addition to this, Tae-woo demanded that fingerprinting of Japanese residents in Japan be abolished.
Why are Koreans being fingerprinted while Japanese are not?
Kaifu foolishly agreed to the demand that they be treated the same as the Japanese.
As soon as it went into effect, the Setagaya family murdered four people.
The killer, who wore Korean sneakers, left more than 100 fingerprints and palm prints, but there were no fingerprints to match because of Tae-woo, and the case is still unsolved.
The public documents show that the Japanese government considers the national interest of the other country first.
I want to consider that Japanese people are suffering and being killed as a result.