P.S. Something beyond that is what shapes the world's best, and that is a gift from heaven. June 30, 2024 On New Year's Eve in 2020, I learned that a super-heavyweight genius named Natsuho Murata had appeared on the Japanese violin scene. I started listening to classical music on YouTube because I felt there was no point in watching the NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen. As mentioned earlier, when I was a student at Sendai Dai-ni High School, my teacher asked me to stay at Kyoto University and "carry Kyoto University on your shoulders." After a family misfortune closed the door on my academic career, I spent every day listening to classical music broadcasts on NHK FM. Every day, no matter what. I subscribed to a magazine about FM broadcasts and checked and listened to all the programs. I even spent my last penny on a complete set of the LP recordings of Renata Tebaldi's "La Bohème."
I was the kind of person who was mentioned by the person in charge of editing the graduation collection as "There are three Ks in the arts and humanities. One of them will surely leave a great mark on the Japanese literary world". I led a life that deviated greatly from the life I had been promised. I spent time in Tokyo and Kyoto, and eventually, I lived my life as a company manager in Osaka.
In terms of music, I was initially devoted to the piano. Whenever a pianist who had gained a worldwide reputation came to Japan to perform in Tokyo or Osaka, I would always attend. However, from a certain point on, I rarely attended performances. Instead, I spent his days singing songs of various genres to the accompaniment of pianists at his favorite bar in Kitashinchi, Osaka, almost every night. The cost of this was also not inconsiderable. There is an international contest where the pianist's performance is filmed from directly above. When I was watching the footage, I realized something. The pianist also memorizes the music by fingering. The same is true for the violin. My good friend described Naho Murata's hands as "like a baby's." I thought the same thing.
Two super-class geniuses have appeared in the world of Japanese baseball. Shohei Ohtani and Roki Sasaki. Coincidentally, they are both from Iwate Prefecture. When Roki Sasaki joined the professional ranks, most professional baseball commentators, including Kiyoshi Nakahata, said that it would take him time to pitch on the first team. I was surprised when I saw him playing catch at camp for the first time. The way his arm bent was extraordinary. I had never seen such a great form before. I had never seen Ohtani play catch, so Sasaki was the first.
He would be a starter in the first team immediately. The second team is no joke. No one can hit his ball. My editorial also reached Kiyoshi Nakahata and the TV Tokyo presenter. It was because I had also criticized Kiyoshi Nakahata, saying that he was blind as a bat. Nakahata immediately corrected his previous statement, went to the training camp to verify it, and said, "I want to see him in the first team as soon as possible. I can't wait." As you know, this is how it happened. Nakahata is an insider, and I am an outsider. Outsiders often make significant changes. Insiders are insiders, and that is why their vision is clouded. And so they make the wrong decisions. It is not an exaggeration to say that becoming an insider is the same as becoming an average person. From a young age, I have always said to the people around me.
What is a genius? "A genius is someone whose mind is a blank slate. That's why it can absorb anything." What is an average person? "An average person is someone whose mind is a blackboard covered in their own words (and other people's words, too). That's why they can't absorb anything."
Natsuho Murata is an undeniable genius. She has a vast and boundless understanding of all sounds and all composers.
My good friend is one of the great geniuses. Through my good friend, Natsuho Murata, I have added another definition to 'genius.' What is a genius? The defining characteristic of a genius is Innocence. As the word suggests, Innocence is a state of mind free from evil. In other words, and this is obvious, a genius is the polar opposite of an evil person.
Natsuho Murata's hands were distinctive. My good friend described them as "like a baby's hands."
Unlike Himari, who appeared four years later, Natsuho Murata entered the Tokyo School of Music as a unique scholarship student. That's why we were able to attend her concert on March 10. Being able to see her perform live was nothing short of bliss. We decided to attend all of her concerts in Japan.
On May 26, she performed with the Ibaraki Symphony Orchestra in her hometown of Mito City. We traveled from Osaka to Mito and back in a single day. We changed our return train to one later than the original one so that we could relax and enjoy the concert. We were seated in the middle of the second row. We couldn't have been happier. As we left the hall, still basking in the afterglow of our appreciation for her performance and our sense of bliss, to our surprise, she was in the lobby, interacting with her fans. We joined her immediately. I told her I was a "turntable of civilization" and shook her hand naturally. I was surprised because her hand was unbelievably soft. That may be why the words came out unconsciously. 'I've just come from listening to Perlman, but you were better than Perlman. In other words, you're the best in the world.' I had come to hear her performance of Saint-Saëns's 3rd Violin Concerto, which he had performed on YouTube, after hearing performances by other famous violinists. The last time I had heard her play was when Itzhak Perlman had performed.
The reason she is the best is because of the unbelievable softness of her hands. Intellectual ability is essential for those who are called genius violinists. It is this innate talent that shapes the world's best. It is an innate talent given to those blessed with the music gods.
Like Otani and Sasaki, Natsuho Murata also generates unbelievable power. She also possesses a beauty that is as delicate as it is exquisite.
It is already common knowledge that Otani and Sasaki are super-class geniuses. They have something in common. Their shoulder joints are extraordinarily flexible. Incredibly flexible muscles produce incredible power.
They also produce the most delicate and beautiful sounds imaginable. When I got home, I examined the images of the illustrious people I had seen. In the end, there was only one person left! Itzhak Perlman! I was convinced of the correctness of my discovery. It was because his hands were also like a baby's palms.
When I wrote this article, two violinists were undisputed masters of their craft, but I had not checked their videos. I had assumed that the quality of the video was poor, so the sound quality must also be inadequate. Or YouTube had decided this for me, so they didn't appear. The two violinists were Isaac Stern and David Oistrakh. When I checked their videos, I was surprised! At the same time, I was convinced that my assumption was correct. It is because they both had the same palm as Natsuho Murata.
There was also a further surprise in the Oistrakh footage. Incredibly, he and Menuhin were playing Bach together.
When I saw this footage, I thought: The Japanese government will give the National Honor Award to Natsuho Murata and Himari. In other words, we will be recognized as "national treasures." For the first time, we will broadcast her and Himari to the world simultaneously as the current Oistrakh and Menuhin, for a fee, as a country. If Natsuho wants to play a Stradivarius at that time, we will buy the best Stradivarius and give it to her as an appearance fee. Even so, they will get a lot of change. Coincidentally, Himari's palm is Menuhin-type, so even more so. The government should realize that we have two people in Japan at the same time, like the two people in the video above, Oistrakh and Menuhin, and that it is a miracle that we have two people, Natsuho Murata and Himari, who is four years younger than her. We should be promoted as a national policy. South Korea has been selling K-pop to the world under the name of K-pop, which has no musicality whatsoever. It has even reached number one on the Billboard charts! Even though two of the world's best, genuine musicians exist, the government is doing nothing. In this respect, too, it is a genuinely foolish government. The government's attitude directly opposes the glorious names of Japan's past, such as Prince Shotoku, Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu. Ah, if only Mr. Abe were here... My proposal, made by another super-duper genius who made a significant discovery that will go down in world history, would indeed have been delivered promptly. No, I would have delivered it for sure. This article continues.
30/6/2024. There was one violinist I had forgotten to check. I just checked him on YouTube. Pinchas Zukerman. To my surprise, he had the same palm as Natsuho. David Oistrakh, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, and Natsuho Murata. It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most significant discoveries of the 21st century.
I have no regrets in life, but there may have been times when I wished things had been different or better.
March 12, 2025
On the other hand, there are fools and villains like the employees of the Asahi Shimbun who are hurting Japan while making a big fuss and acting like they are above it all.
January 8, 2021
It is a chapter that was sent out on January 1, 2017.
In Japan, there are unique ways of saying things that you do on New Year's Day, such as "Hatsuyume" (the first dream of the year) and "kakizome" (the first calligraphy of the year).
This editorial is my kakizome.
Today's weather was fantastic, so I headed for Arashiyama with a friend.
Last year, I was most indebted to Arashiyama and the wild birds of Arashiyama in this season.
So I headed there to say thank you to the wild birds.
On the train on the JR Arashiyama Sagano Line, I listened to the song by The Walkmen that I had sent out today as a song of A Happy New Year to people worldwide, using my favorite world-class Sony earphones.
It changed from Rat to Heaven.
The year after I was completely cured and discharged from the hospital after seven months of hospitalization, I visited the Kyoto Botanical Garden 300 days a year.
I continued photographing the flowers, plants, and various creatures that bloomed every day of the year with the same eye as the painters.
Japan is proud of the world.
In many ways, this rose garden is the best in Japan.
I'm one of the most frequent visitors to this rose garden, but right next to it is the music club room of Kyoto Prefectural University and
I can always hear them practicing their rather good punk rock-style songs.
Sometimes I'd shout things like, "That's pretty good!
Keep up the good work, and make the best of it!
Come and talk to me when they make a song that is not inferior to The Walkmen and needs a singer.
I will sing a song that will make all the university students in Kyoto lose their legs.
I spent the money to build three mansions in Kitashinchi, Osaka, to sing John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, etc., with piano and band accompaniment.
In other words, when I thought that a man born to sing would sing as a singer as great as John Lennon and Bob Dylan, I almost burst into tears.
I have no regrets about my life, but it might have been better if it had been different or like that.
Even if it is the fate of humans to be born with a dying gene, a true genius like Mr. Seibu is living his life looking at life and death as they are.
On the other hand, there are fools and villains like the Asahi Shimbun employees, who are hurting Japan while making loud noises and putting on big faces, acting as if nothing is wrong.
It is because I was also thinking about things as I looked out the window.
The foundation of originality lies in diversity, and the foundation of diversity lies in constancy.
December 26, 2020
The following is a rough draft.
It is no exaggeration to say that the achievements and contributions that Shinzo Abe has made to Japan and the world as a politician have been the greatest since the end of the war.
Apart from the Japanese prosecutors and university professors who are paid high salaries and have lifetime job security with the Japanese people's taxes, and the people who make their living in the mass media such as Asahi and NHK,
Most Japanese people and the world's leaders know he was a great politician.
It was on the NHK news last night.
Of all things, they were gleefully showing the scene in which Kiyomi Tsujimoto was pressuring former Prime Minister Abe to resign from the Diet.
It was back when the live TV show "Live Until Morning" was at its peak.
The people who ran the real estate business I had chosen as my life's profession were suffering greatly.
At this time, I often went to drink alone at the bar in the ANA Hotel, which is at the entrance to Kitashinchi.
It was a very relaxed and nice bar.
I used to frequent it to drink plenty of fresh juice and gin.
I encountered Takano Takeshi and Ozawa Ryoko, who were regulars on the above-mentioned TV program, talking at the following table on two occasions.
I can still remember the content of the conversation I overheard, even though I didn't want to.
Both times, it was about bid-rigging by general contractors.
The other day, I saw the name of Takano Takeshi on the Twitter feed of Yamada Hiroshi, a member of the House of Councillors, for the first time in a long time.
Yamada was criticizing Takano's comments, which could only be described as those of a Chinese agent, with genuine dismay.
The construction of the linear bullet train, which most Japanese people have been waiting for, is a rare and challenging project.
It is a problematic project that can only be completed with the technical capabilities of Japan's world-class super general contractors.
As I mentioned earlier, I had a lot of questions about the fact that the prosecutors had started searching for them as soon as the construction work began.
Those questions were cleared away instantly when I saw the name Takano Takeshi.
So, it was this man.
Takano Takeshi and others always talk about corruption in the construction industry.
The people in the special investigation unit know them.
The final touch was the unbelievable complaints made by Shizuoka Governor Kawakatsu, a rare pro-China politician.
In 2011, China took full advantage of the fact that Japan was under a Democratic Party of Japan administration to drag Japan down from being the world's leading nuclear power technology superpower and quickly rose to become a world superpower in the nuclear power industry.
Not stopping at nuclear power, China has been stealing JR technology left and right and has set a national goal of being the first country in the world to put the linear Shinkansen into practical use.
Kawakatsu's complaints have caused a significant delay in the linear Shinkansen project, and there is no prospect of it being completed anytime soon.
The Japanese government is unable to do anything about the situation in which a politician who is little more than a prefectural governor, who is little more than a Chinese agent, is able to stop a national policy of Japan for the benefit of China.
The prosecutors do nothing about this situation, severely damaging the national interest, and the mass media say nothing.
There were 440 classmates at Sendai Dai-ni High School, my alma mater, and of which I am proud.
They were all true elites.
There was not a single failure among them.
All of them followed the path of the elite and became the core of Japan.
Until they became adults (until they found employment), their families were like a roost for birds, where they all returned to their nests at dusk.
Birds don't have problems like family discord.
But only humans live with various problems.
For those with clear minds and sharp wits, this can be a serious problem.
It is because, as Takahashi Kazumi, a former brilliant student at Kyoto University, once said, "The foundation of originality lies in diversity, and the foundation of diversity lies in constancy."
It is why all top-class professional athletes have routines as a form of constancy.
With 'intuition' as defined by Professor Furuta Hiroshi, my former teacher at my alma mater stopped me in the hallway and said
"You must stay at Kyoto University and stand with that university on your shoulders."
Considering that former presidents Yamagiwa, Takagi, and others were living there, it was not a matter of regret that I was unable to follow my teacher's instructions.
I did not stand with Kyoto University on my shoulders, but now I am carrying something even more than that.
As I continue to write, I am carrying the 120 million Japanese citizens and the 6.5 billion people of the world with me.
There is an English software program that I have been using for a fee for a certain period.
I receive a report of my grades regularly.
There are several categories, and out of the nearly 3 million users, I am the clear leader in all categories.
Junior high school English teachers, university students, and other people constantly exposed to English all say the same thing.
"Recently, the Japanese to English translations on Google Translate and DeepL have greatly improved."
I say with a smile, without any pretense.
"I'm the one doing it. As the world's heaviest user..."
I started writing this column in July 2010, prompted by the Umeda North Yard project.
Everyone knows that it's normal for there to be around 30,000 searches and 3,000 visitors every day.
However, as soon as I announced the decision to publish the book from my hospital room on June 1, 2011, the man who had defrauded me of over 100 million yen from our company began to launch a reverse SEO attack on this column.
In 2012, after I had overcome a serious illness that had threatened my life, I consulted a lawyer who had previously been a prosecutor.
He hated computers and the Internet, but as soon as he saw it, he said, "This is terrible.
He raised several names of punishments.
"You were cheated out of a large sum of money, and you've had to spend a large amount on hospital fees for seven months, which is probably the result. If I take your case properly, I need to charge you a retainer fee of at least 500,000 yen, and I can't bring myself to take that. You can file a complaint with the police by yourself. I'll write the text for you, so please do that."
The police took just under three years to investigate the case as a criminal case and then passed it on to the Public Prosecutor's Office.
However, the result was as I have already described.
While leaving the evils of the street alone, they dealt with the case of Shinzo Abe (is that even a crime?) in a big way, leaking it to the Yomiuri Shimbun.
Left alone, the villain continues to carry out a vicious SEO attack, and the number of searches for this column has dropped to the 2,000s.
On Google, a false page is created for searches of the title of this column, and this column is folded into pages 8 or 10 or below.
If you search for it, it clearly states that the actions this man is taking are against the law and that you should never do them.
However, Google and the prosecutors are leaving it alone.
They are keen to stop the construction of the linear Shinkansen, attack Shinzo Abe, weaken Japan's national power, and divide public opinion. Still, they are highly unenthusiastic about the evils of the street.
Is that the correct attitude for a Japanese national public servant?
Is this the kind of organization Japan needs?
For some reason, the lawyer mentioned above, a former public prosecutor, hates the prosecutors.
"In a society where career advancement is everything, they will only build a case if they can be 100% sure of a conviction. That's why your case has little hope of being built. You've become a writer, so why not write about the huge evil of the prosecutors?"
As you know, I didn't start writing for that reason.
However, the way the world goes is as the lawyer said.
I like all Japanese people except for Prime Minister Abe...
October 17, 2020
It is a chapter that I sent out on July 17, 2019.
When the young Chinese woman working part-time at a shop in Arashiyama told me, "I like all Japanese people except for Prime Minister Abe..." I said, "That's strange..." I sent this chapter on December 16, 2018, under "That's Strange..."
In France, those bizarre demonstrations are continuing... Japanese TV reports that this is because France was a country during the May Revolution.
A few days ago, I left the channel and came across a TV Asahi talk show commenting on whether there was some conspiracy.
After showing images of Le Pen and others, the young announcer who was the host made a comment that was a criticism of President Trump and summed up the show by saying, "Is France going that way too...?"
As I watched this with a friend, I couldn't help but ask, "Which side are you on?"
My friend called me yesterday to say that the chapter I had sent out the day before was excellent.
He said," I was surprised when I read the editorial in the Sankei newspaper this morning..."
When I heard that, I immediately became convinced... that it would be easier for the intelligence agencies of South Korea and North Korea to win over the members of the Japan-Korea Parliamentary League
it would be easier to win over the members of the Japan-Korea Parliamentary League than to twist the hand of a baby...
Honey traps and money traps...
It would not be an exaggeration to say that not a single member of this group of Diet members has the insight or true patriotism to resist this.
They are a prime example of the fragility of democracy.
In the past, they were incited by the Asahi Shimbun and other newspapers to go to war, and now they are being manipulated by them to engage in anti-Japanese activities.
What they all have in common is that they are all subscribers to and avid readers of the Asahi Shimbun, and I am 100% certain that this is the case...
As long as these people are around, Japan will never be able to lead the world as a country, turning the "turntable of civilization."
That is exactly what the intelligence agencies in China and the Korean Peninsula aim to achieve.
The title of the Sankei Shimbun editorial was "What on earth did they go there for?
My friend was surprised to learn that this delegation to South Korea (needless to say, they were Japanese Diet members)
kept the Sankei Shimbun out of the press conference.
The unprecedented proposal I made yesterday to Japan and the world...
Let's set aside a budget of over 10 billion yen to acquire deep throat from China and the Korean Peninsula as soon as possible...
Let's turn our intelligence agents...
Besides doing this, Japan cannot become a world leader alongside the United States...
We cannot stop the lies and anti-Japanese activities in Okinawa.
As my friend said to me on the phone this morning, "It was wonderful...",
I am even more convinced that my proposal is the only answer for Japan.
The foundation of a country that has been a one-party communist dictatorship for 70 years since the end of the war and that has been practicing a form of Nazism called "anti-Japanese education."
It is a constant propaganda campaign at home and abroad, and the people are monitored.
Democracy is not a solid foundation.
From the perspective of manipulators, manipulating is extremely easy and involves many pitfalls.
What they do to democratic nations is try to divide the people and public opinion.
In the case of Japan, they fabricate the Morikake scandal...
In the opinion polls that NHK frequently conducts, the announcer always reads the ridiculous statement "I don't trust Prime Minister Abe's character" as a reason for disapproving of the administration.
I once ran into the former prime minister before Abe in Kitashinchi...
needless to say, he was precisely the kind of person whose character you couldn't trust.
After seeing politicians like that for so long, it was no exaggeration to say that I was stunned when I encountered Shinzo Abe at the Nikko Hotel in Shinsaibashi.
I was getting off the escalator, and he was walking down the corridor toward the subway.
The way he was walking was utterly different from any politician I had seen before.
He was walking with his eyes fixed on the ground without looking aside.
He was walking with his eyes fixed on the ground, looking neither right nor left.
It was when he was out of power.
I realized in an instant:
He's different from all those other politicians. He's the real deal.
I was amazed.
After all, I was a subscriber to the Asahi Shimbun and a regular reader then, so it was even more of a surprise.
I was surprised when he appeared on the TV program "Sokomade Itte IinKakai" (lit. "That's Enough, Committee") that I happened to be watching after he became prime minister again.
I was also surprised when he appeared on the late-night talk show on which Matsumoto Hitoshi was appearing.
However, at the time, I was amazed by the good personality of a man from a perfect family and the truly natural and wonderful sense of humor that came from that.
It was his truly natural and brilliant sense of humor.
I was convinced he would have been able to defuse the situation with his quick wit and prevent the meeting from breaking down,
even during the heated exchange between the US and France (I think) at the G7 when Obama was president.
Undoubtedly, 5% of the people who control the news and editorial departments of NHK are agents of China and the Korean Peninsula.
It is because the brains of the Chinese and Korean people are the brains that do not doubt the continuation of the foolish and inexcusable question of "I don't trust his character" to the people who have never met or spoken to Prime Minister Abe.
When the young Chinese woman who worked part-time at the shop in Arashiyama told me last year, "I like all Japanese people except Prime Minister Abe..."
I told her, "That's not right... The majority of Japanese people have elected Abe as their prime minister, so your logic is wrong...".
In other words, the will of China and the Korean Peninsula is the question of "I don't trust Abe's character."
NHK and others conduct public opinion polls at an abnormal frequency. Their intentions must also be at work here.
That is the very thing they are doing to brainwash their viewers.
By manipulating the results of public opinion polls in Japan, they make it look like there is a lot of opposition to the idea of amending the Constitution and preventing it from being amended...
They keep the opposition to nuclear power going, and they knock Japan down to a backward country in terms of nuclear technology, and they conquer the world's nuclear power...
The article I discovered in the Guardian this morning proved 100% that my argument was correct... I will introduce it in the next chapter.
NHK never reads the support rate for each party.
I don't trust Prime Minister Abe's character. They read this item every time, but they never read that the support rate for the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan is around 5% or less, let alone 10% or less, compared to the Liberal Democratic Party's support rate of around 50%.
It is the way that NHK, which is Japan's national broadcaster, frequently behaves.
A country in this state cannot stop China's arrogance, but instead allows them to do as they please; in the end, it is only natural that countries like South Korea and North Korea would be able to trample all over our territory, territorial waters, honor, and trust.
The reason why this kind of deplorable situation has come about is, first and foremost, because NHK and the Asahi Shimbun are in their hands.
It is often said that a country's problems are magnified when they appear on remote islands...
Okinawa is precisely like that.
Okinawa is controlled by two newspapers equivalent to NHK and the Asahi Shimbun.
It was these two newspapers and the Okinawa Asahi Shimbun that incited the prefecture's residents to "die with honor" before and during the war and not to be taken prisoner alive.
The Asahi Shimbun's cowardice is also evident in the fact that you cannot search for the Okinawa Asahi Shimbun on the internet...
It is because it would be a fatal blow to them if the content of their pre-war and wartime reporting could be instantly searched for.
For example, I am not a writer, so I would not travel from Osaka to Tokyo to the National Diet Library to look into this matter. Most people would feel the same way.
As a result, the nature of the Okinawa Asahi Shimbun before and during the war is a black box to most people.
I think the two newspapers in Okinawa are similar.
If the FBI and CIA existed in Japan, and I were the director of those organizations...
I would immediately begin investigating the situation regarding contact between the two Okinawan newspapers and agents from China and the Korean Peninsula.
Okinawa is the perfect target for the invasion and seizure of Japanese territory and territorial waters to divide Japan and weaken it.
Not to mention other developed countries besides Japan...
China and the Korean Peninsula would be arrested on the spot for espionage, and in China, they would be executed for treason,
and in Korea, they would be punished... It is a country where things like making an example of people are rife, so they might be released if the government changes...
but it is clear beyond all doubt from what Shin Suk-ok is doing.
Even so, the behavior of the TV stations that frequently feature Sin Suk-ok on TV and the Asahi Shimbun newspaper that has even welcomed her to its affiliated company is beyond description.
