The following is an excerpt from Takayama Masayuki's serialized column that appeared at the end of the December 19th issue of Weekly Shincho.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the post-war world.
A long time ago, an elderly professor from the Royal Ballet School in Monaco, highly respected by prima ballerinas worldwide, came to Japan.
At that time, she said the following about the significance of artists.
'Artists are essential because they can only shed light on hidden, concealed truths and express them.
No one would argue with her words.
Masayuki Takayama is not only the one and only journalist in the post-war world, but it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the one and only artist in the post-war world.
This thesis also beautifully proves the correctness of my statement that, in the current world, no one deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Masayuki Takayama.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.
Time for Verification
Tsutomu Hotta of the District Prosecutor's Office Special Investigation Division, who pursued the "Prime Minister's Crime," has passed away.
The stupid Asahi Shimbun newspaper praises him, saying that he "negotiated with the US Department of Justice in the Lockheed bribery case" to obtain evidence, that he also handled the trial of Kakuei, and that he "earned the nickname of the Razor."
However, even though he wielded the razor, the case remained very unclear, and only the arrogance of the judiciary was overly conspicuous.
The case was strange from the very beginning.
One day, a letter was mistakenly delivered to the US Senate.
When opened, it contained a receipt for 100 peanuts sent by Kodama Yoshio to Lockheed.
I was surprised they would open someone else's mail without a second thought in the US.
Furthermore, they held a public hearing based on this and concluded that Lockheed had given bribes to a person of the rank of prime minister in Japan.
In American legal texts, such evidence of unknown origin is called "fruit from a poisonous tree" and is rejected.
However, when the other party is Japan, they don't care.
Tanaka Kakuei, who was implicitly named, had restored diplomatic relations between Japan and China, had struck a deal for Indonesian oil, and was discussing the development of Siberia with the Soviet Union.
The United States, which felt it had brought Japan to its knees, must have felt cheated.
Ordinary Japanese people think that if they feel something is going to happen, it will.
However, the District Public Prosecutor's Office Special Investigation Unit was different.
They only thought about their glory, thinking, "We might be able to get the Prime Minister's head."
So, they drew up their own version of the Prime Minister's crime." Kakuei had ANA change the next leading aircraft, the Douglas DC10, to the Lockheed Tristar and received 500 million yen from Lockheed."
They thought Kakuei would wag his tail for 500 million yen to an American company.
And the composition of the story was far too ignorant.
JAL was flying DC10s as its second-line aircraft, with jumbo jets as its mainstay.
Do you think ANA would deliberately choose a rival company's second-line aircraft as its next mainstay aircraft, on which it was pinning its hopes?
Incidentally, the engine structure of the Tristar was created by the design team of ANA's mainstay Boeing 727, which had moved to Lockheed.
It was far more familiar than the Douglas.
When the reporter pressed him on this, the second-in-command prosecutor, Yusuke Yoshinaga, immediately banned the reporter from entering the Public Prosecutor's office.
He also threatened that "any newspaper that writes whatever it wants will be barred from the press conference."
On top of that, Hotta went to the US to get evidence.
The US was happy to hand over dubious evidence, but they categorically refused to get testimony from the key Lockheed executive involved in the bribery.
They would be caught immediately if they officially admitted to the crime.
However, the Japanese side needed the testimony.
Hotta asked, "Please do the questioning on your side.
It is what is known as a commissioned interrogation.
He also added the condition that there would be no cross-examination and that even if they told lies, they would not be charged with perjury.
He said, 'You can make up any story you like."
On the other hand, the special investigation team of the District Public Prosecutor's Office asked the Supreme Court, "Please accept this as evidence even without cross-examination. If you do that, we can arrest Kakuei."
I thought Japan was a country of law based on evidence.
However, the Supreme Court issued a statement saying they would use "just nonsense" that was not legally qualified as evidence.
It was the moment when Japan stopped being a country of law.
Yoshinaga Yusuke was questioned about this at a press conference.
He was asked if Japan was still a country of law.
Yoshinaga replied haughtily:
"In the United States, people testify with their hands on the Bible. Americans don't lie."
The reporter wondered why there was a crime of perjury, but he kept quiet because he would be banned from the prosecutor's office if he said anything.
In fact, Hotta also said, "Indians don't lie. Americans don't lie either."
Three days after the manifesto was released, Kakuei was arrested on the evidence of the poisonous fruit that had become a tree in the United States.
The once-in-a-lifetime politician had his political life cut short.
After that, Japan stopped going against the United States.
When Japan tried to get involved in Vietnam, Secretary of State Baker shouted at them.
So, Japan backed down.
The US took away semiconductors from Japan, turned the yen into scrap paper, and even forced LGBT.
Kishida just silently obeyed.
The starting point of this was the arrest of Kakuei.
What did the special investigation department do at that time?
It's time to verify it now.
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