A long time ago, an elderly female professor of the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, who prima ballerinas around the world highly respect, visited Japan.
She spoke at that time about the significance of an artist's existence.
She said, "Artists are important because they are the only ones who can shed light on hidden, concealed truths and express them."
No one would dispute her words.
It is no exaggeration to say that Masayuki Takayama is not only the one and only journalist in the postwar world, but also the one and only artist in the postwar world.
On the other hand, many of those who call themselves artists, such as Oe, Murakami, and Hirano, do not even deserve the artist's name.
They have only expressed the lies created by the Asahi Shimbun and others rather than shedding light on hidden truths and telling them.
Their existence is not limited to Japan, but is the same in other countries around the world.
In other words, only a minimal number of actual artists exist.
The following is from Masayuki Takayama's serialized column that marks the end of Weekly Shincho, which was released today.
This article also poignantly proves that I am right when I say that no one in the world today deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Masayuki Takayama.
The Fall of Jiang Zemin
In June 1989, the Beijing government was annoyed by students who gathered in front of Tiananmen Square and shouted for democracy, so they sent in tanks to run them over or shoot them.
The Tiananmen Square incident, as it is called, was frowned upon by the world, and the Western powers insulated themselves from China.
China could no longer expect money from the West.
The Soviet Union would have helped them in such a situation, but they could not pull themselves out of the Afghan quagmire and could not afford to take care of China.
So, what to do?
The wily Deng Xiaoping installed the lowly Jiang Zemin as general secretary.
His father, Jiang Shijun, disliked the U.S.-backed Chiang Kai-shek regime and chose the Japanese-aligned Wang Jingwei Nanjing government.
His son followed his lead and joined the Central University of Nanjing, where he had many dealings with the Japanese.
When he was drunk, he sang and danced the Tankobushi.
According to Japanese history books, when Japan lost, he immediately adopted his uncle to avoid the slander of being the "son of a Chinese traitor.
It was how Jiang Zemin was able to rise steadily in the world.
However, if a cunning Shina person thinks that a son of a Chinese traitor was appointed as general secretary without knowing what the Japanese know, he is wrong to think so.
Deng Xiaoping, of course, was aware of Jiang's origins and had no choice but to roll over Japan to get through this challenging situation.
He thought, "Let's put someone who can do that in charge.
Jiang planned to invite the emperor to China.
Once the emperor was in Beijing, it assured China's return to the international community.
So he dispatched Wu Xueqian, the vice prime minister, to Japan.
Wu was the man who came to Japan when the Asahi Shimbun newspaper falsely claimed that the Ministry of Education had forced the Japanese to rewrite the invasion of Japan as an advance in the textbook examination.
Since then, Wu has been in the pocket of foreign affairs bureaucrat Sakutaro Tanino and Asahi's Seiki Watanabe.
Wu used both to conduct the stroking and backdoor maneuvering that made the "Emperor's visit to China" possible.
Jiang started diplomacy to change his attitude abruptly toward Japan after this.
In his later "Jiang Zemin Wenzhi," Jiang made as the basis of his diplomacy with Japan that "the Japanese army was brutal and killed 35 million people in the 15 years since the invasion of Manchuria" and ordered "Japan to keep talking about the history problem forever.
He also instilled anti-Japanese sentiment in the people.
Anti-Japanese memorials were built in every town.
Jiang paid for the construction from Japan's ODA.
The middle school textbooks included pictures of the Jinan Incident and taught it as "the cruel acts of the Japanese military.
It was an autopsy photo of a 24-year-old Japanese woman killed by Chinese soldiers who cut off her ears, nose, and breasts, then stabbed her in the pubic region with a stick.
In Japan, the photo was considered too gruesome to be publicized, but Jiang used it as evidence of "biological experimentation on a Chinese woman."
During a visit to the U.S. in 1997, Jiang went out of his way to stop by Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and said, "Japan is the joint enemy of the U.S. and China," like Inajiro Asanuma.
When Jiang visited Japan, he appeared in plain clothes at a state dinner and blurted out, "Don't forget the history of Japan as an aggressor nation.
He knows that Jiang's history, including the Nanjing Massacre, is a complete lie.
He told such lies in front of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, who had saved China from a problematic situation.
Everyone present was furious at Jiang Zemin's impoliteness.
After a while, His Majesty asked Tadashi Ikeda, Director General of the Asian Affairs Bureau, in an antonymic manner, "Was it good for him to go to China?
The Asahi quickly reported (October 30, 2005) that "His Majesty said his visit to China was 'good,'" cutting out part of his words.
No matter how Asahi put it, his words seemed to be imbued with solid distrust and anger toward China.
Contrary to His Majesty's wishes, however, the subjects of today think nothing of it.
They have simply followed the current trend, chanting "Japan-Shina friendship" and pouring ODA into the country.
Even after China became a threat to Japan, the defense budget was cut, and the surplus was used for ODA to China.
Jiang Zemin passed away the other day.
The Asahi editorial mourned his death and praised his flexibility in making even capitalists, for example, party members.
But isn't that what should be described as merely lax?
More importantly, the ODA from Japan that he had been gorging himself on ended this year, 42 years later.
Jiang Zemin died as if he had been waiting for it.
Isn't this similar to the leech that sucks all the blood out of a person and then peels off?
