The following is from a column by Masayuki Takayama which appeared in this month's issue of the monthly magazine, Themis, entitled "Lies of the Asahi Shimbun editorial editor who claims 6,000 nuclear power plants" and writes bad things about Japan without intelligence, just like the anti-nuclear power activists.
Masayuki Takayama is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
This article is a must-read not only for all Japanese citizens but also for people around the world.
North and South Korea Grew Up Under Japanese Imperial Rule
Matsumoto Koji's book "The Origins of the Korean Anti-Japanese Principle" is very interesting not only for its reference to Japan and Korea but also for its wading through Western researchers' literature.
For example, Professor A. Kohli of Princeton University discusses Western colonialism.
The colonies were regimes established by the dominant nation for the economic benefit so that the railroads and ports that carried the confiscated goods and the living conditions of the white man would be well maintained.
In fact, if you visit Dalat in the French Indies or Fraser Hill in Malaya, you will see beautiful white people building beautiful towns with tennis courts and other facilities on the cool plateau.
It was a different world, where the sultry heat and smell of filth of the world below was a lie.
In contrast, the living conditions of the natives down there are not improved at all.
If the aborigines "obtained technology and tried to industrialize, they were prevented without exception" (Ibid.)
This part reminds me of the story of Kyotani Yoshihiro of Japan National Railways, who went to Pakistan, a country with a high incidence of railway accidents, for technical guidance.
Mr. Kyotani is best known as the father of JR's Linear Shinkansen.
He taught the white-gloved, flustered intellectual executives that they could reduce accidents only if they were willing to get covered in oil.
A bust of Kyotani, erected by his student, still stands in the corner of the Lahore yard.
One of his students told Kyotani a story about his grandfather.
'While working with his fellow students on a British-made locomotive, he also studied the mechanics of the train, and over ten years built a locomotive one-fifth the size of a real one.
When he ran it in front of the British, they frowned instead of praising him for a job well done and eventually executed all the engineers involved in the project on separate charges.
'It was a mortal sin for the colonists to acquire the skill and wisdom of the white man,'
The colonial people were forced to be stupid.
When Matsumoto says that they were prevented from doing so without exception, he refers to such atrocities.
In this sense, North and South Koreans were able to receive sufficient knowledge and technical guidance from the dominant country during what they call Japanese imperial rule.
A people who are lax and distant from technology
Moon Jae-in should have listened to Kohli's words, "There is no other country that was once a Western colony that has reached the same level as Korea at that time.
However, perhaps it is because of their ethnicity that Koreans do not have the same enthusiasm for research as Pakistanis despite being in such a blessed environment.
However, perhaps due to ethnicity, the Koreans did not have the same research zeal as the Pakistanis in such a favorable environment.
The Japanese were also eager to teach building techniques.
The Japanese are all kyotani Yoshihiro.
However, in October 1994, the central part of Seongsu Bridge, built over the Han River in Seoul by a Korean student, collapsed with the bridge girder.
Thirty-two people were killed when buses and cars fell into the river 30 meters below.
Six months later, the Sanpho department store built in Seoul collapsed, killing 502 people.
During the Muromachi period (1336-1573), King Sejong of the Joseon Dynasty sent a messenger to the country asking for instructions on how to build a water pumping truck.
They returned to their country and tried to build it, but all the water they were pumping leaked.
They didn't have the precision of assembling wood to wood with no gaps between them.
They came back twice more to learn how to assemble the wood, but the waterwheel was never completed.
The two accidents in Seoul proved that they had made no progress from Muromachi to the present.
They may be people who are not very good at technology.
However, they lie that 'Japanese imperialism robbed us of our technology.'
Such a nation has proposed to build a power-generating nuclear reactor that is more complicated than a water wheel.
Japan is geographically located downwind from Korea.
I would have preferred that they not do this.
They seemed to know that they couldn't build it properly on their own.
So South Korea, in a joint venture with ABB, a Swedish company, completed a pressurized water reactor when the Seongsu Bridge fell.
You'd think it was pretty safe because it was sued by the long-established pressurized water type Westinghouse (WH) for intellectual property sludge.
What's in it is almost identical to the WH.
Nemoto Seiki is a lot like Moon Jae-in
On the other hand, the North Koreans also knew that they couldn't do it on their own, so they got a 5kw experimental reactor built by the Soviet Union.
But this was a graphite-moderated reactor.
It is known to be used to produce plutonium 239 for nuclear weapons rather than for power generation.
The Nagasaki atomic bomb was made from the same type of reactor at Hanford.
Sure enough, North Korea began making nuclear weapons with it, and the world was troubled.
The U.S. and Japan met and decided to halt the use of graphite reactors and build two South Korean light-water reactors in their place.
It was the so-called KEDO.
The reason for the LWRs is that their spent fuel also contains plutonium, but much of it is 240, which does not cause a nuclear explosion chain.
It is extremely difficult to isolate only the 239 in LWRs.
It means that it is impossible to produce nuclear weapons from LWRs.
If we could, we wouldn't give North Korea two LWRs.
But there are some people of poor quality.
Take, for example, the editorial editor of the Asahi Shimbun, Nemoto Seiki. He is an anti-nuclear power advocate.
On top of that, he is just as unintelligent as the anti-nuclear activists.
That's why he hates the nuclear fuel cycle, which is essential for Japan's lack of energy resources.
This hatred prompted him to write an editorial on May 14, titled 'Farewell to irrational national policy.'
It read, 'Today Japan has 46 tons of plutonium, the equivalent of 6,000 atomic bombs. Today Japan has 46 tons of plutonium, the equivalent of 6,000 nuclear weapons.
It's the plutonium that has been reprocessed from the spent fuel of domestic nuclear power plants to be burned in them again.
But all nuclear power plants in Japan are light-water reactors, which means they cannot produce nuclear weapons.
The whole thing is a lie.
Around one time, a sizeable one-page article, 'Do you need a reprocessing plant?' was signed by Kotsubo Yu, and there is also 'Plutonium for 6000 atomic bombs.'
A week later, regarding the Nuclear Regulation Authority's decision to give the go-ahead to the Rokkasho reprocessing plant, Toshio Kawada, a reporter from the Science Division, wrote, 'Enough plutonium for 6,000 atomic bombs that could be converted to nuclear weapons.'
All the reporters know they are being made to lie.
Perhaps Nemoto has threatened to replace them if they don't like it.
They are not afraid of lies.
Nemoto is a lot like Moon Jae-in, who says that 'Japan has stifled our nation's technological development, Smida.'
Masayuki Takayama is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
This article is a must-read not only for all Japanese citizens but also for people around the world.
North and South Korea Grew Up Under Japanese Imperial Rule
Matsumoto Koji's book "The Origins of the Korean Anti-Japanese Principle" is very interesting not only for its reference to Japan and Korea but also for its wading through Western researchers' literature.
For example, Professor A. Kohli of Princeton University discusses Western colonialism.
The colonies were regimes established by the dominant nation for the economic benefit so that the railroads and ports that carried the confiscated goods and the living conditions of the white man would be well maintained.
In fact, if you visit Dalat in the French Indies or Fraser Hill in Malaya, you will see beautiful white people building beautiful towns with tennis courts and other facilities on the cool plateau.
It was a different world, where the sultry heat and smell of filth of the world below was a lie.
In contrast, the living conditions of the natives down there are not improved at all.
If the aborigines "obtained technology and tried to industrialize, they were prevented without exception" (Ibid.)
This part reminds me of the story of Kyotani Yoshihiro of Japan National Railways, who went to Pakistan, a country with a high incidence of railway accidents, for technical guidance.
Mr. Kyotani is best known as the father of JR's Linear Shinkansen.
He taught the white-gloved, flustered intellectual executives that they could reduce accidents only if they were willing to get covered in oil.
A bust of Kyotani, erected by his student, still stands in the corner of the Lahore yard.
One of his students told Kyotani a story about his grandfather.
'While working with his fellow students on a British-made locomotive, he also studied the mechanics of the train, and over ten years built a locomotive one-fifth the size of a real one.
When he ran it in front of the British, they frowned instead of praising him for a job well done and eventually executed all the engineers involved in the project on separate charges.
'It was a mortal sin for the colonists to acquire the skill and wisdom of the white man,'
The colonial people were forced to be stupid.
When Matsumoto says that they were prevented from doing so without exception, he refers to such atrocities.
In this sense, North and South Koreans were able to receive sufficient knowledge and technical guidance from the dominant country during what they call Japanese imperial rule.
A people who are lax and distant from technology
Moon Jae-in should have listened to Kohli's words, "There is no other country that was once a Western colony that has reached the same level as Korea at that time.
However, perhaps it is because of their ethnicity that Koreans do not have the same enthusiasm for research as Pakistanis despite being in such a blessed environment.
However, perhaps due to ethnicity, the Koreans did not have the same research zeal as the Pakistanis in such a favorable environment.
The Japanese were also eager to teach building techniques.
The Japanese are all kyotani Yoshihiro.
However, in October 1994, the central part of Seongsu Bridge, built over the Han River in Seoul by a Korean student, collapsed with the bridge girder.
Thirty-two people were killed when buses and cars fell into the river 30 meters below.
Six months later, the Sanpho department store built in Seoul collapsed, killing 502 people.
During the Muromachi period (1336-1573), King Sejong of the Joseon Dynasty sent a messenger to the country asking for instructions on how to build a water pumping truck.
They returned to their country and tried to build it, but all the water they were pumping leaked.
They didn't have the precision of assembling wood to wood with no gaps between them.
They came back twice more to learn how to assemble the wood, but the waterwheel was never completed.
The two accidents in Seoul proved that they had made no progress from Muromachi to the present.
They may be people who are not very good at technology.
However, they lie that 'Japanese imperialism robbed us of our technology.'
Such a nation has proposed to build a power-generating nuclear reactor that is more complicated than a water wheel.
Japan is geographically located downwind from Korea.
I would have preferred that they not do this.
They seemed to know that they couldn't build it properly on their own.
So South Korea, in a joint venture with ABB, a Swedish company, completed a pressurized water reactor when the Seongsu Bridge fell.
You'd think it was pretty safe because it was sued by the long-established pressurized water type Westinghouse (WH) for intellectual property sludge.
What's in it is almost identical to the WH.
Nemoto Seiki is a lot like Moon Jae-in
On the other hand, the North Koreans also knew that they couldn't do it on their own, so they got a 5kw experimental reactor built by the Soviet Union.
But this was a graphite-moderated reactor.
It is known to be used to produce plutonium 239 for nuclear weapons rather than for power generation.
The Nagasaki atomic bomb was made from the same type of reactor at Hanford.
Sure enough, North Korea began making nuclear weapons with it, and the world was troubled.
The U.S. and Japan met and decided to halt the use of graphite reactors and build two South Korean light-water reactors in their place.
It was the so-called KEDO.
The reason for the LWRs is that their spent fuel also contains plutonium, but much of it is 240, which does not cause a nuclear explosion chain.
It is extremely difficult to isolate only the 239 in LWRs.
It means that it is impossible to produce nuclear weapons from LWRs.
If we could, we wouldn't give North Korea two LWRs.
But there are some people of poor quality.
Take, for example, the editorial editor of the Asahi Shimbun, Nemoto Seiki. He is an anti-nuclear power advocate.
On top of that, he is just as unintelligent as the anti-nuclear activists.
That's why he hates the nuclear fuel cycle, which is essential for Japan's lack of energy resources.
This hatred prompted him to write an editorial on May 14, titled 'Farewell to irrational national policy.'
It read, 'Today Japan has 46 tons of plutonium, the equivalent of 6,000 atomic bombs. Today Japan has 46 tons of plutonium, the equivalent of 6,000 nuclear weapons.
It's the plutonium that has been reprocessed from the spent fuel of domestic nuclear power plants to be burned in them again.
But all nuclear power plants in Japan are light-water reactors, which means they cannot produce nuclear weapons.
The whole thing is a lie.
Around one time, a sizeable one-page article, 'Do you need a reprocessing plant?' was signed by Kotsubo Yu, and there is also 'Plutonium for 6000 atomic bombs.'
A week later, regarding the Nuclear Regulation Authority's decision to give the go-ahead to the Rokkasho reprocessing plant, Toshio Kawada, a reporter from the Science Division, wrote, 'Enough plutonium for 6,000 atomic bombs that could be converted to nuclear weapons.'
All the reporters know they are being made to lie.
Perhaps Nemoto has threatened to replace them if they don't like it.
They are not afraid of lies.
Nemoto is a lot like Moon Jae-in, who says that 'Japan has stifled our nation's technological development, Smida.'
