The following is from Masayuki Takayama's column in Themis, a monthly subscription magazine that arrived at my house today.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
A long time ago, an elderly female professor of the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, highly respected by prima ballerinas worldwide, visited Japan.
At that time, she spoke 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, Oe, I don't want to speak ill of the deceased, but (to follow Masayuki Takayama's example below), Murakami and many others who call themselves writers or think of themselves as artists are not even worthy of the name of artists.
They have only expressed the lies the Asahi Shimbun, and others created rather than shedding light on hidden truths and telling them.
Their existence is not limited to Japan but is the same in other countries worldwide.
In other words, there are only a few true artists.
This paper is another excellent proof that I am right when I say that no one in the world today deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Masayuki Takayama.
It is a must-read not only for the people of Japan but for people all over the world.
GHQ's Eugenics Protection Law was the leading cause of Japan's population decline
Asahi Shimbun scatters a masochistic view of history that "Japan ignored human rights" even after the war.
The law was enacted as an emergency evacuation during the chaotic postwar period.
The Eugenic Protection Law was created in 1948, soon after the war, to legalize "abortion and sterilization to avoid genetic diseases.
The purpose of the law, "to prevent the birth of children who would be a burden to the family and society," is reminiscent of Hitler's "Operation T4," depending on how you read it.
T4 refers to the facility at 4 Tiergartenstrasse in Berlin.
In that facility, mentally ill and genetically ill people who were "a burden on society" (Nietzsche) were detained and euthanized by fasting and car exhaust.
Over 70,000 were killed in two years.
Why was the eugenic protection law created with such an eerie odor?
A report by the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors was recently released to the public, a rarity in Japan that probes such legislation's intent.
In the background, the sympathetic voices of older people who lamented their inability to have children due to forced sterilization first rose, human rights groups made a fuss, and lawyers earned a stir. State compensation is increasingly being awarded as a tort committed by the government.
But why did a law as bad as Hitler's come into existence?
This report is an attempt to find out.
However, when I looked at the finished product, I found that the content was something like that, and the criticism of the Asahi Shimbun on human rights was unclear.
For example, the first part of the report on the legislative process says, "In 1938, the Eugenics Division was already established in the former Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the eugenics ideology of eliminating bad seeds had already become a national policy.
However, eugenics is a theory created by British scholar F. Golton to "support white supremacy," and there is no way that Japan would agree with such a racial theory.
Yet, it goes on to say, "It was legislated in 1948 to eliminate defective seeds.
According to eugenics, the Japanese are also defective seeds.
The second part reveals the reality of sterilization, in which "patients are deceived" and "even children as young as nine years old are treated.
For example, this law's purpose is women and girls who are illegally pregnant.
As described in Takashi Kamitsubo's "Abortion Record," many women who returned from Manchuria and other parts of Korea were raped and pregnant by Russians and Koreans.
Since abortion was illegal in Japan at the time, abortions were performed without anesthesia, and in some cases, the mothers died.
In addition, there was no end to the number of women who threw themselves overboard before arriving at the port of Maizuru.
The legalization of abortion was in response to such emergencies.
The other issue was who would care for the mentally disabled and mentally ill who gave birth to children during that chaotic period.
It was also an urgent problem.
In a sense, it was an emergency evacuation bill.
Lock them up on four islands and destroy them.
Asahi's statement that "Japan's prewar disregard for human rights survived after the war to create such an evil law that ignores human rights" is a well-crafted lie.
The paper says "even the child," but the parents took the child by the hand and went to the hospital.
Not Hitler's S.S.
The Asahi also deceives us about that.
What is more important is that some were willing to push for the legalization of abortion in Japan.
The Eugenic Protection Law was passed in 1948.
At that time, Japan was still under GHQ.
The previous year, MacArthur had forced the Japanese government to draft a new constitution and hold general elections to replace the Diet members.
At that time, GHQ eliminated all decent candidates, including 200,000 people expelled from public office.
When the number of candidates was exhausted, Robert Guillain, for example, found Tokuda Kyuichi and Shiga Yoshio in prison to fill the vacancies. GHQ immediately released them and made them candidates.
GHQ also made Shizue Kato, advocating abortion and sterilization, a candidate.
GHQ had been entrusted with the postwar plan for Japan as bequeathed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR).
FDR had positioned Japan as a threat to the whites and "had ordered that the Japanese be confined to four islands and destroyed" (Christopher Thorne, "The Pacific War for the United States and Britain").
So, in parallel with the demobilization of Japanese soldiers, GHQ ordered the repatriation of Japanese living overseas, including Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan.
Japanese nationals residing in neutral Ireland were no exception, and diplomats were also ordered to repatriate.
It was a clear violation of international law, and Consul General Setsuya Beppu refused to return to Japan until his term expired.
He returned to Japan two years later, in 1948, but GHQ arrested him on the spot and threw him in jail for two years.
This unprecedented repatriation of all military and civilian personnel increased Japan's population by 6 million in one stroke.
On the other hand, Koreans who had flowed into Japan were driven back to the peninsula, and about 2 million people left.
However, 600,000 remained and became the basis of today's zainichi.
The model for this policy was the "Carthaginian Spring," in which the Japanese took away their overseas territories, such as Manchuria and Taiwan, deprived them of their war potential, and confiscated all their industrial machinery, nearly turning them into an agricultural nation, just as Rome had done to Carthage.
In addition, there was a plan to "reduce and destroy the population," which is the source of national power.
Imposing the 2DK nuclear family
The clue to this plan was Shizue Kato, who had been advocating the legalization of abortion since before the war, and she was made a member of the Diet and had drafted the Eugenic Protection Law.
The Asahi intentionally omitted a key phrase from the report: "The bill needed the approval of GHQ before it could be submitted.
In other words, GHQ's goal was to legalize abortion in Japan, which even the U.S. did not recognize at the time, and to enforce restrictions on childbirth.
As soon as the Eugenic Protection Law became law, GHQ immediately sent Mrs. Sanger to Japan to stop the practice of having many children and to force the Japanese people to adopt the 2DK nuclear family.
Along with the MacArthur Constitution, which advocated the renunciation of military power, the Eugenics Protection Law was a policy of Carthaginization of Japan by the United States that robbed Japan of its national ability and brought about Japan's current declining population crisis.
The malice of the Americans toward Japan was behind this Eugenic Protection Act.
What in the world is the report of the investigation of the two houses of Congress that passed over that part of the law?
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is discussing measures to deal with the declining birthrate on a different level.
The answer to this question can be seen in the eyes of GHQ.
