but Masayuki Takayama, no one else but him!

In today's world, the person who deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature is not Kenzaburo Oe or Haruki Murakami, but Masayuki Takayama, no one else but him!
After watching the end of the 7 o'clock news last night, when Kuwako's "Close-Up Today" came on, I immediately switched the channel to BS1.
NHK, which allows Kuwako to talk about politics, economics, international politics, and the world, is not qualified to call itself a news organization or a public broadcaster at all.
It only proves that NHK, which is practically a state-run broadcasting station, is no different in reality from a commercial broadcaster's talk show.
The BS1 program was a documentary on Walt Disney, produced in the United States.
There was a difference between heaven and earth.
I have no interest in Disneyland, but I was so impressed by Walt's spirit that I thought it would be OK to see the show at least once.
Thankfully, the sequel aired at 9 pm.
When I returned to NHK after watching the program, I found that "Historical Detective" had started with the story of how the Shimazu clan, which had joined the Western forces in Sekigahara, had been relieved of its territory, unlike other powerful clans.
On days when I watch TV, I usually watch TV Tokyo's WBS from 10:00 pm, but on this day, I decided to record it and continue watching.
As for why Shimazu escaped punishment from Tokugawa Ieyasu, the focus was that the Shimazu clan possessed many guns unique to Shimazu and had a well-trained gun squadron.
The Shimazu clan had access to iron, sulfur, and Niter, three things necessary for making guns.
To begin with, guns were introduced to the Shimazu clan's Tanegashima Island.
For iron, the island in the Shimazu clan's territory produced iron sand.
So far, so good.
Niter was not produced in japan and relied on imports from Ming Dynasty.
The Satsuma Domain was the closest to Ming in Japan and had an excellent natural port at its southern end.
I thought to myself, "What the heck?
NHK omitted the fact that Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, had revealed to us entirely from this NHK program.
The following is the chapter I sent out.
Readers will be astonished to find that there is a world of difference between what Masayuki Takayama tells us and how NHK presents it.
NHK intentionally did not communicate this fact.
It did tell us that the Ryukyu Islands are a different country from Japan, but it did not mention that Ryukyu was a part of the Shimazu Clan, though casually.

The following is the chapter I sent out on 12/20/2021.
Will and Hanada, two monthly magazines on sale today, are full of must-read articles for the Japanese people and people worldwide.
And they were only 950 yen each (tax included).
There is nothing more cost-effective than that.
Every Japanese citizen who can read should subscribe to the nearest bookstore.
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5) Ashikaga Yoshimitsu gained material gain in his diplomacy with China 
Takayama 
Any head of the shogunate in charge of finances would think of resuming trade with China, which had been interrupted by the Genko.
The third shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, attempted to do so.
It was Ashikaganomics, as it were. 
His opponent happened to be the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who had usurped the imperial throne by killing his nephew, who had been roundly criticized in China. 
Fang Xiao Xin, a scholar, refused to accept the emperor's throne, and not only his family members but even his wife's family members were all killed.
At that time, Yoshimitsu sent a letter to the Yongle Emperor, proclaiming him as the legitimate emperor of China. 
The Yongle Emperor probably shed tears of joy, thinking he had received a congratulatory letter from a great man of the East who had defeated the great Yuan army.
The Ming Dynasty considered Japan to be a strong enemy.
It may have been because of the Yuan invasion. Still, there is a record of Dajong's strict orders not to show the Japanese his knowledge of gunpowder or the manufacturing method of bronze mirrors and not to sell Niter, the critical ingredient of gunpowder, to the Japanese.
On top of that, he gave them the "Golden Seal of the King of Japan," and the "Kango" trade began.
What is said about the title is a trivial matter. 
Miyazaki 
Now that you have mentioned the Yongle Emperor, let me tell you what the Ekisei revolution in China was really about.
A fascinating book called "The Historical Transition of Chinese National Character: Despotism and the Sense of Honor" (Shukosha, 2016) was written by a Chinese of Mongolian descent named Zhang Hongjie.
According to the book, Zhu Yuanzhang, who founded the Ming Dynasty, came from a hoodlum family, and Zhu Di, who became the third Yongle Emperor, was superficially benevolent. Still, he was a rogue from the bottom of his heart. 
The 11th Emperor Wu Zong, Zhu Qingshao, was an even worse rogue who disliked reading and hardly knew how to write. 
The next king, King Sejong, was a perverted sexual predator who openly offered aphrodisiacs to his ministers and had sex with several dozen women in a single day. 
Even the shogun, the political ruler, would not do such a thing in Japan.
In Japan, even the shogun, the political ruler, would never do such a thing, much less the emperor above him. 
In other words, Japan is a country of emperors, and there will never be such an authority figure.
Such a foolish person would never become the supreme authority of the country. 
So in a country where such a person becomes the supreme political leader, it will also transform the people.
In this same book, the translator, Kazumi Kobayashi, introduces Lu Xun's words. 
According to him, "Subjects under tyrants are usually even more violent than tyrants," and "A tyrant's subjects wish that it could wield that tyranny only over the heads of others, and he is amused by watching it, entertaining "cruelty," "suffering of others, and "the suffering of others" is his prize and comfort. The only thing he cares about is that he is the only one who can get away with it. 
It is all the same as how it is in China today. 
It is how the Ekisei revolution is unfolding its tragic history.
The Chinese word "light" means to kill everyone.
(6) Japan developed its nitrites, which were kept out of the country by Zhu Yuanzhang  
Takayama 
I have already mentioned that the Ming Dynasty hid the fact that it produced nitrites, but Japan did not learn about it until 200 years after the Yongle Emperor's reign.
Guns were introduced to Tanegashima.
Japan had an abundance of sulfur and charcoal, the raw materials for gunpowder, but no nitrites.
When they asked the Portuguese for nitrites, they were told it would take 50 women and one barrel of nitrites, which made them angry.
So, for the first time, Japan asked the Ming Dynasty if they had it. 
However, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, kept it a military secret.
In particular, he ordered Japan to ban it because it was an enemy force.
Zhu Yuanzhang also wrote, "You must never show bronze firearms to anyone."
The Ming Dynasty was founded in 1366, but by that time, Japan was already regarded as an enemy nation and issued an order never to sell nitrites to the Japanese. 
The Ming Dynasty bought sulfur from Japan but never sold nitrites to Japan.
That order was kept alive for a long time.
Yi Sun-sin of Joseon had a firearm with a share from Ming Dynasty.
During the Bunroku and Keicho battles of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he equipped his turtle ship with them and bombarded the Japanese ships.
Hideyoshi's navy suffered one defeat. 
What I mean by this is that China and Korea were colluding and regarded Japan as an enemy.
For the second time, China and Korea colluded against Japan in the Genko Incident and the Bunroku and Keicho Incidents.
Japan was also aware of this, so they kept their diplomacy free of any illusions of friendship between Japan and China, even in the Edo period.
Miyazaki 
When China imposed an embargo on rare metals and rare piles of earth, and when China said it would stop supplying them to Japan, Japan quickly diversified its supply sources, and now China is asking us to buy them by dumping them.
So, what did you do in the end in the case of Niter?
Takayama 
Japan decided to become self-sufficient.
Japan made it in various places, such as Gokayama in Toyama and Ishiyama Honganji Temple. 
It initially made Nitrites from the accumulated droppings of birds.
Since the floor under the hearth is always dry, various kinds of garbage were added and buried together.
After five years, potassium nitrate and nitrites are produced.
Miyazaki 
In the past, a Japanese Tribal chief named Nakamura lived on Nauru, where bird droppings and phosphate ore were everywhere.
Sumitomo Corporation had its eye on the area and had a monopoly there for a while.
Takayama 
Now it is all taken up, and Nauru seems to be sinking into the sea. 
When China imposed an embargo on rare metals, Japan collected electronic parts and reused the rare metals used in them. 
It recovered rare metals in the form of so-called urban mines.
So, when Portugal and China could not do it, Japan had the wisdom to make it by itself. 
Through nitrites, the Japanese were aware that China and Korea were allied enemies and kept their relations with them to a minimum.
In short, diplomacy was well-developed, or how to interact with the country.
Miyazaki 
Yes, that is true.
Another thing is that Japan had accumulated valuable experience in the warring states period and knew how to get information, use the other side's power, and wage war.
That gene was destroyed during the long period of peace in Edo (now Tokyo), and there was no way to recover it until the end of the Edo period.
Takayama 
But he had a great thirst for knowledge.
When the British ship Phaeton raided Nagasaki port in 1808, the Japanese immediately created an English dictionary.
It was the "Angariagorintaisei" (1814).
Japanese people don't run away because they are afraid but actively try to know others.
It is how we learned that those who use English are brutal and dangerous.
Then Perry came, and it was still dangerous (laughs).