When I learned of Chizuko Ueno's appalled reaction to the "outrageous accusations" made against Kusatsu Mayor Nobutada Kuroiwa, I was reminded of Masayuki Takayama's article titled "Asahi Shimbun Rides on False Accusations," which was delivered to my home on New Year's Eve last year.
I took the article from his serial column in "Themis," a monthly subscription magazine that arrived at our house on New Year's Eve last year.
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 worldwide.
In other words, only a minimal number of actual artists exist.
This paper also keenly 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.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.
Republicans hated MacArthur.
Another country has never ruled Japan.
It is except for the seven years after its defeat.
During that period, MacArthur was hell-bent on revenge against the Japanese military, which had stigmatized him as an enemy of the Japanese, and on destroying Japan, which had challenged the white nations and liberated their valuable colonial possessions without their permission.
They expelled all decent Japanese, made Communists members of the Diet, and rewrote the Constitution.
Such lawlessness is unforgivable, but Miyazawa Hiseigi, who stands at the top of constitutional studies, was elected as a member of the House of Peers by saying, "There was the August Revolution," like a comic storyteller.
He was the first of those who gained profits by losing.
MacArthur ended such destruction and revenge in 1947.
Because the following year, 1948, there was a U.S. presidential election, and he was going to run as a "hero of the Pacific War" on the Republican ticket to become president.
But U.S. citizens knew that he had abandoned his soldiers in the Philippines and fled before the enemy and that he had extorted a $500,000 reward from the Philippines President Quezon before he fled.
So he could not return home for another ten years.
However, once he became president, it was an American tradition that such scandals would be dismissed out of hand.
Jefferson, who had a child with a black woman, and Truman, a member of the KKK, were never charged with such crimes.
So he was willing to wrap up the Japanese occupation by '48 and return home to wait for the presidential primaries.
But in that primaries, he received only 11 votes out of 1,094 delegates.
Even the Republicans in the U.S. really disliked this insufferable coward.
Unable to return home, MacArthur decided to stay in Japan.
He would have remained the governor-general of "U.S. colonial Japan" had the Korean War not occurred.
It was a dark time for the Japanese.
Sangokujin (third country's citizens) strolled the streets, illegally occupied the prime area in front of the station, opened pachinko parlors, and loudly played "Gunkan March," which the Japanese were forbidden to sing.
American soldiers were even more brutal, beating and taking watches from the Japanese when they saw them.
American soldiers also beat up Osamu Tezuka.
Japanese society was also in shambles.
The year after the war ended, Yoshio Kodaira was arrested for raping and killing seven young girls who had come to Tokyo to buy groceries, inviting them to share black-market rice with him.
The following year, the Teigin Incident occurred in Tokyo, where 16 people were poisoned with potassium cyanide, and the Menda Incident occurred in Kumamoto, where a family of four was killed and injured.
The following year, Sadanori Shimoyama, the president of Japan National Railways, died under suspicious circumstances, and the wife of a university professor was murdered in Hirosaki City.
The following year, the Zaitagawa Incident occurred, and the Korean War broke out.
Forged evidence under the guise of an appraisal
No way, war.
In the previous war, whites let Indians, Filipinos, and Chinese fight with guns against the Japanese.
However, there were no colonial soldiers available in the Korean War.
Whites had to stand in the line of fire themselves.
As the war worsened, the U.S. generals, who had been doing what they liked with a big faces, turned pale, and the violence on the streets worsened.
As if reflecting this trend, crimes also became more and more horrendous.
In 1953, there was the Tokushima radio merchant murder, and in 1954, the Shimada case of kidnapping and murdering a young girl.
In 1955, there was the Matsuyama Incident, in which a family of four was murdered and set on fire in Miyagi Prefecture.
Investigations at the time were also in disarray, reflecting the state of the world.
In the Tokushima radio merchant murder case, a burglar killed a couple and fled, but the police detained a 16-year-old juvenile for 45 days and made him testify that his wife was the murderer.
The prosecutor confirmed this kind of horseshit, and the court sentenced the wife to 13 years in prison without question.
In the Menda case, they caught the suspicious Ei Menda, squeezed him to confess, and quickly disposed of the evidence when he was sentenced to death.
Because of this process, the retrial was granted, and Menda Sakae was released from death row.
In addition to the Menda case, there have been three other postwar cases in which death row inmates were falsely convicted and brought back to life: the Zaitagawa, Shimada, and Matsuyama cases.
The Asahi Shimbun recently highlighted these four false convictions, describing the Menda case as "the epitome of false convictions in Japan.
There is no doubt that the sloppy and negligent investigation of the Menda case led to false accusations.
The Tokushima radio merchant murderer was also falsely accused in the same pattern, although he did not receive the death penalty.
However, there is a deception in this claim.
The remaining three "wrongly convicted" death row inmates have a distinctly different element of sloppiness.
There was a clear malicious intent to "use authority to turn the white into black."
The person responsible for this is Tanemoto Furuhata, a leading forensic scientist at the University of Tokyo and a recipient of the Order of Cultural Merit.
He fabricated evidence under the guise of expert testimony.
The murder of the wife of a Hirosaki University professor was the trigger.
Furuhata identified a stain on the lapel of the suspect, Takashi Nasu, as "the victim's blood" and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
However, 23 years later, in 1971, the real murderer, Takitani Fukumatsu, came forward.
The Furuhata test was a huge mistake.
However, the court hesitated to the retrial, prioritizing the authority of the University of Tokyo over relieving citizens who were crying over false accusations.
Fortunately, Furuhata died of illness in 1975, and the retrial began.
Seicho Matsumoto joined in on the U.S. military theory.
In fact, the Furuhata test was the deciding factor in the conviction of three other death row inmates who had been falsely convicted, except for the Menda case.
The retrials were held one after another, and all of them were found to be bogus.
Three death row inmates were brought back to life.
Since then, the University of Tokyo and Keio University have taken turns conducting the appraisals of serious crimes, and no false convictions have ever been made again.
Furuhata actually did an expert opinion on President Shimoyama as well.
However, he was unaware of the fact that "running over causes less blood loss."
So, he came up with the absurd theory that he was run over by a train after he had been drained of blood.
The idiotic Asahi took advantage of this and proposed the theory that the U.S. military had killed someone else, and Seicho Matsumoto joined in.
Then, all the Furuhata opinions were exposed as lies.
Nowadays, if you deal with the issue of false accusations in the paper, you can't help but bring up Furuhata.
It would also bring out Asahi's old wounds.
The Asahi article is also designed to cover up Furuhata.
If you write a lie, it will always haunt you.
