the world has finally found a face worthy of the Japanese who have led the world.

The following is from the serialized column by Masayuki Takayama, which was released on August 17th and marked the end of Weekly Shincho.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
The Japanese Image
I was on a plane bound for Tehran when the Japan Airlines plane crashed at Mount Osutaka.
It was still in the middle of the Iran-Iraq war, and I was to be stationed there as a war correspondent.
When I arrived, I first visited a bazaar.
I went there to buy a pot kettle and shampoo, but I was shocked by the smell.
First of all, the fragrance was unique.
Food, clothing, and everything else smelled of saffron and cloves.
The body odor of Iranians was also strong.
Even my assistant, who said he was a clean man, only took a bath once every two weeks, so they all smelled as bad as socks on the third day.
And then there was the smell of gunpowder smoke.
Every night, Iraqi planes fly in and drop bombs.
Last night, a 250 kg bomb fell near here.
When I was fed up with the smell, the vendor said, "Shoma, Shine, Korie."
It means "Shina" or "Korean."
I answered, "Naa, Japon." I said I was Japanese.
People around me looked at me with surprise.
The assistant told us the reason for their surprise with a look of reverence.
It goes back to the days of Emperor Pahlavi when he was a crown prince.
A Japanese plane had flown a great distance to Iran to celebrate his wedding to Princess Fawzi of Egypt.
At the time, Iran was threatened by Britain and the Soviet Union, and in fact, the year after that, Iran was occupied by the Soviet Union. It was then that the Japanese plane arrived.
Iran had beaten the Soviet Union and Russia in the past and was still doing its best to remain unyielding to the white powers.
The king asked the Japanese plane to participate in a celebratory flight, and its heroic figure remained in many people's memories.
Then the war broke out.
The Type 96 Land Attack, the same model as the Japanese plane, sank the British battleship Prince of Wales.
The Iranian people again remembered the image of the Japanese plane that flew on the celebratory flight.
After the war, Emperor Pahlavi said, "Iran should be the Japan of the west of Asia" as a guideline for industrialization. He said, "Be Japan in the west of Asia."
The word "Japanese" may have reminded him of such an old story, but the image of the small, thinly bearded Asian man in front of him did not seem to fit.　
Something similar happened when I went to Chaykhana on the outskirts of Syria.
They stuck out their chin and clicked their tongues when I told them I was Japanese.
In a gesture of outright denial, they said, "You are not Japanese."
In their collective opinion, Japan is an industrialized nation located near the American continent, and they have an image of "big white guys."
The roots of such an impression go back to the days of the Russo-Japanese War.
Gertrude Bell, a Middle East researcher and Churchill's trusted advisor wrote in her "Travels in Syria" that "at night, Bedouin youths who were taking care of the packs would gather and talk passionately about the Russo-Japanese War that was now being fought.
In the Muslim world, where pilgrims to Mecca come and go, information travels faster than expected.
Ms. Bell joined the group of young men and told them that she had visited Japan twice, including in 1903 on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, and they asked her about Japan.
She said, "Although they couldn't see the Japanese faces, they seemed to have created on their own an image of the Japanese as intelligent, strong, and with a strong sense of justice."
During his time in British Burma, Tan Tat, a professor emeritus at Rangoon University, saw a documentary about the Russo-Japanese War and said, "The Japanese people looked like huge giants."
That is why he was surprised at the small size of the Japanese troops that entered the country during the last war.
The Japanese defeated the Russians.
They invented gunpowder to burn steel battleships and created the world's most potent fighter plane.
Not only were they strong, but they also preached racial equality and solved the plague that plagued humankind.
They invented integrated circuits, miniaturized diesel and quartz, and enriched society.
The Japanese have always been very successful.
Surprisingly, it is not known what kind of face such a Japanese person has.
When former Prime Minister Abe fell, it projected his face on the wall of a building in Abadan.
Time magazine put the same face on its cover, and the Taliban sent their condolences after seeing it.
It seems that the world has finally found a face worthy of the Japanese who have led the world.
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