The following is from Masayuki Takayama's serialized column that marks the end of Weekly Shincho, which was released today.
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 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, 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.
The emphasis in the text other than the headline is mine.
Behind the Miyadai Incident
The government purchased 400 long-range cruise missiles capable of hitting even an enemy base near Zhongnanhai, Beijing.
Hearing this, Tenseijingo criticized the government like a Chinese saying, "In general, attacking enemy bases is unconstitutional.
Indeed, Ichiro Hatoyama said, "I am sure the (U.S.-made) Constitution does not require us to sit back and wait for self-destruction.
But Hatoyama added, "only if there are no other means."
By "other means," the Tenseijingo says he means the UN or the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.
The UN "exists," the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty is in effect, and "more than 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan.
Therefore, having cruise missiles is "incompatible with Hatoyama's view."
It is a plausible way of writing.
However, the counterarguments that lead him to this point are really dubious.
For example, he says "the UN exists" but does not say "the UN functions.
Suppose China attacked Japan.
Japan would complain to the UN about the atrocity, and the UN forces would immediately attack China, but that would not happen.
It is because Shina is a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Any proposal to defeat China would be immediately vetoed.
It will be the same development as Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Tenseijingo knows this, so he writes that the UN "exists."
It would not be a lie.
The "Japan-U.S. Security Treaty" is also dubious.
The same Asahi newspaper reported earlier that "New U.S. Marine base in Guam" and "Relocation of 4,000 personnel from Okinawa.
The U.S. military is now fleeing Okinawa in droves.
The U.S. military's "F-22," a competitor to China's "Chengdu J-20," is no longer stationed there.
It is exaggerated to say that "more than 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan" are now on the move.
The tool of China is not allowed to have an enemy base attack capability.
He thinks he can fool Japanese people by writing like this.
The report of the attack on Shinji Miyadai, a Tokyo Metropolitan University professor, on the university's campus is even more dubious.
That incident resembles the murder of Tsukuba University assistant professor Hajime Igarashi by Islamic fanatics.
The Asahi newspaper compared the incident to that one, suggesting that "Miyadai's message" offended a specific group and that the assassin was responsible for the attack.
Yet, the paper never mentions who Miyadai is or what he said.
They want to be serious while keeping it under wraps.
Two months after the incident, it was discovered that the assassin had committed suicide.
One would have thought this would have settled the case, but no.
Miyadai expressed his anxiety, "We still don't know the motive," and was frightened, "What should expressive people be careful about?
Miyadai made bold to say "expressionists." The Asahi editorial editorialized in the same vein, "Clarify the motive to eliminate the anxiety.
The murderer is dead, but there is more to the story.
It seems that, just like Associate Professor Igarashi, there is definitely an organization that opposes Miyadai's claims, and there is a possibility that they will target him again.
Even so, they continue to conceal Miyadai's claim.
I had no choice but to look him up and found that Miyadai is a scholar known for speaking ill of former Prime Minister Abe.
On the eve of the former prime minister's funeral, Miyadai attended a screening of a movie based on Tetsuya Yamagami, boasted about his Tokyo University education, taunted the former prime minister, and even spoke ill "Beautiful Japan."
Japan is a shabby country, he said.
Yamakami assassinated the former prime minister, and "the world has finally begun to change."
He lays out a litany of epithets that makes it understandable why Asahi was afraid to quote him directly.
Isoko Mochizuki and others in the audience were loudly cheering.
They think it is an ideology to show contempt for death's dignity and speak ill of it.
And yet Miyadai says, "I don't understand the motive for the attack."
For an expressive person, Miyadai is running away from the issue weirdly.
Asahi is even worse.
The Asahi Shimbun makes it seem as if all followers of former Prime Minister Abe are Islamic fanatics who want to use violence to crush someone like Miyadai, who is weak but serious about his beliefs.
Such a way of building up the situation reminds me of the fabricated reports of the "Morikake" scandal.
They make allegations and pile them on top of each other.
Finally, they try to smear the truth even after the deceased dies.
At this point, the Asahi Shimbun has gone beyond the dreary and looks like Wu Zixu, who has whipped a corpse 300 times.
The government purchased 400 long-range cruise missiles capable of hitting even an enemy base near Zhongnanhai, Beijing.
Hearing this, Tenseijingo criticized the government like a Chinese saying, "In general, attacking enemy bases is unconstitutional.
Indeed, Ichiro Hatoyama said, "I am sure the (U.S.-made) Constitution does not require us to sit back and wait for self-destruction.
But Hatoyama added, "only if there are no other means."
By "other means," the Tenseijingo says he means the UN or the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.
The UN "exists," the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty is in effect, and "more than 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan.
Therefore, having cruise missiles is "incompatible with Hatoyama's view."
It is a plausible way of writing.
However, the counterarguments that lead him to this point are really dubious.
For example, he says "the UN exists" but does not say "the UN functions.
Suppose China attacked Japan.
Japan would complain to the UN about the atrocity, and the UN forces would immediately attack China, but that would not happen.
It is because Shina is a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
Any proposal to defeat China would be immediately vetoed.
It will be the same development as Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Tenseijingo knows this, so he writes that the UN "exists."
It would not be a lie.
The "Japan-U.S. Security Treaty" is also dubious.
The same Asahi newspaper reported earlier that "New U.S. Marine base in Guam" and "Relocation of 4,000 personnel from Okinawa.
The U.S. military is now fleeing Okinawa in droves.
The U.S. military's "F-22," a competitor to China's "Chengdu J-20," is no longer stationed there.
It is exaggerated to say that "more than 50,000 U.S. troops in Japan" are now on the move.
The tool of China is not allowed to have an enemy base attack capability.
He thinks he can fool Japanese people by writing like this.
The report of the attack on Shinji Miyadai, a Tokyo Metropolitan University professor, on the university's campus is even more dubious.
That incident resembles the murder of Tsukuba University assistant professor Hajime Igarashi by Islamic fanatics.
The Asahi newspaper compared the incident to that one, suggesting that "Miyadai's message" offended a specific group and that the assassin was responsible for the attack.
Yet, the paper never mentions who Miyadai is or what he said.
They want to be serious while keeping it under wraps.
Two months after the incident, it was discovered that the assassin had committed suicide.
One would have thought this would have settled the case, but no.
Miyadai expressed his anxiety, "We still don't know the motive," and was frightened, "What should expressive people be careful about?
Miyadai made bold to say "expressionists." The Asahi editorial editorialized in the same vein, "Clarify the motive to eliminate the anxiety.
The murderer is dead, but there is more to the story.
It seems that, just like Associate Professor Igarashi, there is definitely an organization that opposes Miyadai's claims, and there is a possibility that they will target him again.
Even so, they continue to conceal Miyadai's claim.
I had no choice but to look him up and found that Miyadai is a scholar known for speaking ill of former Prime Minister Abe.
On the eve of the former prime minister's funeral, Miyadai attended a screening of a movie based on Tetsuya Yamagami, boasted about his Tokyo University education, taunted the former prime minister, and even spoke ill "Beautiful Japan."
Japan is a shabby country, he said.
Yamakami assassinated the former prime minister, and "the world has finally begun to change."
He lays out a litany of epithets that makes it understandable why Asahi was afraid to quote him directly.
Isoko Mochizuki and others in the audience were loudly cheering.
They think it is an ideology to show contempt for death's dignity and speak ill of it.
And yet Miyadai says, "I don't understand the motive for the attack."
For an expressive person, Miyadai is running away from the issue weirdly.
Asahi is even worse.
The Asahi Shimbun makes it seem as if all followers of former Prime Minister Abe are Islamic fanatics who want to use violence to crush someone like Miyadai, who is weak but serious about his beliefs.
Such a way of building up the situation reminds me of the fabricated reports of the "Morikake" scandal.
They make allegations and pile them on top of each other.
Finally, they try to smear the truth even after the deceased dies.
At this point, the Asahi Shimbun has gone beyond the dreary and looks like Wu Zixu, who has whipped a corpse 300 times.
