The following is from Masayuki Takayama's column in Themis, a monthly subscription magazine that arrived at my home today.
I have already mentioned that I subscribe to this monthly magazine to read his articles.
This article also proves that he is a unique journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.
No history, no tradition, no cultural level of people
The "Shina is a great power" is false.
They've been living unfaithfully with the slave guts for most of history, dominated by others.
Bribe offensive against Clinton and Obama.
The pre-war world currencies were the U.S. dollar, the British Empire pound, and the Japanese Yen.
However, the U.S., riding high on the economic boom after World War I, fell into foolish speculation and caused the Great Depression.
The U.S. had resources, and Japan, which had nothing, had different endurance.
The exchange rate of 1 yen to 1 dollar quickly collapsed, falling to 5 yen to the dollar.
This meant that the value of the Yen fell to one-fifth, but the Japanese Yen was still able to lead Asia.
At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek's government adopted the silver standard and issued the Sun Yat-sen silver coin.
The unit of currency was the "one Yen.
The reason for this is that at the end of the Qing dynasty, Zhang Zhi-dong, a well-meaning man of China, decided that the monetary unit would be the Yen, following the Japanese unit, when he issued the "Guangxu Yuanbao," a silver coin that could be accepted around the world.
Since then, both Yuan Shikai and Chiang Kai-shek have followed this tradition.
When the war ended and Mao Zedong took power, the Yen changed to the red Yuan.
The change from the "yen" to the "yuan" was apparently because he was annoyed at the idea of being like Japan's student forever.
However, both "yuan" and "yen" are pronounced the same, "Yuan."
Whatever the case may be, China cannot stay away from Japan.
That's still pretty amusing, but when Mao came around after begging for ODA from Japan, stealing its intellectual property, and cheating at the World Trade Organization (WTO), China had overtaken Japan's GDP and risen to the second-largest economy in the world.
However, it was too vulgar to be called a superpower.
Although it offered to pay off the debt to the countries around it, the interest rates were absurdly high.
They all defaulted on their debts and took their territories with them, and now they were known as the Yellow Shylock.
The bribery offensive landed in the U.S., where Clinton and Obama have become Beijing's pawns.
As a result, they obtained special drawing rights from the IMF and rose to become the fourth international currency after the dollar, euro, and Yen, and changed the currency symbol of the Yuan to "￥'', the same as the Japanese yen symbol.
They thought it was OK to use "¥" because it was YUAN.
Of course, there is no greeting in Japan.
Now, the Yuan is stronger than the Yen.
They are just sitting on their backs and asking if we have a problem with them.
How rude.
While Japan was dumbfounded, the cunning Shina people started to make their move.
They put on social networking sites, "This necklace is only 30,000 yen," to deceive Japanese people.
In reality, the price is 13 times higher than the Japanese Yen in RMB, and the Chinese are making a killing.
The Japanese are cheated, but the government does not complain.
They do not have the air of a great nation.
They know this, and recently, they have begun to talk about being a "humanitarian superpower."
One of them is the story of "protecting Jews from discrimination.
Japan criticized discrimination against Jews and protected white Jews (Ashkenazi) who were stranded at the Otporu border in Manchukuo.
Their settlement was allocated to a former Japanese school in the Japanese concession in Shanghai.
About 20,000 people survived here, including Mark Gane, who wrote "Nippon Nikki" (Nippon Diary), and Michael Bremenzor, Kennedy's economic advisor.
Lied about "helping Jewish refugees."
They were nasty and vicious Jews, perhaps dyed in the Shina people's blood.
Apart from those exceptions, most of them were decent and scattered around the world after the war, grateful for the generosity and mercy of the Japanese people.
Seventy years later.
When China spread the Wuhan Corona around the world, Israel immediately decided to ban the entry of "phlegm-spitting" and "loud-mouthed" Chinese.
The U.S. did the same.
Japan is the only country that welcomes such rude people as inbound visitors.
The Chinese put aside their inadequacies and complained about Israel's cold treatment.
Hua Chunying barked, "Are you discriminating against the people of a great nation, the Chinese?
The Minister of China to Israel also protested with a straight face, "When the world was rejecting Jews, China protected them in Shanghai.
Israel, on the other hand, laughed at the lies of the Chinese, saying, "It was the Japanese who helped the Jewish refugees, not the Chinese."
It was the first time Israel officially referred to the Hongkou camp in Shanghai and thanked Japan.
In fact, the Shina had used the Shanghai case to prove their humanitarian power by pretending they had done it themselves.
Israel strangled it perfectly.
It is not all.
Shina also stole the story of Chiune Sugihara.
That is, "The Consul General of China in Vienna, He Fengshan, had issued life visas to Jews to go to Shanghai."
Shanghai was an internment facility in a Japanese concession, but there was no way that He Fengshan would have known about it, and in those days, China did not have passports or immigration control in place.
It would be impossible to issue visas in such a place.
It is pathetic that they think they can act like a superpower with such a lie.
Meanwhile, Wu Jiang-hao, the ambassador to Japan, threatened to "throw Japan into the fire" if Japan interfered with the Taiwan issue at a public appearance attended by the press.
What is the misunderstanding of an uncivilized country that was playing foot-binding until just yesterday?
There is no history good enough to reestablish.
But why do Shina people want to stick up for themselves so stoutly?
It is because the Shina people have spent most of their 4,000-year history as slaves of a foreign race.
Some say it is because of their slave nature.
They did not have a "home country" to be proud of for a long time.
That is why they are comfortable spitting phlegm, yelling, and making a mess.
They are only pleased with Xianbei and the Manchu people who rule them even if they behave well.
That is how they have lived their lives in perfidy.
Xi Jinping is talking about the "revival of the great Chinese nation.
There is no history good enough to revive, and I have never heard of a name like Zhonghua Minzu, which sounds like a noodle shop.
I am perplexed, but I know this is the first good time in history.
They don't know when they will go back to being a slave again.
I guess they are trying to be as arrogant as possible here.
A great country has history, tradition, and cultural level of people.
China has none of them.
I want them to realize quickly that it is not something they can become by illusion.
2024/6/29 in Osaka
