The following is from a book by Masayuki Takayama titled Japanese People, Wake Up! Exposing the Lies of Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, and Asahi Newspaper published September 1st, 2022.
This paper also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the world after the war.
Long ago, an elderly professor from the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, highly respected by prima ballerinas worldwide, came to Japan.
At that time, she said the following about the significance of artists.
'Artists are vital because they can only shed light on hidden, concealed truths and express them.'
No one would argue with her.
Masayuki Takayama is not only the only journalist in the post-war world, but it is not an exaggeration to say that he is also the only artist in the post-war world.
This thesis also proves the correctness of my statement that Masayuki Takayama is the most suitable person for the Nobel Prize for Literature in the current world.
It is a must-read for not only the Japanese people but also people all over the world.
Questioning the French media and lawyers who criticize the investigation of Ghosn
Ghosn considers himself a global manager, but any decent Japanese person would be disgusted.
They say, "Japanese justice is hostage justice."
Commenting on the detention of Ghosn, who has been preying on Nissan, Philippe Rieuss, a former Tokyo correspondent for AFP, said, "Detaining someone for over 100 days and forcing them to confess is worse than under the Communist regime in Poland" (Le Figaro).
He said that the Japanese judiciary is like a hostage justice system.
That's why the suspect cannot bear it and is forced to confess.
He also said, "The confession rate of over 99% is worse than that of the Soviet Union under Stalin".
With all due respect, there were no trials under Stalin.
When he felt like it, Stalin would call someone into his office and, on the spot, would pronounce a simple death sentence or a death sentence with torture.
In his book Stalin's Secret Memoirs, Tsutomu Saito writes, "Officers with buckets and mops stood by in the office and cleaned up after those who had lost control of their bladders after receiving their sentence."
I haven't heard that Ghosn had a loss of control of his bladder during his interrogation.
Another French newspaper also criticizes the Japanese judiciary, saying that "the Japanese judiciary, which does not allow family members to visit the suspect, is like the Middle Ages."
The medieval period referred to here is the 1,000-year period from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire to the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century.
In Europe during that period, if a person was suspected of being a witch, they would first be made to drink 18 liters of muddy water, then their fingers would be broken with thumb screws, and they would be forced to wear red-hot iron shoes.
If they couldn't withstand such questioning and confessed, their property would be confiscated and burned at the stake.
Giordano Bruno, who denied the world's creation, was also burned at the stake, and his fellow scholar Galileo gave in and retracted his heliocentric theory.
However, if we define the end of the Middle Ages as when people began to be more aware of human rights and fair trials, then the 19th century, which was 300 years after the 15th century, would also be considered part of the Middle Ages.
In fact, in the 18th century, the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa set the standard for the thumb-screw device used in witch trials.
The last witch in Europe was burned at the stake in Switzerland in 1782.
The Edo period, when fair trials were held
In 1776, when the horrific Middle Ages were still continuing in Europe, there is a record of a Swedish man called Thunberg observing Japan during a visit to Edo from Nagasaki.
There was not a trace of the cruelty of the European Middle Ages, and the Japanese were polite and clean.
Unlike Europeans, who walked like a flock of sheep, they walked on the left side of the road.
"The law protected freedom and rights, and the people, who did not know what slavery was, hated the Dutch, who used slaves."
"Public order was maintained, and although there were no lawyers, trials were carried out correctly, regardless of the defendant's status."
If we supplement his words, at the time, Edo, a city of one million people, had a north-south town magistrate who took turns providing public order. Under the magistrate were 23 yoriki, who were prosecutors, lawyers, and judges, and under them were 140 doshins.
There were about 500 police officers who were used by these doshins.
It must have been a real surprise to Thunberg that public order in Edo was maintained this way and that fair trials were held.
In particular, he was very impressed that there were no lawyers.
It was because lawyers were already a problem in Europe at the time.
In Shakespeare's "Henry VI," lawyers are portrayed as greedy villains who use the authority of the lords to lord it over others.
A line in the play says, "To create a just world, first kill the lawyers."
This article continues.
2024/11/25 in Kyoto
