The fact that this column is uncomfortable is, first of all, due to ignorance.
2023/10/31
The following is from Masayuki Takayama's serial column in Themis, a monthly magazine specializing in subscriptions, which arrived at my home today.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
The Asahi promoted the "two-party system" and sponged on corporate tycoon Ezoe Hiromasa.
In "Tenseijingo," he tells a big lie: "A medium electoral district system would lead to a case of 'politics and money.
The Hosokawa Morihiro administration did nothing.
Tenseijingo writes lies without hesitation, probably due to the company culture of Asahi Shimbun.
Once upon a time, it wrote, "Japanese people are so morally deficient that they exported canned fish with pebbles in them."
The Japanese canning industry immediately protested against the lie, but the paper did not issue a correction.
A few days later, in the same Tenseijingo column, they made up an excuse that they had misunderstood the story, which was no excuse, and did something never happened.
There was a coral graffiti incident in Asahi.
After diving into the sea of Iriomote and scribbling "KY" on a thistle coral with a strobe handle, he said, "The Japanese are probably now the world's leading nation in the field of graffiti. The poverty of spirit, their mind is a mess..." They denigrate the Japanese to the fullest extent.
This condescending attitude of writing that the Japanese have no morals is precisely the same as in the "canned food and stones" column.
This kind of baseless hubris is common among Asahi journalists, and ignorance is added.
The same is true of the "Tenseijingo" column, where ignorance and hubris are always displayed.
Even the columns written about Morihiro Hosokawa becoming prime minister 30 years ago are marked by hubris and ignorance.
Who would believe that Hosokawa "started a new politics"?
All he did was subsidize political parties.
He stopped collecting funds for his election and quickly got 30 billion yen from the public taxpayers' money.
Then he said they would do their best to play good politics.
The people expected him to do that, but Hosokawa did nothing.
In the end, nothing happened in politics until Mr. Abe came out.
Hosokawa was not a politician but a fraudulent talker.
However, Hosokawa's politics did an excellent job of bringing out the greedy members of the Diet who wanted more money even after they got enough money from sponging on the public.
Take Kiyomi Tsujimoto from the Social Democratic Party.
As soon as she became a Diet member, she immediately set up a fictitious public secretary and defrauded the public of 18.7 million yen in public funds.
She was caught and convicted with a suspended sentence but found that her job as a Diet member was still lucrative enough.
So, she went right back to being a legislator after her probation.
The left does not care about criminals.
Hosokawa has corrupted Japanese politics.
Still, the Tenseijingo gives him much credit for "adopting the single-seat constituency system.
The constituency system is a one-or-none proposition.
When the Asahi newspaper trumpets, "This is the era of two major parties," the public is easily fooled.
And if the Asahi also says, "It's good to give the Liberal Democratic Party a good scolding once in a while," people who are neither capable nor competent may come to power.
In fact, we all remember the nightmarish DPJ administration that came to power.
The fact that the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Japanese Communist Party are still winning elections as much as anyone else is a result of the magic of the single-seat constituency system.
Asahi President Toshitada Nakae also sponges on
Even Tenseijingo knows that much, so they tell a lie.
He says, "In a medium constituency system, incidents involving politics and money, such as the Recruit Incident, are more likely to occur."
That's why single-seat constituencies are a good idea.
It is a big lie on the level of "a rock in a can."
The Recruit Incident was not caused by "politics and money."
It was an incident in which actors with big faces sponged on Ezoe to get in their faces.
It is hinted at in Ezoe Hiromasa's autobiography, "The Day the Seagull Flew Away."
Ezoe grew up in a gloomy family and struggled to enter the University of Tokyo.
Even after that, he was not a cheerful person.
Turning his back on the world, he quietly launched a part-time news business, which became Recruit Corporation, one of Japan's top five 13 trillion yen companies.
Ezoe, a great entrepreneur and business owner, is not a member of any of the four economic organizations.
It's a big mystery, but that's one reason he contributed to society by serving on an advisory board for an impartial government organization.
But he's a prominent business owner.
Bureaucrats and politicians flocked around him.
It can be called sponge-on.
The new shares of Recruit Cosmos were one of their targets.
When Ezoe was allowed to get sponged on, the prosecutors took action.
Ezoe asked for help.
He asked Yanosuke Narazaki of the Socialist Party, a close associate of Jiichiro Matsumoto of the Liberation League.
But Narazaki, who was asked for help, took hidden photographs of Ezoe's communications with the secret agent who had relied on him and sold them to the government authorities.
One more thing.
Another proof that it was not "politics and money" was the presence of Toshitada Nakae, the president of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, among those who sponged on Ezoe.
Nakae resigned without being noticed.
There were other bad guys in Asahi besides Nakae.
The two people who took a helicopter to Ezoe's Appi Kogen Ski Resort in Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture, and had fun were Honda Katsuichi, who wrote "Travels in China" without a shred of truth, and Hikita Keiichiro, who wrote this column for Tenseijingo in the early 70s.
What did they mean to sponge on Ezoe?
Ezoe is a newcomer.
He has greeted well-known personalities by inviting them to the Appi Kogen and distributing them shares of Recruit Cosmos stock.
In the newspaper world, he gave congratulatory shares to the president of Nikkei.
But there was no greeting to Nakae.
It became as if Ezoe did not know Nakae.
Ezoe was not a criminal but rather a victim.
The same goes for Honda and Hikita.
Hikita is the foremost master writer.
Honda is the leading anti-Japanese writer.
Let's have him show deference to us properly.
Ezoe, who does not know the world, attracts a crowd that says, "Let me teach you about the world's customs."
The same can be said of the bureaucrats and Diet members.
The size of the "sponge on" circle proves the point.
In this sense, the Recruit Incident is not about "politics and money," as the column says.
It is more like a case in which those who think they are the face of politics, government, and the mass media forced Ezoe, who knew nothing about anything, to make sense of the situation.
Ezoe Hiromasa was arrested for bribery after being sponged on.
Ezoe is, by all accounts, a victim, not a criminal.
The fact that this column is uncomfortable is, first of all, due to ignorance.
In addition, this is not the kind of material that a newspaper on the side of the "sponge-on" should be writing about in a column.
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