2025/4/21 I might be the person who has visited Uji the most in the world. This museum here houses some of the finest artworks in existence. The depictions of Amida Buddha’s descent to welcome souls—classified as superior, middle, and lower grades—are among them. Whenever I stand in front of the depiction of the superior-grade descent, for some reason, a certain Bob Dylan song always plays in my mind. I then step into the room where the heavenly maidens' musical ensemble is displayed—a room that could rightfully be called home to the greatest sculpture in the world. I always find myself thinking, Bob Dylan might just be the most fitting presence for this room. Today, I couldn’t recall which song it was until I searched on YouTube Music from my phone while on the train back to Kyoto Station. The first track that played—Changing of the Guards—was the one. Just Like A Woman—it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that no other song has inspired me more consistently than this one.
As my readers know, I was gifted with a mind often called "genius." At the same time, God gave me trials that were unbearable for me as a child. “You’re a genius, so you’ll be able to overcome it.” “If you can’t, then you’re not a real genius.” I weathered it all with Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Neil Young... I got through it with them. I overcame it.
That’s why, this time, I decided to use only Bob Dylan’s songs as background music. Lay Lady Lay, Positively 4th Street, Queen Jane.
続いて、世界一の彫刻と言っても過言ではない、天女の楽隊の部屋に入る。ボブ・ディランが、この部屋に、一番、相応しいかもしれないな、いつも、そんな事を思いながら歩いている。 今日は、その曲が何だったか、京都駅に戻る電車の中、スマホでYoutubeMusicを検索するまで分からなかった。 最初の曲♬Changing of the Guards♬が、それである。 ♬Just Like A Woman♬、この曲ほど、私を鼓舞し続けてくれた曲は無いと言っても過言ではない。 読者は、ご存じの様に、私は「天才」としての頭脳を授かった。 同時に、神様は、私に、子供の私には耐えがたかった試練も与えた。 天才なんだから、乗り越えられるだろう。 乗り越えられなければ、天才とは言えないぞ。
私は、ボブ・ディラン、ジョン・レノン、ニール・ヤング…彼らと一緒に、やり過ごした。 乗り越えた。
だから、今回は、ボブ・ディランの曲だけをバックに入れてみた。 ♬Lay Lady Lay♬、♬Positively 4th Street ♬、♬Queen Jane♬
We must recognize that the fundamental reason why even the most intelligent people can act so uniformly foolish lies in the very effort to prevent us from calling the Wuhan virus by its name. April 30, 2020
The political stance of opposition politicians and media outlets like Asahi Shimbun and NHK aligns in a strangely consistent way: Their position is essentially to prevent the Japanese government from devising a long-term national strategy—for the benefit of China. To achieve this, they loudly demand compensation measures, accuse the government of being slow or inadequate in its response, and agitate the public to attack the administration.
Suddenly, proposals surfaced suggesting that the academic year should begin in September. On the surface, it sounds like a reasonable idea, which is why it gained support even from the National Governors’ Association. But the origin of the idea—a random housewife from Suginami Ward—is deeply suspicious. Recall how Kanagawa Shimbun, a subsidiary of Asahi, once promoted the absurd campaign to nominate Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution for the Nobel Peace Prize, led by yet another “ordinary” housewife.
This time as well, Asahi’s digital edition proudly ran articles like “Why not start in September?”—written in a tone eerily reminiscent of Renhō or Tsujimoto, reeking of ulterior motives meant to undermine the nation.
This is a calculated trap that all Japanese citizens must recognize.
The same pattern occurred during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, when Masayoshi Son and Mizuho Fukushima led the charge to immediately shut down all nuclear power and switch to solar energy. Many governors joined the cause then, too.
Seeing Miyagi Governor’s face prominently featured in the news this time, I must say this to the governors of the National Governors’ Association:
The greatest crisis Japan has faced since World War II—the Wuhan virus pandemic—demands that we develop a century-spanning national strategy. Proposals like September school entry are utterly irrelevant.
The absurdity of this idea lies in how it diverts attention from the real issue: That globalization—as we have known it—has exposed serious flaws.
China is a single-party communist dictatorship. Tadao Umesao, one of the most important postwar Japanese scholars, correctly observed that China is a country of bottomless malice and plausible lies.
Japan concentrated its pharmaceutical supply chains and advanced manufacturing industries in China. This is a direct threat to our national security and the lives of our people. It means placing our future in the hands of a regime as dangerous as the CCP. That has been the true face of globalization up to now—something the G6 nations have finally started to realize.
The Suginami housewife who proposed the September start is likely an Asahi Shimbun reader—or aligned with opposition parties. In other words, she is almost certainly pro-China.
Governors of Miyagi and Osaka—especially as one of you governs my hometown—please understand this: This historic disaster is not the time for shallow, globalist slogans like "September enrollment."
Rather, the crisis has shown us we must relocate our top Japanese manufacturing operations from China back to Japan.
That means demanding the government allocate budgets to support domestic manufacturing. And when that's not enough, move production to countries other than China and South Korea—not to similarly authoritarian regimes.
Even tourism must be restructured from the ground up. Japan can no longer depend on tourists from China or South Korea. If Japan relocates its world-class corporate factories across the country, there will be no need to rely on tourism to support local economies. Stable, massive employment will follow.
Heaven itself has spoken against Japan’s growing dependency on Chinese capital in Hokkaidō and elsewhere—allowing China and Korea to purchase land without limits.
Why must Japan keep handing over massive sums to China, only to be continually threatened over the Senkaku Islands?
That is the voice of heaven. That is what a 100-year national plan should reflect.
Governors, remember how you fell for Son and Fukushima’s deception during the 2011 disaster. You forgot about the long-term future and rushed to shut down nuclear power. The result:
Japan’s nuclear industry stagnated.
Electricity prices soared.
China surged ahead and became the world’s leading nuclear power builder.
Even South Korea expanded its nuclear capacity, widening the electricity cost gap with Japan.
And Masayoshi Son, the ringleader, moved his electricity-hungry data centers to Korea.
Governors of Japan—do not participate in another trap that will derail our nation’s future.
This is the worst postwar crisis—one that G6 leaders have openly declared to be a war. Yet in Japan, Asahi, NHK, and the rest of the TV media rant about how two months of missed school have destroyed our children’s education.
The real crisis is that you, our governors, don’t see how abnormal that reporting is.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to free our children from distractions like smartphones and games and let them rediscover the joy of learning through reading.
Why can’t you see how strange it is that Asahi and NHK echo the complaints of a few low-level, uninformed mothers?
Don’t you realize that for a propaganda-based state like China, now is the perfect time to attack—when Japan is weakest?
This is a war. And the policies and lessons Japan must draw from it are not “September enrollment.”
What kind of mind could even conceive of that?
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s shameless repetition of English catchphrases might be expected—but Osaka and Miyagi governors, you are not like her.
Takano, NHK’s Seoul Bureau Chief, Asserted on Air: “Japan Colonized Korea”—As If It Were an Undisputed Fact. This Is the True Nature of NHK, Japan’s National Broadcaster. January 12, 2019
Earlier, I published a chapter titled “Takano, NHK’s Seoul Bureau Chief, Asserted on Air: ‘Japan Colonized Korea’” (posted on November 21, 2018), which today has surged to the top of the most-searched rankings—far more than usual. This is likely due to the increasing exposure of South Korea’s true nature to the world.
In this updated chapter, I have made some revisions and restructured the paragraphs.
The simplest way to identify media figures who may be under the influence of Chinese or Korean intelligence operations—through tactics such as “money traps” or “honey traps”—is by observing their facial expressions on screen. Their expressions are invariably unnatural, and they always parrot the talking points of Chinese or Korean propaganda.
Just now, while watching NHK’s Watch9, a man with the title of Seoul Bureau Chief appeared onscreen.
He made the unequivocal claim—as if it were an undisputed historical fact—that “Japan colonized Korea.”
Let’s start with a basic question: Did the Japanese settle in Korea?
On the contrary, millions of Koreans migrated to Japan. That is the historical truth.
The very concept of "colonialism" refers to what Western powers did: occupying impoverished regions around the world, exploiting local resources to enrich their own nations.
So what resource or wealth did Japan supposedly extract from Korea to make itself rich?
The truth is completely the opposite.
Korea at the time was a monarchy dominated by the yangban elite, who thoroughly exploited the country. According to Professor Hiroshi Furuta, one of the world’s leading experts on Korean history, it was essentially an ancient autocracy.
By the time Japan annexed Korea, the Korean royal treasury was empty. Korea was a society of extreme class discrimination—one of the worst in the world, subdivided beyond belief. Aside from the king and the yangban, everyone else was considered an underclass—even scholars.
No wonder Korea was one of the poorest nations on Earth.
At the same time, Russia was trying to turn Korea into a protectorate.
Throughout history, not even China—the Korean Peninsula’s suzerain for centuries—had shown much desire to directly rule Korea. As many Korea experts have noted, it would only bring hardship.
Even the United States eventually withdrew all its consulates, stating: “There is no functioning government here. This is not a country.”
It was then that the U.S. told Japan: “You have no choice but to annex it.”
Japan did not colonize Korea in the Western sense. Instead, Japan formed a unified nation and welcomed the Korean monarch as a de facto member of the Japanese imperial family.
That is a clearly documented historical fact.
And yet, just now, Takano of NHK’s Seoul bureau asserted without hesitation, “Japan colonized Korea,” as if it were an established truth.
This is the true state of Japan’s publicly funded broadcaster, NHK.
Takano—
Which Western colonial power ever spent more than 25% of its national budget building schools across its colonies?
Which colonial power ever provided compulsory education to a formerly ancient kingdom’s citizens, and—before even establishing Nagoya University—founded Keijō Imperial University (now Seoul National University) in 1924 (Taisho 13)?
Japan not only built educational institutions, but also developed railways, ports, dams, and every kind of infrastructure.
In short, Japan did not exploit Korea—it rapidly transformed the pre-modern Korean Peninsula into a modern state on par with Japan.
Which Western colonial power ever did such a thing?
You, Takano, must explain this clearly on Watch9.
If you cannot explain it, you must immediately resign from NHK (which in effect is a government institution) and formally apologize to the Japanese nation and its people.
Because your statements are tantamount to treason—and worse, malicious defamation of the nation.
