I have a friend who calls me from time to time and says, "You and Masayuki Takayama are in synch.
He, like me, subscribes to Shukan Shincho every week to read Masayuki Takayama's serial columns.
He says, "I was so moved this time. I'm forced to tears. You were quick to criticize Kawakatsu, the governor of Shizuoka Prefecture, for stopping the construction of a linear line bullet train for outrageous reasons. You were so outraged that you even told the people of Shizuoka Prefecture that they should be ashamed of themselves.
In this week's issue, Masayuki Takayama, as befits the one and only journalist in the postwar world, perfectly criticized Kawakatsu. It was the ultimate in 5W1H. I had tears in my eyes because of the overlap between you and Takayama. You're both great. You are the best Japanese people."
I didn't have a subscription yet, so I immediately went to a nearby convenience store.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
All those who subscribed must have thought.
Kawakatsu is a traitor of the highest order, a betrayer of our country itself.
What is the government doing sitting back and letting a man like Kawakatsu drastically damage the national interest?
What in the world where the people of Shizuoka thinking when they elected such a man as governor?
The people from China's nature
The Shinkansen was called the "super-express of dreams" and started running shortly before the opening of the last Tokyo Olympics.
On the day the dream became a reality, Yoshiyasu Kyoya, the head of the Japanese National Railways engineering team, was ordered to "create the next dream."
He had a plan.
No matter how much the Shinkansen stretched its nose, it would never reach a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
It is because the wheels and pantographs are permanently attached to the rails and overhead wires.
Without that constraint, in other words, if the train floated on the rails, it could go 600 kilometers per hour.
He was thinking of a linear bullet train that would run on magnets.
He was not the only one who thought so.
Japan Airlines was also thinking that way.
The international flight went from Haneda to Narita.
Three hours from the time of arrival to the center of the city" was embarrassing.
They invented the HSST, a normal-conducting linear system, to make the time the same as Haneda, 30 minutes.
The system is simple: the train body floats on the rails using magnetism and runs.
However, the power supply is taken from a panda attached to the bottom of the train, just like the Ginza subway line.
Although half of the system is train-like, it succeeded in running at a speed of 300 km/h the year Narita opened.
It is inexpensive and noiseless.
It is still in operation in Aichi Prefecture.
The German company Messerschmidt also built the same normal-conductive linear system.
It is expensive and noisy because it energizes the trackbed and runs on the surface.
It was an odd thing, but the Chinese bought it and used it to access Shanghai and Pudong airports.
The Chinese are quick to make fakes.
They also made a fake linear line, which caused a spectacular accident and made the German-made line lose popularity.
On the other hand, Kyoya came up with a "permanent electromagnetic field" for use in the car body.
When the temperature is close to absolute zero, the electrical resistance is zero.
In other words, once the current is contained, it does not decay and continues to create an electromagnetic field.
Kyotani realized this and succeeded in an attended operation at a speed of 603 km/h.
It was the birth of the ultimate superconducting linear system.
This superconducting method is also the key to the dream of high-speed space flight, "plasma sail.
It is a Nobel Prize-level idea.
The linear Shinkansen, packed with such dreams, will first run between Tokyo and Nagoya in about 40 minutes.
It is scheduled to open in 2027.
However, Heita Kawakatsu, the governor of Shizuoka Prefecture, has blocked the construction of a tunnel under the Oi River.
He said, "I will not allow any construction work that reduces even a drop of water in the Oi River," as a judge in Shylock.
No good Shinkansen line will stop in Shizuoka.
In addition, the linear Shinkansen will not stop in Shizuoka.
It seemed to be harassment of the stigma that it wouldn't be.
I thought about making some concessions, such as stopping the Nozomi, but Kawakatsu was stubborn, and there was nothing it could do.
In the meantime, the world of linear systems had begun to change dramatically.
In addition to the Shinkansen, China stole the technology for the linear bullet train and openly manufactured its imitations.
The leading player is the Zhejiang provincial government, which bought about 30 skilled Japanese engineers at a high price and stole the secrets of the Jinggu linear system.
Two years ago, they unveiled a superconducting linear model in Qingdao that looked exactly like the Japanese model.
Because they stole it, its performance is the same as Japan's, 600 km/h.
It is scheduled to open from Shanghai to Ningbo via Hangzhou in 2035.
If the Gyeonggok Line is in operation on schedule, Japan will have the world's next-generation high-speed transportation market.
However, since Kawakatsu stopped the project at the Oigawa River, it is no longer possible to open the line in 27 years.
The gap between Japan and China is now less than a horse's length.
In such a situation, Wang Yi, the foreign minister, and Cheng Yonghua, the ambassador to Japan, visited Kawakatsu frequently to encourage the governor to take good care of the water resources of the Oi River.
Kawakatsu also met with Xi Jinping to visit well China, cast a hurray to the greed of the One Road One Belt.
Even the Asahi Shimbun predicts that China will take the Senkakus and, in the event of an emergency in Taiwan, will also take Okinawa and south.
If Kawakatsu wins his fourth term as governor, Oigawa will continue to be stalled, the linear bullet train will open first in China, and China will take the world market and the Nobel Prize.
It is said that Kawakatsu's ancestors were the people from China.
I wonder if he thinks there is anything wrong with serving his homeland China.
