The following is from Masayuki Takayama's serialized column that marked the end of Weekly Shincho, released on September 8th.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but also for people worldwide.
For some reason, I bought this week's issue and never read it, but it is no exaggeration to say that this article is one of Masayuki Takayama's masterpieces.
If I were a member of the Nobel Prize in Literature selection committee, I would nominate him without the slightest hesitation.
The Asahi Shimbun reveals its true intentions in the POST
Senryū is good.
They are more profound than haiku, an excellent way to learn about history, and they are funny. What's funny about "Untie the knot / and it will become longer"?
It rhymes beautifully with "Catch a thief, and you will find he is my son.
Shinran and Kobo / Forgive the two sides of the same coin" is a little more complicated.
Kukai was supposed to go to the Tang Dynasty in the ninth century, and in twenty years, he was supposed to master the secrets of Buddhism.
But he "understood everyone in two years," so he returned to Japan and founded the Shingon sect on Koyasan.
He understood LGBT people in that era, and instead of banning women, he allowed children.
He was also the founder of Shudo.
Shinran founded the Jodo Shinshu sect, which lifted the prohibition of women offenders and allowed priests to marry their wives, which Kukai could not do.
He married Eshin Bhikkhunī and had a child.
In other words, Kukai allowed male sexual intercourse, and Shinran allowed regular sexual intercourse with his wife.
Tetsuo Ebata of the All Japan Senryū Association criticized in the October issue of "Seiron" that "Nishiki Kujin's Asahi Senryū has disgraced such profundity of Senryū.
Ebata points out that the "seven selected works" of the Asahi Senryū, published soon after a bullet killed former Prime Minister Abe, "are political propaganda disguised as Senryū.
They are indeed terrible.
"A country where a suspected person is given a state funeral," "How long will Sontaku continue to the next world?" "Oh, I am afraid this is how history is made."
The death of a former prime minister is mocked and humiliated.
There is neither elegance nor wittiness.
Even the Chosun Ilbo and Weibo are not this bad.
This column is called "Reader Post."
However, while other newspapers have a "Senryū" column with posts mourning the death of the former prime minister, there are none in this column.
Ebata honestly doubts that it could not have achieved such a result with a general newspaper that was not a political party organ.
The selector, Nishiki Kuijin, whose real name is Wataru Kurita, is a former Asahi journalist.
He is a former Asahi reporter in charge of Tenseijingo and still makes his living at Asahi.
Ten years ago, Prime Minister Abe pointed out that "the comfort women issue originated from Asahi spreading lies about the fraudster Seiji Yoshida."
As a result, the president of the Asahi Shimbun was fired.
Asahi also halved the number of copies and dropped to third-rate paper.
Since then, Seiki Nemoto and his colleagues have been frantic about the company motto, "Hold Abe's funeral.''
"Morikake" and "Sontaku" are both smear stories created by Nemoto.
And when the results of this frenzy were revealed, Nishiki received a mountain of Senryū in line with Asahi's company slogan.
It's like a magic trick," Ebata suspected.
There were no posts.
I'm all for the idea that someone in the company pretended to be the poster.
But who did it?
Half of them were probably written by Nishiki.
And then there was one by Tetsufumi Arita or Toshihiro Yamanaka, who was in charge of Tenseijingo.
When Tatsuya Iwase revealed that Katsuichi Honda sponged on Recruit, Honda slandered Iwase in four layers, saying, "the lowest of all human beings, lower than a prostitute, the dregs of a truly despicable human being in the true sense of the word."
It was a habit of Honda, but in the same way, a person's unique patterns appear in his writings.
The word "such" in the phrase, "Suspected person is state funeral, Japan is such a country'' frequently appears in recent Tenseijingo.
The meaningless "such" is common to all of them.
Yuzuru Tsuboi, who is in charge of the Evening Bulletin's "Elementary Particles," also wrote a phrase.
His phrase, "How far Sontaku will continue...," is typical of him.
The day after the incident, Tsuboi wrote a sarcastic article in "Elementary Particles," in which he laughed at the death of the former prime minister and asked, "What about the verification of the politics of Sontaku?
He has a history with the former prime minister.
At a debate among party leaders, Prime Minister Abe rebuked him, saying, "Asahi doesn't report inconvenient facts," and he was almost incontinent.
Since then, he has been viciously slandering Abe.
If Nishiki had asked him to do so, he would have gladly twisted a phrase.
But why does a full-fledged reporter pretend to be a poster?
In fact, in the past, Asahi has written malicious lies and slanderous articles on comfort women and other topics as it pleased, resulting in the sacking of five presidents, from Seiki Watanabe and Toichiro Ichiyanagi to Tadakazu Kimura.
There has not been a single such case at any other company.
It is a terrible newspaper.
As expected, Asahi's reporters can no longer write transparent lies and slanderous articles as they like.
But they still want to write lies.
They also want to slander the former prime minister.
So, it seems as if they started writing their true intentions under the guise of a post.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but also for people worldwide.
For some reason, I bought this week's issue and never read it, but it is no exaggeration to say that this article is one of Masayuki Takayama's masterpieces.
If I were a member of the Nobel Prize in Literature selection committee, I would nominate him without the slightest hesitation.
The Asahi Shimbun reveals its true intentions in the POST
Senryū is good.
They are more profound than haiku, an excellent way to learn about history, and they are funny. What's funny about "Untie the knot / and it will become longer"?
It rhymes beautifully with "Catch a thief, and you will find he is my son.
Shinran and Kobo / Forgive the two sides of the same coin" is a little more complicated.
Kukai was supposed to go to the Tang Dynasty in the ninth century, and in twenty years, he was supposed to master the secrets of Buddhism.
But he "understood everyone in two years," so he returned to Japan and founded the Shingon sect on Koyasan.
He understood LGBT people in that era, and instead of banning women, he allowed children.
He was also the founder of Shudo.
Shinran founded the Jodo Shinshu sect, which lifted the prohibition of women offenders and allowed priests to marry their wives, which Kukai could not do.
He married Eshin Bhikkhunī and had a child.
In other words, Kukai allowed male sexual intercourse, and Shinran allowed regular sexual intercourse with his wife.
Tetsuo Ebata of the All Japan Senryū Association criticized in the October issue of "Seiron" that "Nishiki Kujin's Asahi Senryū has disgraced such profundity of Senryū.
Ebata points out that the "seven selected works" of the Asahi Senryū, published soon after a bullet killed former Prime Minister Abe, "are political propaganda disguised as Senryū.
They are indeed terrible.
"A country where a suspected person is given a state funeral," "How long will Sontaku continue to the next world?" "Oh, I am afraid this is how history is made."
The death of a former prime minister is mocked and humiliated.
There is neither elegance nor wittiness.
Even the Chosun Ilbo and Weibo are not this bad.
This column is called "Reader Post."
However, while other newspapers have a "Senryū" column with posts mourning the death of the former prime minister, there are none in this column.
Ebata honestly doubts that it could not have achieved such a result with a general newspaper that was not a political party organ.
The selector, Nishiki Kuijin, whose real name is Wataru Kurita, is a former Asahi journalist.
He is a former Asahi reporter in charge of Tenseijingo and still makes his living at Asahi.
Ten years ago, Prime Minister Abe pointed out that "the comfort women issue originated from Asahi spreading lies about the fraudster Seiji Yoshida."
As a result, the president of the Asahi Shimbun was fired.
Asahi also halved the number of copies and dropped to third-rate paper.
Since then, Seiki Nemoto and his colleagues have been frantic about the company motto, "Hold Abe's funeral.''
"Morikake" and "Sontaku" are both smear stories created by Nemoto.
And when the results of this frenzy were revealed, Nishiki received a mountain of Senryū in line with Asahi's company slogan.
It's like a magic trick," Ebata suspected.
There were no posts.
I'm all for the idea that someone in the company pretended to be the poster.
But who did it?
Half of them were probably written by Nishiki.
And then there was one by Tetsufumi Arita or Toshihiro Yamanaka, who was in charge of Tenseijingo.
When Tatsuya Iwase revealed that Katsuichi Honda sponged on Recruit, Honda slandered Iwase in four layers, saying, "the lowest of all human beings, lower than a prostitute, the dregs of a truly despicable human being in the true sense of the word."
It was a habit of Honda, but in the same way, a person's unique patterns appear in his writings.
The word "such" in the phrase, "Suspected person is state funeral, Japan is such a country'' frequently appears in recent Tenseijingo.
The meaningless "such" is common to all of them.
Yuzuru Tsuboi, who is in charge of the Evening Bulletin's "Elementary Particles," also wrote a phrase.
His phrase, "How far Sontaku will continue...," is typical of him.
The day after the incident, Tsuboi wrote a sarcastic article in "Elementary Particles," in which he laughed at the death of the former prime minister and asked, "What about the verification of the politics of Sontaku?
He has a history with the former prime minister.
At a debate among party leaders, Prime Minister Abe rebuked him, saying, "Asahi doesn't report inconvenient facts," and he was almost incontinent.
Since then, he has been viciously slandering Abe.
If Nishiki had asked him to do so, he would have gladly twisted a phrase.
But why does a full-fledged reporter pretend to be a poster?
In fact, in the past, Asahi has written malicious lies and slanderous articles on comfort women and other topics as it pleased, resulting in the sacking of five presidents, from Seiki Watanabe and Toichiro Ichiyanagi to Tadakazu Kimura.
There has not been a single such case at any other company.
It is a terrible newspaper.
As expected, Asahi's reporters can no longer write transparent lies and slanderous articles as they like.
But they still want to write lies.
They also want to slander the former prime minister.
So, it seems as if they started writing their true intentions under the guise of a post.
