The following is from Masayuki Takayama's serialized column that marks the end of Weekly Shincho, which was released yesterday before.
A long time ago, an elderly female professor of the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, who prima ballerinas around the world highly respect, visited Japan.
She spoke at that time about the significance of an artist's existence.
She said, "Artists are important because they are the only ones who can shed light on hidden, concealed truths and express them."
No one would dispute her words.
It is no exaggeration to say that Masayuki Takayama is not only the one and only journalist in the postwar world but also the one and only artist in the postwar world.
On the other hand, many of those who call themselves artists, such as Oe, Murakami, and Hirano, do not even deserve the artist's name.
They have only expressed the lies created by the Asahi Shimbun and others rather than shedding light on hidden truths and telling them.
Their existence is not limited to Japan but is the same in other countries worldwide.
In other words, only a minimal number of actual artists exist.
This paper also keenly proves that I am right when I say that no one in the world today deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Masayuki Takayama.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.
The emphasis in the text other than the headline is mine.
Mainichi Newspaper is Rubbish
In the spring of 1972, the U.S.-occupied Okinawa was about to be returned to Japan.
The other day, Takahiro Yokomichi, a member of the Socialist Party, who had recently passed away, stood up in front of the Diet to ask a question and blamed the government, saying that $4 million in black money had been paid to the U.S. and waving a secret agreement document that showed it.
In reality, it was a gratuity for releasing the occupation or, more precisely, part of the money for the purchase of Okinawa.
The public and Eisaku Sato were surprised, but even Yokomichi knew about Alsace-Lorraine.
The territory called Lorraine when it was French territory became Lautring when Germany took it, a history repeated four times.
If it is taken in war, it can only be taken back in the war.
The same is true of Okinawa.
If they want to get it back, they will have to fight another war with the U.S.
But they succeeded in repurchasing it for a pittance.
In the background, there were deep scars from the U.S. military's massacre of one out of every four islanders.
Therefore, the islanders thoroughly opposed urban planning and medical welfare programs to make Okinawa "better than Hawaii" (Paul Caraway).
Most people would cry and rejoice if they were told that they would become U.S. citizens.
The U.S. was dismayed by the Okinawans' refusal to be pleased, thus leading to the reversion of the islands without a war.
Yokomichi needed help understanding this.
Eisaku, on the other hand, was furious.
Who had stolen the diplomatic documents and spoiled the great deed of repurchasing the territory?
The Socialist Party was that one, and they were not so talkative.
Soon the name of the Mainichi Shimbun's Nishiyama Takichi came up.
His modus operandi was also exposed.
Takichi had become friendly with a female Foreign Ministry clerk and had her bring out copies of the documents.
It is not generally wrong to seduce a woman and get a story out of her.
The problem is what comes next.
Takichi took a particular story but did not write it down for some reason.
He let it sit for weeks before bringing it to Yokomichi.
It was evident that Yokoｍmichi was trying to remove Eisaku from power.
Takichi tried to use his title as a reporter to create a political situation.
The "public's right to know," as the Mainichi Shimbun put it in defense of Takichi, was entirely off the mark.
In addition, Takichi did not even hide the name of the female administrative official who was the source of the story.
It is a terrible story.
Two years before this incident, there was prostitution corruption.
To prevent the Anti-Prostitution Law from closing the brothels, the operators had given money to the LDP members of the Diet.
At the time, there was a conflict between Baba's faction and Kishimoto's faction within the prosecutor's office.
Eiki Ito of the Kishimoto faction spread a false rumor that he was going to pull a Utsunomiya Tokuma.
Shintaro Kawai of the Baba faction leaked it to Kazuhiro Tatematsu, a Yomiuri reporter, and the Yomiuri, unaware that it was a lie, reported it with great fanfare.
The prosecutors arrested Tatematsu and tried to get him to confess to the Baba faction's leak.
Tatematsu stubbornly refused to reveal the source of the story and later committed suicide.
Taikichi had no such ethics as a reporter.
The woman from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was soon arrested.
The woman revealed that Takayoshi had gotten her drunk and raped her, then took advantage of her weakness to have the documents taken out of her possession.
After the affair, Takayoshi gave the woman a 500-yen bill to return to Saitama.
He meant she should take a cab to the station with it and return home by subway.
Takichi was not a reporter, just a stingy guy.
There are no excellent reporters in Mainichi Newspaper.
It is, for example, Kazuo Asami.
This man wrote an absurd article about "Ensign Mukai and Ensign Noda competing to slay a hundred men" at the China front.
After the war, the two were declared war criminals and executed.
The decisive factor was that Asami repeatedly lied, saying the article was actual.
Asakai received permanent residency and a mansion in Beijing from Liao Chengzhi as a reward for his perjury.
The prime minister's secretary recently told an informal press conference that same-sex marriage was disgusting.
At this kind of press conference, even notes are forbidden.
Even if they do, they blur out "sources from the Prime Minister's Office" or something like that.
So, foreign journalists who do not follow the rules are not allowed to enter.
If someone says "off the record" at such a press conference, they promise not to write anything.
However, there was a reporter from the Mainichi.
He put a sickle on the secretary, let him talk, and reported his real name.
Other newspapers followed suit, saying that it should not be said, but we must not follow the Mainichi's lead.
The Mainichi has no decent reporters.
