The following is from Masayuki Takayama's column in Themis, a monthly subscription magazine that arrived at our house today.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
A long time ago, an elderly female professor of the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, highly respected by prima ballerinas worldwide, visited Japan.
At that time, she spoke 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 and 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.
Oe, on the other hand, about him, I don't want to speak ill of the deceased.
Murakami and many others who call themselves writers and think they are artists are not even worthy of 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 expressing them.
Their existence is not limited to Japan but is the same in other countries worldwide.
In other words, there are only a few true artists.
This paper is another excellent proof that I am right 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 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the air raid on Tokyo showed the brutality of the U.S. targeting women and children.
The U.S. presidential election is a sham.
UN and Japan should send a monitoring mission.
Truman called the Japanese "beasts" and dropped the atomic bombs.
When I said, "Generally speaking, Americans are..." Mr. Okazaki Hisahiko said, "You know, there are no Americans who can be lumped together as just Americans," he raised his index finger from side to side as if to admonish me.
He suggested that Americans, with their advanced individualism, have different opinions.
Harry Truman, the man who dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, was a racist who joined the KKK and called the Japanese "beast" without hesitation.
When he ordered the atomic bombings, he said, "A beast has a way of dealing with beasts."
On that day in Hiroshima, students from national schools and junior high schools were going to school.
The men, even good older men, had been called up to go to the battlefield, and the only ones left in the city were women and children.
Mr. Okazaki may be offended to hear me say so, but Americans have a propensity to target the women and children of their enemies.
A gold mine was discovered in the Sand Creek, Colorado, area of a Cheyenne settlement around the time of the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
Gold miners got together, loaded up, and asked the Union cavalry to kill the Indians.
Eight hundred cavalrymen gladly accepted and raided the Cheyenne reservation.
The raid was carried out while waiting for the male warriors to go hunting.
The women and children who stayed at home were startled by the sudden bombardment, and when a six-year-old girl was given a white flag, as the whites had taught her, she was the first to be blown to pieces by the gunfire.
The fleeing women were shot and scalped one by one.
The gold miners promised to buy them for $25 apiece.
Robert Bend, a guide, later testified in court that "they took not only the scalps, but also the pubic region, in a ring, and hung them on the saddles of their horses, and then they returned in triumph.
The reason they targeted women and children was that if they killed them all, the seed would die out, and there would be no one left to bear children, and the Cheyenne would cease to exist.
Moses told the Jews to do this when they entered the land of Canaan.
It has been the manner of ethnic selection ever since.
Americans now refer to women and children collectively as soft targets.
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the wall of incendiary bombs in the Tokyo Air Raid were both peculiar American tactics aimed at the soft targets of the Japanese people.
Whatever Mr. Okazaki may say, the cold-bloodedness that stands out so prominently is uniquely American.
Americans also have other characteristics that distinguish them from different nationalities.
John Fairbank, a leading scholar of Oriental history and professor emeritus at Harvard University, describes the American image as full of self-deception, "Criticizing the European nations (which were in a frenzy to acquire colonies) with a saintly attitude and self-righteous pride by placing themselves on a moral high ground (while, until just yesterday, whipping black slaves and killing indigenous peoples).
It is a self-deluded figure.
Indeed, when Americans open their mouths, they speak of the United States as a model of democracy and fairness.
When East Timor held its first presidential election after gaining independence from Indonesia, the U.S. was the prime mover behind sending election observers from developed countries, including Japan.
The inexplicable "Biden jump.
Japan, the U.S., and other countries sent monitoring missions to the Bosnian and Cambodian elections.
The purpose of the monitoring is to "prevent any possible fraud on the part of the regime or others and to ensure that the elections are held correctly.
The U.S. interferes in the elections of countries with low moral standards, but what about your country, some ask?
Strictly speaking, such allegations have existed since the presidential election four years ago.
I remember it well.
The world liked Trump, despite what the New York Times and others said.
Trump was calling for an end to the Constitution, which renounces the right to belligerence and the military, imposed by the saintly MacArthur "in the name of the peace-loving peoples of the world.
I had hoped he would be a U.S. president encouraging Japan to revive itself.
The vote count was going well.
Trump had 58% of the vote, Biden 45%, and at midnight, I went to bed thinking I was safe.
When I woke up the following day, I was surprised.
The votes were reversed.
The vote count showed that Biden's share of the vote had reached 90% in an instant in the morning, local time.
Meanwhile, the Trump vote did not move.
The Biden vote rose vertically like a pole vault.
It happened simultaneously in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other states, and Trump's defeat was decided.
It is called the Biden jump.
The reasons for this are becoming more apparent.
It resulted from far more mail-in ballots being brought in than the number of voters in those districts.
"My late grandmother voted from the grave," Jason Morgan told me the other day in a self-deprecating tone.
But the Japanese newspapers never report the oddity.
The reason is that the Japanese correspondents translate and print the New York Times, which hates Trump.
The situation is the same in this presidential election.
They continue to report on Trump with a bizarre disparaging epithet: "He claims the election was stolen without any evidence.
Democrat-affiliated judges also criticize Trump's character, saying that he is "bad."
Democratic state prosecutors are also ignoring the "Winged Party, a party of outrageous Japanese villains.''
They are digging up various suspicions and prosecuting Trump in the middle of the presidential election.
The New York State Attorney General's Office has rehashed a nine-year-old affair with a pornographic actress and prosecuted her to sabotage Trump's campaign.
Trump is also facing 90 lawsuits for four other criminal offenses, including taking classified documents, and he is not happy with his campaign.
He is also facing a civil lawsuit for overreporting his assets, in which a Democrat-affiliated judge even wrote in his ruling that "Trump is a bad guy" and criticized his character.
The presidential election, which should be fair, has been trampled on to such an extent that there are no newspapers and no remorse.
It is hard to believe an election can be adequately held under such circumstances.
It is time for the UN and Japan to send election observers to the U.S. and monitor U.S. citizens to ensure correct voting and no cheated votes.
2024/5/29 in Osaka
