The following is from Masayuki Takayama's serial column in the latter section of today's Weekly Shincho.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
This article also proves that he most deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature or the Nobel Prize for Peace today.
It is a must-read not only for the people of Japan but for people all over the world.
The Bite of the U.S. Breeder's Dog
Successive generations of editorial writers at the Asahi Shimbun have been busy trying to curry favor with the United States.
When the Tenseijingo (May 20, 2023) wrote about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, it began by asking, "Where in the world did that atomic bomb fall?
In the text, the names of North Korea, China, and Russia, which were about to drop atomic bombs on Japan at any moment, are mentioned, but the "United States" is not mentioned at all.
Nor is it correct to say that "the atomic bombs fell."
The atomic bombs dropped by the B-29 Enola Gay did not fall to the ground.
While an ordinary bomb explodes after falling to the ground, an atomic bomb is set to detonate at an altitude of 600 meters.
When it detonates, it creates a high-heat fireball with a temperature of several thousand degrees Celsius caused by nuclear fission.
The fireball is almost a sphere at that altitude and can carry its lethal power far.
It shows the American people's brutality, but Asahi plays fast and loose with it.
It is written as if the fireball fell to the ground.
If it hits the ground, only the top half of the fireball will be there.
The damage would be reduced to less than a quarter.
Stimson planned to fire the first shot at Kyoto.
The fireball would be 600 meters above the Umekoji Yard, west of Kyoto Station, so that Toji Temple, Kiyomizu Temple, and the Golden and Silver Pavilions would disappear in an instant, along with 500,000 other citizens.
They only thought that the topography of the Kyoto basin was ideal for the fireball.
However, when the war ended before the bomb was dropped, Asahi fabricated a big lie to hide the barbarity of the Americans, saying that Kyoto remained because Langdon Warner, a Harvard scholar, had stopped the bombing.
The U.S. military also killed 100,000 non-combatants, including women and children, in the Battle of Okinawa.
Those who took refuge in bunkers were killed by shooting them with Iperit and V.X., which were forbidden by international law.
The 15th Brigade of the Naha Self-Defense Force has recovered many poison gas bombs used by the U.S. military at the time whenever they dispose of unexploded ordnance.
Why did they use poison gas to kill one out of every three islanders?
In fact, the U.S. had positioned the main island of Okinawa as a "strategic base for the U.S. military in the Far East" prior to the Battle of Okinawa and had decided to acquire it.
It was also decided to eliminate Okinawans, who would be a burden on the island.
By this decision, 2.7 million artillery shells, approximately 200,000 metric tons, were fired into the area, including Naha, where non-combatants lived.
It was what is known as the "iron storm."
However, Asahi did not mention this all-out killing campaign.
Instead, it asserted in a recent editorial that "the islanders died in a mass suicide by the Japanese military."
The number of victims of mass suicide accounts for less than 1% of the total number of people killed by the U.S. military.
The leading cause of the Fukushima accident at TEPCO was the G.E. reactor.
G.E.'s reactors had no venting in case of emergency, and they made the mistake of digging down a mountain to install the reactors.
The materials were also poor.
The worst was averted because TEPCO secretly installed vents and made other improvements, but the Asahi still does not write that G.E. made the reactor.
The behavior of the U.S. soldiers was at its worst from the time MacArthur's advance team arrived.
Dozens of assaults on women were already reported that night they arrived in Atsugi.
It was around this time that police officials bowed down to the women working at Hanamachi and asked them to act as a bulwark against sexual assault.
Hayato Ikeda, an official of the Ministry of Finance, went out in his government car and was robbed by U.S. soldiers at the Hibiya intersection.
However, the Asahi quoted John Dower's "U.S. generals were gentlemen and MacArthur was charismatic" and continued to defend the incorrigible U.S. soldier.
The other day, U.S. soldiers abducted and assaulted a Japanese woman in Okinawa.
I checked and found five similar cases.
The U.S. soldiers had not changed at all since the old days, but for some reason, the Asahi newspaper started making a big fuss about it and even ran a feature story on it.
Under the headline "Full-blooded Rage," the Asahi made a big deal about the atrocities committed by the U.S. soldiers.
It was as if they had finally admitted that John Dower was a liar.
Why now would they blame the U.S., which had covered for him for 80 years?
Because the current editorial director, Yamanaka Toshihiro, is not decent.
2024/7/8 in Akashi
