The following is from Masayuki Takayama's column in the weekly Shincho, published on June 6.
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, who is highly respected by prima ballerinas worldwide, visited Japan.
She spoke of 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 Cunning French
The Japanese translated communism as communism.
"Kyō" is the Japanese word for "madness" or"wickedness."
"San" means" misery.
Together, they are the "madness and misery" principle.
The country where the spirit of language is blessed intuitively sensed the essence of communism and applied such a sounding character to the word.
However, in the English circle, the sense of the word is plausible.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, for example, was easily misled and continually deceived by Stalin, the little Georgian man.
Ernest Hemingway was the same way.
When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and sided with the Red People's Front.
The story's protagonist, whom he has temporarily entrusted himself to, is Robert Jordan, a young university lecturer.
His occupation as a "university lecturer" indicates the American intellect's fascination with communism.
The Soviet officer gives the hero a mission: to blow up a railroad bridge.
To accomplish this, he asks for help from an anti-Franco guerrilla organization, where he meets Maria, a girl with short-cropped hair.
Three days later, the young man who made love with the girl, who did not even know how to kiss, scatters along the railway bridge.
Ingrid Bergman played the short-haired Maria in the film released in 1943.
The haircut was called the Maria cut, the same as the Hepburn cut in "Roman Holiday," and was very popular then.
So why did Maria have short hair?
She was the daughter of the town mayor when Francoist soldiers attacked her home, killed her parents, humiliated her, and finally gave her the humiliation of having her head cut off.
The Old Testament says, "A woman should tie her hair in two parts," and it is followed by "sluttishness” to untie the knot and let the hair hang down.
God gives women's hair a seductive charm but tells them to refrain from abusing it.
God is in awe of women' hair.
But the other day, a Tenseijingo article reported on a woman who suffered the same humiliation as Maria.
Allied forces landed on the Normandy coast in June 1944. After much bloodshed, Paris was liberated.
The citizens of Paris rejoiced at their liberation after four whole years.
At the same time, the Nazi occupiers brought out a "Nazi collaborator," a woman who had been in contact with a German general and even fathered a child and had her head shaved to expose her to ridicule.
In one of Robert Capa's photographs that captures one of the cruelest war scenes, Tenseijingo asks, "Who is more just, the citizen or the woman with the close-cropped head?
The conclusion is put away by the ugliness of war, but is that how it is?
This country lined up 20,000 Senegalese soldiers in front of the Ardennes Forest when they heard the Nazis were invading.
They fought against German and armored forces and were annihilated.
The French government, frightened by this, quickly surrendered to the Nazis under the pretext of defending Paris.
The rest of the time was spent relaxing under the Nazi occupation.
The famous film "Children of Paradise" was made in Paris then.
In the meantime, the Allies were fighting bloody battles with the Germans in Africa and the Atlantic.
No, de Gaulle had established a government in exile, fought against Germany and Italy in Africa, and participated in the Normandy landings and spilled blood.
What about that?
It was soldiers from the colony of Chad who fought in Africa.
The soldiers who landed at Normandy were also from Chad, Morocco, Tahiti, and other colonies.
What was de Gaulle doing, then?
He was busy hunting down fighters to preserve the French colonies during the war.
After the war, he continued to exploit French Indochina, which Japan had made independent, to regain it and "rebuild a glorious France."
The Vietnam War was inevitable.
No, the resistance did its best.
That is also a lie.
The uprising of the resistance started after the German army left Paris.
The war was left to the colonists.
They were flirting with the Nazis, robbing 80,000 Jews of their property, and sending them to camps.
And they pretend to be patriots by shaving their frail women.
Capa, Although Asahi may not be aware of it, it has exposed the French people's deceptions.
2024/6/7 in Nagoya
