The following is from Masayuki Takayama's latest book, Henkei Jizai: Corona Taught Me About the Big Bad, published on 1/15/2021.
This book is also the best in the world, just like his previous books.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but also for people worldwide.
Every Japanese citizen should go to the nearest bookstore and buy it right now.
I will make the rest of the world know as much as I can.
This essay also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
The emphasis in the text, except for the headline, is mine.
Wuhan reminds us of another Chinese atrocity.
Sixty thousand strong Chinese troops attacked the foreign concession in Shanghai.
Summer of 1937.
It was the so-called Second Shanghai Incident, but it targeted only the Japanese concessions, and not a single bullet was fired at the neighboring French concessions.
Only a few naval land forces were defending the Japanese concession.
The French were watching from the buildings' rooftops, knowing that it was a game of Chiang Kai-shek's slaughter of the Japanese, set against him by the United States and Germany.
The Chinese Air Force, which the U.S. military had taught, was so inept that it dropped a bomb on the French concession, killing 450 people.
Two other planes also dropped bombs near the Cathay Hotel and the Great World Entertainment Center, killing a total of 1,500 people.
The death toll rose to 1,500, including a U.S. missionary and future ambassador to Japan, Edwin Reischauer's brother Robert, who had been agitating against Japan.
However, the Japanese slaughter was unexpectedly defeated by Chiang Kai-shek's forces, who began to retreat.
Before this battle, they launched the Tongzhou Incident, which resulted in the torture to death of 220 Japanese.
The repeated violence could not be tolerated.
The Japanese decided to pursue them, and an army pursued the fleeing Chinese troops up the Yangtze River.
The Chinese army was of low quality.
In Jiujiang, they looted the food supply and sprayed plague germs in the wells before heading for the key city of Wuhan.
The Japanese would not leave the devastation in Jiujiang behind.
It would give them time to escape.
The 5th Division, which was in pursuit, "took more than a week to clean up the wells and supply food and drink to the civilians" (Shinzaburo Nakajima, "Diary of a Former Soldier").
The Japanese troops also aimed at Wuhan from the Yellow Riverside.
In their first battle at Xuzhou, they surrounded and crushed the Chinese army, which had three times the number of troops, and closed in on Lanfeng.
Chiang Kai-shek, horrified by the Japanese's advance, broke several dikes of the Yellow River, some 300 meters wide.
He believed that this would stop the Japanese forces in their tracks," Guo Moruo later confessed.
It was the rainy season, and the swollen Yellow River was swollen to such a level that it turned the fertile fields of southern China into a muddy quagmire," wrote Akira Nakakoji in "World War Theory.
In Japan's case, the Yellow River submerged the Kanto and Kansai regions, causing "one million people to drown and hundreds of thousands to flee, turning the area into a screaming, sniveling mess" (ibid.).
Seeing the devastation, the Japanese troops stationed in Kaifeng sent out boats of all sizes to rescue the victims.
The Chinese troops shot at them from across the river, killing many Japanese soldiers.
Chiang is a vicious man.
He announced that the Japanese had destroyed the Yellow River with airstrikes with a straight face.
He blamed others for his misdeeds and blamed them loudly.
Japan denied it, but "We didn't do it" was very weak and unconvincing.
Only Chiang Kai-shek smiled broadly.
During this pursuit, a Chinese group broke into a church in Zhengding, Hebei Province, and burned seven people alive, including a Dutch priest.
It was a typical Chinese move, but Jiang Zemin turned it into a 'Japanese military action.'
The Dutch newspaper, which hates Japan, knew it was a lie and wrote about it with great joy.
The new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan is called the chrysomelid bat.
It also lives in Japan and Europe, but only the Chinese have been eating it.
It infected the Chinese, who then spread it around the world.
In Japan, the first case was a Chinese man who contracted the disease in Wuhan and brought it into Japan by cheating the quarantine at Narita with a fever reducer.
A Chinese man posing as a "Hong Konger" aboard the Diamond Princess followed suit, and Chinese tourists visiting the Sapporo Snow Festival, and a soy sauce wholesaler in Wakayama helped spread the disease.
Amazingly, Xi Jinping doesn't think so, even though it is so evident that China created and China mediated the problem.
First of all, he had the Solomon Islands, where China holds political and economic power, loudly declare a "ban on Japanese entry.
Next, they had WHO Tedros say that "China is coming to an end," while at the same time calling Japan one of the "countries of most significant concern.
In response, Beijing's city imposed a 14-day suspension on Japanese nationals entering the country, and diplomatic documents were confusingly labeled as "new type of Japanese pneumonia.
They think that they can blame Japan, just like the Yellow River collapse if they do that.
It is not a country we should force ourselves to deal with. (March 19, 2020 issue)
