A long time ago, an elderly female professor of the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, who prima ballerinas around the world greatly 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 book also keenly proves that I am right when I say that no one in the world today is more deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature than Masayuki Takayama.
The "Peace of Carthage" Imposed on Japan by GHQ
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Regarding the "attack on civilian facilities" mentioned earlier, it is true that the Japanese do not overtly attack or sabotage civilian facilities.
However, if we look at other countries, this is not necessarily the case.
For example, one of the heroes of the Civil War was General Sherman.
Later, a Sherman tank was also named after him.
This general took Atlanta and destroyed towns, railroads, and everything from there to Jacksonville on the east coast, creating a fifty-kilometer-wide no man's land.
We call it "Sherman's Road," but he was not afraid to do that kind of destruction.
The ultimate form of destruction would be the atomic bomb, but the essence of war is looting, raping, killing, and destruction.
It is taught in the Old Testament.
As I mentioned earlier about Moses, "Plunder all that you can plunder. Kill every man and every married woman who may harbor the seed of a man. The remaining virgins are to be used as a "reward" for their comfort," Moses commanded.
So, when a soldier returns home after killing only the men of the enemy, he is ordered, "What, you didn't kill the others? Come back again," he orders, and the slaughter and looting take place.
And then there is nothing left.
Later, in the Roman era, Carthage and Rome fought for supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea. When Scipio defeated Carthage, he took their ships so that the maritime trading nation of Carthage could not rise again, took their colonial cities, dropped them into an agricultural state, imposed reparations, and took their armies, warships, and Belligerent Rights.
It is said to be the model for Japan's Article IX of the Constitution.
GHQ also imposes on Japan the occupation policy of abandoning Korea, Taiwan, and the Southern Islands, of not retaining an army, of renouncing the right of belligerency, and of "reducing Japan to an industrial level where it can only make pot-kettles and become an agricultural nation.
And Scipio of Rome ordered that "all the children of the leading men of Carthage be sent to Rome.
Essentially, they are hostages, and in postwar Japan, this is the "Fulbright student system."
He Romanized the people of Carthage and transformed it into an agricultural state.
When Carthage became unarmed, neighboring Numidia began to usurp it for good.
So Carthage took up arms to defend itself and fought the invaders.
But that would have violated the terms of its surrender with Rome: "Do not start a war without Rome's permission.
Rome used this as an excuse to launch the Third Punic War and attack Carthage, burning Carthage's towns, killing all the nobles, selling the commoners into slavery, and finally turning the cleared ruins of the fortress into a wilderness where not a single plant or tree could grow.
It is what is known as the "Peace of Carthage."
It is the type of war that has been fought outside of Japan.
It may be impossible even if Japanese people try to understand it.
