The following is from an article by Masayuki Takayama, serialized in Themis, a monthly magazine specializing in subscriptions, which arrived at my house today.
I started subscribing to the magazine to read his articles.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people all over the world.
It is also a must-read for the voters who will go to the polls tomorrow.
Asahi Shimbun & Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Lawyer Spreads Lies by "Using External Pressure"
North Korea rejects South Korean light water reactors.
North Korea relies on the Suifeng Dam, built by Japan before World War II, and a 5,000-kilowatt experimental nuclear reactor provided by the former Soviet Union for its electricity needs.
In fact, this small experimental reactor is a very tricky one.
It is a graphite-moderated, carbon dioxide-cooled reactor, the same type as the Chernobyl reactor. Nuclear fuel is just natural uranium (U).
When burned in a graphite reactor, less than one percent of the U235 is fissioned, which heats the carbon dioxide used for cooling and spins the power turbine.
However, in the reactor core, the non-burnable U238, which makes up 99% of the U-238, absorbs neutrons and transforms into plutonium (Pu)239, which burns.
If reprocessed, the plutonium can be used to produce the elements for a magnificent Nagasaki-type atomic bomb.
Natural uranium is gasified for the Hiroshima-type uranium bomb and then subjected to a centrifugal separator to enrich and separate only the U235, accounting for less than one percent of the uranium.
It requires vast amounts of electric power and time.
On the other hand, it can make a nuclear bomb effortlessly by burning natural uranium with a graphite furnace.
And North Korea has started to do so.
President Clinton was worried about the rogue nation's outburst.
He told the North, "If you get rid of the graphite reactors, we'll build you two million-kilowatt light-water reactors instead. We will also give you 500,000 tons of heavy oil every year until that is created.
It is what KEDO (Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization) is all about.
North Korea accepted the offer in March 1995, but when it learned that the light water reactors to be provided were made in South Korea, it immediately hesitated.
In the fall of the previous year, 32 people were killed when the South Korean-made Seongsu Bridge over the Han River fell on its girders despite no wind.
And in the fall of the same year, the five-story Samho Department Store in Seoul collapsed, killing more than 50 people.
KEDO was disassembled in the air as "Is it possible to use a Korean-branded nuclear reactor dangerously?" Known as sloppy.
Since then, the North has continued to operate graphite reactors, extracted plutonium, conducted numerous nuclear tests, and now feels like a nuclear superpower.
Anti-Japanese lobbying in Washington.
KEDO ended in vain, but the world learned one thing.
The spent fuel from LWRs is mostly Pu240, which does not burn and cannot be used to make nuclear bombs.
So there is no need to worry about giving it to them instead of graphite reactors.
If LWRs can produce enough Pu239, there is no point in replacing graphite reactors with LWRs.
Even an elementary school student could understand this, but Saruta Sayo, who thinks she is a sharp female lawyer, did not.
She is a graduate of Waseda University.
And she works at the law firm of Yuichi Kaito, the mistress of Mizuho Fukushima.
That's why she opposes nuclear power plants and constitutional changes and advocates that Japan should remain anti-American and be more friendly with South Korea, which is a close friend of Mizuho Fukushima.
So before the revision of the Japan-U.S. nuclear agreement, Sayo went to Washington and "lobbied U.S. senators and presidential aides on the nuclear issue," according to AERA.
What did she lobby?
It is equivalent to 5,000 nuclear weapons," and therefore "threatens the nuclear non-proliferation policy that the United States insists on."
When the aides heard this, their brows furrowed, and they said, "This is an important issue. I'll ask the State Department about it.
The U.S. is extremely sensitive to Japan's possession of nuclear weapons.
During the last presidential election, Biden told Trump, "Have you forgotten that we rewrote the Constitution of that country so that Japan (which has the right to retaliate with two nuclear weapons against the United States) would not have nuclear weapons? New Hampshire Congressman Nick LeBassar also chatted about Japan being active in the world again, saying, "So two nukes were not enough.
It is such a sensitive issue.
If it is true that Japan has 5,000 nuclear weapons, the U.S. government, which has neglected the issue, has long since dissolved into thin air.
It would be more newsworthy if U.S. lawmakers and aides had bought into Saso's ignorant story and questioned the State Department.
But Sayo's lies went unchallenged in Japan.
When the story of Saso appeared in "AERA," Hiroyuki Kawai, a fellow anti-nuclear lawyer, also wrote in the Asahi Shimbun's "My Viewpoint" that "one nuclear power plant is equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima bombs.
Using external pressure to make a lie true
Akira Kawasaki of Peace Boat, who is also a member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize, wrote, "ICAN is an anti-nuclear power plant and is worried about the plutonium that Japan has accumulated." and he lined up lies in Asahi's separate volume "GLOBE."
This man is also good friends with Kiyomi Tsujimoto, arrested for fraudulent public money of 20 million yen, and Mizuho Fukushima.
The Asahi Shimbun had this lie written in the surrounding media.
When they were sure that it would not expose the lie, editorial director Seiki Nemoto issued an order to "spread the lie of plutonium with impunity from now" and to "stop the root of nuclear power plants by doing so, and make them switch to solar power from China."
That was the extensive editorial, "Stop the Nuclear Fuel Cycle" (May 14, 2020).
The rationale for stopping the cycle was that "Japan now possesses 46 tons of plutonium, the equivalent of 6,000 atomic bombs.
It was very laughable that he added another thousand to Sayo's lie of 5,000.
Since then, there have been five or six articles, including one signed by a science reporter, claiming "47 tons of plutonium, 6,000 atomic bombs."
The primary source of the claim is an article by Saruta Sayo titled "U.S. aide worried," which is an article on external pressure from the U.S.
If it had come from the U.S., it could have destroyed Kakuei Tanaka.
I read that the nuclear power plant would be abolished immediately, but only the Mainichi Shimbun, which has been discredited since the days of the "Contest to kill 100 people using a sword," made any noise.
Nevertheless, Nemoto thinks he has won, and in the Opinion section the other day, he took up the issue of "external pressure" and had Saruta Sayo, who has done much for the cause, speak about it.
Sayo writes pompously, "The government also used foreign pressure to boost Japan's reputation."
Such Saso used foreign pressure to make a lie look true.
Instead of calling her a "two-bit lawyer," perhaps "fraudster" would be more appropriate.
