The following is from Masayuki Takayama's book, Henken Jizai: Corona Taught Us About the Big Bad, published on 1/15/2021.
This book is also one of the best books in the world, just like his previous books.
It is a must-read not only for the people of Japan but also for the people of the world.
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 possible.
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.
The Chinese make you obey them, but they don't give you money
The Beijing government asked the Sankei Shimbun to set up a branch office long ago.
Unlike the Asahi Shimbun, the Sankei honestly wrote about Lin Biao's death and the terrible Cultural Revolution.
It isn't very pleasant for Beijing.
So the bureau remained closed for 30 years.
The world knows it.
Compared to Sankei's admirable refusal to bow to China's threats, Beijing's narrow-mindedness and Asahi's blind obedience to Beijing became the talk of the town, and it seems that Beijing decided that this was inconvenient.
Even though I was a Sankei reporter and didn't get a tourist visa, I freely enjoyed a sightseeing tour around Beijing.
But I can't speak Chinese.
At best, only Maitan (account) and Phu Yao (not needed); generally, there is no part of speech or tense in Chinese.
If you want to eat lunch, you can get through by arranging me, food, greed, and lunch properly.
Think of it as a historic Pidgin.
According to Mr. Seki-hei, it is much more emotional to read Wang Wei's "I'd like to ask you for more sake / West Yangguan If you keep in mind, you're a deceased person."
Besides, many guides in Beijing can speak Japanese without having to remember such immature words.
Let's call him Ko Takuan.
For example, when talking about the little emperor, he would say, "My child is strawberry milk.
The son drinks expensive strawberry milk at the Ko family's morning table, while his parents drink ordinary milk.
That's how extravagant they let their son be.
Mr. Ko came from a prominent family.
So, even as a child, he remembers the "hard time" during the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was a public purge that Mao Zedong, jealous of Liu Shaoqi, ordered young people to carry out.
Liu Shaoqi was tortured to death, Chang Dequan had his legs cut off, Zou Xiaoping was let go, and all those Mao hated were buried, but the side effects were terrible.
The Red Guards also attacked the "Four Old Ones," the old ideas, culture, and customs.
Mao ordered the Red Guards to provide them with the right to ride the railroads without charge, as well as food and inns, and they traveled around the country destroying temples and historical sites.
Among them is the Qinglong Temple in Xi'an, where Kukai studied.
Today, not a single building of the Qinglong Temple remains.
As in the case of the burning of the Abo Palace by Emperor Han Yu of the Chu and the taking of all the calligraphies of Wang Yizhi to his tomb by Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Chinese do not have the slightest notion of cherishing the good old things.
Therefore, there is no stopping them from breaking down the old and the new.
The parapets of the Luogou Bridge were torn down, and the Red Guards avalanched into the Mogao Grottoes in Dunslai and the Imperial Palace in Beijing.
As expected, Zhou Enlai appeased them and stopped the destruction of the Mogao Grottoes.
It is the actual reality of the Red Guards, who continued to be praised by Asahi Shimbun correspondent Ieshige Akioka.
The movement to defeat the Four Olds extended to ordinary people. It was regarded as a counter-revolution just by having old books and documents, and if one is unlucky, it was killed.
The Ko family was no exception.
"My parents were crying in the garden, burning books and paintings, and smashing Jingdezhen vessels to bury them."
At that time, overseas Chinese bought them for a couple of pounds, thinking they would be destroyed anyway.
Foreigners living in Japan, such as Akioka Ieshige and some embassy staff, followed suit.
In the 1990s, a museum was built in Shanghai.
Each floor was filled with valuable ceramics and documents that were supposed to have disappeared during the Cultural Revolution.
It was supposed to have disappeared during the Cultural Revolution, all of which were donated.
It wrote the names of the donors on the entrance of the display rooms.
They are overseas Chinese who collected a lot of calligraphy, paintings, and antiques for free during the Cultural Revolution.
This time, they donated them to the government.
Of course, it was not for free.
In return, they received concessions for building highways, for example.
In the nineteenth century, the British and French got involved in inspecting a British-flagged pirate ship, and 20,000 troops landed in Tianjin.
The bronze "rat" and "rabbit" of the twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac were auctioned off in Paris.
The Chinese response was interesting.
"If they hadn't been taken, the Red Guards would have killed them, and there would have been nothing left.
I thought they would have said, "Thank you for preserving it," but instead, they filed a lawsuit demanding it back because it was mine.
When that lawsuit was rejected, another Chinese bidder won the highest bid and said, "But I won't pay for it because it belongs to China.
At the same time, a wealthy Indian bid on Gandhi's relics that were up for sale in the U.S. and said he would donate them to his country.
In Japan, Shinnyoen bought back a wooden sculpture of Unkei that was sold at an auction in the United States.
The Chinese, who even sell poisonous dumplings to make money, only make you obey cultural properties. They don't give money. It is easy to understand their national character. (March 19, 2009 issue)
