If you truly love the place where you live—your home, the foundation of your life, the land where you’ll die—then you must immediately restart all nuclear power plants.
July 11, 2018
Masayuki Takayama’s new book, which clearly proves he is the one and only journalist of his kind in the postwar world, is essential reading for all Japanese citizens and people around the globe.
I first learned of it through the Sankei Shimbun book review section on July 7. In the content summary, there was a section titled: “Asahi Shimbun relentlessly attacking Toshiba.”
For a moment, I didn’t understand why Asahi was going so hard against Toshiba.
Then, on the 7 o’clock news, I saw footage of sudden flooding in Fuchu City, Hiroshima.
French satellite images showed multiple landslides that had yet to be confirmed.
I felt outright anger.
At the Asahi Shimbun—a corporation wholly devoted to the destruction of Japan.
In that moment, I understood everything.
The reason why Asahi had relentlessly attacked Toshiba was because Toshiba was one of the companies possessing the world's most advanced nuclear technology.
Anti-nuclear activism—something that now seems orchestrated by forces from China or the Korean Peninsula—is a movement that has directly crippled Japan’s industrial and military power, all while China and South Korea, in stark contrast, have nationally committed to massive expansion of nuclear power. This is a well-known fact.
In any case, the Asahi Shimbun is a deeply abnormal company.
It viciously attacks anyone who opposes its masochistic worldview, its anti-Japanese ideology, or its pseudo-moralism.
It is no longer a group of rational individuals.
Despite that, Asahi’s anti-nuclear power stance and its campaign to abolish nuclear energy won wide support according to its own public opinion surveys.
And so the government has remained unable to restore nuclear power generation to its former capacity.
In the meantime, we have continued to burn oil, coal, and LNG—fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases.
Japan’s post-2011 global warming effect must, in fact, have accelerated sharply.
How else do you explain the reemergence of photochemical smog covering Japan—something not seen for 40 years?
As I’ve pointed out before, the power output of a single nuclear reactor is enormous.
All 54 reactors—once among the world’s top three in number—were shut down by the very same three individuals I’ve mentioned repeatedly, and by media like the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, and by opposition politicians.
The decision to instantly shut down a power source that had been supplying over 30 million kilowatts continuously was an act of stupidity beneath even kindergarten level. It was not a decision made by a sane or serious nation.
It’s only natural that the world’s energy suppliers seized on this foolishness.
Immediately, they began slapping a “Japan Premium” on fossil fuels bound for Japan, selling them at inflated prices.
And why not? Japan had no choice. No matter how expensive it became, it had to buy—otherwise, the economy would collapse in an instant. If the power supply—essential to any civilized nation—was cut off, Japan would plunge into darkness.
Because of this foolishness, Japan lost ¥15 trillion in national wealth in just a few short years.
The enormous national wealth—tax money—that was squandered while emitting vast amounts of greenhouse gases could have achieved 100% of the “closing the wealth gap” rhetoric peddled by Asahi and opposition politicians through their fake moralism and attacks on the government.
I declare without hesitation: the recent unprecedented torrential rains that devastated all of western Japan were the result of the anti-nuclear movement pushed by the three culprits, Asahi Shimbun, and sympathetic media like NHK.
Those who suffered under these extreme weather events should think deeply and speak up with one clear message:
If you truly love the place where you live—your home, your foundation—if you genuinely value your hometown until the day you die, then you must immediately restart all nuclear reactors!
Immediately cut back the use of LNG, coal, and oil—these fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases—and restore energy policy to where it was in 2011!
There is no other path for you to continue living where you are now.
If, on the other hand, you are willing to abandon your beloved hometown, and you prefer to live in Tokyo—a city overcrowded, abnormally expensive, filled with Asahi, NHK, and their media cohorts…
If your attachment to your hometown is so weak that you’re willing to discard it for a place like that…
If you continue opposing the restart of nuclear power and keep burning fossil fuels emitting over 30 million kilowatts worth of greenhouse gases, then your life in your hometown is no longer sustainable.
The mountains where you once chased rabbits, the rivers where you fished small carp—
They are now nothing more than landslide-prone mountains and overflowing, flood-swollen rivers.
The time has come for you to realize:
If you continue to support the masochistic, anti-Japanese ideology of traitorous media like Asahi and NHK, and the political traitors of the opposition parties—if you continue to align yourself with the zombie ideology of communism—you will lose your hometown forever.
