The following is from Masayuki Takayama's serial column in Themis, a monthly magazine specializing in subscriptions, which arrived at my home yesterday.
This article also proves that he is a unique journalist in the postwar world.
A long time ago, an elderly female professor of the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, highly respected by prima ballerinas worldwide, visited Japan.
At that time, she spoke 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 and 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, Oe, I don't want to speak ill of the deceased, but (to follow Masayuki Takayama's example below), Murakami and many others who call themselves writers or think of themselves as artists are not even worthy of the name of artists.
They have only expressed the lies the Asahi Shimbun, and others created 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, there are only a few true artists.
This paper is another excellent proof that I am right when I say that no one in the world today deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Masayuki Takayama.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.
Shut down "Your NHK" that refuses to admit the fabrication of "An island with no greenery"!
Chairman Inaba also runs away with his answer despite the apparent fake footage.
Vice Chairman Masagaki Satoru says it's the truth.
Not long ago, Senator Mio Sugita questioned NHK Chairman Inaba about the "Gunkanjima" footage shown by NHK TV a half-century ago.
The footage was obviously fake to anyone who saw it, but the NHK side dodged and dodged.
The upper house accounts committee asked the same question again this year, but the new NHK chairman, Nobuo Inaba, evaded the question.
A third-party committee to investigate the truth is also "not being considered."
What in the world is NHK so scared of?
Ms. Sugita pointed to footage of a coal mining site on "Hashima Island," as it is officially called, off the coast of Nagasaki Port.
The island has long been known to contain exposed "high-burning coal," which turns out to be valuable bituminous coal, the raw material for coke, the key ingredient in steelmaking.
This was the era of "iron is the nation" (Ito Hirobumi).
Hashima Island, the size of a baseball field, was reclaimed several times and grew into a 2km-long artificial island, with tunnels extending 1,000m underground, producing 300,000 tons of "black diamonds" per year.
Thus, the "Industrial Revolutionary Heritage of the Meiji Era" (Yasuko Kato), where everything from coal mining to ore dressing was electrified, was registered by UNESCO.
However, the images shown by NHK in 1955 were terrible.
The following is from Sugita Mio, who pointed out the next.
"The miners, who enter the mine in three shifts, wear helmets with cap rights and upper and lower work clothes and descend by elevator to the mining area below the seafloor. In the next scene, the miners remove their clothes and wield pickaxes while wearing loincloths. The light is a bare bulb. It is no wonder that a dust explosion could occur at any time."
It is no different from the coal mines in China today," it said.
None of this is part of Hashima Island's history.
Still, Masagaki Satoru, vice chairman of NHK, denies any falsity, saying, "It's the truth" and "It must have been taken on Hashima Island."
He is said to be a former NHK news reporter.
It is appalling to hear that he is a "reporter."
Why does NHK continue to lie?
The program's title, "An Island with no Greenery," gives a clue.
Hashima Island is an artificial island.
Everything, including the buildings, is made of concrete.
It has a different history from the South Seas' lush green islands.
It is said that the title was initially inspired by the title of a film of the same name that depicted "rugged coal miners" in the immediate postwar period, but why is it still the same "An island with no greenery" 10 years later?
It has something to do with the fact that NHK was an agency under the control of GHQ until shortly before the war.
For example, "The truth is this."
For a long time, it has been reported that the Japanese military was brutal, invaded Asia and did terrible things, and committed a massacre in Nanking.
NHK also said that prewar Japan knew nothing of democracy, that landlords exploited peasants, that peasants sold their daughters, and that laborers were forced to work in octopus rooms.
At the Hashima Island coal mine, security standards were observed and
It was 1955, or only three years after GHQ left.
When choosing Hashima Island as the location of the coal mine, the producer in charge of the film must have thought of the misery of "coal miners working in octopus rooms, unable to escape, in an undersea coal mine on a remote islet with no greenery and a bleak landscape.
The title should have been "An island with no greenery.
However, when they visited the island, they found that security standards had been observed, and smiling miners were working there.
It would have been inconsistent with NHK's other programs.
That is why the fake images pointed out by Mr. Sugita were created.
NHK said a dangerous mining site with a harsh environment and no regard for safety.
It is the reality in Japan, a country with a backward safety record.
The Japanese people were appalled by NHK's distortion, but the problem was that the organization wanted to make good use of the "Japanese hellhole" that NHK had created.
A Korean organization is trying to sponge on Japan over the forced labor issue.
For them, the NHK-produced video perfectly fits the image of "conscripts forced to work in Japan's octopus rooms."
The man wearing a loincloth was a Korean conscript, and NHK captured it on film.
He claimed it was valuable evidence.
Ms. Sugita is also pursuing this point.
Who is the man in the loincloth in the video?
Where did NHK film this fake footage, and who are the extras in the video?
If we can find out, we can refute the nationalistic accusations from South Korea.
If NHK is "your NHK," it would make sense for it to remove the false accusations against the people of Japan.
However, this is "old news, so we are looking into it, but we don't know."
It would be enough if NHK admitted that it was a fake.
However, if the chairman admits that he fabricated the self-flagellation, the story will not stop there.
So what about the truth of "The truth is this"?
The truth is not only "The truth is like this.
For example, there is the lie that "President Quirino is a great benefactor of Japan," which NHK broadcasted around the same time as "An island with no greenery.
In the Philippines, 79 people were sentenced to death in a lax war crimes trial after the war and were kept in Montemplupa prison.
When Quirino, of overseas Chinese descent, became president, he celebrated by hanging three war criminals.
The Japanese government also demanded $8 billion in compensation from Japan, the equivalent of 50 years of the national budget.
It was the amount of the national budget for 50 years.
When the Japanese rejected his outrageous demand, Quirino hung 14 war criminals that night.
President Quirino carried out the death penalty by extortion.
He threatened to hang some more if the Japanese did not meet his demands at the next round of negotiations.
"Don't worry about our lives. Use the money to rebuild Japan."
The words from Muntinlupa remain.
Hearing of this blackmail execution, the United States was surprised, and Dulles flew to the United States to scold Quirino.
Dulles flew over and scolded Quirino, saying, "Don't ever do another frightening execution."
Then there would be no need for war criminals.
In 1953, Quirino released all war criminals.
NHK made it into a beautiful story by Seiichi Nakata of NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), who said, "Quirino pardoned war criminals even though the Japanese army killed their wives and children.
In case you are wondering, Quirino's wife and children were killed in the indiscriminate bombing of Manila by the U.S. military.
Nakata knew this and, like NHK, made the Japanese military look bad.
NHK was willing to explain away all the bad things that happened at the behest of GHQ.
However, "An island with no greenery" and "Kirino" were produced independently after GHQ left.
As is their habit, "Your NHK" has been distorting history and undermining Japan ever since.
If they answer Sugita Mio's question, they will be exposed.
That is why they are on the run.
