The following is from Masayuki Takayama's book "Biden is Red," published on 4/15/2022.
This paper also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
What "Giants of Knowledge" Missed
Takashi Tachibana's "Kakuei Tanaka Study" appeared in the November issue of Bungeishunju, published in October 1974.
The Shinanogawa riverbed, which the Kakuei family bought for 400 million yen, has become worth tens of billions in response to Kakuei's theory of remodeling the archipelago.
The article accused Kakuei of being suspicious, but the public reacted slowly.
Kakuei was called Ima Taikoh.
There was hope that he would do something for Japan, which was in dire straits.
The Shinanogawa riverbed incident may indeed be a problem.
But there is the example of President Kubiček of Brazil.
He built the capital, Brasilia, on the Brazilian plateau.
The artificial city glowed at night in the form of a bird with its wings spread in the jet-black darkness.
Now listed on the World Heritage List, he was tried by a military tribunal for taking bribes in connection with the project.
The verdict was simple.
There was no need to judge a president who had accomplished an excellent project for Brazil on such a trivial matter. The Japanese saw Kakuei in this light.
The U.S. State Department saw him as such but also as a threat.
Kakuei went over the head of the U.S., restoring diplomatic relations with China and getting his hands on Indonesian oil.
Kakuei was definitely shaking up the Japanese people who had been asleep.
The U.S. State Department used Japan's Foreign Correspondents' Club to eliminate the threat.
GHQ used the FCCJ to assist in the occupation.
One day, Kakuei was invited to a luncheon there.
He responded innocently, but the foreign correspondent questioned him about Tachibana's story about the money trail.
The vulgar questions, which showed no respect whatsoever for the country's prime minister, were immediately telegraphed, and the Japanese media that saw them started an uproar.
Kakuei was thus ousted from his position as prime minister, and Takashi Tachibana, who had set the stage for the incident, was elevated to the rank of super-journalist, thus concealing the malicious intent of the United States.
However, Kakuei's popularity and political power remained unchanged even though he was no longer prime minister.
He remained a threat to the United States.
So, I think the U.S. State Department created the Lockheed affair to choke Kakuei out.
This time, not the FCCJ, but the district attorney's special investigation department subcontracted the work.
The predecessor of this department was the Hidden and Stored Materials Incident Investigation Department, which also worked for GHQ after the war.
They followed U.S. orders to the letter.
For starters, the dubious receipts of Yoshio Kodama were submitted to a U.S. Senate subcommittee.
It was suggested that the Lockheed Corporation had bribed Kakuei for his favors.
Evidence of an unknown source is called "fruit from a poisonous tree" and is not even considered permissible in the United States.
However, the district attorney's special investigation department, ordered to uncover the "prime minister's crimes," did not care.
Lockheed created the structure that "Lockheed bribed Kakuei with 500 million yen to get All Nippon Airways, which had decided on the Douglas DC10, to buy the TriStar.
Next comes the evidence.
As the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation department later did when it arrested Atsuko Muraki, a welfare bureaucrat, they wanted to "falsify evidence according to the composition.
The testimony of the Lockheed executives was acquitted of bribery charges, and there was no cross-examination; in other words, they were forced to tell lies under the structure of the district attorney's special investigation department.
The Supreme Court gave the OK, of all things.
It was when Japan ceased to be a nation governed by the rule of law.
Yusuke Yoshinaga, deputy director of the District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation department, declared, "Companies with P3C written on them are banned,'' responded to a reporter's question, "There is no way ANA would use JAL's second aircraft, the DC10, as its main aircraft."
It was like Xi Jinping to Apple Daily.
When Yoshinaga was accused of illegally accepting the testimony of a Lockheed executive without a cross-examination, he triumphantly said, "The witness Americans don't lie.''
Such people tried to crush Kakuei.
However, Takashi Tachibana was indebted to the runaway special investigation department of the district attorney's office.
When Kakuei's trial began, he published an article in the Asahi Journal arguing that Kakuei was guilty, and he dismissed Shoichi Watabe, who defended Kakuei, as "ignorant.
What will remain in my memory is the morning of Kakuei's arrest, when he was on TV, rejoicing in the victory of the prosecutors.
A prime minister crushed by the newspapers cannot be a powerful man.
It is the prosecutors who silence the newspapers and play with the law who are the most powerful.
Tachibana was described as a giant of knowledge.
But why didn't Tachibana notice that?
(July 8, 2021 issue)
