Aiming to become a "nuclear powerhouse," construction is picking up pace to meet domestic energy needs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
May 05, 2018
Tomoo Hirooka, president of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, was giving his closing speech on the closing day of the midsummer Koshien, that unusually gloomy-looking day.
It may be an apt analogy, considering that high school baseball at that time was in its gutsy baseball era, when baseball schools were in full swing.

The Chinese government invited him to stay in China for more than a month, even neglecting the shareholders' meeting.
After he returned to Japan, the Asahi Shimbun turned unbelievably pro-China.
It was the most unambiguous indication that Asahi had become the advance guard of China's propaganda campaign against Japan.
The Asahi then proceeded to discredit the Japanese nation and its people further.
The Asahi Shimbun has had astronomical amounts of our tax dollars funneled to China through ODA.
It is now an obvious fact that one of the triggers that led to the growth of the communist one-party dictatorship and its impossible task is Honda Katsuichi's "China Trip.
Since the Hirooka line, all the current editorialists must have visited China.
The other day, I realized that many must have visited China in close connection with the Chinese Communist Party.
At the same time, I was suddenly convinced that there was a near 100% chance that all of them had been honey-trapped in the first place.

I am the world's most frequent visitor to Kyoto.
Osaka, not to mention Kyoto, has been flooded with Chinese tourists in the past few years.
It is a well-known fact that Koreans are pretty ugly in their original faces without plastic surgery.
However, there are many beautiful Chinese women like Japanese women.
It is no exaggeration to say that the atmosphere that women exude is close to that of the Japanese.
After all, this is a country of 1.4 billion people.
Finding a beautiful woman should not be too challenging, even from a probability standpoint.
When I told this story to my bookish friend,
"Yes, that is true. China is a country of mixed blood. In ancient times, neighboring countries presented princesses to China from the Korean peninsula, and China was conquered by different ethnic groups every few hundred years." He replied.
In addition, Japan had a tradition of saying, "Shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation," especially among the elite class.

Today's Yomiuri Shimbun carried a giant headline on page 8: "Nuclear power plants and railroads to be exported...Pillars of "One Road, One Country" infrastructure...Improvement of technological capabilities; Domestic production to advance. It must be a series of articles.
It was part 2 of 40 Years of Reform and Opening-Up, "Science Powerhouse.
My immediate thought was, "What is this?"
Like all the other guesses I have made, my guess is almost 100% correct.
The anti-nuclear movement, championed by Mizuho Fukushima, Naoto Kan, and Masayoshi Son and spearheaded by the Asahi Shimbun, has been a significant factor in China's nuclear power and railway export strategy.
It is indisputable that China's most formidable rival for nuclear power and railroads is Japan, not only as an eye sore but also as a pillar of its export strategy.
Japan, or rather the Asahi Shimbun, wants nuclear technology to decline with the pseudo-moralism of a kindergartener.
If this happens, it will be a great success in every sense of the word, and the first is China, and the second is the Korean peninsula.
Since China's manipulation has spread to every corner of the world, most mass media have yet to report on the frequent PM2.5 pollution in recent years.
I can see it by looking at the sky over Umeda from my house.
If I search China just to be sure, I find scattered points marked in black with unbelievable numbers of PM2.5 pollution.
Even PM2.5 is frequently carried by the winds in the sky.
China, our neighbor, is implementing a plan to rival the U.S. by operating more than 100 nuclear power plants by the year 30.
All of the Asahi Shimbun's editorialists, who are relentless in their opposition to nuclear power, have fallen into some Chinese trap and must have hit the nail on the head 100%.

The following is from the Yomiuri Shimbun article
Nuclear Power Plant and Railway Export Offensive
Trucks come and go, billowing clouds of smoke along the seaside road lined with straw-roofed houses.
The trucks are on their way to the Shidangwan Nuclear Power Plant (Rongcheng, Shandong Province), near this port town, where seafood farming is thriving.
Several cranes can be seen on the plant's grounds, and construction is underway on a demonstration "high-temperature gas-cooled reactor," which is expected to be a next-generation nuclear reactor.　
Japan has research reactors for basic experiments, but this is the first demonstration reactor in the world to test power generation.
Liu Xugang, 42, a deputy researcher at Tsinghua University familiar with nuclear power plants, said, "The reactor will be operational by the end of this year. We expect to gain a variety of new findings.　
In China, which had lagged behind Japan, the U.S., and Europe in constructing nuclear power plants, the Kanashan Nuclear Power Plant in Zhejiang Province finally began transmitting electricity in 1991.
A delegation from a Japanese electric power industry organization sometimes visited the plant to help tighten the bolts on the pipes.　
However, the company has also introduced technology from the United States, France, Russia, and other countries and has focused on human resource development.
According to the Japan Atomic Energy Industries Association, 37 nuclear power plants were in operation as of January 2018, ranking third in the world after the United States and France.
Japan, where most are shut down due to tightened regulations following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.　　
Aiming to become a "nuclear powerhouse," the country is increasing the pace of construction to meet domestic energy demand and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It plans to have more than 100 nuclear reactors in operation by 2030, which would put it on par with the United States.

High-speed rail also closed the gap with foreign countries by introducing technology from abroad.　
May 05, 2018
Until August four years ago, the Asahi Shimbun had ruled Japan.
It is an obvious fact that it is the Asahi Shimbun that has ruled all walks of life as Japan's Nazis, to use their favorite term.
Undoubtedly, everyone in the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, even the Special Investigation Department, subscribes to and reads the Asahi Shimbun.
On the contrary, there is a clear fact in an article by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
He told us that the Asahi Shimbun had once taken up the issue of the Prosecutor General's woman problem or something else against a Prosecutor General who did not conform to their wishes, like their current campaign to overthrow the government and had him repeatedly ousted from office through extensive media coverage.

There is no doubt that, directly or indirectly, the Chinese are engaged in various maneuvering activities to discredit nuclear power plants and the Japanese railroads, their most formidable and most robust global rival.
Japan has begun constructing the Linear Shinkansen, the world's most advanced railroad technology, which will further put it ahead of China.
It is an obvious fact that China is the only country in the world that is happy and delighted that Japan's general contractors, who have the world's highest technology that Japan is proud of and the world recognizes, are being investigated in a way that even former prosecutors are questioning, calling it "bid rigging."

The following continues the Yomiuri Shimbun article in the previous section.
China has also closed the gap with foreign countries in high-speed railroads by introducing technologies from overseas.　　
In September 2005, the "Fuxing" high-speed train began operation, which boasts the world's fastest speed of 350 km/h.　
The train, named after the slogan of the Xi Jinping administration, "The Great Revival of the Chinese Nation," arrives at Shanghai, 1,300 km/h from Beijing, in 4.5 hours.　　
China has received railroad technology from Japan, Germany, and other countries, but Yang Zhongping, 47, a professor at Beijing Jiao Tong University, said, "The Fuxing train is a 'purely domestic' product in which China has done everything itself, from design to testing. The technology has been taken to the next level."　　　　　　　
China aims to export its social infrastructure technologies overseas as part of its "One Belt, One Road" initiative.
The two pillars of this plan are nuclear power plants and high-speed railroads.

At a symposium on the nuclear power industry held in Tokyo on April 10, a senior executive of a Chinese company involved in nuclear power plant exports explained the domestically produced nuclear reactor "Hualong-1" and emphasized, "We can fully meet the demands of our customers with our atomic safety systems.　　
Huarong-1 is a new type of nuclear reactor based on French technology.　
Based on the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, it will withstand strong earthquakes and tsunamis.
It has already been exported to the U.K., Argentina, and other countries.　
The company has also received orders from Laos, Indonesia, and other countries for high-speed rail construction projects.
Yang explains, "We have the advantage of having developed rolling stock that can cope with various terrains and climates in Japan.
Japan is also trying to sell nuclear power plants and high-speed railroads, but China, a former "pupil" of Japan, is a strong competitor.　
However, the Hualong-1 has no operational track record, and it is unknown whether it can genuinely handle accidents and problems.
A Japanese researcher points out the opaqueness of information disclosure, saying, "Once the technology is established, foreigners will no longer be able to enter the facility.
In the case of high-speed rail, there have been many cases where projects have stalled due to aggressive methods and poor prospects when orders were received.　
Professor Wei-Yue Zhou, 55, of Guangxi University, who specializes in the nuclear fuel cycle, points out that "there is still much to be learned from Japan, which has a long history of experience.
On the other hand, operational data from nuclear power plants and high-speed railroads is valuable for research and development, even for Japan, where research expenditures are sluggish.
Watanabe Keisuke, 66, a researcher at the Overseas Electric Power Research Institute, based on his 30 years of experience watching China, said, "Japan is necessary for China's development, and Japan can also use China. We should build relations strategically.　
(End of article. (Kazuhiko Makita and Sho Funakoshi wrote this series)

*The end of this article suggests that the Yomiuri, like the Keidanren, is somehow being taken in by China, revealing the folly of the Japanese mass media.