2020/8/30
I discovered a paper the other day when I was searching for something.
This paper and its author were utterly new to me.
I was relieved to learn that the author was a graduate of the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics and an active member of ITOCHU Corporation, in addition to the excellence of his paper.
After I entered the workforce, I met two of my best friends for life.
They were both employees of ITOCHU Corporation.
They were both highly talented businessmen, holding critical positions in the company.
In recent years, the company's name has appeared in the discourse alongside Uichiro Niwa's pro-China statements, which has made me uncomfortable.
The strength of a trading company lies in the fact that every one of its employees is, in a sense, a manager of a small business.
Their ability to look at their clients' balance sheets and instantly grasp the company's state was astounding.
He can also check every detail of a large construction quotation and determine the price's appropriateness, something that would appall even Japan's leading general contractors.
Their strength was the trinity of intelligence, power, and energy that made up Japan's strength.
The corporate message of ITOCHU Corporation, "One merchant, a myriad of missions," hangs on the back net of the Jingu Stadium, Yakult's home field and I always thought it was exactly right whenever I saw it.
The author of the opening paragraph, Mr. Takehiko Aoyagi, has a brief biography.
He was formerly a professor at the International University of Japan.
He was born in Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, in 1934. He graduated from Kiryu Prefectural Kiryu High School.
He graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Economics in 1958 and joined Itochu Corporation.
He served as the General Manager of the Food Products Department of the Sydney Branch of ITOCHU Corporation and the General Manager of the Agricultural Products Department of the Head Office of ITOCHU Corporation. 
As a Director of ITOCHU Systems Development Corporation.
From 1985 to 1997, he was President and Chairman of Nippon Telematique, a joint venture between ITOCHU and NTT.
From 1995 to 2006, he was the deputy director and professor at the International University of Japan GLOBECOM, and from 2006 to 2016, he was a visiting professor at the same university.
His research areas include economics, business administration, finance, information society, law, international politics, and security theory. 
He is a self-appointed generalist in the social sciences.
He is the author of "Videtex Strategy" (Information Science), "Cyber Surveillance Society" (The Telecommunications Advancement Association), "Personal Information Overprotection Destroys Japan" (Softbank Shinsho), "Privacy Research in the Information Age" (NTT Publishing), "Roosevelt Betrayed the American People and Dragged Japan into War" (Heart Publishing), "The History of Japan Twisted by America to Psychologically Disarm the Japanese" (Heart Publishing), and many others.
I stumbled upon a paper by Aoyanagi that won an excellence award in the APA Group's seventh annual "True View of Modern History" competition essay.
It is a must-read for Japan and the rest of the world.
Countless passages perfectly describe Arima's brain structure and the NHK employees who control NHK/Watch 9, which I found inexcusable the other night.

Why the Japanese have so quickly fallen prey to WGIP
First, because the WGIP was cleverly concealed and executed in secret, the Japanese did not even know the brainwashing program existed.
The U.S. introduced the idea of democracy in a big way, so it took a central place in post-war Japan's ideology and educational philosophy.
Never in their wildest dreams did the Japanese people realize that GHQ, its headquarters, promoted brainwashing by denying "freedom of speech."
Second, much of what GHQ propagated was wartime secrecy, and since all military history was destroyed, the Japanese had no way of verifying the truth.
For this reason, the Japanese people believed without a doubt that the militarists lied and deceived the public.
Third, almost all the academics the Japanese rely on have uncritically and unreservedly accepted the history of the Tokyo Trials and have even published articles and books that actively support this view, adding to the confusion.
In particular, significant historians supported the Tokyo Tribunal's view of history and published a series of studies that portrayed the entire history of Japan in a negative light.
Many of the students taught by these scholars became teachers and taught their children a masochistic view of history.
This view of the history of the Tokyo Trials was inculcated into the younger generation through historical education.
In his book, Nagahara Keiji, Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University, the Society for Historical Research chairman, goes so far as to say that "Japanese history was taught to see history correctly by the Tokyo Trials.
The reality is that, with a few exceptions, the historical academy is still firmly rooted in its support of the historical view of the Tokyo Trials.
The only people who argue for a proper understanding of history are scholars who are unconnected to the world of history.
Watanabe Shoichi, a critic and English linguist; Kō Bun'yū, a historian of Western economics; Nishio Kanji, German literature; Hasegawa Michiko, a philosopher; Nakamura Akira, English literature; Sakurai Yoshiko, journalist; Ushio Masato, former Air Self-Defense Force officer; Kobori Keiichiro, German and comparative literature; Nakanishi Terumasa, European diplomatic history, and international politics; Fujiwara Masahiko, mathematician, and essayist, and the list goes on and on.
All of them are engaged in a wide range of great intellectual activities beyond their titles.
The same is true of the legal academy.
The Tokyo Trials' substance was that they were illegal lynchings by the victorious powers, and even the Allies were unsure of their validity.
However, Professor Kizaburo Yokota, a professor of international law at the Tokyo Imperial University's Faculty of Law and considered one of the world's leading authorities on international law, surprisingly argued that the Tokyo Tribunal was legitimate.
He wrote The War Crimes, uncritically accepting the Tokyo Tribunal's historical perspective and stating that "there is no doubt in my mind that there is a strong intention among almost all nations to regard the war of aggression as an international crime."
Many other legal scholars at the time followed suit like an avalanche, making the power of the WGIP tremendous.
To be continued.