The following is from the book by Masayuki Takayama published on 9/1/2022 titled "Japanese! Wake Up, See Through the Lies of Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, and the Asahi Shimbun" from Masayuki Takayama's book.
This paper also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.

Diplomatic Documents Reveal Foreign Ministry Bureaucrats Undermining Japan
Former bureau chief Sakutaro Tanino moved the Emperor's visit to China and led the Kono Statement
Tanino withheld the political use of the Emperor　
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released diplomatic documents dating back 30 years.
The documents were made public when Toshiki Kaifu, who recently passed away, was prime minister.　
The newspapers selected quite a few different topics from among the many documents that had been released, and it was pretty funny to see how they all expressed the newspaper's colors.　
For example, the Sankei Shimbun pointed out the Kaifu administration's "too pro-China" response to the Tiananmen Incident (1989).　
I had not heard before that Kaifu walked around convincing the leaders of European countries that economic sanctions would not lead to the democratization of China.　
There was no way Shina would democratize.
It is said that Ichiro Ozawa gave him the nod, but Kaifu's last job was as an advisor to a think tank at Tsinghua University.
He himself was a serious follower of China.　
The Chinese do not overlook such things.
To put out the fire of the Tiananmen Square incident, Vice Premier Wu Xueqian approached the Emperor to visit China the following year.　
However, Sakutaro Tanino, Director General of the Asian Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was present at the meeting, "arbitrarily withheld this political use of the emperor," according to a public document.　
He was entirely on the side of China, saying, "If we disclose this information now, the Japanese people would be appalled, and the visit to China would not be realized."　
Thus, the Emperor's visit to China was realized without the people's knowledge.　
China, confident in its political use of the Emperor, began to extort Japan by manipulating the faction that favored China.
In addition to massive amounts of ODA, they stole the wisdom of the Japanese people and grew ever more prominent.
The current grotesque Xi Jinping administration was born.　
But the Chinese have no gratitude.
The prime minister, Li Peng, who welcomed the Emperor, spoke unreservedly two years later, saying, "Things like Japan will disappear in 30 years.　
Incidentally, Sakutaro Tanino, in the next Kiichi Miyazawa cabinet, made the "forced taking of comfort women," a pack of lies, into a historical fact and published it in the form of the Kono Statement, thus humiliating the Japanese people.
This person will never die in a good way.

Japan's Responsibility for Not Revising the Constitution　
Asahi Shimbun did not cover China-related issues but instead covered Japan-US relations from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait to the Gulf War.
The Cold War was over, and the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty had lost its meaning, but the U.S. conversely increased Japan's share of the cost of stationing U.S. troops in Japan.　
But that was not all.
The U.S. threatened to join a multinational force when the Gulf War became a reality.　
When we argued that even if Japan wanted to send troops, it would be impossible because of the U.S.-imposed Constitution, the U.S. brushed it off as something the U.S. had no control over.　
Although the published documents do not mention it, a source at the time said, "The United States imposed an American constitution on the Philippines, Cuba, and Panama, which it occupied and colonized in the past, but those countries regained their sovereignty. They immediately threw away the American-made Constitution.'' "But Japan still has this problem after half a century. It is now Japan's responsibility.''The United States retorted to Japan.
It means that bringing up the "U.S.-imposed Constitution of long ago" as a reason for refusing to join the multinational force is no excuse.　
Trump, incidentally, has said something to the same effect.　
The U.S. government finally paid 1.5 trillion yen ($13 billion) for the multinational force to join the U.S. Navy.
The British complained that it was still too little.　
Japan should have opposed the Iraqi strike regardless of the Constitution.　
Because as I wrote in my book "Saddam Hussein was great,'' Saddam was a great man.
He freed his people from Islamic precepts, took off women's chadors, and gave them education.　
UNESCO even honored him as a modernizer of the Middle East.　
Incidentally, Saddam's favorite foods were pork spare ribs and wine.
He had utterly disassociated himself from Islam.
Following Saddam's lead, both Assad in Syria and Gaddafi in Libya tried to modernize the Arab world, but the Western press continued to report the exact opposite.　
Saddam did indeed invade Kuwait.
Because Kuwait was not an Arab country but the British "Kuwait Oil Company."
He put an Arab from that area as king, did some of the oil revenues, and pretended to be an Arab nation.

Demand to Abolish Fingerprinting of South Koreans in Japan　
So, there were indeed 3,000 British citizens in Kuwait when the Iraqi army invaded.
To help them escape, the British immediately dispatched the Special Air Service (SAS) to rescue them.　
The multinational force was literally a violent device to recover British property.
Hearing the British ask Japan to "give more money" while concealing such a fact is appalling.　
Saddam survived the attack, but ten years later, the U.S. used the 9/11 terrorist attacks as an excuse to start another war, killing Saddam and then Gaddafi.
It is the true nature of the "Arab Spring," as it was called in good faith.　
Japan contributed $13 billion to Britain and the United States.
Although this is only half of the 3 trillion yen of ODA donated to China, it is a very pitiful story.
There is also one open diplomatic document that underestimates Japan even more.
It is the diplomatic relations with South Korea.　
Since the Japan-Korea Treaty, Korea has been extorting 1 billion yen every ten years, but Roh Tae-woo made an outrageous demand at that time.
When he was running for president, Japan gave him the custody of Kim Hyon-hui, who had been captured by Japanese embassy staff in Bahrain.　
It delayed the clarification of North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens for more than 20 years.　
In addition, Roh Tae-woo's new demand was the abolition of fingerprinting of South Koreans living in Japan.
Why are Koreans being taken while the Japanese are not?
Kaifu foolishly acquiesced to the demand that they were treated the same as the Japanese.　
It went into effect, and soon after, the Setagaya family of four was murdered.
The murderer, who wore Korean-made sneakers, left more than 100 fingerprints and palm prints, but because of Roh Tae-woo, there were no fingerprints to match, and the case remains unsolved to this day.　
The Japanese government, which considers the national interests of the other country first, is lined up in the public documents.　
We want to consider that Japanese people are suffering and being killed as a result.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
(February 2022 issue)