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.
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