The following is from Masayuki Takayama's book "Newspapers Lie Like Bigots," published on 12/15/2022.
This paper also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
A long time ago, an elderly female professor of the Royal Ballet School of Monaco, highly respected by prima ballerinas worldwide, visited Japan.
At that time, she spoke about the significance of an artist's existence.
She said, "Artists are important because they are the only ones who can shed light on hidden, concealed truths and express them."
No one would dispute her words.
It is no exaggeration to say that Masayuki Takayama is not only the one and only journalist in the postwar world but also the one and only artist in the postwar world.
On the other hand, Ōe, I don't want to speak ill of the deceased, but (to follow Masayuki Takayama's example below), Murakami and many others who call themselves writers or think of themselves as artists are not even worthy of the name of artists.
They have only expressed the lies the Asahi Shimbun and others created rather than shedding light on hidden truths and telling them.
Their existence is not limited to Japan but is the same in other countries worldwide.
In other words, there are only a few true artists.
This paper is another excellent proof that I am right when I say that no one in the world today deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Masayuki Takayama.
It is a must-read not only for the people of Japan but for people all over the world.

The actual bad guy who brought down Toshiba is this guy!
Frank Sinatra flew in on his private plane when I was at the Haneda Press Club.　
It was a small U.S. Gulfstream jet, and actor Tatsuya Mitsuhashi rushed to the side of the plane as it landed lightly and entered the spot.　
At the time, the U.S. held 90% of the small aircraft market, with well-known manufacturers and parts suppliers such as Cessna, Viper, and Beech Aircraft all lined up along the West Coast.　
Twenty years later, for whatever reason, I became a correspondent in Los Angeles.　
When I asked him what was selling well now, he replied incredulously, "Cessna has stopped production," "Viper is in Chapter 11, which means it is bankrupt," and "Gulf must have gone out of business.　
The most disastrous of all was Viper.
At its peak, the company had several hundred employees and produced 5,200 planes a year, but now it has 45 employees and produces only seven planes a year.
DeHavilland, Short, and several other bankrupt companies were bought up by Bombardier, a Canadian railroad company, and are now making small passenger planes.
The answer was, "It's a collection of bankrupt companies, so let's see if it will fly properly."
His hunch was on target by now, and Bombardier planes were causing accidents all over Japan.　
So why is the thriving U.S. small aircraft industry on the verge of extinction?　
It's the lawsuits," Ron Swanda of the U.S. Small Airplane Manufacturers Association told me.　
It started in the mid-1980s.
The Federal Aviation Administration recommended that small aircraft pilots wear seat belts with proper harnesses over both shoulders.　
Manufacturers complied.
They advertised that it made piloting safer.
However, even light aircraft are expensive.
Because they cannot be easily replaced, most of them are still flown with the old seat belts, and when they do fly, accidents occur.
Take the Viper accident in Albuquerque, for example.
The pilot, operating the tandem from the rear seat with a camera in the front seat, failed to notice an obstacle on the runway and collided with it, resulting in serious injuries.
The pilot was supposedly careless, but the lawyer blamed the old seat belts.
He argued that the old model was not as safe as now, so he was seriously injured.　
The jury nodded, and Viper was ordered to pay $2.5 million in damages, including punitive damages, which could have bought 20 aircraft of the same model.　
The same goes for Cessna.
When the company introduced an improved, safer model, it was blamed for the fact that the older models were all unsafe and were forced to pay high damages. The product liability insurance to cover it came to $70,000 per plane.
So they stopped production.　
Thus, the small aircraft industry was destroyed, and jobs and technology were lost.
The selfishness of the lawyers was appalling, but that is the nature of the American people.　
In fact, about ten years later, in 1999, a strange lawsuit was filed against Toshiba in the U.S. District Court in Beaumont, Texas.　
The lawsuit alleged that Toshiba's floppy disk controllers (FDCs) could malfunction if many tasks were performed simultaneously on a Toshiba computer and that Toshiba should be compensated for this.
So, the suit demanded compensation.　
But Toshiba defended itself, saying it had received no complaints or inquiries about the problem.　
But attorney Wayne Rio, a major Clinton donor, was adamant.
He said, "Toshiba sold the P.C.s knowing they were defective.
He would not budge on his demand to pay one trillion yen.　
The basis of his argument is that NEC put an improved FDC on the market, saying that overloading the current FDC could cause it to fail.
On the other hand, Toshiba did not recognize the need to go that far and did not put out an improved model.
That is all.
It was precisely the same method they used to cause trouble in the small aircraft industry.
In Japan, where people are ashamed of themselves, this lawsuit would never have happened, but Rio's lawyer has the backing of President Clinton.　
Ultimately, Toshiba accepted a settlement offer of 110 billion yen that year.
Toshiba sold off its securities to raise money but still incurred a deficit of 65 billion yen, which triggered the window dressing.　
The U.S. does not overlook its prey when it is vulnerable.
This time, Westinghouse, a subsidiary of Toshiba, played a dirty trick and forced Toshiba to take on 1 trillion yen this time.　
It's a picture-perfect ending to a greedy and ruthless America.
The actual bad guy who brought down Toshiba is this guy!
Frank Sinatra flew in on his private plane when I was at the Haneda Press Club.　
It was a small U.S. Gulfstream jet, and actor Tatsuya Mitsuhashi rushed to the side of the plane as it landed lightly and entered the spot.　
At the time, the U.S. held 90% of the small aircraft market, with well-known manufacturers and parts suppliers such as Cessna, Viper, and Beech Aircraft all lined up along the West Coast.　
Twenty years later, for whatever reason, I became a correspondent in Los Angeles.　
When I asked him what was selling well now, he replied incredulously, "Cessna has stopped production," "Viper is in Chapter 11, which means it is bankrupt," and "Gulf must have gone out of business.　
The most disastrous of all was Viper.
At its peak, the company had several hundred employees and produced 5,200 planes a year, but now it has 45 employees and produces only seven planes a year.
DeHavilland, Short, and several other bankrupt companies were bought up by Bombardier, a Canadian railroad company, and are now making small passenger planes.
The answer was, "It's a collection of bankrupt companies, so let's see if it will fly properly.
His hunch was on target by now, and Bombardier planes were causing accidents all over Japan.　
So why is the thriving U.S. small aircraft industry on the verge of extinction?　
It's the lawsuits," Ron Swanda of the U.S. Small Airplane Manufacturers Association told me.　
It started in the mid-1980s.
The Federal Aviation Administration recommended that small aircraft pilots wear seat belts with proper harnesses over both shoulders.　
Manufacturers complied.
They advertised that it made piloting safer.
However, even light aircraft are expensive.
Because they cannot be easily replaced, most of them are still flown with the old seat belts, and when they do fly, accidents occur.
Take the Viper accident in Albuquerque, for example.
The pilot, flying with a camera in the front seat of the tandem, failed to notice an obstacle on the runway and crashed into it, severely injuring himself.　
The pilot was supposedly careless, but the lawyer blamed the old seat belts.
He argued that the old model was not as safe as now, so he was seriously injured.　
The jury nodded, and Viper was ordered to pay $2.5 million in damages, including punitive damages, which could have bought 20 aircraft of the same model.　
The same goes for Cessna.
When the company introduced an improved, safer model, it was blamed for the fact that the older models were all unsafe and were forced to pay high damages. The product liability insurance to cover it came to $70,000 per plane.
So they stopped production.　
Thus, the small aircraft industry was destroyed, and jobs and technology were lost.
The selfishness of the lawyers was appalling, but that is the nature of the American people.　
In fact, about ten years later, in 1999, a strange lawsuit was filed against Toshiba in the U.S. District Court in Beaumont, Texas.　
The lawsuit alleged that Toshiba's floppy disk controllers (FDCs) could malfunction if several tasks were performed simultaneously on a Toshiba computer and that Toshiba should be compensated for this.
So, the suit demanded compensation.　
But Toshiba defended itself, saying it had received no complaints or inquiries about the problem.　
But attorney Wayne Rio, a major Clinton donor, was adamant.
He said, "Toshiba sold the P.C.s knowing they were defective.
He would not budge on his demand to pay one trillion yen.　
The basis of his argument is that NEC put an improved FDC on the market, saying that overloading the current FDC could cause it to fail.
On the other hand, Toshiba did not recognize the need to go that far and did not put out an improved model.
That is all.
It was precisely the same method they used to cause trouble in the small aircraft industry.
In Japan, where people are ashamed of themselves, this lawsuit would never have happened, but Rio's lawyer has the backing of President Clinton.　
Ultimately, Toshiba accepted a settlement offer of 110 billion yen that year.
Toshiba sold off its securities to raise money but still incurred a deficit of 65 billion yen, which triggered the window dressing.　
The U.S. does not overlook its prey when it is vulnerable.
This time, Westinghouse, a subsidiary of Toshiba, played a dirty trick and forced Toshiba to take on 1 trillion yen this time.　
It is a picture-perfect of the greedy and ruthless U.S.
Maybe it's good that the TPP is gone, as it will leave everything to the country like this.
(April 13, 2017)