This article criticizes NHK’s Watch 9 for reducing the urgent pursuit of the truth about the Wuhan virus and the Chinese Communist Party’s conduct to a simple “U.S.-China confrontation.”
It argues that genuine journalists should investigate the origin of the virus, China’s refusal to provide transparency, and the demands made by Angela Merkel, Dominic Raab, and Emmanuel Macron for accountability.
The article condemns NHK’s pro-China framing, its abandonment of the basic 5W1H principles of journalism, and its disrespect toward the victims of the pandemic.

April 23, 2020
Who wants to force into the framework of U.S.-China confrontation a problem that any genuine journalist should pursue to the very end?
Who is pleased by placing it within such a framework?
Tonight, thinking there was no point in watching Watch 9, I watched a recorded commercial television program, Ad Machi Cook, Kawaguchi, and other programs.
It ended a little after 9:30, and I thought that perhaps Watch 9 might finally report what I had pointed out yesterday morning, namely the entirely natural and severe criticism of China by EU leaders, which Watch 9 had not touched at all.
The moment I switched the channel, Watch 9 was finally reporting footage of Merkel and the British foreign secretary at their press conferences.
However.
Arima, who from today was appearing from a separate room, as usual placed the perfectly natural action of the United States, namely trying to determine the true nature of the Wuhan virus, into the framework of U.S.-China confrontation.
He summarized, with the words U.S.-China confrontation, a problem that all genuine journalists must pursue.
Then he commented, “Between them, Japan must…” and so on.
Who wants to force into the framework of U.S.-China confrontation a problem that any genuine journalist should pursue to the very end?
Who is pleased by placing it within such a framework?
He is unmistakably a running dog of China.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that, for the world, he is one of the most malicious accomplices in crime, mocking all those who have died in this viral disaster, which, for some reason, broke out very near the Wuhan laboratory in China, and which may be described without exaggeration as a symbol of evil.
China’s military expansion in recent years has been filled with evil intent and wickedness, and has consumed an astronomical budget.
Decent people throughout the world who have watched the behavior of China, the CCP, from the outbreak of the virus until today are not naked servants bowing before the naked king named Xi Jinping, like the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and others, who imagine that China was simply conducting ordinary virus research at the Wuhan virus laboratory.
As Keiko Kawasoe, one of the most capable and rising journalists today and one of the world’s leading China experts, has pointed out, it is only the Japanese media that report the Wuhan virus as having emerged naturally, while the world is the opposite.
That is exactly what German Chancellor Merkel and British Foreign Secretary Raab said at official press conferences.
This is a fact at the level of elementary school.
If China had revealed the true nature of this virus and all the circumstances, including the first patients, effective treatments and vaccine development would have proceeded swiftly.
For example, the life of Kumiko Okae might also have been saved.
Although this has been pointed out from all over the world, China refuses to accept the dispatch of an international medical team.
In particular, it refuses to accept the dispatch of experts demanded by the United States.
That fact alone makes the truth of the matter clear.
This is not at all a moldy, left-wing union activist-level matter called “U.S.-China confrontation.”
Arima does not understand at all the meaning of what German Chancellor Merkel, British Foreign Secretary Raab, and French President Macron have said at official press conferences: “China must show transparency,” and “China has an obligation to increase transparency and report to the international community.”
Pretending not to understand, he defends China by framing the issue as U.S.-China confrontation.
Japan and the Japanese people have entrusted such a man with hosting the flagship program of Japan’s state broadcaster in reality.
No, they are allowing him to broadcast to the world as a representative of Japan.
This is outrageous.
For this one comment by this man today alone, Maeda deserves to resign as NHK president.
The reason is that the glaringly pro-China attitude of Watch 9 insults the dead and all victims throughout the world.
While completely abandoning the foundation of reporting, the 5W1H, they speak in sanctimonious evasions.
Arima, the people controlling NHK’s news department, and Maeda, the president who must supervise them, must immediately realize that this is precisely the most malicious conduct.
For all NHK employees have become true fools and, unbelievably, continue to speak on behalf of the one-party dictators of the Chinese Communist Party.