It is only natural that the United States, which suffered one of the greatest damages from the Wuhan virus, should seek responsibility and compensation from China. Yet Japanese television reporting treated that policy almost with contempt. This essay questions TV Tokyo’s WBS, Japanese news programs, and the problem of using female announcers as news anchors without true journalistic substance.

May 2, 2020
The female anchor repeatedly made unbelievable comments about President Trump’s remarks at his press conference and about the policy of the United States.
Thinking that it might still be better than others, I had been watching WBS from 11 p.m. on TV Tokyo, whose parent company is the Nikkei Shimbun, but last night I was truly appalled.
A second-rate person pretends to be first-rate.
She has only a strong upward ambition, yet she tries to hide it.
To put it simply, her essence is nothing decent.
However, unlike female announcers at other stations, she comments on the state of the stock market with a seriousness that could even be called abnormal.
Is that because the parent company is Nikkei?
No.
Is it because she herself invests in stocks?
That was my impression of the woman who anchors this program.
I had only such an impression of her that I did not even properly remember her name.
I think it was last year, but during a year-end or New Year special program, I once watched a ridiculous program in which a male announcer colleague was praising this woman.
I had thought that the fact that she sometimes asks questions at government press conferences was probably a privilege of her position.
Last night, more than being appalled, I felt fierce anger.
It was the scene in which the program showed footage of President Trump’s press conference and reported that the United States had finally obtained confirmation that the virus came from the Wuhan research institute.
Last night, NHK reported absolutely nothing about this, neither on the seven o’clock news nor on watch9.
I had been watching this program for some time because it occasionally does report such things.
Incidentally, I remembered the name and face of Kotani, who was the anchor when I truly watched the program only occasionally.
That was because I had heard that she had once been a JAL cabin attendant.
I watched, thinking that the United States had finally obtained the evidence.
However, the female anchor repeatedly made unbelievable comments about President Trump’s remarks at his press conference and about the policy of the United States.
What on earth is this woman?
I will discuss that later.
The United States is the country that has suffered the greatest damage in the world from this Wuhan virus.
In terms of the number of infected people, the number of deaths, and the economy, it has suffered damage greater than that of the Great Depression.
He is the president of that country.
Moreover, the United States is the country that has spent by far the largest amount of money on funding the United Nations and the WHO, exceeding even Japan, which has continued to provide enormous funds.
The United States is, without question, the leader of the world and the greatest superpower in both name and reality.
The president of that country has shown a policy of not forgiving China, of making China take responsibility, and of making China pay compensation.
Senators are also submitting bills on a bipartisan basis, and are further refining their content.
In response to that policy, this woman commented, with an expression as if looking down on President Trump, “It is a mess.”
Not once.
Twice.
TV Tokyo, and Nikkei as well, must have been infiltrated by China to the marrow of their bones.
The day before yesterday, a friend of mine who is one of the greatest readers told me that most people concerned have been caught in China’s honey traps.
At that time, he also told me that this applies regardless of gender.
In other words, when China’s target is a woman, it prepares a carefully selected and trained man, suited to the target’s preference, and sets a trap.
This morning, first of all, I searched WBS to confirm this woman’s name.
Mariko Oe.
A caster belonging to TV Tokyo’s news bureau.
She formerly belonged to the same station’s announcing department.
She is from Buzen City, Fukuoka Prefecture.
She graduated from Higashi Chikushi Gakuen High School, Shoyokan Junior High School, and the Department of Japanese Literature, Faculty of Letters, Ferris University.
At university, while majoring in Chinese classics, she studied abroad at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and is therefore fluent in Chinese.
From Wikipedia.
I see.
Study abroad at Tsinghua University.
If so, last night’s behavior makes sense.
Furthermore, she married Oki Matsumoto, the founder of Monex Securities.
I see.
My reading of faces was correct after all.

If the United States did not exist, and if the Japan-U.S. alliance did not exist, Japan would have been completely trampled by an arrogant China.
It might even have used nuclear weapons, not merely missile attacks.
Oe.
Stop immediately pretending to be a journalist while serving as a hanger-on to Akira Ikegami and others.
Stop immediately continuing to make comments hostile to the nation over the public airwaves.
If you understand the depth of the sin you are committing, then resigning immediately is the only apology you can make to the Japanese people for having continued to insult reporting, scholarship, and truth.
You pretend to be a moralist.
Yet her comments unintentionally exposed that she has none of the suffering and anger of the countless people who died, or were killed, and those who were infected and felt as if they were dying, in the Wuhan virus disaster, a postwar catastrophe and one of the greatest catastrophes in human history.
This becomes even more so because, exactly as China intends, she comments using the incomprehensible name “novel coronavirus.”
She is a person who cannot understand the truth of anything unless she herself or her family encounters it.
She unintentionally showed that, for her, the Wuhan virus disaster is someone else’s affair.
Anyone watching her expression should have understood that her real concern is clearly only the state of the stock market.
I had been watching this program thinking that only the person named Takita was decent.
Japanese television stations must finally stop the foolish practice of calling employees known as female announcers, who are by no means journalists, and who can, without exaggeration, be called graduates of worthless university beauty contests, “anchors,” and placing them in charge of the stations’ flagship news programs.
That is because there is no practice that degrades politics and the nation more than this.
The time has long since come to understand that this is precisely the sort of practice that only China and South Korea welcome and desire.