This essay delivers a fierce criticism of NHK, the Asahi Shimbun, and Japan’s postwar media establishment.
It argues that, had the enormous sums Japan was compelled to direct toward China and the Korean Peninsula instead been invested in disaster prevention, national resilience, infrastructure, and the protection of its citizens, Japan could have become the strongest disaster-resilient nation in the world.
Drawing on the author’s experience as a businessman, his pride in Japan’s natural beauty, history, culture, and traditions represented by figures such as Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon, the essay condemns counterfeit moralism and what it sees as journalism that has weakened both Japan and the stability of the world.

July 18, 2019
I have continued to write and publish because I believed I was doing so for Japan and the Japanese people, but I am truly exhausted.
The task was all the more draining because I had to confront the appalling reality of NHK while working with a feeling of profound disgust.
Readers must also have noticed that an extraordinarily large number of people involved in producing these NHK programs appear to be resident Koreans or individuals presenting themselves as Japanese.
Even so, one must stop and consider the situation.
In one year, I worked all but two days.
During only the ten most successful years of my life as a businessman, I generated 17 billion yen in tax revenue for the country.
This is the nation I love.
It is a country whose four seasons, mountain ranges, forests, lakes, and seas are all beautiful.
Until it was placed on the defeated side in the Second World War and subjected to foreign occupation for the first time, it had never once been ruled by another nation.
To choose only two representative figures for the purpose of this chapter, it is the country created by Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon, and countless other great men and women.
It is one of the rarest nations in the world, perhaps the only one, in which women were respected from ancient times.
It was also a country whose men were strong in the truest sense of the word.
That country is Japan.
Yet until August five years ago, Japan was continually trampled upon by China and the Korean Peninsula because of those who exploited NHK while living on public money, those engaged in the anti-national reporting of the Asahi Shimbun, and people such as Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami.
When I think of the injustice inflicted upon this country, my anger rises beyond measure.
They pose as champions of justice and counterfeit morality.
Yet no gate to heaven could possibly be open to them.
My only consolation is the thought that King Enma, judge of the dead, awaits them in hell with the severest punishment imaginable.
Consider this carefully.
Had the immense sums Japan was compelled to pay to China and the Korean Peninsula as a consequence of fabricated reporting been invested within Japan, the country could have built the strongest disaster-prevention system in the world.
It is no exaggeration to say that, without the destructive activities of NHK, the Asahi Shimbun, and similar organizations, not a single Japanese citizen might have had to die in a natural disaster.
More than thirty trillion yen was involved.
That money was the hard-earned tax revenue of the Japanese people.
It could have been invested in the land and in the lives of the people.
The Japanese were the people who transformed the Korean Peninsula, then one of the poorest regions in the world, into a modern society in only thirty-five years.
Had the more than thirty trillion yen that Japan was eventually made to provide been invested instead in domestic infrastructure, Japan would by now have become the world’s foremost nation in the fullest sense.
Its greatness would have been visible at a glance to people throughout the world.
Anyone could have recognized immediately that Japan was the country in which the turntable of civilization was moving according to divine providence.
Instead, those who came to dominate NHK and those involved in the reporting of the Asahi Shimbun encouraged China and the Korean Peninsula to grow ever more aggressive and allowed their misconduct to continue.
They halted the progress of the turntable of civilization.
They helped create the dangerously unstable world in which we now live.
It is therefore only natural that King Enma should be waiting for them in hell with punishments of a magnitude rarely seen in human history.