2024-02-22
Why Is the UN an “Enemy of Japan”?
The conclusion that the UN is an “enemy of Japan” is not a conspiracy theory.
A September 2020 editorial in the Sankei Shimbun takes a skeptical view of the UN’s purpose.
What Japan is particularly concerned about is the “enemy state clauses” written into the UN’s founding documents.
One of the “enemy state clauses” contains a provision to the effect that UN member states are permitted to invade Japan and Germany, former enemy states, without the approval of the Security Council.
Some argue that the “enemy state clauses” have been rendered invalid by subsequently adopted charters and other documents, but that original provision has still not been deleted.
The Sankei Shimbun and the Japanese government point out that, if China were to try to use that provision for its own benefit, it would have legal legitimacy and would therefore be dangerous. (Jason Morgan)
Speaking of NHK announcers, there is something strangely wrong with programs in which Chiaki Kamakura appears.
The first time I thought, “Hmm?” about this woman was during a live broadcast from the Shanghai World Expo.
As you know, I have decided that I will never visit China or South Korea as long as these two countries continue their anti-Japanese education.
Kamakura was completely at ease, as though she were in her own home.
I believe she was the principal announcer for the live broadcast.
The program on which she subsequently appeared as something of a co-host was one whose news coverage I had criticized several times, using the expression “henohenomoheji.”
It was “Close-Up Gendai,” which Takeda presided over.
They frequently brought on Daisuke Tsuda and Koichi Nakano as though they were the principal commentators.
The subsequent conduct of Daisuke Tsuda and Koichi Nakano proves just how appalling that program was.
I cannot understand the mentality of giving such people what amounted to principal commentator roles on one of the flagship news programs of a broadcaster that is, in effect, state-run.
The other night, Kamakura finally went so far as to praise China’s Belt and Road Initiative on a special program.
It is an indisputable fact that China has been intensifying its expansion into Africa (with sinister ambitions).
They had a young African woman with an interest in fashion speak of her respect and gratitude toward China.
The gist was that she owed her present position to the Chinese-made ByteDance or TikTok app she used (which is also clearly a spying app).
In other words, they were praising China for contributing to Africa.
Is there any Japanese citizen, other than those ensnared by China, who would not shudder at the sight of this?
They went so far as to incur expensive call charges to have her appear by videophone and speak live… broadcasting the women conversing with one another.
The attitudes toward China of both her and Yamakawa, a Nihon Keizai Shimbun employee who serves in something of a commentator role on TV Tokyo, are far from ordinary.
The Japanese people should pay attention to their words and actions.
Speaking of TV Tokyo, the peculiar way Akiko Sasaki received Diet member Sanae Takaichi during the LDP presidential election campaign was also striking.
The contrast with her manner when receiving Taro Kono was such that the broadcaster could scarcely be called an impartial news organization any longer.
At that time, Sasaki and a man described as the Nihon Keizai Shimbun’s chief editorial writer abruptly brought up the small number of female legislators and proceeded to attack Takaichi.
The UN had released a laughable report suggesting that women’s human rights were being disregarded in Japan.
Linking their criticism to Japan’s extremely low ranking, they persistently directed their attacks at candidate Takaichi.
In the matter of the Chinese tennis player, they have never criticized China as persistently as they did Takaichi on that occasion.
The bizarre, extraordinarily stark difference in Sasaki’s treatment of Takaichi and Taro Kono during the LDP presidential election.
Looking back now, the reason is easy to understand.
In other words, her responses were exactly what China wanted, or were in line with China’s wishes.
TV Tokyo is effectively run by a company that calls itself the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and is supposed to be a collective of journalists.
Such is the conduct of its flagship news program. It is not a pleasant story.