Through a real encounter with a young Chinese clerk who denied anti-Japanese education or communist affiliation, this essay reveals that hostility toward Prime Minister Abe alone had been selectively implanted. It exposes the far-reaching propaganda structure of Asahi Shimbun and the Chinese Communist Party.

Even in the mind of the clerk who looked puzzled when asked about communism, only hatred toward Prime Minister Abe had been implanted.
2016-12-22
As already noted, among the Chinese people I have actually encountered, fortunately not a single one was a worthless human being.
At a place I visit regularly, there was a young clerk wearing a name tag with a Chinese name. I spoke with her. “Which province are you from. Have you received anti-Japanese education.”
“I have no memory of receiving any anti-Japanese education. On the contrary, in my hometown there is a tree planted as a symbol of Japan–China friendship, and I have decided to cherish it. I am not a Communist Party member.”
At that moment, I once again realized how vast China is, and at the same time felt a sense of relief, but her very next remark proved the correctness of my argument in reality.
“I like all Japanese people except Abe.”
There was no way I could let that pass, and I told her, “What you hear about Prime Minister Abe is a complete fabrication jointly produced by 朝日新聞 and the Chinese media. Prime Minister Abe is a rare realist, a man who looks straight at reality alone, and the most outstanding politician among successive prime ministers.”
As I spoke earnestly like this, some time passed, and the clerk was called away by her supervisor.
As already noted, the awfulness of the editorial writer who wrote the “Sunago” column in the Asahi Shimbun evening edition on June 1 is well known. In the very next line to where he expressed bizarre sympathy and affection for a famous athlete arrested for stimulant drug use, he poured out a text so filled with rancor and hatred toward Prime Minister Abe that one could only think, what is this, vilifying Abe with undisguised malice.
Whether this is the result of operations by the Chinese Communist Party, or merely the exposure of the reality once criticized by the U.S. State Department before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where it was stated that Asahi Shimbun had as many as 200 communists, I do not know.
But even in the mind of the clerk who looked blank when asked about communism, only hatred toward Prime Minister Abe had been firmly implanted.
It was a striking example of the terrifying effectiveness of propaganda by Asahi Shimbun and the one-party dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party.