Through a dialogue between Hiroshi Hasegawa and Kiyoshi Nagae, who spent their lives inside Asahi Shimbun, this essay exposes the propaganda structure embraced by major global media. It asserts that without reading this book, the true nature of the media can never be understood.

Because unless one reads this book, the reality of the media can never be understood.
2016-12-22
All Japanese people, and people around the world as well, especially those belonging to newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, who uncritically accept the propaganda of Asahi Shimbun, South Korea, which in reality is a Nazi-like state, and China, a one-party communist dictatorship.
The dialogue book published by Hiroshi Hasegawa and Kiyoshi Nagae, who spent their lives as reporters at Asahi Shimbun, こんな朝日新聞に誰がした (WAC Bunko, 920 yen), first edition published on 2016-12-17, is a book that must be read.
Because unless one reads this book, the reality of the media can never be understood.
Incidentally, I realized something while writing this piece.
I realized that the title of this book was taken from the lyrics of “Hoshi no Nagare ni,” a song from the time when I debuted in Osaka’s Kitashinchi not only as one of the city’s greatest drinkers, a period when my spending on food and drink alone could have built three mansions, but also as the third singer in Kitashinchi to debut performing with piano accompaniment.
Since then, I have also spent enough money singing with piano and band accompaniment to build another three mansions.
If I were to sing this song, even Italians would, just as when I once sang Frank Sinatra or Harry Nilsson’s “Without You,” fall in love with me, that is why.
This expression “fall in love” is a phrase I recently heard a high school student say in a television segment, and my close friend and I liked it so much that we laugh, saying, “You’d fall for it.”