This essay compares the Harris Poll in the United States, as introduced by Yoshihisa Komori, with NHK’s public-opinion polling in Japan, and examines the decisive gap between American and Japanese journalism over the Wuhan virus catastrophe. While the United States asks whether the Chinese government bears responsibility and should pay compensation, NHK avoids that central question and remains focused on criticism of the Abe administration.

April 15, 2020
Regarding the greatest postwar catastrophe that the world is now facing, the Wuhan virus catastrophe, the Harris Poll, as a matter of course, was conducted in precisely this spirit.
Yesterday, the article by Yoshihisa Komori, Sankei Shimbun’s guest correspondent stationed in Washington, revealed an extremely important difference between the attitudes of Japan and the United States.
The Harris Poll is one of the two great pillars of opinion polling, alongside Gallup.
As for its contents, please refer to yesterday’s article.
The public-opinion poll that Japanese citizens most often see is probably, as in my case, NHK’s public-opinion poll.
After all, for some reason, they conduct it with abnormal frequency.
Yet among its questions, not even once this year has there been a question like those in the Harris Poll.
What is included every time without fail is the absurd top item among the reasons for not supporting Prime Minister Abe: “Because his personality cannot be trusted.”
GHQ gave Japan that Constitution in order to weaken Japan permanently.
Asahi Shimbun, which published Ichiro Hatoyama’s article criticizing the atomic bombing under strengthened censorship, received only a two-day suspension of operations, and then became a newspaper that single-mindedly carried out GHQ’s strategy for weakening Japan.
NHK was no different from GHQ’s radio station, and has continued with that same constitution until today.
Both are masses of masochistic historical views and anti-Japanese thought.
To these two were added pseudo-moralism and pseudo-political correctness.
And on top of that, the childish idea, implanted by GHQ, that journalism means attacking the government, has been thoroughly enforced.
That is Asahi Shimbun and NHK.
The same applies to the media and people who imitate them.
Then what about the United States, the original home of democracy, the country whose GHQ created and gave Japan its current Constitution in an extremely short period?
Naturally, the Harris Poll this time clearly proved that such stupidity cannot possibly be the case there.
If we reconfirm the basics of journalism on Wikipedia, 5W1H is the convention used when writing news articles that place the most important matter at the beginning.
In the West, it is usually called the “Five Ws,” “Five W’s and One H,” or simply “Six Ws,” while in Japan one more “1H” is added to make “5W1H,” also called the “law of six questions.”
Regarding the greatest postwar catastrophe that the world is now facing, the Wuhan virus catastrophe, the Harris Poll, as a matter of course, was conducted in precisely this spirit.
When.
Where.
Who.
What.
Why.
In terms not merely of the greatest principle of journalism, but of its very reason for existence, the answer is as follows.
When: the latter half of last year.
Where: in Wuhan, China.
Who: the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Shi Zhengli.
What: a new virus made by using bats and the like, and combining SARS-type coronaviruses with HIV and the like.
Why: either it leaked because of sloppy management, or persons involved sold bats and the like used in experiments to a nearby market to earn pocket money.
That these constitute the 5Ws, and that there can be no other possibility, is something any elementary-school student blessed with a high IQ like mine could understand.
Yet the people who control NHK’s news division apparently cannot understand it at all.
In other words, they possess brains and horizons below those of a clear-headed elementary-school student.
Needless to say, Asahi Shimbun and the like, a group of mad people, can see nothing other than pro-China, pro-Korea, anti-Japan, and anti-Abe positions.
Since the beginning of the year, Asahi Shimbun has frequently published absurd articles about the “Cherry Blossom Viewing Party,” and has continued its attack on the Abe administration with unbelievable persistence.
It is no exaggeration to say that it was publishing a newspaper for that very purpose.
NHK gleefully reported, day after day, how opposition politicians in the Diet, in harmony with Asahi Shimbun, persistently detained the Prime Minister and all other cabinet ministers in the Diet, brought up the “Cherry Blossom Viewing Party,” and even returned to the Moritomo and Kake issues, spending almost all their questioning time on attacks against the administration.
Moreover, Sugio and others, who are in reality despicable members of what may be called the Party of vested interests, attacked a non-career National Tax Agency official, abused the privileges of Diet members, and, in communist and totalitarian fashion, thoroughly denounced a private citizen, indeed a mere local official, until they drove him to suicide.
That is likely the truth.
Yet they brought out an unidentified typed manuscript and then used his suicide to repeat their attacks on the administration.
NHK gleefully reported all of it, and not once did it insert a critical comment saying, “Surely this is not the time to be doing such things.”
Needless to say, the same applies to the broadcast geisha who appear on commercial television news programs and wide shows.
What are these people, and those who merely subscribe to and watch them, saying now?
The government’s response is too slow.
It is always behind the curve.
They are chanting this in chorus.
They are people of the worst possible malice.
It is only natural that from among them should emerge the ultimate evil of refusing to accept the children of medical workers.
I believe that behind these absurd words and actions lies an anti-Japanese political culture lacking respect for Japanese society, and a value system lacking fundamental respect for medical workers.
This is because in the political cultures of the Chinese continent and the Korean Peninsula, Confucian hierarchical consciousness and the bureaucratic worldview of the imperial examination system have taken deep root.
In Japan, at every university, the medical faculty has the highest entrance-score standard.
In other words, the most excellent people become doctors and save the lives of complete strangers.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is the most noble profession in this world.
In 2011, when I suffered a grave illness and was told that my chance of survival was 25 percent, I spent seven months in the hospital.
I know this with my own skin.
What about China, on the other hand?
In China, outstanding students do not become doctors.
Outstanding students become civil officials and bureaucrats, in accordance with the imperial-examination tradition.
That is why, it is said, Chinese society does not have the same respect for doctors that Japanese society has.
Some years ago, in Kobe, there was a middle-aged Chinese woman who suddenly attacked a doctor with a blade.
For Japanese sensibility, this was a shocking incident that could hardly be imagined.
Because in Japan, even yakuza bosses behave quietly in hospitals, and they have very deep gratitude toward doctors and hospitals.
When I recently learned the reality of Chinese society, the scales instantly fell from my eyes.
In Japanese media and parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party, there may be an abnormally large number of people who are sympathetic to an anti-Japanese political culture lacking respect for Japanese society.
That is probably the true reason they calmly behave in such outrageous ways.
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Behind these movements in Congress is the growing condemnation of China among the American public.
In states such as Florida, Texas, and Nevada, local small and medium-sized businesses have already filed large-scale class-action lawsuits demanding that the Chinese government compensate them for the damage caused by the coronavirus.
In a nationwide survey conducted in early April by the Harris Poll, 77 percent of respondents said that the Chinese government was responsible for the great coronavirus outbreak, and 54 percent said that the Chinese government should pay compensation for the damage it caused to the United States.
Looking at this trend, it is highly likely that, in the United States from now on, the movement to demand compensation from the Chinese government will become an important issue even in national politics.
The following is from NHK’s public-opinion poll of April 13.
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Conversely, as reasons for not supporting him, 35 percent answered, “Because his personality cannot be trusted,” and 28 percent answered, “Because I cannot have expectations for his policies.”
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Based on the law, the government issued a state of emergency declaration for Tokyo, Osaka Prefecture, and other areas, lasting until the 6th of next month.
When asked about the timing of the declaration, 17 percent answered, “It was the appropriate timing,” 75 percent answered, “It was too late,” and 2 percent answered, “The declaration should not have been issued.”
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There is absolutely no possibility that NHK’s public-opinion poll will include a question such as, “The Chinese government is responsible for the great coronavirus outbreak.”
That is the reality of journalism in our country, which was conditioned in that way by GHQ.
All the more so because NHK is an organization that houses the Japan branch of China Central Television, CCTV, inside its headquarters.
As you know, Arima, who is called a caster of Watch 9, does not even attach “san” to Prime Minister Abe, the greatest prime minister in history and one of the greatest statesmen in the international community.
Instead, as described above, he is one-sided in his criticism and denunciation, and whenever the Prime Minister appears live, Arima’s expression and attitude are like those of a man looking at his parents’ enemy.