This article criticizes the deterioration of foreign media reporting on Japan, the reality of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Japan Focus, certain foreign journalists, and reports demonizing Nippon Kaigi. It also questions the outdated imported faith of Japanese people who treat such articles as “how the world sees Japan” or “the view of the international community,” as seen in the Asahi Shimbun and NHK.

April 18, 2020
Japanese people who read articles by such people and then, with knowing faces, gratefully say, “This is how they see it overseas,” or “This is the assessment of the international community.”
I am republishing the chapter I sent out on March 16, 2019, under the title: “Their sources are Professor Koichi Nakano, the hidden figure behind SEALDs, and Professor Kingston, who runs the anti-Japanese forum Japan Focus together with McNeill.”
The Italian Pio d’Emilia, who appeared at Prime Minister Abe’s recent press conference, is a man of exactly the same reality as the people described in this text.
The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
In his article, Mesmer quotes the words of an American reporter named Michael Penn, but he too is a dubious pseudo-reporter who drifted into Japan, worked as an English teacher and the like, and then began journalism by imitation.
When someone like this can, in only a few years, rise to the position of vice president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, and even come to exert a major influence on Reporters Without Borders’ “World Press Freedom Ranking,” the internal reality of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club can only be described as a dumping ground for overestimated rogues.
As is also written on the third page of the Litera article, the conspiracy theory demonizing Nippon Kaigi is not a view unique to Le Monde.
It has already been reported many times by other foreign media.
The names mentioned, The Economist, reporter McNeill, The Guardian, and reporter McCurry, are, like Mesmer and Michael Penn, locally hired drifting foreigners.
These pseudo-leftist activist types form groups and become sources of fake news about Japan.
Their sources are Professor Koichi Nakano, the hidden figure behind SEALDs, and Professor Kingston, who runs the anti-Japanese forum Japan Focus together with McNeill.
The reality is that all of them act together and guide the tone of foreign media in the direction of attacking the Abe administration.
Whether in English or in French, the reason reporting on Japan in foreign media is such a mess is that, because of the worldwide business decline of the media, the quality of “correspondents” has collapsed.
To begin with, the reason the opinions of correspondents were respected was that major reporters, who would eventually be promoted back to headquarters and rise to positions such as foreign news editor, were dispatched as “correspondents.”
Today, many foreign reporters who call themselves “correspondents” have not been “dispatched” at all.
They are merely drifting foreigners, pseudo-local hires, with no transfers and no promotions.
They can put on the face of journalists only within Japan.
If they return to their home countries, they are ordinary people.
They came to Japan, accumulated stress from working under Japanese people, and then became addicted to the pleasure of gaining a sense of moral superiority by attacking Japan over historical issues.
To label Japanese people with terms such as “historical revisionism” and attack them from a superior position is, one may say, a kind of moral harassment that abuses the victorious nations’ view of history.
Japanese people who read articles by such people and then, with knowing faces, gratefully say, “This is how they see it overseas,” or “This is the assessment of the international community,” have made no progress at all from the imported-goods worship of one hundred years ago.
＊That this is the normal condition of the Asahi Shimbun and similar newspapers, and of the employees who call themselves NHK anchors, people who grew up by carefully reading such newspapers, should be silently obvious to anyone who has subscribed to them or watched them.＊