Amid the global battle against the Wuhan virus, NHK should have demanded that the Chinese government disclose the truth about the outbreak. Instead, it broadcast sanctimonious questions such as “Can culture be saved?” This article criticizes NHK’s shallow understanding of culture, its habit of moralistic evasion, and the abnormal failure of Japan’s state broadcaster in practice to confront the Chinese Communist Party and demand the truth.

April 22, 2020
The people controlling NHK’s news department do not even understand that something that disappears in a mere two or three months is not culture at all.
Who on earth are these people?
NHK employees are infected with a disease called sanctimonious evasion.
After dinner, I felt like eating an apple, so I stood in the kitchen peeling one.
Into my ears came the announcement of a young female announcer newly appearing on Bura Tamori.
Various events were being cancelled because of self-restraint.
Far from having any doubt, she spoke in a voice filled with certainty, as if she were commenting on something omnisciently and absolutely correct.
“Can culture be saved?”
This was at a time when the whole world was concentrating on its battle against an extremely dangerous and unknown virus that had come from China.
The people controlling NHK’s news department do not even understand that something that disappears in a mere two or three months is not culture at all.
Who on earth are these people?
A culture that disappears in a mere two or three months?
We do not need such a thing.
If they have time to say such nonsense using the public airwaves,
they should immediately and repeatedly demand that the Chinese government reveal the true nature of the Wuhan virus, and continue doing so until China agrees.
Try demanding it every day, on every single news program.
If they did that, even the scoundrels and villains of the CCP would finally give up and confess.
If Japan’s state broadcaster, in reality, continued to make this demand every day, on every news program, with a perfectly natural and genuine anger,
then, for the first time, they would reveal the truth.
Because if it were said day after day, it would surely reach the world.
If you think this is a lie, look at this column.