This article introduces an essay by Yukihiro Hasegawa published in Hanada, discussing Senator Josh Hawley’s argument that the Chinese Communist Party bears responsibility for the pandemic, the need for an international investigation, compensation for damages, and China’s propaganda war. It also criticizes the reporting stance of Japanese television media, beginning with NHK.

2020-05-16
Conversely, if they refuse to cooperate, “they have something to hide”; in other words, the Chinese Communist Party itself is the cause of the pandemic.
The next stage is payment of the price.
The following is a continuation of the essay by Mr. Yukihiro Hasegawa, published in this month’s issue of Hanada, a monthly magazine that is required reading not only for the Japanese people but for people all over the world, under the title “The ‘Compensation Hell’ Awaiting China.”
Why do television media such as NHK not report at all the world facts that are clear in this article?
This proves how deeply they are under Chinese operations, and it proves that China is now working furiously on Japanese television media, political operators of opposition parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, their sympathizers such as the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and so-called citizens’ groups.
As for NHK, to which I have referred many times, there is in the first place the closeness shown by the fact that CCTV is located inside its headquarters in Shibuya.
In particular, as for Arima of Watch 9, his comments up to now clearly prove that China has been giving him intense guidance.
At the same time, this essay contains, in particular, one hundred percent of the 5W1H, the basics for anyone involved in reporting, which television media have completely lost.
In other words, this essay is a genuine essay.
On the other hand, newspapers such as Asahi Shimbun and television media such as NHK are reporting precisely fake news.
For whose sake?
It goes without saying that it is for China.
Emphases in the text other than headings are mine.
The Cause of the Pandemic Is the CCP
Why pursue and denounce China’s responsibility?
The aforementioned Senator Hawley contributed an essay to the March 30 opinion section of the electronic edition of Fox News in the United States, and explained it concisely.
This is precisely the core of the issue, but it cannot be said that such a sense of the issue is widely shared in Japan.
Therefore, in order to organize the problem, I would like to introduce his argument, though it will be somewhat long.
〈The Chinese Communist Party is responsible for the pandemic of the new coronavirus.
They know it.
That is why they have begun a propaganda war in the United States and everywhere else in the world in order to deflect criticism of themselves.
Now is the time to begin an international investigation into Beijing’s response.
And it is time to pay the price for the hundreds of thousands of lives taken and the billions of dollars in damage suffered as a result of lies.
The Chinese Communist Party did everything to hide the cause of the pandemic.
It interrogated and punished Chinese doctors who issued warnings.
They stopped virus testing and ordered samples to be destroyed.
And they crushed evidence that the virus was transmitted among humans.
By the time they shared information with the world, the virus had already spread to other countries.
The decisions of the Chinese Communist Party turned a regional disease into a global pandemic.
They refused entry to American experts, allowed the virus to slip across borders, and deprived us of the time to defend ourselves.
Now the Chinese government is afraid.
While saying that it responded to the virus outbreak “transparently and effectively,” the fact that the opposite is true is becoming clearer day by day.
Beijing is trying to make the world believe in them and become dependent on them.
＊It has succeeded 100 percent with Japanese television media, beginning with NHK＊
Chinese officials are beginning to chant that the virus came not from Wuhan but “from the United States or Italy.”
China says that it “bought time for the world to prepare for the coronavirus.”
And it claims that “it was the United States and other countries that wasted that time.”
It is an utterly outrageous lie.
The time has come to make China fulfill its accountability for the catastrophe it caused.
The first step is an “international investigation.”
I have submitted a resolution to the Senate calling for an investigation into what role Beijing’s mistaken response played in the pandemic.
What did the Chinese Communist Party know, and when did it know it?
How did the decision to conceal the facts spread the virus and obstruct the defenses of the United States and other countries?
We need to know that accurately.
There is no need for the Chinese Communist Party to cooperate with the investigation.
In any case, the truth will become clear.
If they cooperate, we will understand how their lies led to the pandemic.
If not, their actions should naturally reveal the truth.
If Beijing handled the situation transparently, as it says, there is nothing to hide.
Conversely, if they refuse to cooperate, “they have something to hide”; in other words, the Chinese Communist Party itself is the cause of the pandemic.
The next stage is payment of the price.
I am calling on the international community to quantify the catastrophe caused by the Chinese Communist Party and to devise a method for making it compensate for the damage.
The Chinese Communist Party cannot restore families to their original state, nor can it bring back lost jobs.
But it can ease the pain.
That will be achieved by making clear, through an international investigation, the crimes that China committed against the world.〉
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Even the entirely natural anger of this senator, who represents the American people, was described by last night’s NHK Watch 9, led by Arima, as political maneuvering for the presidential election!
Furthermore, regarding the fact that the United States is criticizing the WHO on behalf of the anger of the decent countries of the world, NHK reported that the United States is using Taiwan as a “diplomatic card.”
A newly appearing female announcer named Hoshi uttered such hypocritical phrases as “joining forces…”
If one simply says that NHK is made of hypocrisy, that would be the end of it.
It is also true that even a person of this level can enter Keio University and graduate from it.
A classmate of mine who was excellent in both ability and character graduated from Keio and served as an executive at a prestigious major company in Kansai.
Even when people speak of the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Waseda, and Keio, they are, like society itself, a mixture of the excellent and the worthless.
In the first place, the truth is that even a clever monkey can enter a university.
I imagine that excellent people connected with Keio University must feel deeply mortified when watching such hypocrisy.
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