The author criticizes NHK’s news programs for prioritizing the defense of China and the WHO and an anti-Trump stance over the pursuit of facts regarding the Wuhan virus, the WHO, China, and President Trump, and severely questions the reporting posture of Japan’s public broadcaster.

May 20, 2020
The people who now control NHK’s news division are virtually in a state of collective madness.
They are acting together to an abnormal degree in defending China and the WHO and making clear their anti-Trump stance.
The other day, two cloth masks arrived that can be washed and used repeatedly.
At a nearby supermarket as well, packs of five ordinary masks began to appear at normal prices.
Most of them were made in China, but among them there were also some made in Japan.
I said to a friend, “Even so, China is terrible. It is truly unforgivable.”
My supply of masks had become very tight, but because I had hardly gone out, I somehow managed to hold out, though even so it was no small matter.
Last night, for the first time in a while, I watched just a little of NHK BS1’s International News 2020 from 10 p.m.
The preceding Watch 9 was also terrible, but Ikehata, the anchor of this program and a typical fox-eyed figure, was terrible as well.
I am referring to the manner in which WHO was reported.
The people who now control NHK’s news division are virtually in a state of collective madness.
They are acting together to an abnormal degree in defending China and the WHO and making clear their anti-Trump stance.
Needless to say, the people who control NHK’s news division, and also most of its announcers, must all have visited China.
Judging from their pro-China attitude, there is probably not a single one among them who visited China with any sense of caution toward it.
Their attitude is such that it makes one suspect that almost all of NHK’s announcers, men and women alike, may have fallen into China’s honey traps.
It is a fact that even elementary school students, other than you people, can understand that everything in the letter President Trump sent to WHO Director-General Tedros was true.
The United States is the country that has suffered the world’s greatest damage from the Wuhan virus.
A number of its citizens incomparably greater than Japan’s have died.
Why, then, do you not only decide that the attitude of the United States, or the attitude of President Trump, is aimed at the election, but also decide that Taiwan is being used as a diplomatic card?
Regarding the Wuhan virus, for reasons unknown, the attitude of abandoning the basic 5W1H of journalism and persisting in the stance of seeing nothing, hearing nothing, and saying nothing is an abnormal attitude that exists in no country other than member states of the Belt and Road Initiative, which, frankly speaking, are tattered countries.
I want to say this to the people who control NHK’s news division.
Was this virus created by the Abe administration?
Did it arise naturally from some unknown place because of the expansion of human economic activity?
Is that why you make no attempt whatsoever to determine the true nature of this virus and instead say that we should coexist with the virus?
If so, show the evidence that it arose naturally.
Is China the ally that will protect Japan in an emergency?
Is it America that repeatedly intrudes into the territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands day after day?
On top of that, is it America that follows Japanese fishing boats while they are operating?
Is it America that is watching for Japan’s weakness and plotting to seize the Senkaku Islands?
Is it America that is trying to land soldiers disguised as fishermen on the Senkaku Islands?
When that happens, is it China that will take action to defend Japan’s territory?
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When I listened to Wakuda’s narration in documentary programs, I thought she belonged to the better class of announcers, but as a news announcer she is completely disqualified.
If she herself does not possess the same ideology as Okoshi, Arima, Ikehata, and others, then I might show some leniency by thinking that Watch 9 is their stronghold, not a program that conveys news, but a program that tries to brainwash viewers with their distorted ideology—masochistic historical views, and therefore anti-government, pro-China, pro-Korea, pseudo-moralism, political correctness, and so on—and that she is being forced into abnormal tension there.
But the reality probably proves that she herself possesses the same ideology.
She inserts comments that are a mass of pseudo-moralism into a terrible manner of speech.
It would still be better if there were no comments, but that terrible manner of speech—a strangely hoarse voice and theatrical announcing—remains.
Speaking of announcing, Arima is a genuine villain.
Viewers must have noticed that when he puts in narration, he does so in a strangely high-pitched tone.
He is by no means a human being at a level that can be called a journalist, but it seems that he has studied only the subliminal effect.
For someone who makes his living in television reporting, this is the most malicious act.
NHK is, in effect, Japan’s state broadcaster, and yet, in order to criticize the government and defend China and the current WHO, it is constantly changing the pitch of announcers’ voices and trying to guide viewers by making it seem as if what they are saying is the truth.
If this is not called malicious, what should it be called?