Based on an article found online in 2018, this piece examines the bias surrounding NHK’s coverage of former Vice Minister Maekawa and the postwar structure involving left-wing forces, the Ministry of Education, the Japan Teachers’ Union, and the media. It argues that NHK, which should remain neutral and fair, has tilted toward a particular political position, and discusses the need to split and privatize it.

May 25, 2020
It feels as if the left-wing sleeper cells lurking inside each media company are rising up all at once.
After all, NHK must be split up and privatized.
The following is an article I found online on March 20, 2018, and it is an important article that reveals facts that the vast majority of the Japanese people, myself included, did not know at all.
The emphasis in the text is mine.
Left-wing people are praising NHK’s coverage of Maekawa.
It is clear proof that NHK, which ought to be neutral and fair, has stepped into biased reporting.
It feels as if the left-wing sleeper cells lurking inside each media company are rising up all at once.
After all, NHK must be split up and privatized.
【New Work Summary】
“NHK Has Crossed the Line! Reading Behind the Maekawa Coverage”
NHK’s abnormal reporting seemed to defend former Vice Minister Maekawa.
Professor Teruyuki Hirota, who provided commentary, is the president of the Japan Educational Research Association.
Professor Fujita, who provided commentary in the Mainichi Shimbun, is the former president.
Then who was the president before him?
There seems to be something behind this.
What surprised me most about NHK’s Maekawa coverage this time was the claim that “the Ministry of Education has no authority to investigate the content of classes.”
Why the Japan Teachers’ Union was able to run rampant to such an extent, and what the intention behind the Ienaga textbook lawsuits was, all suddenly becomes clear.
After the war, the left-wing forces controlling the educational front and the state must have been fighting continuously over the authority to brainwash, or educate, children.
Parents, too, should speak up firmly.
It is also the duty of parents to protect their children.
They should clearly say no.
The media’s intention is plain to see: they want to elevate him, just as they did Ken Terawaki of “yutori education,” and, in passing, use him to attack Abe.
But he is a criminal, is he not?
The terrible nature of NHK is not limited to its news programs.
Even in morning dramas, whenever the setting turns to the prewar or wartime period, an arrogant military man or some strange civilian who seems intoxicated by militarism invariably appears.
Without exception.
NHK is especially trusted in rural areas, so its influence cannot be ignored.
Is a movement to refuse payment of the reception fee the only option?
In another drama as well, the bow made by a department-store saleswoman wearing Western clothes was konsu, a Korean-style bow.
Could konsu possibly have existed in the Showa era?
Just because someone who had worn kimono changed into Western clothes, does it make any sense for her to bow with her hands placed on her stomach?
People from which country are involved in the historical research?