Based on an essay by Soki Watanabe, this article examines the allegations surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden, the unreleased “Biden Papers” housed at the University of Delaware Library, and the Democratic Party’s contradiction with its stance during the Kavanaugh hearings. It also criticizes Japanese media, especially NHK, for merely following the tone of major U.S. media without conducting serious reporting of its own.

May 25, 2020
Many Japanese citizens, myself included, must be learning this fact for the first time.
It proves how thoroughly the United States at that time, especially the Democratic Party, had been deceived by China and had leaned toward China.
The following is from an essay by Soki Watanabe, a researcher of modern and contemporary Japanese-American history, published in today’s Sankei Shimbun under the title “The ‘MeToo’ Boomerang Strikes the Democrats.”
The emphasis in the text, apart from the headline, and the notes following the asterisks are mine.
When American politicians retire, they often donate documents recording their political activities to libraries.
The libraries catalogue and preserve them.
They then become valuable materials for later historical research.
For example, the “Joseph McCarthy Papers” are housed in the library of Marquette University in Wisconsin.
McCarthy was an anti-communist former senator who called for the removal of the Soviet spy network that had infested the U.S. federal government, the so-called Red Purge.
The “Walter Mondale Papers” are housed in the Jimmy Carter Library in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mondale was the former vice president under the Carter administration who, while serving as ambassador to Japan, stated that the Senkaku Islands were outside the scope of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.
Many Japanese citizens, myself included, must be learning this fact for the first time. It proves how thoroughly the United States at that time, especially the Democratic Party, had been deceived by China and had leaned toward China.
Mr. Biden’s “social distance”
Former Vice President Biden, who is expected to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, also donated his papers from his Senate years to the University of Delaware Library in 2011.
However, he attached the condition that they would be made public only after he retired from politics.
Since he served as a senator for the long period from 1973 to 2009, the volume is enormous, amounting to 1,875 boxes.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis, social distancing has been emphasized in North America.
Authorities, in order to prevent droplet infection, instruct people to keep a distance of six feet, or 180 centimeters, from one another.
Until not long ago, there was no clear definition of distance in the term social distance.
In the West, when people meet face to face, there may be physical contact such as handshakes, hugs, or kisses on the cheek, but once that is over, they maintain an “appropriate” distance.
It was well known that Mr. Biden’s social distance differed from that common sense and was abnormally short.
Needless to say, this refers to his sense of distance from women.
During the present Democratic presidential primary campaign as well, his abnormal closeness to female Democratic politicians and related figures was frequently seen.
Discomfort made public
By April 2019, seven women had already publicly expressed discomfort with his conduct, according to Slate magazine.
A woman who had been a White House intern told The Washington Post the following.
“It was in 2013. I made way for Mr. Biden as he was about to leave through the underground exit of the White House West Wing. When he saw me, he introduced himself and asked to shake my hand. He then put that hand around the back of my head and brought his forehead against mine.”
“I did not think there was malice, but I could not think it was appropriate conduct. … Many women would feel uncomfortable, and they might also see it as misogyny in the workplace.”
Images showing Mr. Biden behaving exactly as she described remain everywhere.
Biden supporters defend his behavior as “his own unique expression of affection,” but feminist groups show discomfort.
President Trump mocks him as “Creepy Joe” because such facts exist.
If things had stopped there, perhaps nothing would have happened if Mr. Biden had pledged that he would be careful in the future.
However, a woman who had worked in his office in 1993, when he was a senator, claimed that she had been assaulted in March of this year.
The contents are too graphic to put into words.
The major media, uniformly supportive of the Democratic Party, initially maintained silence, but under pressure from public opinion, they reluctantly began reporting on it.
This is probably one of the reasons why the people who control NHK’s news division conduct such conspicuous anti-Trump reporting. In other words, they do not conduct any serious reporting of their own and merely follow the tone of the major media. It is therefore only natural that they were completely unable to foresee Trump’s election. The same is true of the University of Tokyo professors and others who appear on NHK and other television media. Not one of them has investigated the real state of America as the author or Yoshihisa Komori has done.
MSNBC, the news network that stands at the forefront of anti-Trump reporting, conducted a remote interview with Mr. Biden, who was staying at home in response to the coronavirus crisis, on May 1.
When asked directly about this matter, he completely denied it, saying, “There is no such fact.”
How will they dodge the boomerang?
The Democratic Party, two years ago, fiercely denounced Justice Kavanaugh, then a nominee for the Supreme Court, over a similar case.
They disliked him because he took a conservative position on abortion.
They fully believed the words of a woman who came forward claiming that he had assaulted her during his high school days in the early 1980s, and they demanded that the judge “prove his innocence.”
The judge refuted the claim by relying on his diary from that time.
Meanwhile, her congressional testimony was vague, and there were no witnesses at all to support her claim, so his nomination was approved.
The words with which the Democratic Party denounced Justice Kavanaugh are now coming back to them as a boomerang.
The Democratic Party took the position that the words of women testifying in the “MeToo movement” should be believed above all, and that the man accused must prove his innocence.
Pressed by feminism, they imposed the burden of proof on the man.
Having distorted the principles of law, they must also demand that Mr. Biden prove his innocence.
As written at the beginning, the “Biden Papers” are at the University of Delaware Library.
The woman in question left his office after the “incident.”
There may be documents somewhere among the 1,875 boxes recording the circumstances, but Mr. Biden refuses to release them.
Naturally, opposition among women is growing.
The wishes of feminist groups, a core Democratic constituency, will have a significant impact on the Democratic National Convention in the summer.
How will Mr. Biden and the Democratic Party dodge this boomerang?
Soki Watanabe