NHK’s “News Watch 9” presented Ken Loach as a “national treasure of Britain” and used his moralistic commentary to divert public anger over the Wuhan virus away from China. This article examines the program’s information manipulation and Mayuko Wakuda’s strikingly different expressions in other NHK programs.

June 19, 2020

The people who control NHK’s “News Watch 9” are truly appalling.
They will do absolutely anything to prevent anger over the Wuhan virus from being directed toward China.

After thoroughly enjoying the opening games of the professional baseball season, I had NHK’s “News Watch 9” playing in the background.
Because there is no program more sinister than this one, I mute the sound and leave only the images running on the screen.
The people who produce this program are not reporting the news.
They are merely attempting to indoctrinate viewers with their own distorted ideology.
What they require in order to do so is information manipulation.
Who in the world has ever called Ken Loach a “national treasure of Britain”?
The people who control “News Watch 9” are truly appalling.
They will do absolutely anything to prevent anger over the Wuhan virus from being directed toward China.
What this elderly man named Ken Loach was saying amounted to nothing more than pseudo-moralism designed to prevent that anger from being directed toward China.
It reminded me of the time when I used to watch TV Asahi’s “Hodo Station” and TBS’s “NEWS23.”
For the purpose of criticizing the government, they invited to Japan an elderly man from Norway or somewhere similar, someone completely unknown to the overwhelming majority of Japanese people, and first had him speak in Okinawa in support of the anti-base movement.
Those two broadcasters also introduced that old man with an impressive-sounding title.
It goes without saying that the great majority of Japanese people do not know who Ken Loach is.
Even British people themselves would probably look puzzled if they heard him described as a “national treasure of Britain.”

The other day, I watched a program called “Geo Japan,” in which the more respectable side of NHK, including its remarkable visual capabilities, was on display.
Mayuko Wakuda’s expression was completely different from the one she wears on “News Watch 9.”
The contrast between her expressions was like “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
That, surely, is what makes it so frightening.
It is a ghost story in itself.