Published on August 24, 2020. Beginning with a renewed viewing of Martin Scorsese’s film “Shine a Light,” this essay records the author’s questions and criticisms concerning Bill and Hillary Clinton and Ukraine, the Obama administration, China’s militarization of the South China Sea, the Nobel Peace Prize, anti-Japanese propaganda, the U.S. Democratic Party, the Asahi Shimbun, and NHK.

August 24, 2020
I had accumulated a mountain of programs recorded on Blu-ray discs.
When I tried sorting through them, thankfully I found a film that was worth watching.
As I have mentioned before regarding Hollywood movies, ever since Hollywood began currying favor with China, I have watched almost none of them.
I also completely stopped watching the Academy Awards ceremony, which I had never failed to watch every year.
I completely lost interest in watching it.
As a consequence, I also stopped watching the Grammy Awards altogether.
Now, among the CDs I was sorting through, I found Shine a Light, the film directed by Martin Scorsese that documented the Rolling Stones’ live performances at New York’s Beacon Theatre.
Needless to say, because it was Scorsese, it was superb.
But this concert was actually held by Bill Clinton as a birthday celebration.
Clinton, the guest of honor, appears accompanied by important figures from Ukraine.
When I saw this scene, I instantly realized that the research of Soju Watanabe, one of the leading contemporary historians of Japan-U.S. relations of our time, and Masayuki Takayama’s description of Ukraine as “a country notorious for rampant corruption” were entirely correct.
The amount of money the Clintons accumulated in Ukraine and China must have been considerable.
What about Obama?
Recently, I have begun to wonder whether there was something behind the fact that Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize almost as soon as he became president.
It occurred to me that perhaps China had been working behind the scenes to help bring about the decision to award Obama the Nobel Prize.
It was after Obama became president that China began ignoring international law, ridiculing a court ruling against it as a mere scrap of paper, and turning the South China Sea into a military base.
Give Obama the Peace Prize, and steep him in pseudo-moralism.
After all, Obama initially took seriously propaganda claiming that Prime Minister Abe was a right-wing historical revisionist and, on that basis, was reluctant even to meet him.
Not only Obama, but the U.S. Democratic Party as a whole is a political party deeply permeated by pseudo-moralism and political correctness.
Those two tendencies are skillfully exploited in propaganda by countries of bottomless evil and plausible falsehoods, countries where propaganda is virtually everything—and it is no exaggeration to say that those two countries possess no other value.
After all, even today in the twenty-first century, they continue to practice Nazism—that is, totalitarianism—in the name of anti-Japanese education.
They are countries in which true scholarship and genuine art cannot possibly exist; what exists instead is relentless theft, countries capable of little other than stealing anything and everything.
It is no exaggeration to say that they are countries sustained by theft.
There are probably many dim-witted politicians in the Democratic Party who swallow the propaganda of these two countries, particularly their anti-Japanese propaganda.
As a reward for South Korea’s participation in the Vietnam War, 300,000 Koreans were granted U.S. citizenship.
Among Korean Americans who became politicians, for example female politicians, most are members of the Democratic Party.
On YouTube, I watched Obama holding concerts at the White House—Paul McCartney on one occasion and Bruce Springsteen on another—and at first I simply thought, “That is America for you.”
But I no longer think that way.
Obama, why did you not stop China’s outrageous conduct instead of spending your time doing things like that?
Did the Obama family not acquire interests in China?
It is surely common knowledge that the Asahi Shimbun and NHK clearly favor the U.S. Democratic Party.
A self-denigrating view of history, anti-Japanese thinking, pro-China and pro-Korea attitudes, pseudo-moralism, and political correctness—they are almost like brothers of the U.S. Democratic Party.
Put in the strongest terms, neither side amounts to much in reality.