On August 28, 2020, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced his intention to resign because of the worsening of his chronic, intractable illness. This article records the stock market’s sharp decline immediately afterward, severely questions the conduct of reporters who addressed the ailing prime minister disrespectfully at the Prime Minister’s Office and in Hiroshima, examines the state of Japanese journalism as symbolized by the Asahi Shimbun and Isoko Mochizuki, and expresses respect for Prime Minister Abe’s 147 consecutive days of service to the nation.

August 28, 2020
Prime Minister Abe announced his intention to resign because of the worsening of his chronic, intractable illness, a condition known to every Japanese citizen. Despite this, the appalling behavior of the female reporter who called out in a shrill voice about Prime Minister Abe’s announcement of his resignation.
In Japan today, NHK and others are talking about such things as “with corona” (probably with the Asahi Shimbun and others leading the campaign).
There was also the Kyoto University professor, a graduate of Kagoshima University, who declared that the Wuhan virus had arisen naturally during a special program broadcast by NHK with Professor Yamanaka serving as the principal presenter.
If you read the following genuine article by Kenryo Lin, you should become aware of the reality that they are siding with China and reporting for China, and you should shudder.
You will also shudder at the realization of what an outrageous country China truly is.
In the chapter concerning untrustworthy Chinese papers, you should shudder when you learn, with regard to the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, that President Trump was not wrong, and when you see the appalling conduct of the mass media that portrayed President Trump as though he were an utter fool, along with NHK and others that went along with it.
When I returned home from an errand today, the stock market had plunged.
Wondering whether it had something to do with Prime Minister Abe’s health, or perhaps something involving China,
I searched the internet to find out what had happened, but nothing appeared.
I therefore turned on the television and watched NHK, where I learned that Prime Minister Abe had announced his intention to resign.
A short while later, a live broadcast showed Prime Minister Abe entering the Prime Minister’s Office moments earlier.
The whole of Japan had already been informed that Prime Minister Abe would hold a press conference at five o’clock.
Prime Minister Abe announced his intention to resign because of the worsening of his chronic, intractable illness, a condition known to every Japanese citizen.
Despite this, the appalling behavior of the female reporter who called out in a shrill voice about Prime Minister Abe’s announcement of his resignation.
This morning, a friend of mine who is one of the most avid readers I know told me that, unbelievably, an advertisement had appeared at the bottom of a page in the Nikkei newspaper for a book titled Why Has Japanese Journalism Collapsed?, written by Isoko Mochizuki, the lowest and most vulgar reporter in the history of the Tokyo Shimbun,
so I said, “It is none other than you.”
My friend apparently checked to see which company would publish such a book.
Kodansha.
I see.
The female reporter described above, who seemed the very height of stupidity, was probably Isoko Mochizuki or someone of the same kind.
Just how outstanding a prime minister Abe had been was demonstrated by today’s straight-line plunge in the stock market, as though a localized war between the United States and China had broken out.
I had realized that Prime Minister Abe was considerably exhausted, and I was worried about him.
It was at the end of the press conference on August 6, when he attended the Hiroshima memorial ceremony for the victims of the atomic bombing, that an Asahi Shimbun reporter disregarded the prior notice and, despite being no more than a newspaper reporter, addressed the prime minister with an outrageously disrespectful manner and tone, as though reprimanding him.
I thought that Deputy Prime Minister Aso or Taro Kono would probably have turned the tables on the reporter, or that the prime minister himself, had he been in his normal condition, would immediately have reprimanded the reporter.
However, when a person is genuinely in poor health, he cannot respond to a surprise attack.
The prime minister must have been devoting all his energy to fulfilling his schedule.
At such a moment, the disrespectful voice of someone disrupting that schedule rang out.
And it came from a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, a newspaper that by rights should immediately cease publication and compensate Japan for the enormous damage it has suffered as a result of the newspaper’s fabricated anti-Japanese reporting.
As I have stated repeatedly, a politician whom world leaders recognized and who could, without exaggeration, be called the finest statesman in Japan’s history—a great politician who captivated the world as a witty gentleman—worked for the nation as a true patriot for 147 consecutive days without rest and fell ill.
Meanwhile, the Asahi Shimbun and its employees, who are nothing other than traitors to the nation, continue to live at ease.
Nothing could be more infuriating.