Japan’s major media outlets should learn from Germany’s press tradition, which consistently supports national leadership and stability rather than undermining it through ideological hostility.

This section argues that Japanese media, particularly Asahi Shimbun, should adopt a Germany-style approach that prioritizes national continuity and leadership stability. It contrasts persistent anti-government criticism with a model that strengthens state resilience and public consensus.

2017-07-20
The Asahi Shimbun and those who have aligned themselves with it must learn from Germany.
By learning from Germany, they should consistently support their own government, allow a Liberal Democratic Party administration to continue for thirty-two years, have Shinzo Abe serve as prime minister for at least sixteen years, and then have the next generation of leaders, who will emerge during that time, serve for at least another sixteen years.
They should enable Japan—a nation in which the turntable of civilization is spinning, a country possessing the world’s highest level of intellect and freedom, and a uniquely unified state with a history of 2,600 years—to spread to the world its politics, economy, and culture founded on the philosophy of “harmony is to be valued,” which it has upheld throughout history.
Instead of repeatedly highlighting the cruelty and brutality of Nazi Germany and fostering resentment toward Germans among Japanese who have no such feelings toward people living far away,
they should learn from the Süddeutsche Zeitung and continue reporting in a way that would lead roughly half of the Japanese population to hold anti-German sentiments.
They must also relentlessly and loudly report to the world, at every opportunity, the brutality of China’s one-party dictatorship and the malice of the Korean Peninsula.
In this respect, they should learn from China’s Xinhua News Agency and South Korean media and report accordingly.
By doing so, they must learn how to make more than 80 percent of the Japanese people hold anti-China and anti–Korean Peninsula views.