An evening front-page article in the Nikkei misleadingly suggested that Japan had been designated a currency manipulator by the U.S. Treasury. By comparing it with accurate NHK reporting, this text questions the intent and accountability behind the distortion.

May 1, 2016
Is the reporter who wrote the front-page article of the Nikkei’s evening edition truly a pure Japanese?
The article on the evening front page was written as if the U.S. Treasury had designated Japan as a country engaging in currency manipulation.
However, the NHK news on that same day properly reported that this was not the case.
Japan was merely listed together with other countries that genuinely engage in currency devaluation because Japan runs a large trade surplus with the United States, and it was clearly stated that Japan had not conducted any currency manipulation policy at all over the past four years.
Yet the Nikkei wrote none of this.
I am convinced that this omission was intentional.
One reason was to conceal the fact that their kindergarten-level economic sense had been wrong.
The other reason is that the reporter who wrote this article is not a purely Japanese individual, but rather a resident Korean or resident Chinese who infiltrated the Japanese media by taking advantage of GHQ occupation policies.
The motive is obvious—or rather, all too obvious: to make the Japanese people believe that Japan, like their own countries, is a currency-manipulating state.
I write this for a reason.
To be continued.