This essay condemns TV Asahi’s “Hōdō Station” for its one-sided coverage linking Operation Tomodachi and Tokyo Electric Power Company to alleged health damage, exposing the childish yet malicious persistence of anti-nuclear propaganda. It argues that TV Asahi and Asahi Shimbun no longer report facts but function as propaganda outlets undermining Japan and its public institutions.

2016-05-20

They must want to argue against nuclear power, but this childish and malicious persistence is beyond description.
Anyone who happened, even by chance, to tune in to TV Asahi’s “Hōdō Station” the day before yesterday must have been appalled by the footage that was aired.
It reported that U.S. soldiers who participated in Operation Tomodachi during the Great East Japan Earthquake later fell ill, claimed it was Tokyo Electric Power Company’s fault, and filed a lawsuit against TEPCO.
It sounded like something carried out through the machinations of the governments of South Korea or China, which make anti-Japanese propaganda a matter of national policy, or perhaps by the CIA.
Or is it meant to teach us a lesson—that among Americans there exist many people who, like them, calmly commit “bottomless evil” and spread “plausible lies,” and that we must never let our guard down?
I had tuned in thinking it was about time for the sports segment to begin, but what appeared instead was a scene of Junichiro Koizumi shedding tears over such a foolish story.
It was direction and acting more stinking than a provincial stage play.
Even so, they must want to oppose nuclear power, but this childish and malicious persistence is beyond description.
Just as Furuta once introduced with a proud expression and tone of voice—perhaps thinking, “You see, we are moralists, and we even place people with Korean Peninsula names at the desk of the foreign news department”—
or as, at the recent North Korean party congress, they again introduced a correspondent with a Korean Peninsula name without the slightest doubt.
Just as a former TBS employee revealed online how TBS had been infiltrated by Chongryon and resident Korean Peninsula forces.
TV Asahi must be in an even worse state than that.
Otherwise, how could they so persistently and maliciously attempt, even now, to cast as a villain a company that has represented its own country, that is in effect a public-interest enterprise, and that has continued to supply the world’s highest-quality electric power,
Tokyo Electric Power Company, which, in disaster-prone Japan, whenever disaster strikes, has undertaken restoration at a speed unmatched anywhere else in the world?
I assert unequivocally that this is not a Japanese way of thinking.
It also proves that TV Asahi’s news division and Asahi Shimbun have long since become companies within the grasp of the governments of South Korea and China, or the CIA.
A close friend pointed out that an article about this matter was also published in the next day’s Asahi Shimbun. Of course, no such malicious article was published at all in the Sankei Shimbun that my friend subscribes to.
I mentioned yesterday the awfulness of the May 17 edition,
and even those who subscribe to Asahi without doubt should now realize it.
Asahi Shimbun is not a newspaper that conveys facts. It is a newspaper that conducts propaganda.