This essay analyzes the extraordinary persistence and ideological distortion displayed by Asahi Shimbun during its coverage of the G7 summit in June 2016. By examining media behavior surrounding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s diplomacy, NHK reporting, and Masato Hara’s commentary, it argues that Asahi Shimbun and allied political forces stand further from democratic values than they claim.

June 14, 2016

The following is an editorial that I transmitted to the world on June 5.
Its extraordinary persistence and abnormality mean that it has reached a level that can only be described as madness.
Masato Hara of The Asahi Shimbun perfectly demonstrated this abnormality.
The abnormal nature of The Asahi Shimbun can, without exaggeration, be described as madness.
By “madness,” I mean that in order to deny those who do not conform to their own doctrines, claims, and ideology,
or in order to impose and realize those doctrines, claims, and ideology,
they will do absolutely anything, and that their persistence and baseness have reached an extreme level.
That extraordinary persistence and abnormality mean that it has already reached a level of madness.
As readers know well, they are convinced that they themselves are the guardians of democracy.
Yet the manner in which they have produced countless fabricated articles in the past,
and the way Hōdō Station reported on the very day of the G7 summit—
with Masato Hara, said to be the chief editorial writer of Asahi Shimbun’s economics section, appearing on the program and, unbelievably, denigrating the Prime Minister of Japan on the very day of the G7—
revealed an eerie abnormality.
NHK reported in a special feature the fact that the initial proposal compiled by Japan as chair country was criticized by the United States as too mild to avert the risks facing the global economy.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited each of the G7 countries, making particular efforts to persuade Germany, and moved the process forward toward agreement, leaving the final details to be worked out collectively on the day itself.
Faced with the lack of agreement from Germany and the United Kingdom, the countries most accommodating toward China,
Prime Minister Abe, quite naturally, decided to finalize matters on the day of the G7 and pushed the negotiations to the very limits possible at that time.
His struggle was, of course, well understood by President Barack Obama.
Yet a mere employee of a company called The Asahi Shimbun—
a man who knows nothing of international economics or international politics, is unaware that he himself is being manipulated by China and South Korea, and who has continued to commit grave offenses against Japan and the Japanese people—
arrogantly declared the Prime Minister’s efforts “nonsensical,” despite the fact that the Prime Minister visited G7 nations on behalf of Japan and its people, for the sake of Japan’s national interests and the development of the global economy, and arrived at the correct answer at the very last moment on the day itself.
Furthermore, they attempted to indoctrinate viewers by featuring journalists sympathetic to Asahi from Germany and the United Kingdom, countries that can likewise be said to be manipulated by China.
All of this demonstrates that it is they themselves who stand farthest from democracy.
Asahi, perhaps because it is being manipulated,
possesses exactly the same nature as China, a one-party communist dictatorship with which it has aligned itself throughout the postwar period, and as South Korea, a country founded upon the lies begun by Syngman Rhee and whose true nature—particularly externally—is that of a totalitarian state.
They convey matters only in ways convenient to themselves.
They mercilessly attack those who do not conform to their ideology.
Most absurd of all is that Katsuya Okada, leader of the Democratic Party, whose intellect consists of nothing more than Asahi editorials,
attacks the splendid efforts of Prime Minister Abe and the G7 declaration achieved as a result, claiming that it was “crafted for Abe’s own convenience.”
He lacks even an elementary-school-level understanding that today’s G7 reflects the confrontation between the United States, which has finally recognized the threat posed by China,
and Germany and the United Kingdom, which, dazzled by the prospect of China’s 1.3 billion people—a highly uncertain number that could disappear at any time—have abandoned freedom and intellect.
I am now convinced that this is precisely because both Asahi Shimbun and the Democratic Party have in fact been organizations manipulated by China and South Korea.