This essay critically examines how Asahi Shimbun distorted Prime Minister Abe’s G7 warning about global economic risks. Focusing on the Brexit referendum, subsequent market shocks, and an incident that calls democratic norms into question, it exposes persistent media manipulation, deflationary psychology, and parallels with totalitarian propaganda.

June 21, 2016
Among households that subscribe to Asahi Shimbun, there are people who, like myself until August the year before last, harbored no doubts at all, knew nothing of their true nature, and even now read it closely, and for such people I will, within these next few days, write an essay that is required reading.
On the day of the G7, Asahi Shimbun, taking Prime Minister Abe’s statement that major risks are latent in the global economy and likening them to the Lehman Shock,
that the countries comprising the G7, which are capitalist and democratic nations that must lead the world, must not hesitate to engage in fiscal stimulus,
and that this was the major theme of this G7,
had Makoto Hara, the chief editorial writer in charge of economics, appear on their subsidiary TV Asahi’s flagship program and say that it was a “nonsensical statement.”
Not only that, but they had European journalists who sympathize with Asahi Shimbun—journalists from the UK, Germany, and others—appear and state that there are absolutely no risks in the world like those Prime Minister Abe was concerned about.
Ever since then, I have continuously wondered, especially, what that British journalist who was speaking at that time is thinking now.
That is because it was a fact that even an elementary school student could understand, that the result of the referendum on whether the UK would remain in or leave the EU, to be known on the 24th, was the greatest risk of this year.
When opinion polls reported that the Leave camp was in the lead, the Nikkei Stock Average plunged sharply, and the yen fell rapidly to a level that was unacceptable for Japan as a nation.
It was a fall as if the bottom had dropped out.
After that, an incident occurred that made one ask whether this was truly something that happens in a democratic nation.
I continue to think about what the British and German journalists who, in line with the intentions of Asahi Shimbun, called Prime Minister Abe nonsensical on the day of the G7, are thinking now.
Asahi Shimbun, which is their ringleader,
whether they have become emboldened because I have, since that time, refrained from writing, out of reluctance, about their economic theories or the reality that they continue even now to engage in opinion manipulation against the Japanese people since the time they created the “Lost 20 Years,” I do not know,
but even now they continue to write those vicious editorials, sometimes using the entire width of the newspaper page.
That they themselves created Japan’s economic stagnation, and that now they have, from the outset, written editorials that consistently deny the policies that the Japanese government and the Bank of Japan have finally carried out and should have carried out, is something subscribers should know well.
That one of the most important things in escaping deflation is changing consumer psychology is an elementary-school-level matter, but precisely for that reason Asahi persistently tries to keep the economy in a deflationary state.
Even if those who manipulate elementary school students are themselves elementary school students, they are, like the one-party dictators of the Communist Party, persistent and vicious.
Their elementary-school-like thinking, and the persistent viciousness that comes from being elementary school students, is no different at all from the logic of the one-party dictators of the Communist Party and totalitarian states—in other words, bottomless evil and plausible falsehoods.
In these recent times, it has been laid bare that there are countless scholars and writers who, like Asahi Shimbun, live in a world of bottomless evil and plausible falsehoods.
This essay continues.
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If you are viewing my photographs while listening to this music, you should be able to understand the correctness of my paper “The Turntable of Civilization,” which I presented to the world in 2010.
You should be able to understand what exists in Japan that does not exist in the world.
You should also be able to silently understand just how atrocious the anti-Japan propaganda carried out in the international community by countries such as China and South Korea—countries of bottomless evil and plausible falsehoods—is, as they use lies to maintain the legitimacy of their regimes.
You, too, who have lent your ear to their anti-Japan propaganda, will feel shame when you realize that you have been complicit in bottomless evil and plausible falsehoods.
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