Angela Merkel led Germany for over a decade, consolidating its dominance within the EU.
By contrast, Shinzo Abe achieved decisive economic results in just four years.
This essay exposes the double standards of Asahi Shimbun and its cultural allies, who praise Germany while relentlessly condemning Abe’s policies.

2016-07-09
Angela Merkel became leader of the CDU in 2000 and became Chancellor of Germany in November 2005.
Angela Merkel became leader of the CDU in 2000 and became Chancellor of Germany in November 2005.
If one were to replace her position with that of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, it would become immediately clear just how correct my argument is.
Shinzo Abe began leading the current administration only four years ago, in 2012.
Merkel has continued as Germany’s chancellor since 2005.
That means sixteen years as party leader and ten years as chancellor.
Of course, the majority of the Japanese people do not know these facts accurately.
During this time, it goes without saying that she firmly positioned Germany as the de facto leader of the EU and significantly enhanced its voice in international society.
Shinzo Abe, by contrast, has had only four years.
That in just these four years he implemented economic policies that broke free from more than twenty years of deflation and produced tangible results can be described as nothing short of extraordinary.
Nevertheless, Asahi Shimbun and the so-called cultural figures who echo it—who have not only continued to praise Merkel and Germany but have repeatedly said that Japan should “learn from Germany”—have persistently denied and criticized Prime Minister Abe’s entirely correct policies.
German newspapers represented by Süddeutsche Zeitung, receiving favors from Asahi Shimbun and aligning with it, from faraway Germany—where it goes without saying that most Germans know nothing about Japan’s actual conditions—may foolishly disparage Japan, a completely different country, and foster anti-Japanese sentiment among roughly half of their readership, but they would surely never do something as foolish as disparaging their own chancellor in order to force her out mid-term or to ensure that a long-term administration is never maintained.
Most Japanese people harbor no anti-German sentiment whatsoever.
This is because no one knows anything about Germans in the first place.
To be continued.