This essay criticizes TV Asahi’s coverage linking Operation Tomodachi veterans’ illness claims to TEPCO.
It argues the segment functioned as propaganda rather than reporting, highlighting theatrical staging and coordination with Asahi Shimbun.

2016-08-24.
Anyone who happened, even by chance, to tune in must have been appalled by the footage that aired.
The day before yesterday, anyone who happened, even by chance, to switch to TV Asahi’s Hodo Station must have been appalled by the footage that aired.
They said that U.S. soldiers who took part in Operation Tomodachi during the Great East Japan Earthquake fell ill, that it was TEPCO’s fault, and that they had filed a lawsuit against TEPCO.
It sounds like a story being carried out through the work of the governments of South Korea or China, which make anti-Japan propaganda a national policy, or through CIA operations.
Or is it that they want to give us the lesson that many Americans exist who, like them, calmly engage in “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” and that we must never let our guard down.
I changed the channel thinking it was about time for the sports segment to start, but what appeared was a scene of Junichiro Koizumi shedding tears over such a foolish story.
The staging and acting smelled worse than a provincial play.
In any case, perhaps they want to push anti-nuclear sentiment, but this childish, vicious persistence is beyond description.
As in the past, when Furutate, perhaps thinking, “Look, we are moralists, and we even place a person with a Korean-peninsula name at the foreign news desk,” introduced such a person with a proud expression and tone,
or as at the recent North Korean party congress, when they again introduced a correspondent with a Korean-peninsula name without any doubt.
Just as a former TBS employee revealed on the internet how TBS was infiltrated by Chongryon and pro-Korean-peninsula forces in Japan.
TV Asahi is probably in an even worse state.
Otherwise, their persistence and viciousness in trying even now to cast TEPCO as the villain makes no sense.
TEPCO is a company that has represented its own country, is in effect a public-interest enterprise, and has continued to supply the world’s highest-quality electricity.
In Japan, a disaster-prone nation, when disasters occur, TEPCO has always worked on restoration at a speed unmatched anywhere in the world.
I assert that this is not the thinking of Japanese people.
It also proves that TV Asahi’s news division and Asahi Shimbun are already companies within the hands of the governments of South Korea and China or the CIA.
A close friend pointed out that an article about this was also published in the next day’s Asahi Shimbun and indicated the page.
Of course, no such malicious article is published at all in the Sankei Shimbun that my friend subscribes to.
Yesterday, I mentioned the horribleness of the pages of the 17th.
Those who, without doubt, subscribe to Asahi should already realize it.
Asahi Shimbun is not a newspaper that conveys facts.
It is a newspaper that conducts propaganda.