This essay criticizes the Foreign Correspondents’ Club as a gathering of journalists shaped by Asahi Shimbun–style ideology, who speak condescendingly about Japan while ignoring reality.
It exposes the structure of international anti-Japanese propaganda disguised as human rights and moral concern.

2016-08-24

The other day, I watched a satellite television program titled Japan as Seen by Foreign Correspondents.
Its subtitle claimed that members of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club would introduce Japan’s hidden spots.

A female reporter, seemingly a correspondent from the country of Coomaraswamy, appeared and said that nuclear power plants in Kyushu should be shut down, because then there would be no need for concern among disaster victims.

These too are people molded by Asahi Shimbun.
Which disaster victims, I ask, are worried about nuclear power plants?
She is also one of those who, without the slightest doubt or shame, organize press conferences such as the recent one by David Kaye.
I am now convinced that they receive various favors from Asahi Shimbun.

It is inconceivable that Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is doing anything to help them properly understand Japan.
Asahi Shimbun, however, must be different.
They have made these people their sympathizers, moved international society as they wished, and linked it to the realization of their distorted ideology.

There is no doubt that they continue to provide them with meals, information, locations, and various conveniences.

Despite the fact that not a single one of these correspondents’ countries has achieved intelligence and freedom, safety and peace, or equality comparable to Japan’s, they speak condescendingly about Japan without hesitation.

This is irrefutable proof that they read Asahi Shimbun.
Unaware of their own foolishness, they brandish false moralism.

A gathering of people deserving nothing but contempt—that is the Foreign Correspondents’ Club.

In the country of the woman mentioned at the outset, women would not even be able to ride buses in peace.
At any moment, they could be raped by utter fools.
They might not even be able to attend school.
For merely stating the obvious, simply for being female, they could be shot in the head at any time, or have a bomb dropped on their classroom during a lesson.

And yet people from such countries calmly denounce Japan as a human-rights–violating state or a nation of hate speech.

This absurd spectacle is the world of today.
It is a world created by the rulers of China, a one-party communist dictatorship, by South Korea, which for seventy years since the war has carried out anti-Japanese education—Nazism under another name—to justify a history built on lies, and by Asahi Shimbun.