This essay examines how the world came to mistake Asahi Shimbun for a representative voice of Japan—and how the author himself was misled until August a few years prior.
By exposing the intellectual mediocrity behind Asahi and its aligned cultural figures, the piece denounces their pseudo-moralism and their collaboration in historical falsehoods regarding Korea.
It concludes by noting that recent news has begun to reveal the true nature of this deception.

September 28, 2016
Until I emerged in July 2010, the world had believed that Asahi Shimbun was Japan’s representative voice.
The fact that I myself had been made to believe this until August two years ago makes this an undeniable reality.
As you know, once I learned the true nature of Asahi Shimbun, I realized that they were, metaphorically speaking, people who would have ranked from the middle to the lower half among my classmates, and I was the first to make this known to the world.
For the reasons already described, I am someone who has never been to either the Philippines or South Korea, but many of the media figures led by Asahi, as well as the so-called cultural figures who have aligned themselves with them, must have visited the Philippines at least once.
Yet they failed to notice what I grasped in an instant.
This proves that although they were in fact intellectually inferior, they falsely presented themselves as people of superior intellect.
Thus, together with Korean fascists and Nazis, they continued to propagate the truly crude and absurd claim that Japan colonized the Korean Peninsula,
without realizing that there could be no greater insult or disrespect toward the predecessors who invested more than 20 percent of the national budget to transform the Korean Peninsula—then one of the poorest regions in the world—into a modern state comparable to the Japanese mainland,
and in concert with Asahi Shimbun they persisted in a pseudo-moralism of fatal and unparalleled foolishness.
News that laid bare the evil of this pseudo-moralism was broadcast the other day.
I will discuss this matter later.