This essay dissects the abnormal scale and timing of Asahi Shimbun’s coverage attacking the Abe administration over parliamentary standing ovations,juxtaposed with NHK’s announcement of a House of Representatives by-election.It contrasts this with Sankei Shimbun’s fact-based verification of photographs used in “Nanjing Incident” television programs,exposing both foreign and domestic forces that have worked to diminish Japan.

Because last October,I happened to be watching that program.
2016-10-17
Yesterday morning,I wrote about how appalled I was by the manner in which the Asahi Shimbun had its two principal reporters,and quite meticulously one male and one female,write about the parliamentary standing ovation using a large amount of space spanning pages three to four.
Watching NHK’s 7 p.m.news made me even more astonished.
Because it was announcing the start of a House of Representatives by-election.
I see.So this was why the Asahi devoted such an enormous amount of space to publishing the standing ovation as an article attacking the Abe administration,appearing like a bolt from the blue to subscribers who could not possibly have imagined such an intent.I am left speechless with amazement.
The other day,I wrote that subscribing to the Asahi Shimbun means being made to read kindergarten-level editorials that conceal distorted ideology beneath pseudo-moralism,leaving readers completely ignorant of facts they should know.Yesterday’s article was a textbook example of this.
Meanwhile,yesterday’s Sankei Shimbun published,on a large scale,an article that elucidated the facts in a manner precisely opposite to the Asahi.I was astonished,because on page three there was a major headline stating,“No corroboration for ‘massacre’ photographs,”along with an article examining a Nippon Television program on the “Nanjing Incident.”Because last October,I happened to be watching that program.
There had been absolutely no verification of what kind of photographs they actually were,despite their decisive role in the program.Yet they were extremely suspicious photographs.The Sankei Shimbun had taken the time to verify the facts.My friend brought the article to me,saying that I and the Sankei Shimbun seemed to resonate with each other.
I am the first person to have written that people who grew up subscribing to and carefully reading the Asahi Shimbun not only exist across all sectors of Japanese society,but also constitute its very core.
The Sankei Shimbun’s genuine journalism also conveyed that the media producing such articles and programs are themselves composed of such people.
It is not only South Korea and China that have diminished Japan.There are also those whose status as Japanese citizens is hard to believe,who have taken the lead in belittling Japan and have thus created today’s extremely unstable and dangerous world.