By ignoring why wars begin and portraying only Japan as brutal, NHK reveals a uniquely self-denigrating mindset.
This essay exposes the intellectual environment that produced such reporting.

Forced to exist under pressure from absolute authorities, or compelled into paths they should never have taken.
2016-10-28
War, by its very nature, becomes mutual killing. In other words, it inevitably turns into the utmost brutality, and it is no exaggeration to say so.
If the truth of why a war came about is not conveyed at all, and if—forgetting even the fact that they themselves were among those who played one of the largest roles, while treating only Prince Mikasa’s memories as unquestionable truth—reporting that only Japan committed brutal acts in war is believed to be journalism and moralism, then the program producers at NHK can only be described as possessing a masochistic mentality found nowhere else in the world.
What they should be doing is not studying at universities now clearly dominated by scholars who genuinely believe that countries like China and South Korea—likewise unique in the world in thinking that it is right to denigrate and despise their own nations—are correct, and that Japan was an evil, mistaken country.
They, of all people, should be reading the monumental works of Kō Bun’yū, one of the world’s foremost authorities on China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan.
If they truly consider themselves elites endowed with intellect comparable to my own, they should be able to grasp the truth of history within a single hour.
Once one knows the histories of China and the Korean Peninsula, the phrase “the Japanese army committed the utmost brutality” should never emerge, even if one were standing on one’s head.
Unless, that is, they are a collective of people who, having been forced to exist under pressure from absolute authorities, having undergone unreasonable entrance-exam drilling that they should never have endured, and having convinced themselves that they had joined the elite, formed their thinking at universities dominated by the abnormal individuals described above.
To be continued.