This essay examines the increasingly abnormal nature of NHK’s political coverage, focusing on unusual on-screen personnel, biased commentary, and an unmistakable resemblance to activist behavior rather than journalism.
Drawing on concrete broadcast examples and personal experience, it exposes a structural distortion within Japan’s public broadcaster.
There has been a clear and undeniable change in recent NHK coverage that can only be described as abnormal and disturbing.
A symbolic example of this was yesterday’s evening news program.

The program followed the usual format, with Ikeda as host, a female announcer, and a young male announcer.
However, seated beside them was a figure whose appearance bore no resemblance to that of a journalist, sitting like an overseer.

This pattern has become increasingly common on NHK.
Men who are clearly not journalists, but rather resemble union members or political activists, are inexplicably placed alongside the anchors.

In this context, the fact that a certain Kojima appears to effectively control NHK’s political desk is profoundly abnormal.

What comes to mind is the vote-counting broadcast following Shigeru Ishiba’s second electoral defeat in the House of Councillors election, which ultimately reduced the LDP to a minority ruling party.
Throughout that program, it was this very man who consistently defended Ishiba.

He stated the following.
“The loss was not Ishiba’s fault. It was the result of the remnants of Abe-era politics. Therefore, Ishiba has no reason to resign.”

I was not merely astonished by this statement.
I felt intense anger, confirmed his name, and openly criticized him in this column.

Furthermore, on the very day the dissolution of the House of Representatives was decided, NHK’s 7 p.m. news featured interviews with party leaders, and once again, it was this Kojima who appeared.
I was left speechless by that fact alone.

NHK has long continued reporting in line with the intentions of China and the Korean Peninsula.
Including the weekend female anchor of NHK Osaka’s “Hotto Kansai,” these are individuals who, in their own countries, would never be employed, nor even allowed to appear on screen, based on their demeanor and conduct.

The fact that Kojima addressed Ms. Takaichi with such a condescending attitude—what was not a question but an interrogation—is itself abnormal.

A man who is the embodiment of self-abasing historical views and anti-Japanese ideology, resembling a left-wing infantile ideologue or union activist in both appearance and substance, behaved arrogantly toward Prime Minister Takaichi, a true statesman who embodies exceptional clarity and genuine refinement.
To call such behavior vulgar would not be an exaggeration.
Moreover, this man is effectively a civil servant.
He occupies a position funded by taxpayers’ money and receives one of the highest levels of salary in Japan.
Yet he has never, even once, subjected his own logic, ideology, or policies to the judgment of the electorate.
He is nothing more than an employee of NHK.
For such a person to display such outrageous rudeness and arrogance toward the prime minister of his own country is utterly inconceivable for any decent human being.

In my life as a real estate company executive, I once had dealings with a senior figure of Chongryon through a client.
At the time, I was unaware of their true nature and was still a long-time subscriber and reader of the Asahi Shimbun.
I was extorted for exorbitant sums in dining expenses and ultimately reached the conclusion that I never wished to associate with them again, nor even see their face.
Through this experience, I came to understand why major Japanese corporations have long kept their distance.

Kojima’s attitude is identical to that of that Chongryon executive.
It is the posture of someone who relies on entirely fabricated premises and distorted logic.
A mind that believes such falsehoods one hundred percent.
Shielded by media narratives from outlets such as the Asahi Shimbun, he behaves arrogantly toward the Japanese government and the Japanese people.

To be continued.