Postwar Japanese media attitudes are often viewed as shaped by GHQ governance doctrine and the preamble of the Constitution. Within a framework that positioned the state and the people in opposition, the media came to see constant criticism of the state as its primary mission. This section examines that historical background and its implications.

By merely describing the “enemy of the state” defined by GHQ in the language of Marx, he is not a Marxist but simply a fool.
2018-01-14.
The following continues from the previous chapter.
Hasegawa.
Such tendencies have become too blatant in today’s MSM.
Takayama.
Well, I don’t think they are that intelligent (laughs).
Basically speaking, it goes back to the MacArthur Constitution.
To govern another country, divide and rule is the most effective method.
However, Japan had no internal axis of conflict such as ethnicity or religion.
So MacArthur set the state and the people against each other.
In the preamble of his Constitution of Japan, it says that the state may do evil and therefore the people must monitor it.
MacArthur positioned the media as the body that monitors the state on behalf of the people.
Holding this preamble as an absolute principle, GHQ further imposed a masochistic view of history.
Hasegawa Hiroshi says “Asahi was infatuated with Marxism,” but that is merely an after-the-fact interpretation.
The Asahi Shimbun believed it had been entrusted with GHQ’s system of governance and came to assume that it must criticize the state.
Yoichi Funabashi, the chief editor of Asahi, once used the phrase “state power possessing instruments of violence,” but by merely expressing GHQ’s idea of the “enemy of the state” in Marxist language, he was not a Marxist but simply a fool.
As long as such claims were made, everything was exempted, and even if falsehoods about comfort women were written, it was enough that the narrative “the state is evil” was maintained.
A typical example is the state compensation law, which does not exist in other countries.
The state is at fault.
Therefore, if the state does something wrong, it should be fined.
In normal states, the principle of sovereign immunity in administrative practice is established, yet Japan abandoned it.
To be continued.