This essay criticizes major Japanese media outlets and argues that a small but influential minority shapes public opinion. It questions reporting on constitutional revision, national security, and China, urging citizens to think independently about media narratives.

January 1, 2019
Although it became decisively clear four years ago in August who exactly resides within that five percent, people continue even now to be indoctrinated by them.
While casually watching several television programs today, one thing caught my attention.
On an NHK program, without the slightest doubt or caution, it was reported that 740,000 Chinese nationals reside in Japan, yet there was no warning whatsoever that China is a one-party communist dictatorship and that Xi Jinping has enacted peculiar laws that bind them completely — what kind of de facto state broadcaster is this.
Among the guests was architect Kengo Kuma, a person I personally find difficult to admire, as he represents the type of cultural figure aligned with Asahi Shimbun.
I have never once heard from his lips the spirit that Japan is a wonderful country and must lead the world alongside the United States.
Though he speaks plausibly, what he truly expresses is a diminishment of Japan, and it is no exaggeration to say he demeans the nation.
NHK itself is a profoundly inconsistent organization.
From year’s end to the New Year it aired an excellent program titled “The World Is Full of Things We Want,” though never during prime time, which is why I only learned of it at the end of the year.
Yet on New Year’s Day prime time, it featured Kuma discussing minimalist lifestyles, hosted by the high-income entertainer Tamori.
Those producing such programs surely embody the principle that communists control organizations with five percent.
They constantly speak in pseudo-moralistic tones.
They never say that Japan must become richer, stronger, more vigorous.
They continue anti-nuclear reporting and rejoice in maintaining a constitution drafted under GHQ that, it is no exaggeration to say, permanently weakens Japan by prohibiting it from possessing a normal military for self-defense, as every other nation does.
Only two nations rejoice in this — China, ruled by one-party dictatorship, and South Korea, which for seventy years has maintained anti-Japanese policies — yet NHK and Asahi continue shaping public opinion against constitutional revision.
What does this signify.
Japanese citizens must not continue passively watching NHK and subscribing only to Asahi Shimbun.
If you wish Japan to remain prosperous, strong, and righteous for your children and grandchildren and to lead the world for another 170 years,
then what you have done thus far is the opposite — creating a nation obedient to China and the Korean Peninsula,
not leading the world but allowing Japan to be trampled by the evils of two historically problematic nations.
In other words, you have functioned as agents of China and the Korean Peninsula.
And not even for free, but while paying over ten trillion yen in taxes — there is no greater folly anywhere in the world.
Who has incited such foolishness.
It is you — those who have continued watching NHK and subscribing only to Asahi Shimbun.
You have been governed neatly by that mere five percent.
And despite it being decisively revealed four years ago who resides within that five percent, you remain indoctrinated by them even now.