Starting from the intense sense of discomfort the author felt toward a comment made by Arima on NHK’s watch9, this essay critically discusses the continuity between GHQ occupation policy, Chinese Communist brainwashing methods, and the institutional mentality of Japan’s major postwar media.
It sharply reexamines reporting that misleads people about the true nature of Japan and its citizens by creating the impression that “the nation itself is to blame,” and denounces the structural problems shared by NHK, the Asahi, Mainichi, Tokyo, and Chunichi newspapers.

2019-03-26
If the Chinese Communist Party, that is, Mao Zedong, had known the truth of Japan at that time, would they not have brainwashed people by saying, “The people are not bad, the nation is not bad either, what is bad are the newspapers and NHK.”
Surely not a single viewer realized that his comment had been issued from the very institutional character of NHK, of the Asahi, Mainichi, Tokyo, and Chunichi newspapers, and of their affiliated television stations.
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The genuine experts who never appear on Asahi or NHK teach us that when GHQ occupied Japan, it took as a reference the Chinese Communist Party’s brainwashing education of Japanese prisoners of war.
That is to say…。
By the logic that the people are not bad, what is bad is the government, that is, the nation, they brainwashed prisoners so that they would turn against their country.
If the Chinese Communist Party, that is, Mao Zedong, had known the truth of Japan at that time, would they not have brainwashed people by saying, “The people are not bad, the nation is not bad either, what is bad are the newspapers and NHK.”
Of course, the truth was probably that, knowing this very well, they intended to brainwash the prisoners as spies of the Chinese Communist Party, alienate the nation and the people from one another, and bring about a people’s revolution.
This morning, the reason I realized that was because I felt an intense sense of discomfort at Arima’s comment on last night’s watch9.
Surely not a single viewer other than myself realized that his comment had been issued from the institutional character of NHK, of the Asahi, Mainichi, Tokyo, and Chunichi newspapers, and of their affiliated television stations.
He calmly said this.
Regarding the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare statistics problem, “Such things happen frequently….”
And I thought…。
Wait a minute.
Is Japan really such a careless country.
Surely not.
On the contrary, is it not the finest country in the world.
Moreover, it is a uniquely magnanimous and bottomlessly peace-loving, perhaps prayer-chanting, country that is generous enough even to let foreigners, especially Chinese, use its health insurance, a country whose people are the most diligent and serious in the world, whose craftsmen’s spirit is the best in the world, and that continues to produce the finest products in the world, a country with the safest food in the world and the most delicious cuisine in the world…。
A country that also has restaurants serving every kind of delicious food.
That is Japan, and there is no other Japan anywhere.
It is NHK employees themselves among whom scandals such as molestation, sexual assault, and embezzlement occur frequently, and it is NHK that repeatedly engages in biased reporting and manipulation of impressions by people inside and outside NHK who swallow whole what China and the Soviet Union say, that is, people under their influence.
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Postscript.
I am now convinced that on watch9, which may well be called NHK’s flagship program, a man who is nothing more than an NHK employee…。
That is, a man drawing a high salary from the taxes of the Japanese people…。
Calls himself an anchor and not only keeps firing off comments with the face of an omniscient and omnipotent god, some righteous hero of justice, but performs a kind of picture-show in which he explains things to the foolish Kuwako beside him, treating her as a stand-in for the foolish public.
He is without doubt a man who rose through the NHK labor union…。
At the very least, he is someone with labor union experience, and surely must also have had deep ties with Jichiro and Nikkyoso and the like.
All of his comments side with the opposition parties, and regarding the absurdities of what the opposition says, or…。
Is that really what ought to be debated now.
Is not the nation’s security policy the urgent issue.
Is that not precisely why constitutional revision is needed.
Is it acceptable to leave the Self-Defense Forces in a state of unconstitutionality.
Is it acceptable for a country to rely on the Self-Defense Forces only in times of disaster.
As all viewers know, he has not commented on such matters even once.
Just as wretched organizations generally tend to do, the more they side with the opposition and make severe comments with stern faces toward the nation, the more unbearable it becomes to watch the softened expressions they show toward their own circle and the sickeningly indulgent way they interact with insiders.
That is generally the form that all such good-for-nothings take.
Namely, lenient toward insiders and severe toward the outside…。
If they were truly a body of journalists, they ought above all to be severe toward their own side and direct a spirit of tolerance toward the outside.