A chapter first published on November 27, 2017, under the title “Its resentment at not wanting to accept the election result honestly is blatant,” entered goo’s top 10 search rankings this morning.
This passage examines Asahi Shimbun’s front-page post-election article published on the morning of October 23, 2017, criticizing the headline and tone as revealing an unwillingness to accept the Abe administration’s victory and the political intent behind that stance.
It focuses in particular on the headline, “An Opportunity to Reconsider ‘One-Strong’ Politics,” arguing that even as a post-election assessment, it still refused to accept the result and instead suggested changing the political status quo, thereby exposing Asahi’s mentality of a sore loser.

2019-03-04
This article, published prominently on the front page of the October 23 morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun, carried the byline: “Shiro Nakamura, General Editor and Head of the Editorial Bureau, Tokyo Headquarters.”

The bitterness of not wanting to accept the election result honestly is blatant.
A chapter I published on 2017-11-27 under that title entered goo’s top 10 search rankings this morning.
What follows is a continuation of the previous chapter.

The bitter feelings behind “Abe’s one-man dominance.”

This article, published prominently on the front page of the October 23 morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun, carried the byline: “Shiro Nakamura, General Editor and Head of the Editorial Bureau, Tokyo Headquarters.”
The head of the editorial bureau may be regarded as the highest person responsible for the making of the newspaper pages.
As it happens, I know Mr. Nakamura personally.
More than ten years ago, we were both correspondents stationed in Beijing.
He was a rather pleasant and refreshing journalist.
But needless to say, that and this are two different matters.

The headline of this post-general-election assessment article was, first of all, “An Opportunity to Reconsider ‘One-Strong’ Politics.”
That wording makes it sound like an article written before the election.
Whatever one may think of the appropriateness of describing the current Liberal Democratic Party administration as “one-strong,” it presumably means that this is an opportunity to reconsider the present situation.
If so, it would naturally suggest the stance of facing the coming election.
But in fact this was a post-election assessment, and yet it still spoke as though this were now an “opportunity” to reconsider Japanese politics going forward.

The bitterness of not wanting to accept the election result honestly is blatant.
I even felt that this must be exactly what sore-loser behavior means.

To be continued.