Based on a chapter originally published on September 1, 2015, this passage criticizes the reality that television programs such as TBS’s News 23 and TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station once used public airwaves to disseminate anti-government and anti-Japan narratives in a privileged manner.
Arguing that the advance of the internet age has made it far harder for such low-level propaganda to continue unchecked, the author cites a Sankei Shimbun column by Satoshi Kuwahara and sharply reexamines the remarks made in Japan by the Norwegian peace scholar Johan Galtung, as well as the Asahi-style discourse that treated them uncritically.
The passage questions the unreality of proposals such as a “Northeast Asian Community” including China, South Korea, North Korea, and Russia, and the insistence on maintaining Article 9 without regard for geopolitical realities, while emphasizing Japan’s substantial postwar contributions to international aid and peace.
It is a chapter that indicts the ideological bias long carried by Japanese television and newspaper media.

2019-04-22
At that time, those men of discernment who were still watching…
TBS’s News 23 and TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station,
Should all remember how outrageous what they were doing was when they brought on the following figure.

This is a chapter originally published on September 1, 2015.
At that time, those men of discernment who were still watching…
TBS’s News 23 and TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station should all remember how outrageous what they were doing was when they brought on the following figure.
As of September 1, 2015, the fact that such things were still being done…
Using public airwaves provided to them at privileged low cost…
Not only in clear violation of the Broadcasting Act, but as open, lowest-level anti-government and anti-Japan propaganda…
Would make anyone, even now on April 22, 2019, feel belatedly appalled.
But they can no longer ever again carry out such lowest-level anti-government and anti-Japan propaganda…
We will not allow it.
The advance of the internet, the greatest library in human history, will never again permit such vile and worst conduct on their part.
And I am convinced that this column too has continued to play its small part in that.

2015/9/1
A friend of mine also told me of the following article.
It is from Satoshi Kuwahara’s serialized column on page 12 of the Sankei Shimbun of September 1, 2015.
The emphasis in the text is mine.

A Word to Peace Scholar Mr. Galtung

An interview article with the Norwegian peace scholar Johan Galtung, who visited Japan in August and gave lectures in various places, appeared in the morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun dated August 26.
According to the article, Mr. Galtung “came to Japan at the request of Japanese citizens.”
Being a suspicious person, I cannot help wondering what kind of organization, and what kind of country, lies behind those “citizens.”
Mr. Galtung, who seeks peace through the elimination of poverty and discrimination, criticizes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “Proactive Contribution to Peace,” and says that the exercise of the right of collective self-defense will inevitably invite retaliation.
On top of that, he proposes the creation of a “Northeast Asian Community” whose members would include Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea, North Korea, and the Russian Far East.
In addition, he says that Japan should maintain Article 9, Paragraph 1 of the Constitution, which renounces force as a means of resolving international disputes, declare that at the United Nations General Assembly, revise policies that contradict the text, and give up weapons with high offensive capability.
Does Mr. Galtung know, to begin with, how much aid Japan has provided for the alleviation of poverty in South Korea and China.
As soon as their national power increased, both countries began baring their fangs at Japan.
And he says we should create a community with those two countries, with North Korea, a kidnapping dictatorship, and with Russia, which stole the Northern Territories and refuses to repent.
I would like to say to Mr. Galtung, a European:
If so, then try drawing into the EU the Russia that annexed Crimea, and see if you can make it work.
I cannot help thinking this as well.
The United States used Japan for the experiment of the atomic bomb, but does Mr. Galtung want to use Japan for the experiment of his own “peace studies”?
Sigh, writing such things makes me dislike myself.
(Satoshi Kuwahara)