Originally published on May 29, 2019.
This passage criticizes NHK for reporting on the Eugenic Protection Law while avoiding any discussion of the forces and circumstances that led to its enactment.
The author argues that the Socialist Party, The Asahi Shimbun, and NHK, all of which accommodated GHQ, bore serious responsibility, and, drawing on Masayuki Takayama’s argument, condemns the broader postwar distortions in Japan ranging from population policy and sexual morality to the abduction issue and the role of female politicians.

May 29, 2019

They never report on how the Eugenic Protection Law came to be enacted.
If they reported the facts, it would be brought into the light of day that NHK, just like the Socialist Party and The Asahi Shimbun that helped pass this law, was also one of its promoters.

When NHK reports on the Eugenic Protection Law, it never reports on the circumstances under which the law was created.
That is probably because, if it reported the facts, it would expose to broad daylight that NHK, like the Socialist Party and The Asahi Shimbun that brought this law into being, was also one of those who promoted it.
It is the lowest kind of broadcaster.

My chapter published on 2018-08-08 under the title, “Many Japanese were horrified, but in 1948 the Eugenic Protection Law was enacted through the cooperation of the Socialist Party and The Asahi Shimbun, both currying favor with GHQ,” has now entered the real-time top ten.
Last night, NHK, as usual, reported in the manner of people who bear no responsibility whatsoever, saying that lawsuits against the government had begun over the postwar Eugenic Protection Law.
As though all responsibility lay with the Japanese government and none with themselves.
This is the very model of irresponsibility in its extreme, and it is reporting that proves the falsehood and dishonesty of NHK and The Asahi Shimbun.

What follows is a chapter I transmitted to the world on 2018-06-26.
It is a chapter that both Japan and the world should reread.

Enough of ugly women.
I want beautiful women.

Masayuki Takayama is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
This week’s installment of his famous column in Shukan Shincho once again splendidly proves that my evaluation of him hits the mark exactly.
Readers of his books and columns, when they watched the recent reporting by NHK and others, I had long since stopped subscribing to The Asahi Shimbun, so I had not read it, though I assumed it was much the same as NHK, concerning the Eugenic Protection Law enacted after the war.
As though they themselves bore no responsibility whatever.
And as though only the Japanese government had done something terrible.
I am sure many people thought:
“Hey, wait a minute.
Weren’t you the very people who also agreed with it and promoted it?”
Masayuki Takayama has once again made the truth of this issue perfectly clear.

We need better women.

The Asahi Shimbun worships MacArthur as a god.
On the morning he was dismissed and returned to his country, it shed tears in an editorial, saying, “General MacArthur guided the Japanese people onto the bright road of democracy.”
But MacArthur himself knew nothing of democracy.
He carried out censorship vigorously and even prohibited publication when facts were written, yet Asahi pretended not to notice, regarding it as merely the playfulness of a god.
MacArthur also interfered in elections.
He had women convenient to GHQ run for office and got them elected through the authority of the Occupation forces.
The woman was named Katō Shidzue.
In her autobiography, she happily wrote about the Occupation’s maneuvering, saying, “A GHQ general suddenly came to visit me and persuaded me to run for office.”
In what way was she a woman convenient to them?
GHQ had a great mission.
It was to carry out Franklin Roosevelt’s dying wish: “Confine Japan to four islands and destroy it.”
So they imposed a constitution that stripped Japan of arms, making it possible for even foolish neighboring countries to destroy this nation easily.
They also worked to reduce Japan into a small-population country that could be blown away with a puff.
That meant spreading Margaret Sanger’s ideology of “liberating women from childbirth and allowing them to enjoy sex.”
If women did not give birth, Japan’s population would decline.
Fortunately for them, Japan had Katō Shidzue, Sanger’s beloved disciple.
So they sent her into the House of Representatives and had her legalize abortion at GHQ’s recommendation.
But Shidzue was even more cold-hearted and ruthless than expected.
In addition to abortion, she also legislated the “thinning out of bad genes,” including mental illness and intellectual disability.
Many Japanese were horrified, but in 1948, through the cooperation of the Socialist Party and The Asahi Shimbun, both currying favor with GHQ, the Eugenic Protection Law was enacted.
Social morality collapsed, seven out of seventeen pregnant women had abortions, and parents of children regarded as abnormal were made to lead them by the hand to sterilization operations.
Now, the descendants of the party that pushed that devilish law, together with The Asahi Shimbun, are loudly condemning forced infertility.
They think that if they make enough noise, they can deceive people about the past.
They are a sly lot.

Those agents of GHQ also tried to destroy Japan’s sexual morality.
Japan had a traditional courtesan culture.
It purified what would otherwise have been a merely filthy world, provided material for rakugo and joruri, and nurtured many literary figures.
At first glance, the courtesan culture whose traces live on even in today’s words, such as fudeoroshi and hitoriyogari, had, through repeated reforms since the Edo period, changed into a workplace kinder to women, as Hiroshi Sekine wrote in Shōsetsu Yoshiwarashi.
But female politicians came to destroy it.
Kamikochi Ichiko, despite being a convicted criminal, mouthed pretty words like a saint and at last snuffed out the lights of the historic Yoshiwara.
What remained afterward was the ugly spread of imported Korean bars and the like.
Yet the foolish The Asahi Shimbun still says there was Takako Doi, a supposed model of female politicians.

One day, Keiko Arimoto’s parents came to visit her.
They said they had received a letter and photograph from their daughter saying, “I was abducted by North Korea.”
Takako Doi said North Korea would never commit abductions.
That claim was overturned.
If this woman had been a worthy politician, she would have immediately made North Korea’s wrongdoing public and appealed to the world over the North’s violation of sovereignty.
But instead, this woman silenced the parents, telling them not to tell anyone anything.
Around the time the parents could no longer wait, Kim Jong Il admitted the abduction and, in the same breath, notified them that “Keiko Arimoto is dead.”
The date of death was only two months after the parents had visited Takako Doi.
It even appears possible that someone leaked information and destroyed the evidence.

Renhō was a dual-nationality lawmaker, forbidden by law, and said that she had no attachment to Japan and used Japanese nationality because it was convenient.
Recently, she has spoken out on sexual harassment issues, criticizing Japanese men by saying they quickly commit sexual harassment.
She herself said of Katsuya Okada in public, “He really is such a boring man.”
That, on the other hand, is sexual harassment itself, with no excuse possible.
Renhō says it was a joke, but it is not even fit to be called a joke.

A candidate parity law was created to increase the number of female lawmakers.
Until now, there have been many spiritually ugly women who thought it was enough for politicians not to know the Japanese language or the Japanese heart, so long as they fawned on China and Korea.
Enough of ugly women.
I want beautiful women.