A piece written on July 2, 2019.
This essay sharply criticizes NHK’s coverage of South Korea, arguing that what outwardly appears to be neutrality or moral seriousness is in fact rooted in an anti-Japan, self-denigrating view of history.
Through its discussion of News Watch 9, the evasive framing of Japan–Korea relations, and the author’s deep distrust of Asahi Shimbun and certain intellectuals, it denounces the hypocrisy and decay embedded in Japan’s media discourse.

2019-07-02
NHK’s reporting on South Korea is appallingly terrible… Under the guise of pseudo-moralism, the Japan state broadcaster has been taken over by people who in fact hold anti-Japan and self-denigrating views of history.
Tonight’s NHK reporting on South Korea was so appallingly terrible that it clearly proved that the Japan state broadcaster has been taken over by people who outwardly pose as moralists, but in reality are adherents of anti-Japan and self-denigrating historical views.
On watch9, Arima repeats comments such as “Xi-san…” toward Xi Jinping of China, almost as if it were some fixed ritual.
All those with discerning eyes who watched today’s coverage must have felt sick to the point of nausea, wondering what on earth these people are.
I immediately muted the sound.
There is no doubt that NHK has been one of the principal forces that have encouraged the “bottomless evil” and the “plausible lies” of China and the Korean Peninsula.
A friend of mine, an exceptionally avid reader, says he cannot bear to watch Arima and Kuwako on watch9… that it is such an indescribably foolish and vicious program, like a childish pseudo-pageant, and so he never watches it at all.
That time, he says, is instead his precious reading time before bed.
Even so, when it comes to the current Japan–South Korea relationship, NHK, which continues to issue comments as though both sides were equally to blame in a mere quarrel, along with the Waseda professors and the people from Keizai Doyukai who echo such comments, are, really, people of what country?
Do they have any guts?
Apparently, they cannot even see the repeated outrages and acts of violence that they have continued to commit against Japan over the seventy postwar years.
Are they Japanese at all?
Asahi and NHK… have, in Japan… multiplied creepy villains like nue.