Based on an essay by Masayuki Takayama, this article critically records Asahi Shimbun’s biased reporting, Special Editorial Writer Hoshi Hiroshi’s column, constitutional arguments over Japan’s security legislation, and the submissive posture of postwar Japanese media toward the United States.

July 14, 2019
People all over the world should read my English translation and, as I did, reflect on how little we know the truth.
The following is a chapter I published on July 13, 2018.
The following is from the latest book by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
Japanese people who can read printed words should go immediately to the nearest bookstore to buy it.
People all over the world should read my English translation and, as I did, reflect on how little we know the truth, and they should never again do the foolish thing of taking at face value the anti-Japanese propaganda continuously carried out by a country of bottomless evil and plausible lies, thereby helping their evil.
In one respect, such people may be called the worst kind of human beings.
They should never again do such foolish things.
All employees of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, who have continued writing anti-Japanese articles together with Asahi Shimbun, must keenly realize that they are beings who have no choice but to fall into hell.
Asahi Shimbun Defiantly Declares Its “Biased Line,” Asking What Is Wrong with Being Biased.
The column by Special Editorial Writer Hoshi Hiroshi, driven by hatred of Abe, shows no sign of improvement.
Emphasizing the “Unconstitutional” Security Legislation.
At the beginning of the New Year, Hoshi Hiroshi, special editorial writer of Asahi Shimbun, wrote a column under the headline “Japan and the United States Standing at a Crossroads.”
Newspaper reporters who have become important like to show how important they are by saying things such as “I met and talked with an important person in the United States” or “I met my mentor from when I studied abroad,” and they like compositions in which they stand beside foreigners.
This column is the same, and it gives the impression that Japanese and American intellects are conversing, while uniformly hinting at being “fed up” with the name of the Republican Trump.
Regarding his statement about banning entry by Muslims, it says that there is not even a fragment of “the American founding spirit of freedom and tolerance.”
Where in the modern world is there “freedom and tolerance” in a country built by using black slaves, exterminating indigenous people, and usurping land and resources?
In the war against Japan, as the Asahi Shimbun of that time once wrote, the United States used truly despicable means, dropped atomic bombs, and even monopolized another country’s constitution.
I think there is no people as barbaric and cunning as Americans, but he never touches upon that.
On top of that, Hoshi moves on to the security legislation, calling it “unconstitutional.”
The right of self-defense to protect one’s own country is not even clearly stated, Japan cannot possess armaments as a full-fledged country, and it cannot even take independent security actions such as those under this security legislation.
That is what led to the Diet debate.
If an American intellect is in front of him, it should be the duty of a Japanese newspaper reporter to ask why they imposed such a constitution.
However, Hoshi asks nothing, and writes that the issue is whether dangerous unconstitutional acts might occur; in other words, whether the United States, taking advantage of the right of collective self-defense, might use Japan and take it to a battlefield on the other side of the world.
This essay continues.