Published on July 14, 2019.
Based on an essay by Masayuki Takayama, this article examines Asahi Shimbun’s article “Bias and Fairness?” and critically records Kanagawa Shimbun’s anti-Abe reporting, its defiant attitude toward bias, and the relationship between Asahi Shimbun and Kanagawa Shimbun.

July 14, 2019
The article dated December 2 of last year, titled “Bias and Fairness?” appears to be that declaration of a biased line.
Its content concerns Kanagawa Shimbun, which creates pages even more openly anti-Abe than Asahi.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Biased Articles Using Kanagawa Shimbun.
The article dated December 2 of last year, titled “Bias and Fairness?” appears to be that declaration of a biased line.
Its content concerns Kanagawa Shimbun, which creates pages even more openly anti-Abe than Asahi.
When readers pointed out the bias in its articles, an editorial writer of that paper defiantly said, “Yes, we are biased.”
He himself says it comes from “a sense of suffocation from being suppressed,” but Japanese television and newspapers, as well as Chinese, Korean, and American newspapers, are all anti-Abe, so I cannot understand what kind of suffocation he is talking about.
Thus Asahi Shimbun asks its readers whether its own biased line, too, may not be correct.
However, this article contains a concealment typical of Asahi.
Kanagawa Shimbun, which Asahi used as the stage manager, is in fact a subsidiary of Asahi, and it is known as a place where even Asahi sends biased reporters it cannot handle.
Asahi writes about such a deranged newspaper company as if it were respectable.
Now that its lies have been exposed, does it intend to live by petty tricks next?
(February 2016 issue)