Published on July 18, 2019.
This article organizes the production staff and content of NHK’s Constitution-related programs, including “The Self-Defense Forces and the Constitution: Japan-U.S. Confrontations,” “The Japanese People and the Symbolic Emperor,” “Seventy Years of the Constitution: How the Peace State Was Born,” “Seventy Years of the Constitution of Japan,” and “The Constitution and the Japanese People.”
It particularly criticizes “Seventy Years of the Constitution of Japan” for its simplistic framing of constitutional revisionists as Nippon Kaigi and defenders of the Constitution as SEALDs, and describes “The Constitution and the Japanese People” as an overt pro-Constitution brainwashing program.

July 18, 2019.
“Seventy Years of the Constitution of Japan: The Current of the Times—At That Moment, the People,” 2017, makes a simplistic color-coding, such as constitutional revisionists equal Nippon Kaigi and defenders of the Constitution equal SEALDs.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
“The Self-Defense Forces and the Constitution: Japan-U.S. Confrontations,” 2013.
Director: Sano Takeshi.
Executive producers: Kasama Takeshi, Mimura Tadashi.
“The Japanese People and the Symbolic Emperor, Episode 1: How the ‘Postwar’ Was Born,” 2015.
Directors: Amano Naoyuki, Hosoda Naoki, Hashimoto Yo.
Executive producers: Hayashi Shin, Matsumoto Hidefumi, Higashino Makoto.
“The Japanese People and the Symbolic Emperor, Episode 2: Continuing to Wish for Peace,” 2015.
Directors: Amano Naoyuki, Hosoda Naoki, Hashimoto Yo.
Executive producers: Hayashi Shin, Matsumoto Hidefumi, Higashino Makoto.
“Seventy Years of the Constitution: How the Peace State Was Born,” 2017.
Director: Umehara Yuki.
Executive producer: Shiota Jun.
Note: In drama format.
“Seventy Years of the Constitution of Japan: The Current of the Times—At That Moment, the People,” 2017.
Directors: Oguchi Takuro, Awanami Risa, Umemoto Hajime.
Producer: Koike Kotaro.
Executive producers: Mimura Tadashi, Yamazaki Shinichi, Okochi Naoto.
Note: It makes a simplistic color-coding, such as constitutional revisionists equal Nippon Kaigi and defenders of the Constitution equal SEALDs.
“The Constitution and the Japanese People: 1949–64, Unknown Confrontations,” 2018.
Directors: Yasui Koichiro, Itabashi Shunsuke.
Executive producers: Mimura Tadashi, Okochi Naoto, Yano Yoshitomo.
Note: An overt pro-Constitution brainwashing program.
In order to dispel the image of an “imposed Constitution,” it uses specious arguments covered in lies.