I had already mentioned that I stopped subscribing to the Asahi Shimbun, Weekly Asahi, and Aera, which I had subscribed to for many years, after Tadakazu Kimura’s press conference in 2014 when the reality of the Asahi Shimbun became clear.
Since then, I have not read the Asahi Shimbun at all, if I may say so.
The following is from an article by Nobuhiko Sakai, a former professor at the University of Tokyo, entitled “Asahi Shimbun irritated by Tokyo Olympics,” which appears in a unique feature in the current issue of the monthly magazine Sound Argument.
Nobuhiko Sakai has nothing to do with the masochistic view of history or leftist pedophilia.
However, most people on Asahi and NHK with the professor at the University of Tokyo have a masochistic view of history and are probably leftist pedophiles.
The fact that people like Nobuhiko Sakai are so rare proves this. It’s disgusting.
Every sane Japanese citizen who reads the following article should think so.
In 2014, the failure of the Japanese people to not only shut down the Asahi Shimbun and force them to sell all of their assets and compensate the Japanese nation and people for the astronomical damage they have caused was a disaster for Japan and the Japanese people.
We have allowed the Asahi Shimbun to continue to publish such vicious and terrible editorials about the Tokyo Olympics.
The CDP and the Communist Party, which are sympathetic to and use the Asahi Shimbun, are out of the question. Still, the populist politicians in the ruling party are incapable of overcoming even this viciousness.
A genuine politician can crush such vile viciousness with a single word (more on this later).
According to this article, the Asahi Shimbun will raise its monthly subscription fee from 4,037 yen to 4,400 yen.
The monthly magazines I mention, WiLL and Hanada, are full of genuine articles by genuine thinkers from various fields and walks of life that proves that civilization’s turntable is turning in Japan, cost ¥950 and Sound Argument costs ¥900.
In other words, subscribers of the Asahi Shimbun are paying 4,400 yen a month to read not factual articles but vile and vicious editorials written by self-hating historians and leftist pedophiles.
The Asahi Shimbun is a newspaper writing outrageous editorials that please China and South Korea, undermine Japan, and attack the Japanese government.
In essence, it is all fake news to make their vile claims come true.
It is the kind of stuff that people who are subscribers pay a high subscription fee to read.
On the other hand, subscribers to the three monthly magazines mentioned above can, for a total of 2,800 yen per month, subscribe to many genuine articles that they will never read in the Asahi Shimbun the following.
A lengthy editorial in the Asahi Shimbun on May 26 caused quite a stir.
The reason is that the editorial title, “Asahi asks prime minister to decide to cancel summer Olympics in Tokyo,” clearly stated that the Olympics should be canceled.
The editorial began as follows.
The spread of the new coronavirus has not stopped, and it will inevitably extend emergency declaration reissued to Tokyo and other cities. I don’t think it makes sense to hold the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo this summer. The distrust and opposition toward the government, the metropolitan government, and the people involved in the Olympics will only grow as they push forward without addressing the natural questions and concerns of the people. I call on Prime Minister Suga to calmly and objectively assess the situation and cancel the Olympics this summer.
The basis of this editorial is the health hazards of the Corona.
“The first thing to fear, of course, is the threat to health.” “We are far from a situation where anyone can be sure of safety and security. Unfortunately, this is the reality.
He then brings up the Olympic Charter, pointing out that it has become a hollow text and that doubts about the significance of the Olympics are deepening.
However, the public has no interest in the Olympic Charter, to be sure.
The media itself, including the Asahi Shimbun, must be thinking only of using sports for its own business.
We can only laugh when they bring up such a lofty subject as the Olympic Charter.
The Asahi Shimbun has been questioning the holding of the Olympics for a long time now. In its editorial of May 12, two weeks before May 26, the Asahi Shimbun expanded on this question quite violently.
The editorial’s title was “Whether the Olympics should be held or not, the breakdown is apparent.
It is a thorough bashing of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s answer at the Diet.
First of all, the article begins, “I wonder how many people were convinced after listening to his answer. What we have learned is the grim fact that we are not in a position to hold the conference without delay.
He continued, “The day before yesterday, the question of whether or not to hold the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics became a significant point of discussion in the Budget Committee of both houses of the Diet. However, Prime Minister Suga repeatedly said that the organizers are the 10C (International Olympic Committee), IPC (International Paralympic Committee), Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and the Games Organizing Committee.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo Paralympic Organizing Committee,” he said. His refusal or inability to answer the questions raised further doubts about the event. It is an administration that has promised to control the infection and has failed each time. We want to know the prime minister’s beliefs and desires but the measures and paths to achieve them, and he has been unable to fulfill his accountability. The editorial concludes with the following statement.
The editorial concludes and ends with the words, “The ‘must hold’ stance has led to mistrust and failure everywhere.
Compared to May 26, the editorial of May 12 shows the discursive nature of Asahi more clearly.
Compared to the May 26 editorial, which is long but lacks substance, this editorial is much sharper.
However, it is a highly slanderous and abusive speech against the prime minister of a country. It can even be called hate speech, which is entirely different from a sound critical spirit.
In an editorial on May 26, the newspaper wrote, “In a poll conducted by a small newspaper this month, only 14% of respondents supported holding the Olympics this summer. As the editorial of May 26 noted, “In a small newspaper poll this month, only 14% of respondents kept holding the Olympics this summer, suggesting that doubts about the significance of having the Olympics itself are deepening.
Monumental Work of Fake News
In the May 15 edition of the Be (Saturday’s reprint), there was a survey of readers’ opinions: “Are you in favor of holding the Olympics in Tokyo this summer? It was published.
According to this, “This questionnaire was conducted in mid-April. 81% oppose holding the Tokyo Olympics this summer, while only 19% support it.
It means that between April and May, the number in favor of the Olympics decreased by 5%.
The article on January 15 also mentioned a survey conducted a year ago in which 64% of the respondents were opposed.
By the way, according to the editorial on January 27 this year, “The Whereabouts of the Olympics: Urgent Response Based on Reality,” 86% of the respondents answered that they would postpone or cancel the opinion poll conducted by the Asahi Shimbun on the 23rd and 24th. There is no sign that the infection of the new Corona will subside in the world, and the domestic medical system is tight, so it should be taken as a matter of course. “
Incidentally, according to the fifth edition of “Corona and the Current Location of the Olympics” in the Sankei Shimbun on May 5, “Public opinion about the Tokyo Olympics is becoming more severe. In a joint Sankei Shimbun-FNN poll in April, 56.8 percent of respondents said the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics was unavoidable, and 17.6 percent said it would have to be rescheduled. More than 70 percent of respondents are pessimistic.
The Asahi Shimbun uses its opinion polls and actively uses the results of external surveys.
There is an interesting article on the social page of May 26, the day of the editorial in question, which I will introduce below.
It is a website petition calling for the cancellation of the Olympics.
According to the article, “On the early morning of May 25, the number of online signatures to cancel the Tokyo Olympics, which lawyer Kenji Utsunomiya and others started calling for on the website “Change.org” on May 5, reached it launched the highest level since the site’s Japanese version in 2012. As of 7:00 p.m. on the same day, the number of signatures exceeded 390,000, continuing.
Interestingly, the article introduces the results of the site’s signatures in a beautiful way that has nothing to do with the Olympics.
The most significant number of signatures so far is about 386,000 as of 7:00 p.m. on May 25 (still ongoing), calling for a re-investigation of the sale of state-owned land to the Moritomo Gakuen school corporation in Osaka City and the falsification of official documents by the Ministry of Finance. The second was a petition (about 350,000 signatures, which ended when Kurokawa resigned) protesting the extension of the retirement age of then Tokyo High Public Prosecutor Hiromu Kurokawa and demanding his resignation.
On June 10, the Asahi Shimbun announced that it would raise the subscription fee from 4,337 yen to 4,400 yen, the first increase in 27 years and seven months since December 1993 and that it would take effect on July 1.
In the commentary, there was the following expression: “With fake news flying around on the Internet, we believe that the role of newspapers is increasing. We are mindful of our mission as a news organization to report the facts accurately. (I omitted the following sentences.)”.
It said the same thing in the message of the new president, Shiro Nakamura, I believe.
But isn’t this precisely the opposite of the truth?
It must say that the Asahi Shimbun has been the instigator and spreader of fake news for a long time.
Comfort Women’s coverage is one of the most prominent Monumental Works of Fake News in the history of world coverage.