Published on September 6, 2019.
This essay criticizes NHK’s 7 p.m. news and Watch 9 for portraying high school exchanges between Japan and South Korea as a heartwarming story while failing to report the reality of South Korea’s long-running anti-Japanese education.
It argues that reporting based on a masochistic view of history and anti-Japanese thinking risks misleading the Japanese people, especially young people who do not know the truth, and insists that NHK should report the real situation before encouraging such exchanges.

September 6, 2019.
For the past several days, the 7 p.m. news and Watch 9 have continued to run features saying that exchanges should be valued, using high school students and others who know nothing about the truth of the matter as a pretext.
What the people now controlling NHK’s news department are doing is reporting itself that deceives and misleads the Japanese state and the Japanese people.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that they are people like agents of China and South Korea, with minds shaped by a masochistic view of history and anti-Japanese thought, but they are malicious people who habitually use “self-serving moralism” as a cover.
For the past several days, the 7 p.m. news and Watch 9 have continued to run features saying that exchanges should be valued, using high school students and others who know nothing about the truth of the matter as a pretext.
This is in fact equivalent to complicity in a crime.
Why?
Because NHK has never once mentioned the anti-Japanese education that South Korea has continued to impose on its children for 74 years after the war…and is still imposing at this very moment.
Suppose that a daughter among the viewers is lured by this NHK reporting and becomes closer than necessary to a South Korean boy.
Only a person of extraordinary stupidity, or people like agents of South Korea, would think that people who have been taught in every possible way that Japanese are devils can have normal feelings toward Japanese people from the bottom of their hearts, not merely on the surface.
Moreover, South Korea is an academic-credential society in which examination competition is conducted to an unbelievable degree.
If one cannot enter Samsung, one is a loser…and because of that stress, though the Asahi and NHK do not report it at all, sex crimes involving minors occur frequently in South Korea.
If NHK employees want to have their own daughters participate in self-serving activities such as high school exchanges with South Korea, that is their affair, but refraining from making the daughters of uninformed viewers participate is surely the minimum courtesy and duty as human beings.
If NHK employees want their own children to become close to young people raised through anti-Japanese education, even to the point of marriage, no one will stop them, and they may do as they like.
But as human beings, their duty is to stop immediately the foolish act of making unrelated other people’s children become close to people raised under Nazism in the name of anti-Japanese education.