Published on October 17, 2019.
This chapter, originally published on March 16, 2019, discusses an article in the French newspaper Le Monde that criticized Prime Minister Abe as a “historical revisionist” during Japan’s general election.
Focusing on Philippe Mesmer, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, Litera, and other media, it criticizes the way Japan’s left-wing media and foreign correspondents allegedly follow anti-Japanese propaganda from China and the Korean Peninsula, thereby contributing to Japan’s division and the weakening of its national strength.

October 17, 2019
The time has long since come when we should clearly define them as organizations that, every day, in accordance with the propaganda of the anti-Japanese states of China and the Korean Peninsula, cooperate in dividing Japan, mislead the Japanese nation, weaken its national strength, and devote themselves to damaging Japan’s position and credibility.
This is a chapter I published on March 16, 2019, under the title:
“The True Nature of Le Monde Correspondent Philippe Mesmer…The French newspaper Le Monde published a long article slandering Prime Minister Abe as a ‘historical revisionist’ and so on during Japan’s general election.”
The following is an article I found on the internet just now.
If one reads this article, one sees that genuine journalism now exists on the internet, and that the time has long since come to clearly define media such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK not as journalism at all, but as organizations dominated by patients of left-wing infantile disease, whose condition is exploited,
and which, in accordance with the propaganda of the anti-Japanese states of China and the Korean Peninsula,
cooperate every day in dividing Japan, misleading the Japanese nation, weakening its national strength, and damaging Japan’s position and credibility.
The time has also long since come to make clear that the real scoundrels who dominate the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan are agents of China and the Korean Peninsula, as described below,
and to deport all of them from Japan.
October 31, 2017, 19:53…The True Nature of Le Monde Correspondent Philippe Mesmer
The French newspaper Le Monde published a long article slandering Prime Minister Abe as a “historical revisionist” and so on during Japan’s general election.
Perhaps because the content was so harsh, Japan’s anti-Abe leftists were delighted.
The fake-news site Litera even published a sloppy abridged translation,
and went so far as to write in large letters, “The essence of Prime Minister Abe’s constitutional revision is the restoration of the Empire of Japan” and “The Emperor is resisting Abe’s historical revisionism.”
The content is nothing new, because it merely follows the falsehoods that pseudo-far-left activist reporters nesting in the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan have written until now.
However, taking this opportunity, I would like to expose the reporter’s background in order to awaken Japan’s leftists, who become wildly excited over articles from “French” newspapers, from their illusion of worshiping imported authority.
The article was jointly written by reporters Philippe Pons and Philippe Mesmer.
Pons is already 79 years old.
He is an old hand who has lived in Japan for several decades, and he has consistently continued writing left-wing biased articles, but perhaps because of his age, the number of articles he now writes is already quite small.
On the other hand, Mesmer is active, writing articles attacking Aso after attacking Abe, and deliberately writing about Shiori Ito’s press conference even when other major overseas media did not report it.
Mesmer is becoming a convenient spokesman for Japan’s left-wing media, appearing on “Hodo Station” to oppose the conspiracy bill, and criticizing the government in Weekly Playboy as well.
However, when one investigates him, his background appears suspicious, not something one could call that of a proper correspondent.
In the first place, compared with Japan, France has no deeply rooted custom of newspaper home delivery, and even national newspapers have extremely small circulations.
Le Monde is famous in name only, but its circulation is under 300,000, making it a small newspaper company.
There is no way that such a newspaper company, with such a weak business foundation, could afford to send one of its own career reporters to Japan; this self-proclaimed correspondent is a Frenchman locally hired in Japan.
According to an interview with Mesmer published in the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan bulletin “Number 1 Shimbun,” Mesmer first joined the navy.
Later, aspiring to become a journalist, he went on to further study, worked for a while in France, and then suddenly came to Japan.
As the reason is described as “due in part, he says, to a woman,” he probably came after a Japanese girlfriend, or because his work in France had reached a dead end.
Since he says, “At my wife’s recommendation, I began learning kendo,” it appears that he obtained permanent residency through an international marriage.
Besides working as a Le Monde reporter, he reportedly also works as a narrator, French-language course instructor, interpreter, and actor, which is far removed from the image of a proper full-time correspondent.
In any case, without doing any reporting of his own, he is probably just reading the Japan Times, the English edition of the Asahi Shimbun, and the fake news of other foreign reporters, and turning them into French-language articles.