Originally published on October 25, 2019.
This article criticizes NHK’s Close-Up Gendai coverage of the Kansai Electric Power money-and-gifts scandal, arguing that the program appeared to address the Buraku Liberation League but in reality focused on criticizing Kansai Electric, nuclear power, and pro-nuclear policy.
Through NHK’s news division, Asahi-style pseudo-moralism, the Japan Teachers’ Union, problems in schools, and the Okinawa base issue, it discusses the structure of anti-Japan reporting in postwar Japan.

October 25, 2019.
It is no exaggeration to say that there was no criticism whatsoever of the Buraku Liberation League, and the content was a criticism of Kansai Electric Power, nuclear power generation, and the policy that promoted nuclear power generation.
The night before last, while half-watching the final sports segment of Watch9, after it ended, a narration flowed during the preview for Close-Up Gendai about the Kansai Electric issue, making it seem as though NHK would finally cut into the Buraku Liberation League.
So I began watching with skepticism, but if there is such a thing as hanging out a sheep’s head and selling dog meat, this was precisely it.
It is no exaggeration to say that there was no criticism whatsoever of the Buraku Liberation League, and the content was a criticism of Kansai Electric Power, nuclear power generation, and the policy that promoted nuclear power generation.
In other words, this was the deed of the people who control NHK’s news division… let me now say it clearly… people who hold anti-Japan ideas… their way of reporting… trying not to make biased reporting look like biased reporting… just as the program-preview narration did, it appeared at first glance to criticize a certain Moriyama, who had been a leading figure of the Liberation League in Fukui Prefecture, but in reality it took the form of criticism of Kansai Electric and criticism and opposition to nuclear power… it was the most malicious kind of biased reporting.
When a certain Maekawa, whose reality was that he held anti-Japan ideas and was a regular customer of sex-industry establishments, brought materials to the Asahi and NHK, Arima said on Watch9 that NHK had “obtained them as a result of independent reporting conducted with the full force of NHK”… this lie has still not been corrected or apologized for…
To begin with, since a person like Maekawa was at the top of the Ministry of Education, it is an entirely natural result that outrageous problems, such as unbelievable bullying of teachers by teachers, are now erupting in Kobe, Osaka, Shiga, and elsewhere.
Who can say that the teachers who carried out that unbelievable bullying were not people of the same kind as that certain Moriyama?
Moreover, considering the postwar behavior of the Japan Teachers’ Union, and the fact that even now, in Okinawa, which is also the most important strategic base for defending Japan from countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,”
the Japan Teachers’ Union, like Jichiro and others, dispatches personnel to movements that chant day and night around the bases, “U.S. forces must leave immediately,” “Yankee go home,” and the like, this would be a reasonable inference.
Because there is absolutely no doubt that the viciousness of that bullying,
and the Japan Teachers’ Union and the media, which it is no exaggeration to say are cooperating in the intended violation of Japan by countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” and in their attempt to seize not only the Senkaku Islands but also Okinawa Prefecture, have placed such unspeakable people in teaching positions.
When NHK lines up introductory phrases such as “with the full force of the company” or “after thorough interviews with 100 people,” and the employees who call themselves anchors of Watch9 or Close-Up Gendai… in substance, they are civil servants working for Japan’s national broadcasting station… make their announcements, the Japanese people must understand that anti-Japan reporting by the people who control NHK’s news division is about to begin… anti-authority reporting disguised by childish, but malicious, pseudo-moralism that is the result of being formed by subscribing to the Asahi Shimbun.
They must either watch it with a sneer, change the channel, or all those who think this is unforgivable must speak out on the internet.
Unless they do so, Japan will never be able to lead the world alongside the United States as a country where “The Turntable of Civilization” is turning.