Published on February 22, 2020.
Starting from President Trump’s criticism of a Korean film winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, as shown on TV Tokyo’s WBS, this essay discusses Trump’s nature in contrast with U.S. Democratic politicians, the U.S. government’s designation of Chinese state media as propaganda organs, and the reporting posture of NHK and the Asahi Shimbun.
It further argues that the essence of one-party Communist dictatorships and totalitarian states is to force others to call black white, and that postwar Japanese have lost the clear eye with which prewar Japanese once saw China and Korea.

February 22, 2020
However, the Japanese people before the war had seen through the essence of the Chinese and Koreans, and there was never anything like their continuing to be trampled upon by them as they pleased, as postwar Japanese have been.
Just now, while watching TV Tokyo’s WBS, I saw footage of Trump speaking at a supporters’ rally, saying, “This year’s Academy Awards were terrible… why did a Korean film win Best Picture… we have problems with South Korea right now over trade and other issues, and yet they went out of their way to give it the top film award.”
It was deeply satisfying.
I even thought that there is a strong possibility that Trump reads my blog.
As I have mentioned several times about Trump, the assessment made by a Chinese government official when he was elected hit the mark.
He said, “Ordinary politicians all become politicians in order to accumulate wealth.
But he is already a billionaire, and yet he is trying to become a politician.
That is what is admirable…”
Trump stands at the opposite pole from the conduct of Biden of the U.S. Democratic Party, which Mr. Soki Watanabe, currently the finest modern and contemporary researcher on Japan-U.S. relations, has revealed,
and from the conduct of the Clintons, Senator Feinstein, and others.
The U.S. government’s designation and decision yesterday regarding Xinhua and others.
To this day, NHK has not reported it at all.
The behavior of NHK, the Asahi Shimbun, and others is exactly that of the naked king.
Or Trump’s statement, “Who said Taiwan is one China…?”
It is no exaggeration at all to say that the essence of a one-party Communist dictatorship, a totalitarian state, is to call black white, and to say that black is white.
This is true in virtually every matter.
What makes them truly malicious is that they force the other side to do the same.
The Asahi Shimbun and others, NHK, and the so-called cultured people have easily submitted to that coercion.
Their brain structure completely negates prewar Japan.
However, the Japanese people before the war had seen through the essence of the Chinese and Koreans, and there was never anything like their continuing to be trampled upon by them as they pleased, as postwar Japanese have been.
In other words, the Japanese people before the war were, as human beings, far superior to those after the war.