On April 9, 2020, this article examines President Trump’s criticism of the WHO, the reality of the WHO’s subordination to the Chinese Communist Party, the silence of international leaders, and NHK’s bias toward attacking the Japanese government. It criticizes NHK’s attitude toward Prime Minister Abe and its deference to Xi Jinping and China, while questioning what true journalism should be.

April 9, 2020
Even from last night’s one statement alone, it is no exaggeration at all to say that President Trump is entirely correct and is the only leader who has boldly begun to prevent the world from being trampled underfoot by the dictators of the Chinese Communist Party.
Masayuki Takayama has a book titled Trump Does Not Lie.
President Trump’s criticism of the WHO last night was exactly as the title says.
Regarding Tedros of the WHO, I take pride in the fact that this column was, in the present virus disaster, the first in the world to point him out.
But the reality that the WHO is controlled by China is precisely a case of the emperor with no clothes, and it must have been visible to decent people throughout the world.
And yet, until President Trump spoke last night, not one leader, for example among the G7 leaders, said anything.
This is despite the fact that all of them are suffering the greatest damage since the war because of this truly corrupt WHO and China.
Even from last night’s one statement alone, it is no exaggeration at all to say that President Trump is entirely correct and is the only leader who has boldly begun to prevent the world from being trampled underfoot by the dictators of the Chinese Communist Party.
President Trump showed to all under heaven that America is the leader of the world.
This is what Japan should, by rights, have done long ago toward the United Nations and the UN Human Rights Council and the like.
Namely, to stop providing funds.
Trump referred to this entirely natural matter.
One quarter of the WHO’s budget consists of funds from the United States.
“Let us see what happens to the WHO if the United States stops funding it.”
If this Trump were the prime minister of Japan, the Asahi Shimbun and others would be making a great uproar, as if a hornet’s nest had been poked, saying that he was slighting the United Nations and so on.
There must have been many people who watched Prime Minister Abe appear live on NHK’s watch9 the night before last.
Wakuda is newly appointed, so there is some room for extenuation, in that her nervousness may not yet have gone away.
But for Arima, this was not the first time Prime Minister Abe had appeared live before him.
Even in my immediate memory, it was the third time.
And yet, Arima’s expression when facing Prime Minister Abe was the same as ever.
It was the expression of a man with his parents’ enemy standing before his eyes.
There must be many people who noticed that.
I infer that his expression is the result of his everyday words and actions.
In other words, it is probably because the conversations he has when he frequently eats and drinks with his close superiors consist entirely of criticism of the administration and criticism of Prime Minister Abe.
A few years ago, during an election special program, when I saw Okoshi, Kuwako, and Arima, the three of them, in an extremely intimate manner, touching shoulders and chatting with the broadest possible smiles, I instantly understood that the attitudes of Arima and Kuwako reflected Okoshi’s wishes.
They must be members of the Okoshi faction.
For example, suppose a superior whom one frequently badmouths over drinks suddenly appears before one’s eyes.
That is the expression Arima wears when Prime Minister Abe is before him.
What I find truly outrageous about Arima is that this man, who does not even say “Mr. Abe” to our prime minister, who is, without exaggeration, one of the greatest in our history, repeatedly said “Mr. Ghosn,” “Mr. Son,” and even “Mr. Xi,” while looking at Kuwako with the broadest possible smile.
There must be many viewers who remember that he repeatedly referred to Xi Jinping affectionately as “Mr. Xi.”
Toward Ghosn and Son, he uses honorifics with that kind of expression.
Toward Prime Minister Abe, he faces him with an expression as if he were his parents’ enemy.
No decent viewer has forgotten the awfulness of his criticism of the administration during the Morikake affair.
To begin with, the people who control watch9 are clearly people whose minds were formed by subscribing to and carefully reading the Asahi Shimbun.
Otherwise, there is no way they would continue, in their frequent opinion polls, to include as the top reason for not supporting Prime Minister Abe an item such as, “I cannot trust his character.”
Prime Minister Abe is precisely, in a good sense, a person who embodies the temperament of a well-brought-up young gentleman.
Among all past politicians, he is a rare politician possessing, in every sense, the finest character, and any decent person can understand this.
The leaders of the G7 should all understand it directly.
Those who do not understand, and cannot possibly understand, are the people of the company called the Asahi Shimbun, which consists of madmen, the opposition-party political operators who agree with them, the so-called human-rights advocates, the so-called cultural figures, and the people who control NHK’s news department.
When President Trump says something extremely reasonable, this NHK always attaches a comment that makes it sound as if his statement came from some arbitrary motive of his own.
In other words, they insert deference toward China.
It is no exaggeration to ask: of which country is this broadcasting station?
What is visible to everyone.
That there is an emperor with no clothes, doing foolish things.
Trump speaks directly because he is in a position where he need not show deference to anyone, and still less does he have any reason to show deference to China.
On the other hand, there are those whose minds are made of masochistic views of history, pseudo-moralism, and pseudo-political correctness, and who cannot be called journalists at all.
In reality, they are nothing more than highly paid quasi-civil servants.
They are employees called anchors and the like, whose reporting ability is, without exaggeration, nonexistent.
They ignore the fact that the true duty of journalists is to devote themselves to reporting, and to continue deepening their training and study.
Instead, they are great fools who have made the grave mistake of thinking that criticism of the government is the true duty of journalists.
These are the people who control NHK’s news department.
They cannot even see the emperor with no clothes.
No, they are strange people who are least able to criticize the emperor with no clothes.
In other words, although they are utterly weak before the power of the worst kinds of people, they criticize only the Liberal Democratic Party government, even if they must use fabrication to do so.