Relentlessly Broadcasting the Moment of a Blink, Over and Over Again: Impression Manipulation Through Video Manipulation.
March 27, 2018
Yesterday, I discussed the following with a friend who is one of Japan’s foremost readers.
That China and the Korean peninsula are setting money traps and honey traps.
I am 100 percent convinced that politicians, civic groups, scholars, and cultural figures are receiving that money.
The reason I can be so certain is the recent, unacceptable reporting by opposition politicians and media outlets such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK, which uses democratic procedures to destroy democracy.
Since I recently stopped subscribing to the Asahi Shimbun, I do not know what it is reporting now, but I know enough about NHK to be thoroughly disgusted by its methods.
It is no exaggeration to say that what the people controlling the news departments of NHK Tokyo and NHK Osaka—which are effectively state-run broadcasters, with employees who are effectively national civil servants—are doing is not reporting but criticizing Japan and the Japanese government.
Their methods are a parade of impression manipulation.
It is no exaggeration to say that what they are doing is not reporting but criticizing Japan and the Japanese government.
NHK Osaka froze footage of Mrs. Akie Abe giving a speech somewhere and manipulated impressions by repeatedly and persistently broadcasting the moment when she blinked.
The truly despicable person who manipulated this footage probably wanted to give viewers the impression: “Look, as you can see, Mrs. Akie is a bad person with an unpleasant face…”
Yet this can no longer be called the conduct of a decent Japanese person.
It was a typical example of using democracy to destroy democracy.
Many people will remember Kuwako’s frightening glare on News Watch 9, Arima’s exaggerated diagrams, or his deliberately raised voice when narrating a recent report from the Fukushima nuclear power plant site.
Anyone with an elementary-school level of intelligence or above should be able to understand that these are all forms of impression manipulation through images and sound.
I continued by saying that I understood your comment that you did not watch News Watch 9 because these two were so dull.
What NHK Osaka did the other night—the visit by opposition politicians to Kagoike in detention to criticize and attack the Abe administration—was so low that it was hard to believe it was an act of subverting democracy through the privileges of Diet members.
NHK Osaka did more than gleefully report this unbelievably low act, which unmistakably subverted democracy by exploiting the privileges of Diet members.
It also reported on what Kagoike had said when summoned to the Diet.
Regarding the land about which Mrs. Akie had said, “It looks as though it would make a nice rice field…,” Kagoike reportedly claimed during the meeting in detention that she had said, “It is a nice piece of land, so please proceed…”
And these opposition politicians, who could be described, to put it mildly, as the worst of the worst, publicly repeated this before the media.
On last night’s News Watch 9, Arima and Kuwako repeatedly stated that lying in testimony before the Diet would result in charges of perjury.
Perhaps they wanted to pressure Sagawa, who was probably watching television, through impression manipulation.
These opposition politicians, along with Arima and Kuwako, must immediately raise the issue of Kagoike’s perjury.
If what he said during the meeting is correct, then he lied in his testimony before the Diet.
Yet what are they doing?
They repeatedly broadcast Kagoike’s claim that Mrs. Akie had said, “It is a nice piece of land, so please proceed…,” as though it were the truth.
It is no exaggeration to say that they are in the hands of China and the Korean peninsula, attacking the administration as their proxies.
Above all, even if they had fallen into money traps or honey traps, it would be 100 percent impossible for Japan’s prosecutors or police today to go to China or the Korean peninsula, conduct searches, and make arrests.
When money traps are set, cash is handed over in almost every case, so the recipients must be accepting it without concern.