This essay argues that the Asahi Shimbun’s persistent attacks on Prime Minister Abe and his wife Akie reveal the paper’s deeply rooted totalitarian tendencies, hierarchical culture dominated by University of Tokyo elites, and propaganda-like behavior comparable to North Korea’s state media. It highlights the newspaper’s selective praise and hostility, its anti-nuclear dogma, and its politically manipulative treatment of potential prime-ministerial candidates, urging Japanese citizens to recognize the structural dangers posed by such media conduct.

It is no exaggeration to describe the Asahi Shimbun as having gone insane in its relentless attacks on Prime Minister Abe.
They continue their attacks because such behavior reflects their childishness, their maliciousness, and the distortion of their thinking.
They write editorials that side with enemy states hostile to Japan, embodying the very nature of totalitarian regimes such as China and the Korean Peninsula, where anti-Japanese sentiment is a national policy and citizens are manipulated through anti-Japanese propaganda.

One reason is that the editorial writers of the Asahi Shimbun, which is one of the most hierarchical societies in Japan controlled by the University of Tokyo clique, harbor resentment because Prime Minister Abe is not a University of Tokyo graduate but a graduate of Seikei University—something widely known.

The style of announcements and reporting by North Korean authorities is exactly the same as the tone of the prewar Asahi Shimbun.
Whether knowingly or not, North Korean officials—who could be described as belonging to a cartoon-like state in the 21st century—made remarks such as: “Prime Minister Abe is not a University of Tokyo graduate, so he is not a significant person,” speaking without hesitation.
They continued attacks on Prime Minister Abe to an unbelievable extent.

Not only against Prime Minister Abe himself.
During the first Abe administration and the early days of the second Abe administration, the Asahi Shimbun praised his wife, Akie, encouraging her to act freely and actively, similar to their flattery of the wife of Naoto Kan.
However, the attacks on Akie in the past two years—fifty editorials criticizing her just within the past year—are abnormal.
This is already a crime against Akie.
It is no exaggeration to say that the behavior of Asahi’s editorial writers is exactly the same as that of North Korean officials.

And yet, the person they are now strangely elevating as the top candidate for the next prime minister—presumably in order to attack Prime Minister Abe—is Shinjiro Koizumi.
What university did he graduate from?
I had known that Seikei University was, in a good sense, a “well-bred gentleman’s university” —like Tohoku Gakuin University in my hometown Sendai, or Kwansei Gakuin University in Kansai.
But just in case, I searched for information.
Its deviation score is above 58, producing distinguished individuals such as a former president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and a vice president of Mitsubishi Corporation.

On the other hand, the deviation score of Kanto Gakuin University, from which Shinjiro Koizumi graduated—a university I had recently written that I had forgotten even existed—is 37.5.
Of course, I am not saying that deviation scores are everything.
But if that is the case, what exactly is the attitude of the Asahi Shimbun?
The question arises.
A man with a deviation score in the 30s, who merely repeats in short sentences the same anti-nuclear stance as the Asahi editorial board—“absolute opposition to nuclear power,” a corporate doctrine that continues to mislead Japan and benefits China and the Korean Peninsula—whose words resemble those of his father Junichiro Koizumi (whose stubbornness and poor judgment show clearly on his face), is now considered the top candidate for the next prime minister.
Does the Liberal Democratic Party have no capable personnel?

The self-serving nature of the Asahi Shimbun reaches its extreme in this regard as well.
They praise those who obey them.
They continue unbelievably persistent attacks against those who criticize them.
It is no exaggeration to say that their behavior is identical to the oppressive manners of totalitarian regimes in China and the Korean Peninsula.

In short, the Asahi Shimbun is a newspaper that is totalitarian to its very core.
This chapter must be read and engraved deeply in the minds of all Japanese citizens, especially the people of Niigata.