This essay delivers a scathing critique of NHK’s 7 p.m. news, arguing that its coverage now resembles Chinese state propaganda rather than a Japanese public broadcaster.
The author condemns NHK for siding with Beijing, obscuring critical messages such as the U.S. ambassador’s X post, and grossly distorting the substance of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s meeting with Keidanren—making it appear as if business leaders came to plead for “consideration toward China.”
The piece raises the possibility of Chinese influence, honey traps, or even agents inside NHK’s news division, and calls the intellectual level of its civil-servant staff “below elementary school.”
It ends with a strong appeal that Japanese citizens can no longer tolerate such treacherous, anti-national reporting and must finally hold NHK’s news division to account.

Even so, last night’s 7 p.m. NHK news was atrocious.
NHK is, in practical terms, Japan’s national public broadcaster.
However, in its current state it is nothing other than a de facto Chinese state broadcaster.
Regarding this matter, let me state a few conclusions up front.
Japan must change the current mode of the Diet as quickly as possible.
As in other advanced countries, the time a prime minister spends attending Diet sessions should be limited to around zero in the United States and only a few hours in European countries.
If the Diet functioned in that way, the prime minister could have immediately, in response to that outrageous remark by the Chinese ambassador to Japan, addressed the world and declared him a persona non grata, ordering him to leave the country.
As for NHK, we must now finally and properly investigate the people who control NHK’s news division.
At any rate, last night’s 7 p.m. news was beyond terrible.
In that form, NHK is nothing but an agent of China.
NHK does not even understand that what China is doing now is a classic case of changing the subject.
In other words, the level of discernment of the civil servants who belong to NHK’s news division is below that of elementary school children.
They have no criteria for judgment other than pseudo-moralism and political correctness.
Despite their terrifyingly low level, they are among the highest-paid people in Japan.
No, given the style of last night’s news coverage, there is no way to explain it except by saying that those who control NHK’s news division have fallen victim to Chinese honey traps and the like.
Alternatively, the situation cannot be explained unless we assume that Chinese agents have infiltrated NHK’s news division.
The U.S. ambassador to Japan posted criticism of China on X.
The way that screen was shown on NHK was appalling.
The characters could not be read properly.
The only reasonable conclusion is that a Chinese agent inside NHK deliberately blurred it so that viewers could not read it clearly.
In any case, the current response of NHK’s news-related departments is utterly disgraceful.
Under such conditions, they have no right to collect license fees.
I would like NHK to separate the viewing fees for news and variety-type programming from those for genres such as sports broadcasts and classical music programs, which I consider to be the only areas where NHK is truly world-class.
To be forced to watch such outrageous news while being made to pay viewing fees is an unbearable torment.
As Japanese citizens, it is utterly intolerable.
No Japanese citizen can accept a broadcaster that sides with a clearly unreasonable foreign country and behaves as if to condemn its own nation, which is blameless, perfectly decent, and built upon the highest level of intellect in the world.
The ambassador to Japan, stationed in the world’s greatest nation that is Japan, made remarks for which it would be entirely natural to declare him an unwelcome person and order him to leave the country.
For China, this would mean exposing its shame before the entire world.
It is therefore no exaggeration to say that China’s subsequent statements and actions, which it launched in order to divert attention from this, are at a level below that of elementary school children.
They also fully expose to the world that China is a country of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
Nevertheless, only the civil servants who belong to NHK’s news division fail to grasp even that.
Unbelievably, they side with China and join in condemning Prime Minister Takaichi.
Furthermore, there was one more report that was truly intolerable.
Every citizen who watched last night’s 7 p.m. news must have thought that Keidanren went to the prime minister to petition her to show consideration toward China.
This is all the more true because NHK reported it only in that way.
I, too, watched in astonishment, thinking “What a bunch of traitors,” wondering whether Keidanren, like NHK’s news division, had fallen into Chinese honey traps and the like.
But then.
The real content, as written in a small column on page 4 of this morning’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun, was completely different from NHK’s reporting and images.

“Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi received a courtesy visit at the Prime Minister’s Office on the 17th from the heads of Japan’s three major business organizations, including Keidanren.
They exchanged views on policies for economic growth and wage increases.
The prime minister said that responsible proactive fiscal policy must, above all, maintain the confidence of the market.
She stated, ‘I would be grateful if you could fight together with us to build a strong economy,’ and called for public–private cooperation to promote investment.
She expressed a strong desire to establish funds and tax measures that would enable companies to invest with predictability from a medium- to long-term perspective.
Keidanren Chairman Yoshinobu Tsutsui praised the Takaichi administration, saying, ‘You are implementing policies with great speed in both diplomacy and domestic affairs, and have truly made a rocket start.’”

As all viewers saw, NHK’s 7 p.m. news did not report any of this real content and instead presented it in a way that made it seem as if Keidanren had come to petition the prime minister to get along with China.
The Japanese people can no longer sit by and watch NHK’s conduct.
We are already at our limit.
We can no longer allow such foolish, malicious, clueless, and traitorous conduct that is utterly beyond the pale.
As Japanese citizens, it is absolutely impossible to forgive NHK’s news division.
There must be many citizens who feel this way.
The time to denounce them is long overdue.