This chapter exposes how the Asahi Shimbun persistently undermines Japan while offering excessive sympathy to China and South Korea.
Through examples from political reporting, historical narratives, and economic commentary, it shows how Asahi promotes a defeatist view of Japan, ignores technological achievements, and misreads China’s instability.
In contrast, leading Western thinkers identify Japan as a model for the 21st century.
A penetrating analysis revealing the gap between Asahi’s biased narrative and global reality.

Japan’s Century

The Asahi Shimbun is, without flattery, boring.
One of its selling points, Tensei Jingo, is not even a true column but reads like a bland explanation.
It cites books or individuals no one knows, and most of the time ends with the conclusion: “In the end, Japan is to blame.”
Even regarding the misdeeds of South Korea, it shifts the discussion by saying, “because Japan colonized Korea,” ignoring that it was annexation, not colonial rule.
As for the last war, it describes it only from the American viewpoint as an “invasion war” in which Japan “exploited and brutalized the peoples of Asia.”
Such a distorted column is advertised with the message: “Copy it exactly; it appears on exams.”
It is more malicious than MacArthur’s brainwashing programs.
Political reporting is also terrible.
They mock Olympic Minister Sakurada for being tongue-tied or misspeaking.
How is that different from ridiculing a person with a stutter?
They endlessly disparage Japan while giving maximum warm consideration to China and Korea.
China has stolen cutting-edge technology from other countries and made money by producing counterfeits.
Their pseudo–Shinkansen is a good example.
But when Trump and Pence decided they would no longer allow intellectual property theft and took firm action, China instantly began floundering.
There is also the theory that communist states last seventy-two years.
Communist countries have been created in various places, but they all collapsed quickly.
Even the longest-lasting one, the Soviet Union, fell after seventy-two years.
China’s Communist regime will reach that seventy-second year next year.
History—and Kaori Fukushima—say that is the limit.
But Asahi editorial board member Haru Mahito says, “I visited China; everyone seemed fine, and Alibaba’s executives showed not the slightest worry.”
He even writes that China’s GDP “is closing in on America’s declining economy and will overtake it somewhere in the 2020s,” and that America’s trade war “looks like a gesture of desperation and fear.”
He predicts that ruthless and crude China—whose national business model is IP theft and which is committing horrific ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang and Tibet—will become the next global superpower.
Most Japanese feel sick even imagining such a country ruling the world, yet Haru seems to regard it as a celebratory prospect.
Japan would like to deliver a decisive blow to such China, but Asahi brings out the chairman of the Keizai Doyukai, Kobayashi Yoshimitsu, to say, “That is impossible.”
According to Kobayashi, “Tech giant Japan is a thing of the past. Today technology has been stolen by China, and telecommunications are Huawei’s domain, yet the Japanese remain unaware—like boiled frogs.”
He further denounces, “Deteriorated Japanese lack the energy to challenge anything new.”
But Japan has continued to challenge itself.
For example, in the 1970s it developed, with its own technology, a nuclear-powered vessel—following the U.S., the Soviet Union, and Germany.
The dream reactor, the fast breeder reactor, reached practical application ahead of the world.
But both were destroyed by Asahi-led fake news campaigns.
Kobayashi is ignorant of these facts.
If he knew, he would not spread Asahi’s “boiled frog Japan” narrative.
Kobayashi also laments that “Japan’s 175 trillion yen debt” prevents future investment in next-generation technology.
No—huge amounts of scientific research funds are being disbursed.
But much of it has been handed out to anti-Japanese leftists in the humanities like Jiro Yamaguchi.
Kobayashi does not know this either.
So, does the world also view Japan pessimistically?
Michael Schuman, author of Confucius and the World, declares: “The task of the 21st century is to build strong industrial power that can win global competition, and the model to follow—believe it or not—is Japan.”
He says, “We have entered an age in which traditional strength, not China’s superficial tricks, will prevail.”
Adair Turner, a leading figure in British economic circles, writes, “Aging Japan turned its elderly into a labor force through technological innovation,” and that although Japan’s debt is said to be more than twice its GDP, “an examination of the actual situation shows it is offset by government assets and the Bank of Japan’s interest structure—meaning the real burden is only about 60% of GDP,” agreeing with Yoichi Takahashi.
His conclusion: “The 21st century must learn from Japan.”
Bloomberg’s Daniel Moss also says, “The world that once looked to China is now turning its eyes to Japan, which has overcome aging and deflation.”
When the Asahi Shimbun and the Keizai Doyukai disappear, Japan will finally see clear skies.

Footnote:
The redevelopment of the Umeda North Yard had been a powerful obstacle to the tenant recruitment for the Nakanoshima Twin Tower Building, on which the Asahi Shimbun Company had staked its corporate fate.
The North Yard is the very place that serves as the detonator for Osaka’s revitalization.
As the trump card for Osaka’s rebirth, it is a commercial district with the best location in all of Japan—left to us by God Himself.
That is why the Umeda branch of Yodobashi Camera has the highest sales among all its stores.
The Asahi Shimbun threw the North Yard project into confusion by using Yukiko Takenaka of the Osaka Committee of the Keizai Doyukai.
Incidentally, the construction of the building on which Asahi staked its corporate fate was carried out by Takenaka Corporation.
Thanks to the scheme to crush the North Yard and the economic boom brought about by Abenomics, Asahi was able to secure all its tenants.
As a result, the Asahi Shimbun Company has now become a firm that earns profits through real estate and appears to have built a system in which the company will survive even if the newspaper collapses.
But will God truly allow a company of such utterly contemptible and heinous traitors to the nation to continue to exist?