TBS’s “News 23” featured a Mozambique farmer brought to Japan by an unnamed “citizens’ group,” using him to attack Japan’s renewed aid to Africa—without explaining who organized the campaign. TV Asahi has repeatedly employed similar tactics. As journalist Masayuki Takayama notes, postwar infiltration of Japanese media under GHQ enabled long-standing ideological capture by Korean and Chinese interests. This chapter also highlights NHK’s continued use of Kang Sang-jung and the resulting distortion of public broadcasting.

2016-01-08

This morning, the lower section of the Nikkei carried an advertisement for Muete Muruaka’s book, “How Japan Can Save Africa from Being Devoured by China.”
It featured the line: “Exceptional attention — immediate reprint!”

Seeing this, I remembered a chapter I wrote last year about the outrageous behavior of TBS’s News 23.
It was the program hosted by Zenba, with Kang Sang-jung appearing frequently as a commentator.

Any reasonable person would find it strange that Kang Sang-jung appears so often as a commentator.
But TBS is evidently an organization that lacks such basic sensibilities.

Without explaining what sort of group it was, a so-called citizens’ group brought a farmer from Mozambique to Japan, claiming that Japan’s renewed economic assistance to Africa would “take away his farmland.”
They then escorted him to various government ministries to file complaints, and—astonishingly—News 23 broadcast the entire spectacle as a major feature.

TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station has repeatedly done the same kind of thing, as I have written many times.

Masayuki Takayama explained that, during the occupation, a large number of Korean residents slipped into NHK and other media organizations.
Since then, these ostensible moralists—who are in fact traitors to Japan without even realizing it—continued to shape the media.
The media then actively recruited Korean and Chinese residents, further entrenching this structure.

TBS and TV Asahi are now effectively broadcast stations entirely manipulated by the governments and intelligence agencies of those countries.
It is no exaggeration.

In recent years NHK’s regular news has become reasonably watchable, but I was stunned by the other day’s Close-up Gendai.
Once again—incorrigibly—they had invited Kang Sang-jung as commentator.
When he appeared on an NHK art program as though he were a natural fit for the role, I wrote with anger.

And I later learned from Takayama’s writings that he felt exactly the same.
He, in fact, stopped watching NHK entirely for a full year.

This chapter continues.