This essay examines a controversial parliamentary broadcast repeatedly magnified on Japan’s prime-time news program, arguing that editorial distortion reflects deeper ideological influences within the broadcaster’s foreign news desk.

2017-04-01
When a prime-time national news program magnifies and repeats a single political moment, it is not journalism but narrative engineering.
This case exposes how editorial power, ideological alignment, and foreign-linked influence can shape what millions are shown and how they are told to feel.
There is no obligation to accept lectures about democracy or press freedom from institutions that normalize such distortions.
Political correctness cannot sanitize editorial bias.
Nor can repetition transform manipulation into truth.
Those who consume information about Japan should first ask who is producing it—and whose interests that production serves.

2017-04-01
That this scene was magnified and broadcast at length by 報道ステーション, the flagship program of テレビ朝日, is the central issue here.
It goes without saying that the foreign news desk editor at TV Asahi, Ri Chison, is an elite member of Chongryon.
While studying abroad at Peking University, he reportedly published an article in a media outlet issued by Chongryon asserting that “Zainichi are a premium existence.”
Confronted with such facts, one must question how an individual who embraces an ideology that uses the term “premium” in this manner can serve as the foreign news desk editor at a television station that still wields significant influence over the Japanese public.
Those who have watched Hōdō Station and felt that something was wrong with its editing should, through my commentary, now understand the full sequence of events.
During the Diet sessions at the height of the Moritomo Gakuen controversy initiated by Asahi Shimbun, Fukuyama Tetsuro of the Democratic Party questioned Suga Yoshihide with his characteristic arrogant demeanor.
Suga, as a matter of course, gave an answer that aligned with their intended line of questioning.
At that moment, Fukuyama and a group of legislators—unworthy of anything but contempt and not unfairly described as traitors—burst into coordinated laughter.
This scene was repeatedly shown in close-up by Hōdō Station, TV Asahi’s flagship program.
That I found this moment hair-raising is something all upright Japanese surely felt as well.
If people in other countries were to learn that an elite figure of Chongryon, an organization that operates in accordance with North Korean intentions, serves as the foreign news desk editor at TV Asahi, they would be left speechless.
Once you understand from this essay who it is that provides you with information about Japan, you must never again engage in insolent speech toward this country.
For those who wish to share the fate of such information providers in hell, or who continue to echo them because they receive funding from their countries’ intelligence agencies, truth will be meaningless.