A critical examination of postwar Japanese media thought, tracing its roots to occupation-era indoctrination, leftist ideology, and institutional self-denial—revealed starkly in the media’s response to massive national financial losses.

2016-02-29

What the conduct of Japan’s media, as discussed in the previous chapter, clearly reveals is this:

It proves that the minds of those who make a profession of writing in Japan’s media are formed in the following manner.

In order to conceal the most obvious and greatest evil—indeed, the original sin—in human history committed by the United States at the final stage of the war, Japan was made to believe, to the utmost extent, that it had done terrible things and that the Japanese were an evil people.

In other words, they were thoroughly indoctrinated by the policies carried out by the United States during the occupation period.

The fact that the Soviet Union was counted among the victorious powers of the Second World War only compounded this influence.

For a long time after the war—indeed, until August of the year before last, when the true nature of the Asahi Shimbun was finally and completely exposed—so-called leftist forces, influenced by Marxism and the Comintern, held considerable power in this country.

The most easily understood example is the conduct of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, typified by lawyers who held key positions within it and who traveled repeatedly to the United Nations, embedding terms such as “sex slaves” into international discourse.

Despite the fact that the GPIF, Japan’s public pension fund, suffered a massive loss of 15 trillion yen in just one month—indeed, in extreme terms, in merely ten days—there was no attempt to think about who caused this situation, by what methods it was made possible, and how such a thing could occur within global markets.

There was no effort to question why the Tokyo Stock Exchange of Japan—one of the world’s most stable and safest countries—experienced a rate of decline identical to that of China, the very epicenter of global economic instability.

Instead, the media seized this as an opportunity to attack the policies of the Bank of Japan and the economic policies of their own country’s government.

What other advanced nation in the world possesses such a media?

Or is it that the people working in the media are not Japanese citizens at all, and therefore feel no connection whatsoever to the enormous losses inflicted upon the nation’s pension system?

Or perhaps, because these organizations are in fact dominated by Chinese and Koreans whose national policy is anti-Japan propaganda, they find such events positively exhilarating.