An examination of polling data on the Futenma relocation ignored by left-leaning media, and how misleading rhetoric and media influence contributed to domestic division and national decline.

2016-02-29

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The same was true when Kyodo News, in a public opinion survey conducted on January 30 and 31, asked about the government’s policy of relocating U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture) to Henoko in Nago City.

In this question as well, contrary to the anti-Henoko relocation arguments of left-leaning media, those who “supported” the relocation (47.8 percent) outnumbered those who “did not support” it (43.0 percent), yet this point attracted little attention.

Households that subscribe to Asahi and similar newspapers, and watch news programs on television stations affiliated with them, would have been completely unaware of this fact.

Despite having won the election by a narrow margin, Okinawa Governor Onaga repeatedly resorted to sophistry by claiming to represent “All Okinawa,” even going so far as to travel to the United Nations and make statements that disgraced the nation.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that his conduct aligned with the intentions of China and South Korea, which seek to divide Japanese public opinion.

How, then, did TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station, which had consistently treated him as an important figure, report on this?

When one thinks about it, the result of allowing those who call themselves hosts of such programs to continue shaping Japanese public opinion has been the growing arrogance and lawlessness of China, a one-party communist dictatorship, and of South Korea, a nation that has continued anti-Japanese education for seventy years and behaves like a state driven by Nazism.

They have halted the progress of the “Turntable of Civilization” and brought about Japan’s long-term deflation, which reduced national power by as much as 1,400 trillion yen.

What makes their conduct particularly malicious is that throughout this period, their annual incomes exceeding hundreds of millions of yen were never reduced in the slightest, nor were the salaries of employees at their parent company, the Asahi Shimbun, reduced by even a single yen, nor were their pensions cut—while they created a reality in which one in six children grows up in poverty, in households earning 1.8 million yen or less per year.