An uncompromising critique of Asahi Shimbun’s relentless malicious reporting, which ignores Japan’s vital diplomatic achievements while demanding the prime minister’s resignation. The essay exposes structural corruption and ideological hostility incompatible with a national newspaper.

April 29, 2017.
The cruelty, moral baseness, and viciousness of this newspaper are beyond the power of words to describe.
Even on the front pages published the day after Japan’s prime minister held the Japan–Russia summit—recognized worldwide as an important leaders’ meeting—and the following day, and again on the day after Prime Minister Abe flew from Russia to the United Kingdom to hold the Japan–UK summit, the Asahi Shimbun filled its front page with a scandal of its own making and demanded the prime minister’s resignation.
Such a newspaper can no longer be considered a Japanese national newspaper.
Those who write such articles are none other than resident Koreans and members of Chongryon who have infiltrated the Asahi Shimbun, much like the elite Chongryon member placed as foreign news desk chief at its subsidiary TV Asahi, or those traditionally associated with the paper such as former Yonsei University exchange students, or individuals now within the company under their influence, modern counterparts of figures like Hotsumi Ozaki.
The cruelty, moral baseness, and viciousness of this newspaper are beyond description.
Their “relentless viciousness” could never be a trait of the Japanese people.
It can only be an expression of the traditions of a country characterized by “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”