Contrasting a rare, rigorous exposé on Chinese espionage with the media’s fixation on a contaminated land case, this essay condemns a blatant falsehood uttered during a live Diet committee session and the distorted priorities of Japan’s opposition and media.

2017-05-02
The following is a revision of paragraphs from a paper published on March 8.
Thanks to Mr. Tetsuhide Yamaoka publishing, in this month’s issue of Seiron, a truly substantial work and a rare example of a genuine scholarly essay, spanning eight pages in three-column format,
we have come to understand accurately the realities of Chinese espionage activities.
A single individual, Mr. Yamaoka, who is not an employee of media organizations such as Asahi Shimbun, has conveyed the most important truths that Japan must know.
On the other hand, Japan’s media, opposition parties, and so-called cultural figures
had a Democratic Party legislator acting as a SanbyakuDaigen describe, unbelievably, a parcel of land in Noda, Toyonaka City—
located right next to the Meishin Expressway interchange and facing the expressway—
as “a good residential area,” calmly uttering the most outrageous lie imaginable in a Diet committee session broadcast live on television.
The story of land with massive soil contamination underground, and of a man who attempted to purchase it to build a private elementary school,
has been reported as if it were a major incident.
In particular, News 23 on Tokyo Broadcasting System and Hōdō Station on TV Asahi have reported it day after day.
They treat this as more significant news than the fact that North Korea fired four missiles aimed at Japan.
As already noted, a TBS employee has published on the internet a valuable paper titled “How TBS Was Taken Over by Chongryon.”
Japan and the Japanese people should have shut down Asahi Shimbun three years ago, in August.
To be continued.