Drawing on essays by Masayuki Takayama and Professor Hiroshi Furuta, this article argues that postwar Japanese media and intellectual circles were deeply shaped by Marxist ideology, and that recent scholarship has conclusively validated this claim.

2017-05-02
Regarding the Moritomo Gakuen controversy discussed earlier, readers are already aware that in this month’s dialogue feature in WiLL, 高山正之, the one and only journalist of the postwar world, conducted the verification that journalism ought to perform and perfectly demonstrated that my arguments were one hundred percent correct.
That Asahi Shimbun, whose employees—from those who fabricated the comfort women issue led by Wakamiya Yoshibumi to Hakoda Tetsuya, who now writes peculiar articles about Korea—were repeatedly sent to Yonsei University for company-sponsored study abroad, can be described as having a mindset that is, at best, indistinguishable from that of Koreans themselves, or, viewed more darkly, as having been thoroughly indoctrinated by South Korean intelligence agencies.
Readers are also aware that I have mentioned related matters on several occasions.
I can no longer regard it as mere coincidence that I first learned, after August three years ago, of 古田博司, a professor at the University of Tsukuba.
As already noted, he is one of the foremost experts of our time on Korea and the Korean Peninsula.
In the latest issue of Seiron released today, priced at 840 yen, his serialized column “After Modernity,” spanning four pages in three-column format, contains an essay that perfectly proves the correctness of my arguments.
This is a fact that all Japanese citizens and people around the world should know.
Around 1982 or 1983, the academic discipline I had studied under a certain professor who resembled a missionary monk of Marxism began to collapse in an instant, and I experienced that sense of intellectual ruin.
I have long argued that until August three years ago, Japan was dominated by the media led by Asahi Shimbun, along with so-called scholars, so-called cultural figures, and so-called human-rights lawyers, all of whom were exemplary examination students, and that nearly all of the universities they attended were dominated by Marxism.
Professor 古田博司 demonstrated the correctness of this argument with irrefutable facts.
The following is from his serialized column “After Modernity,” spanning four pages in three-column format, in the current issue of Seiron released today.
Emphasis in the text other than the headline is mine.
“When One Begins to Think”
Omitted earlier text.
I believe it was shortly before my third year after going to Korea.
Around 1982 or 1983.
At that time, I experienced the sensation of collapse as the learning I had acquired under a professor who resembled a missionary monk of Marxism crumbled instantly.
The catalyst was a trip to the Soviet Union in 1980, when I saw crowds of poor unemployed people in the backstreets of Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg.
Perhaps it was from around that time that I began to think for myself.
Omitted thereafter.