While NHK combined remembrance with factual reporting unknown to most Japanese citizens, Asahi Shimbun continued coverage aimed at justifying a controversial court ruling and undermining the Abe administration. This essay argues that public anger toward such media behavior is not destructive but restorative—for Japan and for the world.

2016-03-15

As NHK rightly demonstrated, a news organization should, at the same time as offering remembrance, convey the many facts—both then and now—that the Japanese people had never been told.

Instead, the Asahi Shimbun group persistently continued reporting designed to legitimize the ruling of a single judge at the 大津地方裁判所.
Any person with a sound mind should immediately recognize that this judge is not normal.
Just consider it: by what authority can a single judge, acting on a lawsuit filed by a mere twenty-nine individuals of unknown background—likely sympathizers of the Communist Party or the Democratic Party and opponents of the Abe administration—force electricity prices to remain high for tens of millions of households across the Kansai region?

Those who rejoice at the shutdown of nuclear power are limited to people raised on Asahi Shimbun, foolish leftists, companies and managers riding the latest get-rich-quick illusion known as electricity liberalization, and the governments of China and South Korea.

That these actors are obsessed with bringing down the Abe administration is now common knowledge.

In order to divert public attention from the fact that they should long ago have been shut down and forced to pay massive damages to the Japanese people and the Japanese state, they continued to report on thyroid cancer and related topics at their own convenience—pure pseudo-moralism.

They could not even grasp that such reporting would not halt reputational damage to Fukushima, but would instead perpetuate it.

No—rather, even if they understood this perfectly, they would still proceed.

They endlessly and obsessively repeated claims with absolutely no medical basis, solely to justify their own distorted thinking.

That their single-minded fixation on toppling the Abe administration aligns perfectly with the intentions of China and South Korea is no coincidence.
Japan and the Japanese people must finally recognize this.

Beyond the attempt to overthrow the Abe administration, the enormous losses Japan has suffered in the past have always coincided with Asahi’s intentions and the wishes of China and South Korea.
The Japanese people must feel this deeply—and must be angry.

That is what true and justified anger means.

Ordinarily, anger produces nothing.
But this anger will restore Japan and the world to normality.

When the Turntable of Civilization once turned to the United States, the world’s population was only half of what it is today.
The United States alone can no longer lead the world—especially as it now faces widening inequality.
That is precisely why the Turntable of Civilization has turned to Japan.
It was with this conviction that I appeared before the world.

I do not speak lightly when I say that this argument is worthy of a Nobel Prize.