An essay examining how Japan’s mass media weakened national power and credibility through pseudo-moralism and obsessive political attacks. By contrasting China’s view of Korea with Japan’s own media behavior, it argues that figures such as Kazuo Asami, Natsumitsu Chida, and Katsuichi Honda represent “second-rate players” who entered journalism and destabilized Japan’s political and international standing.

All of them—Kazuo Asami, Natsumitsu Chida, Katsuichi Honda, and the rest—were second-rate Japanese players who found employment in the media.
2017-05-09
What follows is an essay I published on March 16.
Several commentators who maintain connections with senior Chinese officials have written in essays published in monthly magazines that, quoting those officials, “China views South Korea extremely lightly, because Koreans are very easy to manipulate. If you stir up anti-Japanese sentiment, they will reach a boiling point without restraint.”
But can Japan really afford to laugh at South Korea?
Looking at the current Moritomo Gakuen affair or the Toyosu issue, it is one hundred percent certain that China believes Japan is also extremely easy to manipulate.
They must think that Koreans go mad over anti-Japanese sentiment, while Japan’s opposition parties and media go mad just as easily over pseudo-moralism.
Yesterday, by chance, I watched a wide-show program on Yomiuri Television hosted by someone called Miyane-something, and I was truly dumbfounded.
Among Japan’s media, the severity of the madness is especially egregious in television.
This suggests that within television stations—particularly within their news departments—there exist large numbers of resident Koreans, resident Chinese, or people completely manipulated by China or South Korea, that is, individuals who are effectively operatives, practically spies.
As I wrote when I first appeared on the internet, six companies concentrated in Tokyo disseminate information, and utterly trivial incidents are treated as if they were major affairs, with all stations broadcasting them simultaneously and repeatedly day after day.
In doing so, they constantly attack and weaken the government, replace administrations as rapidly as the blinking of an eye, weaken Japan’s political power in the international community, and continue to reduce Japan’s national strength and international credibility.
Those responsible are Kazuo Asami, Natsumitsu Chida, Katsuichi Honda, and others—all second-rate Japanese players who took jobs in the media.
The most foolish and grotesque aspect is that they have spoken and written articles while wearing the face of representatives of Japan and champions of justice.
Until three years ago in August, their representative standard-bearer, the Asahi Shimbun, dominated Japan, and therefore it is only natural that Japan stagnated, countries like China and South Korea grew arrogant, and the world became extremely unstable and dangerous.
To be continued.