An essay condemning the manipulation of public opinion through NHK’s coverage of electricity liberalization. It argues that commentators protected by privilege, not democratic mandate, propagate pseudo-moralism that leads society toward totalitarian and fascist tendencies.

2016-03-23
Not a single commentator on the program the night before last mentioned the fact that electricity prices in Germany, which introduced electricity liberalization, have continued to rise sharply.
One woman among them appeared to be a person who held the same ideology as Matsui Yayori.
Simply because she spoke in a gentle tone, I discerned that her essence was hardly any different from that of Matsui Yayori.
The other men could be said, without exaggeration, to be exactly the same as the people with appalling physiognomies who appeared on TBS’s Reportage Special.
With regard to the energy issue that determines the fate of a nation, they completely failed to perform the work of journalists, which is to shed light on concealed and hidden facts and convey only facts to viewers.
Instead, people who are nothing more than NHK employees, guaranteed high salaries, status, and secure retirements, and who have never undergone the severe national selection known as elections, use the public airwaves to attempt to guide the public through pseudo-moralism.
Both they and the Japanese people who have unquestioningly trusted them should understand that this very posture constitutes totalitarianism and fascism.
Japan does not have a CIA, but countries around the world do.
Those who have insisted that Japan should “learn from Germany,” including Asahi Shimbun, should immediately begin a campaign to establish a CIA in Japan.
This is because Germany naturally has a CIA, and it was revealed during court deliberations—when the upper house filed a lawsuit seeking to declare the NPD an illegal party—that numerous spies had even been planted within the NPD leadership.
Exploiting GHQ occupation policies, many resident Koreans infiltrated NHK and other institutions, a fact conveyed by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only genuine journalist and scholar in the postwar world.
In other words, believing that countries which, for seventy years after the war, have made anti-Japan propaganda a national policy and continue anti-Japan education even now would not make use of their compatriots within NHK is an illusion held only by people around the world who read Asahi and similar newspapers.