This essay denounces the Asahi Shimbun’s willingness to weaken Japan and undermine its people’s honor in pursuit of its own ideology and institutional survival.
Obsessed with toppling the Abe administration, the newspaper has persistently fostered public distrust toward the Bank of Japan and contributed to the long-term diminishment of Japan.

The Asahi Shimbun has shown a consistent attitude in which, just as it has long done toward Japan and the Japanese people,
it places no value on whether Japan is weakened or diminished,
whether the honor and credibility of the Japanese people are damaged in the international community,
or whether the revitalization of Osaka is extinguished,
so long as such outcomes serve the realization of its distorted, childish, malicious, and foolish ideology
and the permanent development of the company itself.
It has been obsessed with bringing down the Abe administration,
and while refusing to listen to the government’s views,
it has repeatedly implanted negative sentiments among the public toward the Bank of Japan’s policies,
simply because those policies took into account the opinions of the Abe administration.
The fact that it even promotes commentators who insist, astonishingly, that Japan must have a strong yen
is nothing short of exasperating.
A newspaper company that has no understanding of the providential turning of the civilizational turntable toward Japan
has, by symbolically elevating figures who can scarcely be described as anything other than proxies for countries
that would be troubled by a stronger Japan,
contributed to the systematic diminishment of the nation.
The reality produced by this process
is conveyed in full by today’s article in the Nikkei.
That article will be addressed in the next chapter.