This essay condemns Asahi Shimbun’s continued conduct, arguing that its actions have damaged Japan’s national strength and honor without a single sincere apology.

This article contrasts Japan’s historical sense of responsibility with what the author sees as the unchecked power and moral failure of modern mass media.

2017-06-23
Readers should have already noticed that Professor Watanabe Shoichi and I possess minds that are virtually identical.
Professor Watanabe wrote that “ideally, the president of Asahi Shimbun should commit seppuku on the rostrum of the United Nations Human Rights Commission,” but I am convinced that every employee of Asahi Shimbun should do the same.
This is because, rather than showing even the slightest sign of remorse, they continue one nonsensical attack after another against Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who has achieved results that can be called among the very best of recent prime ministers and who is, without exaggeration, a rare statesman whom Japan proudly presents to the world.
By drawing in media such as NHK, they persist day after day in truly malicious attacks, ultimately succeeding, as they wished, in lowering Prime Minister Abe’s approval rating by several percentage points and once again continuing activities that weaken Japan’s national strength.
The world simply dismisses feudal times as evil, but when one considers that Asahi Shimbun, which has committed acts of national humiliation against Japan on such a scale, continues without uttering a single word of apology to demean and disgrace Japan as if for the sake of China and South Korea, one must ask:
Which can truly be said to be better—the conduct of the samurai, who took responsibility for their own misconduct by committing seppuku, or the conduct of today’s Asahi Shimbun?
Kukai said that evil cannot be eliminated, but in feudal times those who committed evil could be cut down in a single stroke.
Today, however, villains hide behind the Personal Information Protection Act enacted in recent years, live without fixed addresses, render court judgments meaningless, and continue to live with impunity.
Even though Japan can be said, without exaggeration, to be a country where democracy has gone too far, United Nations-related figures acting like agents of China and South Korea issue one recommendation after another as if democracy had not been achieved.
So which can truly be said to be better: an excessive democracy, or laws such as those of Islam, where “an eye for an eye” applies and thieves have both hands cut off?