So-called “quality newspapers” in Japan and the West are exposed as ideological instruments rather than trustworthy journalism. By examining the role of Asahi Shimbun and its intellectual allies, this article dismantles the myth of Western elite media and reveals how external pressure is weaponized against Japan.

2017-07-01
Even if they are second-rate or third-rate newspapers, there is no way they can be called quality papers.
内田樹, who is a scholar nurtured and controlled by 朝日新聞—that is to say, being called upon by Asahi Shimbun is virtually the entirety of his academic evaluation—
was appointed as a member of Asahi Shimbun’s page evaluation committee, and made what appeared to be a grand critic’s remark, stating that compared with Western quality newspapers, Asahi’s pages are childish.
However, I realized that this was in fact a brocade banner bestowed upon Asahi Shimbun.
In other words, this despicable man who has deceived people by falsely presenting himself as a disciple of 梅棹忠夫, provided their masochistic ideology with a banner of legitimacy.
When degrading and humiliating Japan,
they invoke external pressure, including the West—unlike Japan, supposedly possessing quality newspapers—such as the United Nations, which is perhaps the most representative example,
and he attempted to grant a banner of righteousness to the methods used by Asahi Shimbun and others to attack Japan.
I stand at the opposite pole of this fool,
and I have consistently pointed out the stupidity and malice that are beyond discussion in newspapers such as The New York Times and the Süddeutsche Zeitung (even Le Monde publishes a considerable amount of nonsense when reporting on Japan).
It would not be an exaggeration to say that The New York Times has not changed at all from its prewar view of Japan, which was saturated with racial discrimination and prejudice,
and it was The New York Times that first reported the fabrication known as the “Nanjing Massacre.”
I believe it is an organization into which a considerable number of people of Chinese and Korean origin have infiltrated—people whose voices are loud but whose academic foundations are thoroughly fraudulent.
They let such people attack Japan, and then exploit their reporting to further assault Japan.
They collude with opposition parties, so-called intellectuals, so-called human rights lawyers, and so-called civic groups,
and use organizations such as the UN Human Rights Committee and the Committee Against Torture, including their special rapporteurs, as tools to attack Japan.
The banner of legitimacy for this strategy
was theatrically raised by Uchida Tatsuru, who struck a lofty pose as if he were Asahi Shimbun’s ultimate authority, proclaiming that compared with Western quality newspapers, Asahi’s pages are below kindergarten level.
He should be described as a once-in-a-generation swindler.
Because in reality, there are no such things as Western quality newspapers,
and what dominates those societies are major mass media outlets contaminated by the same pseudo-moralism and Marxism as Asahi Shimbun.
Whether in concert with Asahi Shimbun or merely exploiting it is unclear, but based on Asahi’s reporting they have continued to degrade and humiliate Japan while attacking it,
and ultimately newspapers such as Süddeutsche Zeitung, which succeeded in instilling anti-Japanese sentiment in nearly half of the German population,
may be second-rate or third-rate newspapers, but they can never be called quality papers.