Blind trust in elite academic credentials has contributed to Japan’s media and political dysfunction. This essay challenges the uncritical authority granted to University of Tokyo graduates.

Blind reverence for the University of Tokyo has shielded media and political failure from accountability.

2017-07-14

Regarding the University of Tokyo, the Japanese people should stop indulging in meaningless and foolish assumptions.

There is little doubt that Okoshi currently dominates editorial control within NHK’s news division.

There is also no doubt that forces even larger than him exist.

These include groups connected to Chongryon, resident Koreans in Japan, and China.

The organizer of the organization that carried out an astonishingly malicious and persistent campaign leading to the cancellation of a lecture by Naoki Hyakuta at Hitotsubashi University was a Korean student studying there.

On the organization’s website attacking Hyakuta, he deliberately referred to NHK, describing Hyakuta as a “quasi-public figure as a former NHK management committee member.”

This is clear evidence that NHK is the primary media target for anti-Japan propaganda agencies.

Returning to Okoshi.

One major reason for his influence is that he is a graduate of the University of Tokyo.

I realized that one of the decisive factors that dealt a fatal blow to the LDP in the Tokyo metropolitan election was the broadcast of the in-car recording of Mayuko Toyoda screaming at her secretary.

The voice and content were so appalling that no Tokyo resident could have avoided feelings of disgust.

Toyoda is also a University of Tokyo graduate and a former health ministry official.

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, a Dutch academic calling herself a UN Special Rapporteur, made the absurd claim at the Japan National Press Club that 30 percent of Japanese female students engage in compensated dating.

I am convinced that this was part of China’s maneuver to deflect criticism by sacrificing Japan.

If Japan had possessed intelligence agencies as powerful as the FBI or CIA, Maekawa’s personal activities would have been investigated.

Was there truly no connection between Maekawa’s behavior and Buquicchio’s statements?

David Kaye, Joseph Cannataci, and Maud de Boer-Buquicchio.

It is now obvious that Asahi Shimbun stands behind these UN Special Rapporteurs who clearly intended to disparage Japan.

Maekawa is currently attacking the Abe administration on behalf of Asahi Shimbun.

Maekawa, a former education ministry official, is also a University of Tokyo graduate.

Hiroshi Hoshi, a former Asahi Shimbun reporter who helped elevate Naoto Kan to the premiership, is likewise a University of Tokyo graduate.

The Japanese people should stop harboring meaningless illusions about the University of Tokyo.