Based on reporting by journalist Yoshihisa Komori and highlighted by Kaori Fukushima, this article argues that major Japanese media outlets such as the Asahi Shimbun have fallen under Chinese influence, posing a serious threat to Japan’s national security and public discourse.

This text warns that sections of Japan’s mainstream media operate in ways that align with Chinese strategic interests. Drawing on investigative reporting by Yoshihisa Komori, it connects media campaigns against Japan’s government with simultaneous Chinese military and territorial provocations.

2017-07-18
This is an unbearable truth for the Japanese people: media organizations such as the Asahi Shimbun are completely within China’s grasp.
What follows is an article by Yoshihisa Komori, published last year in the September issue of the monthly magazine Seiron, which Kaori Fukushima has pointed out in her latest book as essential reading for all Japanese citizens.
Upon realizing that I had overlooked it, I hurriedly searched my bookshelf.
The fact that this genuinely authentic article demonstrates without omission is precisely this unbearable truth for the Japanese people: media outlets such as the Asahi Shimbun are completely within China’s control.
Like myself, those Japanese who for many years subscribed to and closely read the Asahi Shimbun, and who continued to watch TV Asahi’s Hodo Station and TBS’s News 23, and who are not believers in the Asahi Shimbun creed but possess sound judgment, understand that TV Asahi’s news department and its successive anchors have either been agents of China or have functioned as such through sheer folly, all the while wearing the mask of righteousness and making enormous contributions to China.
This remains exactly the same today.
In addition to the attacks on the Abe administration orchestrated by the Asahi Shimbun, they relentlessly launched opinion poll attacks, repeatedly reporting that public support for the Abe government was declining.
In step with these activities, just yesterday the Chinese navy intruded not only near the Senkaku Islands but even into the Tsugaru Strait.
The Sankei Shimbun has sounded the alarm through repeated major features about an ominous development: unidentified Chinese capital buying up land in Hokkaido.
China appears intent on extending its reach not only to the Senkaku Islands and Okinawa, but even to Hokkaido, aiming to sandwich Japan from both north and south.
To the one-party dictators of the Chinese Communist Party, embodiments of bottomless malice and plausible lies, stop underestimating Japan and the Japanese people.
Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, the so-called scholars who echo them, the so-called human rights lawyers, and the so-called civic groups: we will no longer tolerate your outrageous conduct against Japan as Chinese spies.
You traitors, know shame.
Nobunaga and Kukai will not forgive you.
You utter fools.