This article argues that Japan’s blind reverence for University of Tokyo graduates has distorted media, bureaucracy, and political discourse. By examining concrete cases involving NHK, major newspapers, and international institutions, it calls on the Japanese public to abandon this harmful illusion.

Japan’s uncritical belief in the moral and intellectual superiority of University of Tokyo graduates has fostered systemic failures across media, government, and international discourse. This essay exposes how such academic credentialism enabled biased reporting, political manipulation, and coordinated attacks on Japan, urging a fundamental rethinking of authority and credibility.

July 14, 2017

Regarding the University of Tokyo, the Japanese people should stop clinging to meaningless and foolish assumptions.
There is no doubt that Okoshi now controls the editing of NHK’s news division.
Of course, there is also no doubt that forces even larger than him are exercising control.
These would be forces connected, for example, to Chongryon, resident Koreans in Japan, China, and related interests.
The organizer of the organization that carried out unbelievably malicious and persistent attacks that led to the cancellation of a lecture at Hitotsubashi University accepted by Naoki Hyakuta at their request is a South Korean studying at Hitotsubashi University.
On the website of the organization attacking Naoki Hyakuta, he deliberately refers to NHK by stating, “as a quasi-public figure who once served as an NHK management committee member.”
This is proof that, for the intelligence agencies of countries engaged in anti-Japanese propaganda, NHK is the primary media target.
Returning to Okoshi.
A major reason he wields such influence is likely because he is a graduate of the University of Tokyo.
I recently realized that among the events that dealt a decisive blow to the Liberal Democratic Party in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election, the in-car recording in which Diet member Mayuko Toyoda screamed at a middle-aged male secretary in an unbelievable voice and with shocking content, broadcast into living rooms across Japan—and of course across Tokyo—was decisive.
That voice and its content were that appalling.
There could not have been a single Tokyo resident who did not feel revulsion or disgust.
This Diet member, Mayuko Toyoda, is a graduate of the University of Tokyo and a former Ministry of Health bureaucrat.
A Dutch female scholar, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, calling herself a UN Special Rapporteur, made the absurd statement at the Japan National Press Club that 30 percent of Japanese female students engage in compensated dating.
I am convinced that this was yet another maneuver by China—which was exposed in Newsweek in recent years as a country that has been a major center of prostitution since recorded history and remains so today, with prostitution rampant among female students across the country—to deflect criticism by offering Japan as a scapegoat, claiming that it is not China alone.
If Japan had possessed powerful agencies like the FBI or CIA comparable to those of China or South Korea, it would surely have investigated Maekawa’s personal background.
Is there no connection between the actions of Maekawa—who was frequenting compensated-dating establishments (and whether Chinese intelligence agencies were providing funding at the time)—and the statements made by Maud de Boer-Buquicchio?
That Asahi Shimbun stands behind David Kaye, Joseph Cannataci, and Maud de Boer-Buquicchio—UN Special Rapporteurs whose intent to disparage Japan is unmistakable—is now an obvious fact to anyone.
Maekawa is currently attacking the Abe administration for the benefit of Asahi Shimbun, under its guidance.
This Maekawa, a former Ministry of Education bureaucrat, is also a graduate of the University of Tokyo.
Hiroshi Hoshi, a former Asahi Shimbun reporter who helped elevate Naoto Kan to the position of prime minister—nearly bringing Japan to ruin—and even lavishly praised his wife in major articles, is likewise a graduate of the University of Tokyo.
Regarding the University of Tokyo, the Japanese people should stop clinging to meaningless and foolish assumptions.