On January 5, 2026, NHK Osaka’s regional news program Hotto Kansai aired Masayoshi Matsumoto’s pro-China remarks at length and without criticism.
This article documents, in firsthand detail, how the broadcast revealed deeper structural bias within NHK, including recurring propaganda techniques, selective guest appearances, and long-standing ideological influence inside Japan’s public broadcaster.
This article documents how NHK Osaka’s regional news program “Hotto Kansai” openly revealed its pro-China bias and structural decay as a public broadcaster, preceding its uncritical promotion of Masayoshi Matsumoto’s pro-China remarks, and explains why this reality must be known by the Japanese public.
The day before yesterday, I turned on NHK Osaka’s Hotto Kansai to check the weather forecast.
This is a wide-show-style news program produced by NHK staff and broadcast every evening from 6 p.m.
It is supposed to be a Kansai-only regional news program, so people outside the region know nothing about it.
Yet this program occasionally exposes the true nature of NHK itself.

What it reveals includes not only the grotesque farce known as the so-called Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal, but also the fact that figures who were, in reality, not journalists at all but left-wing activists—such as Matsui Yayori of the Asahi Shimbun—have long been involved.
It further exposes the familiar career path shared by anti-Japan activists worldwide: studying at Yonsei University, marrying Korean Americans, and then becoming leading figures in the United States’ abnormal and grotesque anti-Japan propaganda scene—typified by Alexis Dudden, said to exert influence over American historical academia itself.
This alone stands as proof of how vulnerable democracy is to propaganda.

It also involves individuals who are effectively North Korean spies—among them one introduced as “North Korean representative: Hwang Ho-nam,” a person barred from entry as a North Korean operative despite having served as a chief prosecutor—together with those who produced the program as NHK organizers: Eriko Ikeda (producer at NHK Enterprises 21 and steering committee member of VAWW-NET Japan), Akira Nagai (NHK chief producer), and their associates.
This broadcast laid bare the fact that such figures continue even now to dominate NHK’s news division.

Frankly, I am sick of writing about this.
Nevertheless, today I inform all Japanese citizens of who these people truly are.

The original theme of this article was to critically judge Masayoshi Matsumoto—former chairman of Sumitomo Electric and current head of the Kansai Economic Federation—who, together with his bizarre appearance, continues even now to repeat utterly unbelievable pro-China statements.
However, before addressing him, it is essential first to inform the Japanese government and the public of the reality of NHK’s Hotto Kansai, which devoted long segments to his remarks and broadcast them enthusiastically and entirely without criticism.

It is an obvious fact that female anchors on Chinese and South Korean news programs uniformly have unnaturally well-shaped, cosmetic-surgery-like faces.

We Japanese do not consider it a primary requirement that female news anchors be strikingly beautiful or perfectly shaped.
All we ask is that they be easier to look at than not.
This NHK Osaka news program, airing from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., has long functioned as a kind of gateway for female anchors aspiring to promotion in Tokyo, and that has historically been its reality.
Even now, on weekdays, it is hosted by such women.

However—and this is the main point—on weekends, a strange older woman began appearing as the host.
She looks nothing like the young, surgically enhanced female anchors favored by China and South Korea, but instead is an older woman covered with age spots.
Even an acquaintance of mine remarked, quite reasonably, whether NHK truly had no one else.

This was shortly after last year, when Xue Jian, the Chinese Consul-General in Osaka, made outrageous remarks directed at Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
On the day this woman was hosting, NHK aired a broadcast that defended Xue Jian at great length.
I was stunned.

The method was blatant.
First, this woman herself spent a considerable amount of time on air saying things like, “Mr. Xue Jian is actually a good person.”
Then, using exactly the same tactic once criticized by Yoshinori Kobayashi regarding the methods of Asahi Shimbun’s thug-like reporter Masakazu Honda—“dragging out some writer like Sen’ichirō Shiomi, whose works nobody even knows, just to make him comment”—NHK brought on an elderly man, described as a former university professor but completely unknown to the public.
They calmly aired his interview proclaiming that “Mr. Xue Jian is a good person,” not just at length, but brazenly.

At that moment, I finally understood why this woman was hosting the program.
Ah, I see—this woman herself must embody left-wing bias.
She is likely connected to the NHK labor union leadership, or perhaps she is another manifestation of the historical fact Masayuki Takayama has taught us: that in the postwar chaos, organizations such as Chongryon infiltrated NHK and other broadcasters by inserting large numbers of personnel, the effects of which remain visible today.

Until I wrote this, no Japanese citizen outside Kansai who watched that broadcast could possibly have known any of this.
Nor is this the only case in which NHK Osaka has calmly carried out such broadcasts.
There are countless examples, but I will not enumerate them here.

Even to convey the facts and background accurately would require a long explanation, which is why I avoided writing about this until today.
And while this too is part of the main issue, the original theme of this article—Masayoshi Matsumoto—will be addressed later.

“Dragging out some writer like Sen’ichirō Shiomi, whose works nobody even knows, just to make him comment.”
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