This article argues that Asahi Shimbun contributed to Japan’s diminishment while facilitating enormous financial flows to China and South Korea, contrasting this with investigative journalism published by Sankei Shimbun.

2016-05-04

What is called Asahi Shimbun diminished Japan, yet caused enormous sums of money to be poured into China and South Korea—more than 30 trillion yen into China, and into South Korea an amount so vast that it brought about the “Miracle on the Han River,” several times the national budget of South Korea at the time. Asahi Shimbun was the very party responsible for causing these sums to be invested.

Today’s Sankei Shimbun, for example, carries an article on China that identifies the Asahi Shimbun reporter who initiated the matter and another article that elucidates it—articles that truly deserve to be called journalism. They are genuine pieces that readers of Asahi or Nikkei will never see.