Japan’s current instability is the result of Asahi Shimbun’s editorial writers dominating the nation’s political discourse.
Rejecting the Japanese ethic of honor, Asahi consistently sided with China and Korea, damaging Japan’s reputation through false narratives.
Opposition politicians who adopted Asahi’s views as their own lack any grand design to strengthen or expand the nation.
Their politics consists not of governance, but of undermining Japan itself.

May 19, 2016

In reality, the outcome of Asahi Shimbun’s editorial writers—who were, for Japan and the Japanese people, an outrageous and dangerous presence—having controlled Japan has led directly to today’s extremely unstable world.

Shiba Ryotaro said that the Kamakura warriors were, so to speak, the original model of the Japanese people.
Their spirit was expressed in the phrase na koso oshime—to value one’s honor above all else.

Asahi Shimbun is not a gathering of Japanese people.
That is why, throughout the postwar period, they have consistently stood on the side of China and Korea, not only failing to cherish Japan’s honor accumulated over two thousand years, but actively damaging the name of Japan and the Japanese people.
What makes this even worse is that almost all of it was done through lies.

They lacked entirely the determination that any competent business leader would have—to grow and strengthen their own company.

Instead, what they embraced was the belief that large corporations are evil, an idea that would be inconceivable in any country other than Japan.
Any Asahi reader would understand this without being told.

Not only were opposition politicians raised on Asahi Shimbun, but they have adopted the company’s articles and editorials as their own thinking.
As a result, not a single opposition politician stands in the Diet with a grand design to make this country larger or stronger.

They are a group of kindergarten children who believe politics consists of shrill shouting and media-conscious attacks on the government—
no, it is no exaggeration to say they are a collective of Koreans and Chinese who devote themselves with delight to attacking Japan, degrading it, and damaging the honor of the Japanese nation and its people.

In simple terms, the ideas propagated by Asahi’s editorial writers—that large corporations are evil, that the Liberal Democratic Party is evil—are precisely what form the minds of Japan’s opposition politicians.

To be continued.