An essay exposing how Asahi Shimbun replaced historical realities of the Yi Dynasty with false narratives blaming the Japanese army.
It examines fabricated reports on Nanjing and the comfort women issue, the newspaper’s manipulation of public policy and urban development, and the abnormality of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) granting a press freedom award for such distortions.

2017-08-31

Fabrication: Atrocities of the Yi Dynasty Recast as Crimes of the Japanese Army
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
However, I will put down my pen here regarding their “nonsense,” which anyone engaged in the real estate business in Osaka would immediately recognize.
It is too foolish a matter even to write about.
To put it in the style of Minoru Kida, this affair also exposed the reality of how the people of the “lunatic enclave,” including Asahi Shimbun and Tsujimoto, live by feeding off tax money.
Asahi Shimbun not only acquired national land at bargain prices for its headquarters,
but also managed to secure an unbelievable increase in the floor-area ratio for its Festival Tower project, from 1,000 percent to 1,600 percent.
Claiming that this project would overlap with the tenant recruitment period for the Umeda North Yard,
it not only delayed the start of the first phase of construction there,
but also repeatedly ran major feature articles describing the North Yard as being in chaos during the second phase.
In doing so, it shredded to pieces the magnificent redevelopment of the former Japanese National Railways site—the North Yard redevelopment—
a project completed over more than twenty years by pooling the wisdom of both the public and private sectors in Osaka,
and casually inflicted losses amounting to trillions of yen on the Japanese people.
Not satisfied with having written numerous fabricated articles, typified by the so-called Nanjing Massacre,
thereby causing more than thirty trillion yen of Japanese taxpayers’ money to be poured into China and South Korea,
Asahi Shimbun went on to fabricate the “comfort women” reports, together with figures such as Mizuho Fukushima.
Astonishingly, it attempted to channel one trillion yen of Japanese taxpayers’ money from the Japanese government
to individuals whose organizations could, without exaggeration, be described as groups of North Korean spies,
and who began telling “plausible lies”—
women who started recounting events from the Korean Peninsula during the Yi Dynasty after replacing them with stories blaming the Japanese army.
And for this, it is said, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan granted Asahi Shimbun an award for press freedom.
To be continued.