This essay exposes the absurdity of Asahi Shimbun’s editorial attack on Japan’s prime minister for leading the G7 with a sober assessment of global economic risks, arguing that such rhetoric undermines Japan’s honor and international credibility.

2016-05-27

Last night, Makoto Hara of Asahi Shimbun—an astonishingly low level of individual to be serving as an editorial writer in charge of economics at that newspaper—went so far as to call it a “nonsensical” remark when the Prime Minister of Japan, which is still in reality the world’s second-largest economic power, led the G7 by stating the entirely natural view that there are downside risks to the global economy, a statement that anyone well versed in world economic conditions would obviously make.
Asahi Shimbun demonstrates just how kindergarten-like people can become when those whose only qualification is having studied hard for entrance exams and attended Waseda’s School of Political Science and Economics or the University of Tokyo become steeped in a particular ideology.
The newspaper has become a textbook example of how a kindergarten child—one who screams relentlessly until his demands are met—can become persistently malicious and vicious (no exaggeration to say it is exactly the same as the one-party dictators of the Chinese Communist Party, which enshrines anti-Japanese propaganda as a national policy, and the Koreans).
Even more unforgivable is the fact that such a newspaper company owns, as a subsidiary, one of the five television networks that monopolize Japan, and that, as on last night, it attempted to brainwash viewers by mobilizing German and British newspaper reporters who are its sympathizers, in order to demean the Prime Minister of Japan—that is, to brazenly damage the honor and credibility of the Japanese state—at a time when Japan was hosting the G7 as chair.
Using the public airwaves to do such a thing—to deliver a total negation of Japan and its prime minister, something no country other than China and South Korea, which enshrine lies and anti-Japanese propaganda as state policy, could possibly welcome—by calling the prime minister’s entirely reasonable perspective on the world economy “nonsensical.”
The time when we should have stopped tolerating Asahi Shimbun, represented by Makoto Hara, had already arrived long ago, well before August of the year before last.