The front page of Asahi Shimbun on August 6, 2016, once again exposed its shallow ideology through an article titled “A Multicultural and Tolerant Nation.”
This essay demonstrates how earlier criticism by Nobuhiko Sakai was correct, while reaffirming the true depth of Japan’s cultural diversity and spiritual tradition.

2016-08-06
The front page of Asahi Shimbun today precisely proved that the argument made in the book previously introduced, Asahi Shimbun Driven Mad by Anti-Japan Hypocritical Morality by former University of Tokyo professor Nobuhiko Sakai, was entirely correct.
In a large headline it reads, “A Multicultural and Tolerant Nation,” by Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Masahiro Shibata.
Those who, like myself, came to know the true nature of Asahi Shimbun in August two years ago must have immediately thought the same thing.
The abnormality, or perhaps the wretchedness, of Asahi Shimbun.
Following Masayuki Takayama’s phrasing, it has already been noted that the other day Genichiro Takahashi, a lapdog of Asahi Shimbun, appeared on NHK’s program Close-Up Gendai in a special on Muhammad Ali and even used Ali’s death to attack the Abe administration,
but Shibata goes so far as to exploit the Rio Olympics itself to engage in anti-Japan rhetoric and brandish pseudo-moralism.
I wonder what on earth accounts for their persistence, but in truth they are no different from kindergarten children.
Just as could be predicted the moment one saw the large headline, Shibata ultimately writes about the diversity of Brazil in contrast to island-nation Japan.
He has surely never visited Todai-ji Temple several times a year as I do.
Nor would he know that in Buddhism, a major component of the Japanese spiritual structure, Saicho, the founder of the Tendai school and a figure equal to Kukai, was the son of a man who had fled from the Later Han to Japan and became a local magnate in the Sakamoto area of present-day Shiga Prefecture.
Shibata represents Asahi Shimbun itself.
That is precisely why Asahi Shimbun gleefully placed such a foolish article on today’s front page.
Such a foolish ideology is the complete opposite of the Japanese people.
There is no nation in the world whose people possess diversity to the same extent as the Japanese.
It is a country that welcomes anyone without discrimination and has never, throughout recorded history, enslaved other peoples or outsiders.
It is no exaggeration to say that Japan is the only country that never committed the vile act of bringing Africans as black slaves.
Nobunaga Oda did not treat a black man presented to him as a slave by white missionaries as a slave at all, because the concept of slavery simply did not exist among the Japanese; instead, he took him along as one of his trusted retainers.
To be continued.