Japan’s peace, public safety, and freedom of expression far exceed global standards.
Yet Asahi Shimbun editorials persistently demean Japan through distorted comparisons.
Today’s world reality proves how profoundly mistaken that mindset is.

2016-08-09
Compared to Japan, the world is far too cruel.
Whether it is simple peace, public safety, or freedom of expression.
Meanwhile, the state of mind of the editorial writers at 朝日新聞 is clearly revealed in the editorial by the Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Shibata, which appeared on the front page mentioned earlier.
Asahi Shimbun consistently takes something that is regarded worldwide as a virtue of a certain country and uses it for comparison, and through that comparison—of which the most crude and foolish example is “Learn from Germany”—demeans Japan, and this manner of thinking constitutes the ideology and intellect of Asahi Shimbun’s employees.
They do not even realize that the facts are completely the opposite.
In an article published on the day an organization related to so-called wartime comfort women was established in South Korea, I was astonished to learn that Asahi had many correspondents in South Korea, each writing their own articles.
It was an astonished disbelief at the fact that, despite maintaining such an extensive correspondent system, they had conveyed almost nothing about the actual conditions in South Korea.
At this very moment, the world is perfectly proving the correctness of my “Turntable of Civilization.”
The truth lies in the exact opposite place from the foolishness of Asahi’s editorial writers, who have continued to demean Japan by comparing it with some supposedly well-regarded virtue of other countries, and who even now remain ever watchful for any chance to do so again.
Compared to Japan, the world is far too cruel.
Whether it is simple peace, public safety, freedom of expression, or the severity of every kind of poverty, that is the truth.
There is no longer any need to explain the reasons.
To be continued.