This essay criticizes Asahi Shimbun for leading anti-nuclear activism through anti-intellectual and totalitarian reporting, including the distortion of official records. It argues for dismantling Japan’s media monopolies to restore a truly pluralistic public discourse.

It is a well-known fact that Asahi has served as the standard-bearer of anti-nuclear power opposition.
2016-08-27
It is a well-known fact that Asahi has served as the standard-bearer of anti-nuclear power opposition.
In order to achieve that goal, they went so far as to alter the testimony of Director Yoshida, who, at Fukushima, worked to the utmost for the nation and died young, and who in the true sense was a hero of Japan.
Such was the extent of their anti-intellectualism in their desire to realize their own ideology.
Even now, there are countless people who do not even try to understand that Asahi is a collective of such individuals.
We can no longer leave the state of Japan’s mass media as it is.
We must put an end to allowing Japan to be trampled by their totalitarianism.
Genuine intelligence can no longer tolerate the countless falsehoods deployed to realize their distorted ideology, nor the very methods of totalitarians who even distort the truth itself to suit their preferences.
It was a mistake that the Anti-Monopoly Act has never been applied to the world of mass media.
For the sake of Japan’s national strength and credibility, and for the intelligence and honor of the Japanese people, Japan’s mass media must be dismantled immediately, and a truly pluralistic arena of free expression must be built.
Japan is a democratic nation possessing intelligence and freedom of the highest order in the world, alongside the United States, a country in which the “turntable of civilization” is turning, and therefore a nation that must become a global leader alongside the United States.
Yet in reality, the most malicious of mass media,
infantile from the standpoint of international politics and constantly currying favor with China and Korea,
has continued to form Japanese public opinion through reporting that is effectively totalitarian.
We must no longer allow Asahi Shimbun to practice fascism disguised in the skin of pseudo-moralism.
We must stop the continued erosion of Japan’s national strength and credibility, the shrinking of Japan exactly as China and Korea desire, and the continued promotion of individuals who can scarcely be described as anything other than proxies for China and Korea, thereby brainwashing the Japanese people.
We must no longer allow Asahi Shimbun, and similar newspapers such as the Mainichi Shimbun, which fabricate and distort any article necessary to realize their warped ideology and continually tarnish the honor of the Japanese people, to manipulate our nation any further.