Written on September 6, 2016. This essay examines how Japanese television and newspaper journalism have failed their true mission, focusing on fabricated reporting by Asahi Shimbun and its impact on Japan–China and Japan–Korea relations. Through an analysis of Xi Jinping’s expressions, it exposes the nature of one-party dictatorship and introduces a forthcoming paradigm-shifting essay vital to Japan’s future.

I am convinced that the essay discussed below will become an extremely important paper for Japan.
2016-09-06
To put it bluntly, one could say that the only aspect in which today’s Japanese television news programs truly fulfill the role of journalism is when they convey, through video, the expressions and atmosphere on the face of Xi Jinping during his meetings with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

We cannot go to the sites themselves, and therefore we do not know what is happening on the ground.
Thus, we cannot know the true conditions or events of other countries.
They, however, go there and stay, or station correspondents permanently.
Yet it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the reality of many journalists is that they convey almost nothing of what they must know.

Worse still, some transmit only their own distorted ideology, or even engage in fabricated reporting in order to realize that ideology.
This is precisely what, for example, Asahi Shimbun has continued to do.

That this has shaped today’s Japan–China and Japan–Korea relations is an undeniable fact.

This fact, no less than their misguidance of Japan’s economy some thirty years ago that created the so-called Lost Twenty Years, has halted the progress of the Turntable of Civilization and has been a major cause in producing today’s extremely unstable and dangerous world.

Compared to confronting others face to face in reality, the reason I, as the author of The Turntable of Civilization, have consistently made correct judgments without error is that when watching television, I naturally do not speak.
Even though I am a sociable person, I am not distracted by my own talking.

I simply observe the human physiognomy that television cameras capture and convey, in accordance with the abilities God has given me.

What the face of Xi Jinping, seen last night in talks with Prime Minister Abe, conveys is, borrowing the words of Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s Rashōmon, nothing less than the sense that a “vast, pitch-black darkness” spreads across Japan and the world.

His expressions and demeanor clearly reveal what one-party Communist dictatorship truly is.
This includes the rudeness of the position assigned to Japan’s prime minister in the G20 commemorative photograph.

I have learned, repeatedly since August two years ago, that genuine Japanese journalists and scholars have perfectly proven that nearly all of the so-called “plausible lies,” beginning with the Nanjing Massacre fabricated by American reporters and used for anti-Japanese propaganda, were in fact forgeries.

The magnitude of the罪 of Asahi Shimbun, which promoted a reporter such as Honda Katsuichi as a great journalist and made him parrot materials provided by the Chinese Communist Party, is beyond description.
It is a罪 against Japan and the Japanese people, a罪 that has kept Japan in the position of a political prisoner in international society to this day, and a罪 against world peace and security.

Their guilt is so great that no apology is conceivable other than laying down their pens.
Yet with astonishing ignorance of this fact, they continue to look down upon and oppose, in their editorials, a prime minister who has carried Japan and the Japanese people on his shoulders and has continued to perform work that could well be called the greatest in history.

The evening edition’s “Soryushi” column, for instance, shows sympathy for a baseball player arrested for stimulant drugs, and in the very next line attacks the Japanese government in the same hateful tone used by the evil rulers of China and Korea.

Regarding Asahi Shimbun, a company that has continued to inflict enormous damage on Japan, and a certain business leader, I will soon reveal to the world an essay containing truths that only I can write, obtained firsthand.

That essay is not about so-called regulatory reform or deregulation, which in reality are merely superficial measures and at times nothing more than harmful revisions exploited by petty villains.
It is an essay that will bring about a truly fundamental, paradigmatic transformation.

The Turntable of Civilization is in fact one of the most important essays for the world in the 21st century, and I am convinced that the forthcoming essay will be an extremely important one for Japan.