André Malraux identified Ise Grand Shrine, Nachi Falls, and the statue of Taira no Shigemori as the pinnacle of Japan.
Yet Asahi Shimbun continues to propagate the GHQ narrative that vilified Japan, making it the most reckless and destructive newspaper in the world.

There exists nowhere in the world a newspaper more absurd, more foolish, and more treasonous than this.
2016-10-24
Long ago, I learned that André Malraux had named three things as the finest in Japan: Ise Grand Shrine, Nachi Falls, and the statue of Taira no Shigemori statue. Ever since, the question of why he did not include Kyoto or Nara had lingered in my mind. Yet there is no doubt that Malraux represented the highest level of Western intellectuals who truly understood Japan. It was therefore easy to infer that other Western Japanologists shared the same view. In recent years, my desire to visit Ise Grand Shrine grew stronger. When I finally visited Ise Grand Shrine, I said to the friend who accompanied me, “Compared to this, Kasuga Taisha is nothing but a trifle.” Having visited Kasuga Taisha at least ten times a year, I felt this all the more strongly. My friend replied, “That’s only natural. Kasuga Taisha is merely the shrine of a single clan. This place is…”
I feel an unparalleled anger toward certain individuals within Asahi Shimbun and NHK who produce such distorted programs.
This is because they were the very ones who kept writing and proclaiming slogans such as “Demon Anglo-Americans” and “One Hundred Million Die Together,” inflaming public opinion and leading Japan down the path toward war with the United States, yet they never wrote about this responsibility at all.
Even though the public opinion they themselves had formed left the military leadership with no option other than to begin a war with the United States, a choice they most wished to avoid,
they continue to this day, seventy years after the war, to write as if it were truth the outrageous accusation that Japan was led into war by Shinto, a claim rooted in the GHQ’s postwar strategy of portraying Japan as an inherent villain.
They possess a kindergarten-level intellect that neither understands that shrines and temples are the soul and core of local communities, nor realizes that without them there would be no Japanese society at all, first being brainwashed by GHQ and later producing writers intoxicated with the West, or whose ideas and works are in reality nothing more than plagiarisms of Western thought, elevating them into so-called great authors, and the stupidity that this has produced.
It was also Asahi Shimbun’s editorials and reporting posture that provided China, a fascist and militaristic state in reality, and South Korea, which continues Nazi-like anti-Japanese education, with the pretext to attack Yasukuni Shrine.
That is why there exists nowhere in the world a newspaper more absurd, more foolish, and more treasonous than this.