This article exposes how NHK, effectively functioning as Japan’s state broadcaster, has engaged in biased and fabricated reporting aligned with Chinese interests. By comparing opinion polls across major media outlets, it argues that this constitutes a serious threat to Japanese democracy that must be addressed by the government and the public.

It is an undeniable fact that NHK is, in practice, Japan’s state broadcaster.
Precisely for that reason, NHK has been able to collect license fees from the public.
Because it is, in reality, a state broadcaster, it has been able to forcibly collect viewing fees.
The Takaichi administration will secure a landslide outcome in the February 8 Lower House election vote count.
One of the matters that must be addressed afterward is the absolute correction of NHK.
In particular, NHK’s recent reporting has already exceeded the limits of what can be tolerated.
That they are being manipulated by China.
That they are engaging in reporting that resembles that of China’s agents.
These are undeniable facts.
At the end of last year, on NHK Osaka’s flagship news program “Hotto Kansai,” a strange female host conducted an outrageously long broadcast portraying Xue Jian, the Chinese Consul General in Osaka, as a “good person,” which symbolized this problem.
The long segment began with the host making an astonishing remark such as, “Mr. Xue Jian actually seems like a good person.”
To make matters worse, an elderly man introduced as a former university professor—someone unknown to the Japanese public—was brought on to repeatedly state, “Mr. Xue Jian is a good person,” over and over.
Even someone with the intellect of an elementary school student could clearly see that NHK Osaka’s news department had become an agent of China.
There have been countless such examples in the past.
Among them, the most conspicuous case was the mock tribunal event “The Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery,” produced by VAWW-NET Japan between 2000 and 2001 and broadcast—unbelievably—on NHK Educational Television.
Ahead of the February 8 vote count, NHK has even begun engaging in reckless fabrication of opinion polls in order to topple the Takaichi administration in line with China’s intentions.
As made clear by the facts below, the Japanese government must also thoroughly investigate TBS and TV Asahi through parliamentary hearings under the watchful eyes of the entire nation.
This is because the Japanese government permits them to use public airwaves at extraordinarily low costs.
It was apparently Kakuei Tanaka who approved such unprecedentedly cheap licenses.
The intent seems to have been to secure broadcasters as allies of the government.
However, the reality has turned into a disastrous situation.
Why have NHK and the two companies mentioned above fallen into such an outrageous state.
In other words, why have they come to resemble China’s state broadcaster or Xinhua News Agency.
More than forty years have passed in the online era.
As a former Mainichi Shimbun insider has revealed online, this is exactly how it happened.
The correctness of that testimony is proven by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist of the postwar world.
Amid the chaos after the war, members of pro-North Korea organizations and resident Koreans infiltrated NHK in large numbers.
That their primary target was the news division is a basic principle of subversive operations, obvious even to an elementary school student.

It is today, January 22, that the Sankei Shimbun-reported opinion poll is the last respectable poll.
This poll, along with the polls of several newspapers listed below, at least reports figures closer to reality.
In reality, more than 90% of the public supports the Takaichi Cabinet.
Cabinet support remains at the 70% level.
“Do not evaluate” the formation of a centrist bloc: 62%.
In the latest Yomiuri Shimbun (NNN) Cabinet approval poll (nationwide survey conducted January 23–25, 2026), 69% support the Cabinet.
Down 4 points from the previous survey.
23% do not support it.
Even the Nikkei, and as readers know, I have repeatedly pointed out that Nikkei’s reporting is nothing other than pro-China faction reporting.
The latest results of the Nikkei Shimbun (Nikkei + TV Tokyo) Cabinet approval opinion poll (conducted January 23–25, 2026) are as follows.
📊 Cabinet approval (January 2026).
Cabinet approval (Takaichi Sanae Cabinet): approximately 67%.
It is reported to have fallen by about 8 points from last month (December), and this is the first time it has dropped below 70%.
The disapproval rate is said to be trending upward compared with the previous survey (specific numbers vary depending on the material), and as approval declines, the proportion of disapproval is rising.
📍 Background and timing of the survey.
It is reported that the survey was conducted nationwide from January 23 to 25, 2026, targeting eligible voters, and obtained responses from around 977 people.
*I suspect that this “around 977 responses,” which is roughly similar across companies, is the root cause of the fabricated reporting by NHK, Asahi, and Mainichi, and that suspicion should be right on target.
The Japanese government must clarify that a problem is lurking here.
Meanwhile, the figures reported under the name of “opinion polls” by the problematic NHK, TV Asahi, and Mainichi Shimbun/TBS are as follows.
[NHK News 7 Opinion Poll].
Broadcast on Monday, January 26, 2026.
(Immediately before the official announcement of the Lower House general election on January 27).
(1) Cabinet approval and evaluation of dissolution.
Takaichi Cabinet approval: 59%.
Disapproval: around 26%.
*For reference, the number of people surveyed is as follows.
The number of respondents (sample size) for the opinion poll announced on “NHK News 7” on January 26, 2026, is as follows.
Scale of the survey and number of valid responses.
Survey target: men and women aged 18 and over nationwide.
Number targeted: 2,504 (RDD method calling randomly generated landline and mobile phone numbers by computer).
Valid responses: 1,564 (response rate: 62.5%).
Breakdown.
Landlines: 755 collected from 1,180 targeted (response rate 64%).
Mobile phones: 809 collected from 1,324 targeted (response rate 61.1%).
This survey was conducted over three days from the 23rd to the 25th as the “last major pre-announcement” survey ahead of the Lower House election to be officially announced tomorrow, January 27.
TV Asahi (ANN) opinion poll (announced January 26, 2026).

1. Cabinet approval.
   Support: 57.6% (change from previous: -5.4 points).
   Do not support: 25.3% (change from previous: +5.9 points).
   Don’t know / no answer: 17.1%.
   *The breakdown of landline and mobile responses in the TV Asahi (ANN) opinion poll announced on January 26 (conducted January 24–25) is as follows.
   Breakdown of valid responses by landline and mobile.
   Landlines: 454 valid responses.
   Mobile phones: 574 valid responses.
   Total: 1,028 valid responses.
   Detailed composition ratios (calculated values).
   The ratios out of the total of 1,028 are as follows.
   Landlines: approximately 44.2%.
   Mobile phones: approximately 55.8%.
   The latest Mainichi Shimbun opinion poll (conducted January 24–25, 2026) yields the following Cabinet approval and related data.
   📊 Cabinet approval.
   Cabinet approval (support): 57%.
   Down 10 points from the previous survey (December 20–21, 2025), which was 67%.
   Cabinet disapproval (do not support): 29%.
   *Survey scale.
   Survey target: 2,243 men and women aged 18 and over nationwide.
   Valid responses: 1,062.
   Landlines: 426.
   Mobile phones: 636.
   Response rate: 47%.
   The abnormality of NHK, Asahi Shimbun/TV Asahi, and Mainichi Shimbun/TBS is obvious even to someone with the intellect of an elementary school student.
   These companies, through the crystal-clear election result, namely the landslide victory of the Takaichi administration, will have it exposed to all that they have become China’s pawns, and that the viciousness and cruelty of their fabricated and biased reporting will be laid bare before the world.
   The government, that is, the Japanese people, can no longer leave such an abnormal situation unattended.
   Because this is precisely a crisis of democracy.
   More specifically, it is an undeniable fact that the companies above have fallen into China’s, that is, the CCP’s, machinations and are conducting anti-Japan reporting.