This text criticizes the influence of major media organizations, academics, cultural figures, and human-rights lawyers on Japan’s public discourse.
It argues that Japanese society has long been shaped by a small minority of opinion leaders and presents this as a structural “five percent rule” of influence.
By referencing media coverage, constitutional debates, and geopolitical concerns involving China and Korea, it calls for a reassessment of how public opinion in Japan has been formed.

2019-01-29.
It would not be an exaggeration at all to say that the taxes of the Japanese people have continued to be handed over through the Asahi Shimbun, the so-called scholars who sympathize with it, the so-called cultural figures, the so-called human-rights lawyers, and NHK.
In other words, you have been completely ruled by a mere five percent of people.
I am republishing here, with paragraph adjustments and slight additions, a chapter I originally released on 2019-01-01 under that title.
While casually watching several TV programs just now, one thing caught my attention.
A moment ago, an NHK program aired the figure that 740,000 Chinese nationals are staying in Japan—without any sense of doubt or caution.
What exactly is this de facto state broadcaster that reports such numbers without addressing the fact that China is a one-party dictatorship under the Communist Party, and that Xi Jinping has enacted peculiar laws to bind them completely?
As for the architect Kengo Kuma who appeared on the program, he is one of those people I cannot bring myself to like at all.
That is because he represents the so-called cultural figures who align themselves with the Asahi Shimbun.
I have never once heard from him any aspiration that Japan is a great nation and must lead the world alongside the United States.
He speaks plausibly enough, yet what he truly conveys is the diminishment of Japan; it would not be an exaggeration to say that he is in fact disparaging Japan.
NHK itself is a truly incoherent organization.
From year’s end to the New Year, it aired a wonderful program titled “The World Is Full of Things We Want.”
However, it never aired in prime time; I myself only learned of it at the end of the year.
Meanwhile, on New Year’s Day during prime time, they featured Kengo Kuma and reported on “minimalist living,” with the high-income celebrity Tamori as host—utterly absurd.
Those producing such programs must surely be people who embody the rule that communists can control an organization with five percent.
They always speak through pseudo-moralism.
They never speak of making Japan richer, stronger, or more vibrant—of making their own country prosperous and powerful.
They continue anti-nuclear reporting and cling to a constitution imposed by the GHQ—one that can fairly be described as designed to permanently weaken Japan.
Who is pleased to keep in place a constitution that forbids possessing a military for self-defense, something every other nation in the world maintains?
It is China, a state ruled by the evil of one-party communist dictatorship, and
South Korea—founded by Syngman Rhee, who seized Japanese fishermen, killed, detained, and robbed them, stole Takeshima, and indoctrinated his people daily with false claims of ownership through anti-Japan education.
For seventy years after the war, these anti-Japan states—South Korea and North Korea—have continued such practices.
There are no others like them.
Yet NHK and the Asahi Shimbun continue to create public opinion opposing constitutional revision.
What does this signify?
People of Japan must not continue to passively watch NHK and subscribe to newspapers like the Asahi Shimbun.
If you truly wish—for your children and grandchildren—to make Japan a nation that is prosperous, strong, and just, and that will lead the world for another 170 years, then you must realize this.
What you have been doing until now has been the exact opposite: making Japan a country that obeys China and the Korean Peninsula.
Far from leading the world, you have been helping create a Japan trampled by the evils of two of the worst nations in history.
In other words, what you have been doing is serving as agents of China and the Korean Peninsula.
And not for free, but while more than ten trillion yen in the Japanese people’s taxes have been extracted and siphoned off to China and South Korea.
There is no greater folly, no greater stupidity, anywhere in the world.
As former Asahi Shimbun reporter Atsushi Yamada—one of those responsible for the immense damage inflicted on Japan, when U.S. GDP was 750 trillion yen and Japan’s 550 trillion yen, and today the U.S. is four times larger while Japan has barely recovered—might say,
those taxes have continued to be handed over to two abnormal anti-Japan states—China and the Korean Peninsula.
It would not be an exaggeration at all to say that the taxes of the Japanese people have been handed over through the Asahi Shimbun and those who align with it, the so-called scholars, cultural figures, human-rights lawyers, and NHK.
Who has done such foolish things?
You have.
No one other than those of you who have continued to watch NHK and subscribe only to newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun.
In other words, you have been completely ruled by a mere five percent of people.
Even though it became decisively clear five years ago who those five percent are,
you continue even now to be indoctrinated by those who sympathize with them.