Although NHK is effectively Japan’s public broadcaster, it has repeatedly produced programs on Okinawa base issues and historical subjects that appear strikingly one-sided and politically driven.
In cases involving Soviet-era materials or tapes held by the U.S. military concerning Okinawa, NHK has, in the author’s view, applied selective skepticism while repeatedly framing Japan in a negative light along ideological lines.
This article examines NHK’s double standards and anti-Japan tendencies through its Okinawa coverage and its documentary on Unit 731.

2019-03-07
When it comes to military bases in Okinawa Prefecture, NHK openly reveals its anti-American stance, refuses entirely to treat tapes held by the U.S. military as truthful materials, ignores the will of the Okinawan people, and goes on broadcasting at length that those tapes were created in accordance with U.S. intentions.

NHK is, in substance, Japan’s state broadcaster, and yet it is no exaggeration to say that people who could well be described as proxies for China and the Korean Peninsula are producing documentary specials and news programs such as watch9 as directors and producers.
It is no exaggeration to call it a broadcasting organization whose employees receive the highest average salaries in Japan with the people’s money, use Japan’s airwaves to produce anti-Japan programs and anti-Japan reporting, and create programs exactly in line with the wishes of China and the Korean Peninsula, which seek the division of Japan.

I no longer watch watch9 from the beginning.
That is because it makes me sick to my stomach.
Even when I do watch it, I limit myself to the weather forecast and sports news.

Last night, unfortunately, the moment I changed the channel, I came across one of their dubious films about Okinawa Prefecture.
They were saying that the people had supported the Henoko relocation and similar measures only because they had been guided by the U.S. military, and as usual they brought on a man introduced as a professor at Okinawa International University, someone no Japanese citizen knows, and had him say exactly what those people at the beginning intended him to say.

*Keywords such as “the oppressed side” or “the weak” are stock phrases used as excuses when the media departs from the principle of neutral and fair reporting.
From the Okinawa War special, “That Day, We Were on the Battlefield — A Boy Soldier’s Confession,” produced by NHK director Ima Rio of the Shibakitai faction.
*

I felt sick to my stomach, turned off the sound, and concentrated on my work.

In the recent documentary special related to Unit 731, which was truly laughable.
A tape was found of Soviet interrogations of Japanese soldiers, conducted while the Soviets were deceiving one hundred thousand Japanese troops and forcing them into slave labor in the freezing cold of Siberia.
NHK produced a program degrading Japan and the Japanese, presenting it as historical truth proving that the Japanese military had been the villain, without even questioning Soviet intentions.

NHK, which never says that the Constitution of Japan was a constitution imposed by GHQ.
That it was a constitution created by GHQ and given to Japan in order to weaken Japan permanently and make it a country that could never again stand up to white people.

NHK, which would never even say, even conceding a hundred steps, that it was at least a constitution produced through inducement and therefore must be revised.

And yet when it comes to military bases in Okinawa Prefecture, it openly reveals its anti-American stance, refuses entirely to treat tapes held by the U.S. military as truthful materials, ignores the will of the Okinawan people, and goes on broadcasting at length that those tapes were created in accordance with U.S. intentions.

All discerning people throughout Japan must have felt like vomiting.

While having dinner with a friend, I was thinking.
Yamaguchi Jirō has received as much as 600 million yen in taxpayers’ money every year in research grants.
Since he is supposedly a patriot of Japan.
He ought to “cut down” those NHK employees who are, in effect, no different from traitors and enemies of the nation, like those described above.

While thinking such things and looking at goo’s top ten search rankings, what a coincidence it was, the next chapter appeared in first place.