For Whom Does NHK Really Broadcast?The Disturbing Bias Revealed in Its Anti-Japan and Okinawa Coverage.
This passage sharply criticizes NHK’s news and documentary programming, arguing that it repeatedly presents content that seems aligned not with the interests of the Japanese people but with those of China and the Korean Peninsula.
Focusing in particular on its treatment of the Okinawa base issue and a documentary related to Unit 731, the author denounces what he sees as NHK’s double standards and anti-Japan posture, especially when compared with its handling of the GHQ-imposed Constitution and U.S. military materials.
The piece further expresses the view that Japanese public intellectuals and commentators should be the ones to confront and cut down NHK’s entrenched bias.
2019-03-05
Since Jiro Yamaguchi is a patriot of Japan who is paid as much as 600 million yen in tax money every year, he ought to “cut down” NHK employees such as those mentioned above, who are truly little better than traitors and enemies of the nation.
NHK is, in effect, Japan’s state broadcaster, and yet it is a broadcasting organization in which people who can, without the slightest exaggeration, be described as proxies for China and the Korean Peninsula are producing documentary specials and news programs such as Watch 9 as directors and producers.
It is no exaggeration at all to say that it is a broadcaster which, while receiving the highest average salaries in Japan through the people’s tax money, uses Japan’s airwaves to produce anti-Japan programs and anti-Japan reporting, that is, programs in line with the wishes of China and the Korean Peninsula, which aim at the division of Japan itself.
I no longer watch Watch 9 from the beginning now.
That is because it makes me sick to my stomach if I watch it.
Even when I do watch it, I limit myself to the weather forecast and sports news.
Last night, unfortunately, the moment I turned the channel, one of their suspicious films about Okinawa Prefecture was on.
They were saying that the people of Okinawa had supported the Henoko relocation and the like only because they had been guided by the U.S. military, and as usual they brought on a man called a professor from Okinawa International University, someone no one among the Japanese people knows, one of NHK’s usual favorites, and had him say exactly what those people at the top intended him to say.
I felt sick to my stomach, turned off the sound, and concentrated on my work.
In that truly laughable documentary special related to Unit 731 the other day, NHK produced a program that degraded Japan and the Japanese by claiming that tapes had been found of the Soviets interrogating Japanese soldiers while deceiving one hundred thousand Japanese troops into slave labor in the freezing cold of Siberia, and that these tapes constituted historical truth proving that the Japanese military had been the villains, without even bothering to question Soviet intentions.
And this from NHK, which never says that the Constitution of Japan was a constitution forced upon Japan by GHQ, a constitution created by GHQ and handed to Japan in order to weaken Japan permanently and make it a country that could never again stand up to white people.
And this from NHK, which would never even concede, even by a hundred steps, that it was a constitution created under inducement and therefore had to be revised.
Yet when it comes to military bases in Okinawa, NHK openly reveals its anti-Americanism and, without treating tapes held by the U.S. military as truth at all, goes on and on broadcasting them as tapes created in accordance with the intentions of the U.S. military, ignoring the will of the Okinawan people.
All discerning people throughout Japan must surely have felt nauseated.
While having dinner with a friend, I was thinking about this.
Since Jiro Yamaguchi is a patriot of Japan who is paid as much as 600 million yen in tax money every year, he ought to “cut down” NHK employees such as those mentioned above, who are truly little better than traitors and enemies of the nation, I thought.
And while thinking such things and looking at goo’s top 10 search rankings, what a coincidence it was, the next chapter had appeared in first place.
