This article republishes a passage originally posted on October 5, 2015.
It sharply criticizes the line taken by TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station over the TPP agreement, and denounces the broader reporting stance of TV Asahi and the Asahi Shimbun as one that has continually harmed Japan’s national interests.
While attacking the TPP in the name of protecting Japan’s rural landscape, these media figures turned a blind eye to the destruction of that very landscape by solar panels and wind turbines.
The essay also places the TPP agreement within the wider international reality surrounding China.

2019-04-21
In the line of argument that the TPP would destroy Japan’s rural landscape, that Kimura Sota, who seemed to be nothing more than a model entrance-exam student, and the host Furudate….
Again and again….
Kept blurting out….
“The landscape will be destroyed.”

The following is a passage I posted on October 5, 2015.
Among those who watched NHK’s 9 p.m. news last night, and then watched TV Asahi’s Hōdō Station, any people still capable of thought….
Surely TV Asahi knows that, for people of our generation, it no longer has any excuse left whatsoever.
They put on commentators who can only be described as youngsters….
Like mere pages….
Whose essential nature is that all of them are nothing but flatterers who distort scholarship to curry favor….
These people styling themselves young scholars….
And with regard to the security bills, they called them “war bills”….
A label first attached by the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party, and then led and agitated by the Asahi and the Mainichi….
Without even noticing how truly foolish and childish the whole spectacle was….
In other words, they had begun scheming to brainwash young people lacking study and ability.
Everyone other than those already brainwashed by this scheme….
Everyone sane….
Everyone looking straight at reality….
Must have been utterly appalled.

NHK wholeheartedly celebrated Professor Ōmura’s Nobel Prize award and devoted most of its time to reporting that the TPP had reached an agreement.
TV Asahi, on the other hand, treated the Nobel Prize award merely as an afterthought….
Its main focus was on nitpicking the TPP….
That is, on nitpicking the Abe administration….
And its childishness, and therefore its malice, had become something no longer tolerable.
The Asahi Shimbun had once been a leading advocate of both the consumption tax increase and the promotion of the TPP….
But now, opposing the Abe administration in all things had apparently become its corporate creed.
Yet the malice on display was excessive.
Under the line that the TPP would destroy Japan’s rural landscape, that Kimura Sota, who looked like nothing more than an exam-smart honor student, and the host Furudate….
Again and again….
Kept blurting out….
“The landscape will be destroyed.”

Japan and the Japanese people must not continue, under present conditions, to allow a television station this childish and malicious….
A station that seems to make it its highest mission always to diminish Japan’s national interests and national strength, and to belittle Japan….
To go on using the public airwaves and enjoying press privileges, or to continue enjoying reductions in fixed-asset taxes on its headquarters building and reductions in the consumption tax.
If they truly claim to want to protect Japan’s rural scenery, then they should immediately stop their absolute opposition to nuclear power.
It is they who spread solar power panels across the countryside, utterly transforming the rural landscape….
And wind power turbines….
Take, for example, Wakayama Prefecture, whose economic power may be weaker than that of the Kansai urban core, but whose very asset is its natural beauty….
Anyone who has taken the train to resort areas such as Shirahama must have seen it.
Into Japan’s mountain ranges, which have existed since time immemorial, there suddenly appear ugly wind turbines.
I….
Faced with such a sight….
Stopped looking out the train window.

Using 3.11 for the expansion of their own business….
Taking advantage of the fact that the prime minister of the time….
Was a man for whom clinging to power seemed to be the only policy….
They suddenly began their absolute opposition to nuclear power….
Declaring that Japan’s nuclear plants were no good….
A truly laughable and malicious scheme….
And because they were childish and malicious pseudo-moralists….
So easily….
They were manipulated by them….
And who was it that covered rural landscapes all over Japan with Chinese-made and Korean-made solar panels, thereby destroying the scenery?

Asahi Shimbun, TV Asahi, Furudate — you really ought to stop this nonsense.
Everyone other than pseudo-moralists like you….
All the peoples of the world….
Who live reality seriously….
And who love freedom and peace….
Have all awakened to the true nature of China.
That is precisely why the TPP negotiations, whose conflicting interests had made them so extraordinarily difficult, were able to reach agreement this time.
This TPP agreement was also a declaration to the world by such nations….
That they would not side with the fascism of one-party Communist dictatorship such as China’s.
The only countries that would not welcome this agreement are probably China and South Korea.
In other words, here too, the correctness of my arguments has been proven.
It proves the correctness of what I have said, that newspapers such as the Asahi and the Mainichi are already media institutions manipulated by them.

Japan and the Japanese people….
Must not continue granting them, as before….
The right to monopolize the news.
On the contrary, they must be dismantled immediately.
For in the China or South Korea to which they are sympathetic….
They would long since have been punished severely for crimes such as treason or subversion against the state.