Using Nippon TV’s footage from North Korea as a point of departure, this essay criticizes what it sees as the deception of Japanese television news, which presents sparse and staged scenes as evidence of lively civilian life.
It also touches on the broader distortions shared by NHK and commercial broadcasters in reporting on China and North Korea, as well as the manipulative tendencies seen in coverage of historical issues and Korean dramas, in order to denounce what it regards as an anti-Japan structure embedded in Japan’s broadcasting world.

2019-04-07
Both scenes were astonishingly deserted, and yet, despite the fact that it is common sense even at the level of an elementary school child that the people shown on screen are personnel connected to the state intelligence apparatus, they commented that there were many ordinary citizens there and that the place was lively.
I was watching Going Sports & News on Nippon TV, or Yomiuri TV.
And I was appalled when I watched the news segment in between.
Claiming that they had entered North Korea for reporting, they broadcast footage of a subway and of a leisure pool facility.
Both were astonishingly deserted scenes.
And yet, despite the fact that it is common sense even at the level of an elementary school child that the people shown on screen are personnel connected to the state intelligence apparatus.
They commented that there were many citizens there and that it was bustling.
Come to think of it, this Nippon TV has, more than once in the past, broadcast strange programs late at night after midnight.
Programs no less outrageous than the many documentary programs produced and broadcast by the left-wing infantilists entrenched at NHK, who live off the taxes of the Japanese people.
Programs that treated as though the Nanjing Massacre had actually existed.
That aired dubious film footage which China and its agents inside Japan had long proclaimed to be evidence, accompanied by plausible-sounding narration.
I happened to see one of them.
Now that I once read on the internet an article by a TBS employee describing the true state of Japanese broadcasters.
I am convinced that agents of China and the Korean Peninsula are also lurking inside this Nippon TV.
And that with only five percent, they can dominate an organization they have penetrated.
That was exactly what the broadcast I saw a moment ago made me realize.
It was as bad as anything could be.
The way they brazenly aired such transparent lies exactly in accordance with North Korean propaganda.
Revealed the unbelievably traitorous reality of Japan’s television networks, which calmly broadcast Korean dramas filled to the brim with falsehood and fabrication.