Hiroshi Sekiguchi and the Sekiguchi Clique Surrounding “Sunday Morning.”—The Inner Circle Structure Sustaining an Anti-Japan Biased Program and Its Abnormality—
Written on June 25, 2019, this passage is a sharp critique of the biased nature of TBS’s Sunday Morning and the actual structure behind its cast of commentators.
By examining the close ties between Hiroshi Sekiguchi’s company Sankei and the program’s regular contributors, it reveals how political agitation and anti-Japan narratives have been fostered through the use of public airwaves.
2019-06-25
I dedicate this to David Kaye, the worst man in history, who bears the title of UN Special Rapporteur, and to the United Nations, the worst organization in history, which employs such a man.
This is a chapter I published on 2018-06-05 under the title, Many of the commentators appearing on Sanmoni are in fact affiliated with or contracted to this company.
I dedicate this chapter to David Kaye, the worst man in history, who bears the title of UN Special Rapporteur while serving as an agent for China and the Korean Peninsula, lands of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” and to the United Nations, the worst organization in history, which employs such a man.
The fact that, this time, South Korea, without making a single proper response to Japan’s formal protest over the wartime labor ruling, is saying things like “We will appeal to the United Nations…” alone proves how they have continued to exploit the organization called the United Nations for their “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
In this chapter as well, all Japanese citizens who do not watch Sekiguchi’s Sanmoni should be astonished and appalled.
Conversely, they should shudder at the fact that mass media producing such a program monopolize the public airwaves, and that there are people who watch them believing their broadcasts to be correct.
All emphasis in the text, except for the heading, is mine.
The program’s performers are the Sekiguchi clique.
The abnormality of Sanmoni can also be seen from its attacks on the Abe administration.
On the May 13 broadcast this year, concerning the “Kake suspicion,” for which Prime Minister Abe was being criticized by the opposition parties, Mr. Sekiguchi stated, “I think ordinary people already more or less understand what happened, but nothing resembling evidence has come out, so nothing moves.”
To condemn others unilaterally without evidence is an attitude unworthy of a broadcaster in a state governed by law.
There are also very many anti-Japan leftists being incited by Mr. Sekiguchi.
If one observes Twitter, one sees messages being diligently scattered such as, “Hiroshi Sekiguchi is saying, ‘ordinary people more or less understand,’ so netouyo are outside the pale,” messages that treat people as less than human.
I once wrote the following article.
“‘Idiots.’ There is a television program that says this to Japanese citizens who stopped and answered their pushy street interviews. ‘Japan should withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics.’ There is a television program that, over the public airwaves, foams at the mouth in propaganda against the Japanese people rejoicing at the successful Olympic bid. ‘Japan’s rocket will become garbage.’ There is a television station that mocks the people who are exhilarated by a successful launch.”
Is not Sanmoni precisely a program symbolizing such a television station?
The only people who describe it as a “news program” or “mass media” are those who hold the same abnormal way of looking at things as Mr. Sekiguchi.
“Hiroshi Sekiguchi and his unpleasant companions” have, since the start of the broadcast in 1987, done nothing but ignore, and at times even support, the massacres and dictatorships of China and North Korea, while hurling abuse such as “Japanese democracy is over” and “Abe’s dictatorial politics.”
And most of the regular guest commentators, not in a figurative sense but literally, may be said to be connected with the company whose chairman is the host, Mr. Sekiguchi.
Mr. Sekiguchi runs Sankei Co., Ltd. (capital: 10 million yen, headquarters in Minami-Aoyama, Minato Ward, Tokyo), whose main business is “talent management, television program planning and production, etc.,” and many of the commentators appearing on Sanmoni are in fact affiliated with or contracted to this company.
If one extends the range to female assistants and female reporters, the number increases even further.
One could even view it as not merely a majority of the performers, but nearly all of them being under the influence of Chairman Sekiguchi.
In other words, the production of Sanmoni has been outsourced wholesale to Sekiguchi’s office, enriching him and his companions.
By the way, one of the characteristics of Sanmoni is its criticism of hereditary politicians.
On the broadcast of April 26, 2009, Mr. Sekiguchi, with sarcastic envy, remarked, “Prime ministers have all been hereditary for so long,” and “It must be a very good profession,” but Mr. Sekiguchi’s own father was the actor Shūji Sano, and the two even co-starred in Mr. Sekiguchi’s drama debut, Ojōsan Kanpai.
Not only that, his son, Tomohiro Sekiguchi, is also an actor and an employee of Mr. Sekiguchi’s company.
Being an actor really is “a very good profession,” isn’t it.
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