This essay criticizes the postwar structure of anti-Japan discourse shaped continuously by the Asahi Shimbun, including the narrative of the Emperor’s war responsibility and a masochistic view of history, while treating figures such as Alexis Dudden, the Korean press, the Okinawan press, TBS, and NGOs as part of the same problem.
By portraying newspapers as ideological devices that drove war and exposing the realities of broadcasters and universities engaged in information manipulation, it sharply denounces the structure of discourse control covering Japanese society.

2019-06-16
The fact that the Asahi Shimbun has continued to write that the Emperor bears responsibility for the war admits of no room for debate when one looks at the existence of Yayori Matsui, at the Korean press which can without exaggeration be called the child of the Asahi Shimbun, or at the Okinawan press.

This is a chapter I posted on 2016-06-29 under the title, “Broadcasting station names should be licensed on the sole condition that, as above, they state their true nature.”
The following is an essay I posted on October 16, 2015 under the title, “In other words, their actual nature should be made public so that they will no longer be able to commit the evil of information manipulation.”
So then.
In order further to expand their freedom of speech as well, the Government of Japan and the people of Japan should immediately dismantle the present oligopolistic state, and first gather together the resident Koreans in Japan and Koreans who have entered the various broadcasting stations, newspaper companies, and universities, and let them create broadcasting stations, newspaper companies, and universities.
For example, a station name could be, “A broadcasting station run by resident Koreans in Japan which criticizes Japan in accordance with the national strategy of Korea.”
This could be translated into English and the initials taken as the station’s name.
The same would apply to newspaper companies and universities.
In other words, their actual nature should be made public so that they will no longer be able to commit the evil of information manipulation.
They too need only go on speaking and broadcasting their opinions twenty-four hours a day, so there is no greater freedom of speech than that.
However, the sole condition for licensing should be, as stated above, that they properly state their true nature in their name.
This is a chapter I posted on 2016-06-29 under the title, “People in every field and every class throughout Japan were reading newspapers headed by the Asahi Shimbun.”
The following is an essay I posted on 2016-05-27 under the title, “People in every field and every class throughout Japan were reading newspapers headed by the Asahi Shimbun.”
The other day, in a chapter titled after the Teizan Canal of my hometown, I wrote about war.
At that time, I had again arrived at a conception for the first time in the world.
I wrote that the twentieth century was the century of war.
I pointed out that what brought about the wars of the twentieth century was Western colonialism and the competition for acquiring colonies.
However, in Japan people have been dyed in an entirely different historical view created by the Asahi Shimbun Company, a historical view that is in fact utterly absurd.
In other words, Japanese military men began the war.
And since the Emperor was taken to be the source of those military men, the fact that the Asahi Shimbun has continued to write that the Emperor bears responsibility for the war admits of no room for debate when one looks at the existence of Yayori Matsui, at the Korean press which can without exaggeration be called the child of the Asahi Shimbun, at the Okinawan press, and at overseas readers beginning with Alexis Dudden.
All those, including myself, who for many years subscribed to the Asahi Shimbun must have thought in exactly that way.
But would military men really think of starting a war?
To begin a war, one must have, so to speak, an ideology.
I declare for the first time in the world, in complete opposition to common opinion, that military men do not begin wars.
It was the Asahi Shimbun that made the military begin the war.
Before the war, there was of course no internet, and there was not even television.
What did exist?
Needless to say, there were only newspapers.
As an adjunct to them, radio probably existed in much the same position as today.
People in every field and every class throughout Japan were reading newspapers headed by the Asahi Shimbun.
It is impossible that all military men were reading ideological books for the purpose of beginning a war.
Almost everyone read newspapers.
They may also have listened to the radio.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that their ideology was the newspaper.
In other words, it was the newspapers that made the military wage war.
Yes, that fact, to which no one had ever before referred,
flashed into my mind, a mind bestowed on me by God for that very purpose.

This is a chapter I posted on 2016-06-29 under the title, “That Alexis Dudden is a person who possesses an abnormal anti-Japan ideology beyond the level I have criticized several times.”
The following is an article I posted on February 24, 2016 under the title, “That Alexis Dudden is a person who possesses an abnormal anti-Japan ideology beyond the level I have criticized several times.”
In this chapter, it is being made clear to the Japanese people and, as a result of my continuing to do such work without compensation, and with Voice gaining name recognition in Japan day by day, and though for the world only through my clumsy translations, to people throughout the world, that Alexis Dudden is a person who possesses an abnormal anti-Japan ideology beyond the level I have criticized several times.
The emphasis in the text other than the heading is mine.
An American scholar involved in denouncing the comfort women issue.
What is even more bizarre is that on the American side it is Alexis Dudden, long known as an activist in denouncing Japan over the comfort women issue, who is making this call for solidarity with Korea and China.
Professor Dudden of the University of Connecticut, a female scholar specializing in the history of Japan and the Korean Peninsula, is even playing a kind of self-styled role as America’s representative in this Article 9 campaign.
The hidden maneuvering of this person may be said to symbolize the characteristics of the current domestic movement in Japan concerning the Constitution, as well as the international spread of that movement.
Moreover, Dudden’s involvement has become another major darkness surrounding this Article 9 Nobel Prize movement.
Dudden’s history of anti-Japan activism is extraordinary.
Moreover, she is in extremely close contact with both the official and private sectors of Korea.
For more than twenty years she has denounced Japan on the basis of the fiction that “200,000 women were sexually enslaved through forced Japanese military mobilization.”
At the so-called Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal held in Tokyo in 2000 to pursue the comfort women issue, Dudden also played a central role and drew out a mock verdict finding Emperor Showa guilty.
In the 2007 vote on the resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives condemning Japan over the comfort women issue, she consistently served as a backstage driving force.
Last year as well, it was Dudden who played the leading role in drafting and circulating the protest letter from numerous Western scholars to the Abe administration concerning historical recognition.
Dudden has also advised senior South Korean government officials on policy toward the United States and Japan.
President Park Geun-hye also thought highly of her, and even quoted Dudden’s words condemning Japan in a major speech.
In 2015 she received the Peace Prize of the Manhae Grand Prize, commemorating the Korean independence activist Han Yong-un.
The stated reason was that she had “protested Prime Minister Abe’s distortion of history,” and upon receiving the award Dudden said that “Japan’s reflection on heinous human-rights crimes is the first step toward improving Japan-Korea relations.”
That same Dudden has repeatedly called in various American media on both China and Korea to recommend Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The appeal is for signatures to prevent “Japan’s government’s advance toward war with China through constitutional revision” and “Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s militarization.”
However, Dudden is calling on the Chinese and Korean sides to recommend Japan’s “Article 9 Association” and the “Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations” as the candidates for the prize.
She is likely calculating that this will proceed more smoothly than making “the Japanese people” as a whole the candidate.
The following is an essay I posted on July 22, 2015 under the title, “Last night’s TBS News 23 was truly awful as well.”
Last night’s TBS News 23 was truly awful as well.
Until recently I had written that Japan had continued to provide massive economic aid to China in the form of ODA.
China, in order to secure resources, has in recent years continued to provide the world’s largest economic aid to Africa.
I wrote of my concern that funds from Japan may have been used there wholesale and unchanged.
Japan is the country where “The Turntable of Civilization” turned, and, as readers know, this is not arbitrary at all but part of God’s providence.
It is only natural that Japan, a country that must lead the world together with the United States, should provide economic assistance to Africa.
As you know, among recent prime ministers, Prime Minister Abe, the most genuine politician, has also begun in earnest to resume economic assistance to Africa.
China and Korea, which persistently conduct anti-Japan propaganda, surely do not welcome this.
Anti-Japan propaganda is also carried out as a movement to reduce Japan’s international value.
The Japanese government decided on ODA for large-scale agricultural development in Mozambique.
It is impossible that in virtually any development project all parties concerned would be one hundred percent satisfied.
Last night’s News 23 reported that one farmer in the relevant area opposed ODA from Japan because of anxiety that his land might be taken away.
It said that an NGO had borne all the expense of bringing this farmer to Japan, made him state his opposition to the Japanese government, and had him featured prominently on News 23.
There certainly seems to exist an NGO flush with funds, but there was absolutely no explanation of what kind of organization that NGO was.
In other words, it was a so-called civic group.
Is that not a truly chilling story?
Incidentally, when I was examining the circulation figures of the Sankei Shimbun and the Asahi Shimbun, I was surprised to learn that the Mainichi Shimbun had more than three million subscribers.
That was because I had thought that the Mainichi Shimbun had in substance been finished long ago.
In other words, the influence of the Mainichi Shimbun on public opinion cannot be underestimated, and TBS possesses a far greater power than Mainichi in shaping public opinion in Japan.
Is that not a truly frightening matter?
Even so, what other television station or mass media in the world, especially among the advanced countries, could there possibly be
that would so cheerfully report nothing but things that demean its own country?