An essay dated June 13, 2019.
Focusing on Asahi Shimbun’s coverage of the 2003 Fukuoka family-of-four murders, this piece uses Masayuki Takayama’s argument to sharply question crime reporting, perceptions of China, and the responsibility of the press.
It fundamentally reexamines what reporting should mean when warning Japanese people of danger.

2019-06-13
That is wrong.
To write that “Shina people are cruel” is not anti-Shina rhetoric, but correct news that informs Japanese people where danger lies.
Shina is still a dangerous place for Japanese people, whether to associate with or to travel to.

This is a chapter I published on 2018-07-15 under the title, In the 2003 Fukuoka family-of-four murders, three Shina exchange students subjected the 40-year-old mother to lingchi in order to decide who would kill the eight-year-old eldest daughter.
What follows is a continuation from Masayuki Takayama’s latest book, and all Japanese citizens who are able to read printed text should head at once to the nearest bookstore to buy it.
If you read Asahi, even your life is in danger.
Their cruelty has not changed either.
In the 2003 Fukuoka family-of-four murders, three Shina exchange students subjected the 40-year-old mother to lingchi in order to decide who would kill the eight-year-old eldest daughter.
It was a cruel punishment in which they took turns slicing flesh off with a knife, and the man who caused her to die during his turn killed the eldest daughter as punishment.
Yet Asahi at the time kept defending such cruel men by saying, “Their families were wealthy and they had received a good education,” and “It was only a momentary impulse.”
Because, the editorial said, “anti-Shina arguments only stimulate their nationalism and rebound against us,” so such writing should stop.
That is wrong.
To write that “Shina people are cruel” is not anti-Shina rhetoric, but correct news that informs Japanese people where danger lies.
Shina is still a dangerous place for Japanese people, whether to associate with or to travel to.
If you read an unrepentant Asahi, even your life will be put at risk. (February 2015 issue)