An essay dated June 11, 2019.
This piece criticizes NHK’s excessive staging in its coverage of Nadeshiko Japan and the infantilization of Japanese television, while also sharply discussing the Aegis Ashore deployment issue, protest activity in Akita, the lack of patriotism, and the anti-government posture of the media.
It exposes the shared pathology of Japanese media across both sports coverage and national security reporting.

2019-06-11
Last night, truly exasperatingly and entirely needlessly, I stayed up until 2 a.m.… naturally, today I am sleep-deprived.
Nadeshiko Japan, Nadeshiko Japan, NHK kept going on and on about it.

Proof of the infantilization of Japanese television…
Last night, truly exasperatingly and entirely needlessly, I stayed up until 2 a.m.… naturally, today I am sleep-deprived.
It was because NHK kept broadcasting Nadeshiko Japan, Nadeshiko Japan, and what is more, began broadcasting a full hour before kickoff, so that I was made to think the match would start at any moment and watched because of that illusion.
As my readers know, I have spoken about physiognomy, and everything I have said about it has proved right.
Unfortunately… the manager of Nadeshiko Japan does not, by any means, have the face of someone with the capacity to become number one in the world…
On top of that there was strategy and tactics too poor to watch, and one careless pass mistake after another… throughout the first half that I watched, what I saw again and again was that they entirely failed to notice the perfect timing to pass to Nakajima on the right side, who, among last night’s members, alone seemed to possess the air of being able to break the goal, and instead kept repeating attacks only down the left side… the player on the left side is one whom the mass media have been praising, but to me she in no way looked like a player with the capacity to fight through a World Cup in which the players are carrying the nation on their backs.
I judged that continuing to watch any more would be outrageous, and so I went to bed at halftime, but it was already 2 a.m.
Now, while watching NHK’s Ohayō Nippon, which I rarely ever watch, I was made to confirm from the morning onward that this broadcasting station is exactly as I wrote above, and it was the final dispiriting blow.
Aegis Ashore, which is to defend the Japanese archipelago… that is, to defend Japan and the Japanese people… and those people in Akita Prefecture who are no different from activists, people who do not even understand that Japan’s neighboring states are the only two anti-Japan states in the world, China and the Korean Peninsula… and to the old man who fell asleep during the explanatory meeting, a young man with a build wasted on being in such a meeting,
In last night’s news they did not, naturally, air this man’s shouting voice, but… those tax-stealing bastards who control NHK, whom it is no exaggeration to call traitors and enemies of the nation… perhaps decided that this would not serve as an attack on the government ahead of the coming House of Councillors election, and so perhaps received orders from the likes of Tsujimoto of the Constitutional Democratic Party to broadcast it…
NHK broadcast again and again, at great volume, as though it were a righteous argument, the unbearable shouts and abusive language of “Our very lives are at stake,” directed at a man as old as his own father.
As a fellow Tohoku native, I truly felt nauseated by these Akita people.
Leave such people alone and bring Aegis Ashore to Osaka… those Akita people and those living in Tokyo who control NHK’s news division must want to become prey for the ballistic missiles of North Korea and China…
That is what I thought… but then Japan as a whole could not be covered, and with Yamaguchi and Osaka only western Japan could be defended.
I truly feel nauseated by those Akita people and by the people who control NHK’s news division.
Do you people not possess even the smallest fragment of patriotism?
What kind of education must one receive and grow up under to become such a person…
There is no doubt that it is one of the world’s strangest spectacles.