A piece written on July 3, 2019.
This essay sharply criticizes NHK’s reporting, especially the posture of Arima and Kuwako, as well as members of Keizai Doyukai who echoed the same line, and exposes what the author sees as the decay of Japan’s public discourse over the Korea issue.
By introducing the sanctions against South Korea predicted by JoongAng Ilbo, it highlights facts that Asahi Shimbun and NHK would never convey, the damage Japan has continued to suffer in the postwar era, and the hypocrisy of Japan’s media figures and intellectuals who still pander to South Korea.

2019-07-03
Arima and Kuwako, who in fact are among the most vicious obstructers of democracy, receive some of the highest salaries in Japan… Are we to believe that they did not even know the facts stated in this chapter?
This was a chapter I posted on 2019-03-18 under the title, The Sanctions Against South Korea Predicted by South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo.
*The portions between the asterisks are from today.
Those who control NHK’s news division, and who, in the most underhanded way imaginable in order to evade the Broadcasting Act, arrogate to themselves titles such as “caster,” and who, unbelievably, continue to make condescending comments toward Prime Minister Abe and President Trump… Arima and Kuwako, who in fact most viciously obstruct democracy, receive some of the highest salaries in Japan… and though they are NHK employees given mountains of airtime,
are we to believe that they did not even know the facts in this chapter, facts that even I, unpaid and uncompensated, know?
At the same time, the man from Keizai Doyukai who was making comments in agreement with them was a nue, a man who is the very embodiment of a traitor to his country.
That such a person has been going around saying, as it were, “I represent Keizai Doyukai,” is itself the very decadence of postwar Japan.
That man, though being such a complete fool that he cannot even see the fact that postwar Japan has continued to suffer outrages from South Korea and North Korea, and through their “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies” has had the assets it left on the Korean Peninsula stolen for nothing, while also being forced to pay enormous sums through traitorous lawyers such as Mizuho Fukushima and traitorous politicians such as Kiyomi Tsujimoto, nevertheless struts about thinking he is an important figure in Keizai Doyukai.
He was demonstrating how mere examination elites have harmed the nation.
And moreover, the object of the deference shown by NHK and those men is South Korea, which is precisely the kind of thing that leaves one too appalled for words.
Because they pose as pseudo-moralists, it is no exaggeration to say that they are worse than “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
As early as March, South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo had, naturally enough, predicted Japan’s response.
How malicious last night’s NHK reporting was… siding with South Korea’s “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” they treated Japan’s entirely natural response… still far too lenient… as though it were somehow wrong.
As for the Asahi Shimbun, first of all, full-page ads must be placed in all major South Korean newspapers informing them that the comfort women reporting was fabricated reporting.
That is because neither the Japanese government nor the Japanese people have yet done a single thing, not even suspending the Asahi Shimbun, let alone forcing it to compensate for the astronomical damage it inflicted on Japan.
Another blog I found on goo also tells facts that newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun and NHK never, under any circumstances, convey.
The Sanctions Against South Korea Predicted by South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo.
2019-03-14 23:01:52 | Japan-Korea Issues.
■ On the 12th, JoongAng Ilbo (Japanese edition), in an article titled “Mood in Japan’s Business Circles: If Seized Assets Are Sold, Withdraw Korean Branches,” specifically predicted the following Japanese sanctions.
(1) Bringing the case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
(2) Tightening measures including suspension of entry visas for Koreans.
(3) Additional tariffs on Korean products.
(4) Suspension of remittances.
(5) Export controls such as excluding South Korea from the application of trade insurance.
(6) Refusal of South Korea’s application to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
(7) Seizure of the assets of Korean companies within Japan.
(8) Suspension of the provision of parts and materials from Japan, such as hydrogen fluoride.
(9) Recall of Yasumasa Nagamine, Japan’s ambassador to South Korea.
(10) Severance of diplomatic relations.
…Up to here.
Both Koreans and Japanese are pessimistic on this point.
Koreans fear that those sanctions may actually be carried out, while Japanese fear that not even one of them will actually be implemented.
On the Korean side, there is a strong line of argument that if South Korea loses something, Japan will lose something of equal value as well, and therefore Japan cannot go through with sanctions, but in reality, while Japan may not have absolutely nothing to lose, what it stands to gain is far greater.
Those who would be directly hurt are the companies doing business with South Korea, but once they became involved with that country, that became a matter of their own responsibility.
If they dislike it, they should withdraw quickly.
Companies that have maintained ties with South Korea for the sake of profit have in many respects been hindering Japan.
The government must take care that the Tokyo Olympics do not become a stage for anti-Japan activity by Koreans.
Specifically, measures such as refusing entry to Professor Seo Kyoung-duk, who is trying to bring the rising sun flag issue into the Olympics.
Even merely declaring that this one thing will be done would have ripple effects.
Professor Seo is a man who, even overseas, has smeared the Rising Sun Flag with the unjust stigma of being a war-criminal flag and makes a living from anti-Japan business.
Refusing him entry is only natural.
To be continued.
Like me, most Japanese citizens should be learning of this man and his activities for the first time.