Published on July 18, 2019.
This article organizes the content and production staff of NHK’s “Document: The Pacific War” and “400 Hours of Testimony by the Japanese Navy,” criticizing them as biased programs that demonized the Japanese military one-sidedly and avoided testimony that might have led to operational analysis or a reappraisal of the former Navy.
It particularly points out that “400 Hours of Testimony by the Japanese Navy,” despite being based on audio tapes of the Naval Reflection Meetings, seemed to obsessively dig up only negative remarks about war crimes rather than recollections and reflections on naval battles.

July 18, 2019.
It appears that NHK paid no attention to operational analysis that might have led to a reappraisal of the former Navy, and instead made the program by obsessively digging up only the negative remarks about such matters as war crimes.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
【Document: The Pacific War】 1992–93.
It omitted all the battles Japan won in the early stage of the Japan-U.S. war and featured only the losing battles in the latter half.
It was a kind of original program that thoroughly demonized and degraded the Japanese military, and it seems to have become the prototype for recently broadcast programs such as “Imphal” and “Nomonhan.”
At the end of the series, caster Yamamoto Hajime made remarks such as, “The day the war ended was the day the people were liberated from the military’s oppression,” “What crushed Japan’s military was the Soviet entry into the war and the atomic bombs. The fact that Japan cannot change without strong external pressure remains the same even now,” and “The Japanese have not properly reflected.”
＊All Japanese people should, for the first time, understand clearly from this man’s remarks that NHK is an organization completely under the operations of China and the Korean Peninsula.＊
Professor Koyama Kazunobu and others held a viewing session of this series for members of the Diet and tried to denounce NHK’s biased broadcasting in the Diet, but the reality is that Diet members, frightened by the strength of NHK’s influence in elections, are reluctant to move.
“Episode 1: The Achilles’ Heel of the Empire of Japan: The Pacific Sea-Lane Operation.”
Caster: Yamamoto Hajime.
Editing: Yoshioka Masaharu, Funaki Rie.
Composition: Shono Motoya.
Production: Nakata Seiichi, Hashimoto Yuji, Ogasawara Masao.
“Episode 2: Knowing Neither the Enemy nor Oneself: Guadalcanal.”
Editing: Yoshioka Masaharu, Funaki Rie.
Composition: Hashimoto Yuji, Taguchi Kyomi.
Production: Nakata Seiichi, Ogasawara Masao.
Note: It also mentions Nomonhan in connection with criticism of staff officer Tsuji Masanobu.
“Episode 3: Electronics Decide the War: Mariana and Saipan.”
Editing: Yoshioka Masaharu, Funaki Rie.
Composition: Minowa Takashi.
Production: Nakata Seiichi, Hashimoto Yuji, Ogasawara Masao.
“Episode 4: A Battlefield without Responsibility: Burma and Imphal.”
Editing: Yoshioka Masaharu, Funaki Rie.
Reporting: Minowa Takashi.
Researcher: Shin Rika.
Composition: Hayashi Shin.
Executive producers: Nakata Seiichi, Hashimoto Yuji, Ogasawara Masao.
Award: Galaxy Award Encouragement Prize.
Note: It also mentions the Indian National Army.
“Episode 5: The Trampled Southern Islands: Leyte and the Philippines.”
Editing: Editing: Yoshioka Masaharu, Funaki Rie.
Reporting: Shono Motoya.
Composition: Yamashita Nobuhisa.
Executive producers: Nakata Seiichi, Hashimoto Yuji, Ogasawara Masao.
Note: It also depicts the course by which, after the U.S. military victory, America effectively turned the Philippines into an economic colony.
“Episode 6: The Road to One Hundred Million Deaths: Japan-Soviet Efforts to End the War.”
Editing: Yoshioka Masaharu, Funaki Rie.
Reporting: Sato Chie.
Researcher: Yoshimi Naoto.
Composition: Tsutsumi Keisuke.
Executive producers: Nakata Seiichi, Hashimoto Yuji, Ogasawara Masao.
【400 Hours of Testimony by the Japanese Navy】 2009.
A three-part series produced based on the audio tapes of the “Naval Reflection Meetings,” in which former Navy servicemen gathered to discuss the causes of Japan’s defeat.
What is incomprehensible is that the recollections and reflections of former servicemen concerning numerous naval battles do not appear at all.
It appears that NHK paid no attention to operational analysis that might have led to a reappraisal of the former Navy, and instead made the program by obsessively digging up only the negative remarks about such matters as war crimes.
The servicemen who died in battle cannot rest in peace.
“Episode 1: The Opening of the War: ‘A Navy, but No Nation.’”
Reporting: Migita Chiyo, Uchiyama Taku, Yoshida Yoshikatsu.
Director: Yokoi Hidenobu.
Executive producers: Takayama Hitoshi, Fujiki Tatsuhiro.
“Episode 2: Special Attacks and Shameful Silence.”
Reporting: Yoshida Yoshikatsu, Yokoi Hidenobu, Uchiyama Taku.
Directors: Migita Chiyo, Mayuzumi Takeo.
Executive producers: Fujiki Tatsuhiro, Takayama Hitoshi.
“Episode 3: The War-Crimes Trials: A Second War.”
Reporting: Migita Chiyo, Yokoi Hidenobu, Yoshida Yoshikatsu.
Director: Uchiyama Taku.
Executive producers: Fujiki Tatsuhiro, Takayama Hitoshi.