Published on July 18, 2019.
This article organizes the production staff and content of NHK’s historical documentaries, including “Project JAPAN,” “JAPAN Debut,” the “Japan and the Korean Peninsula” series, and Constitution-related specials.
It particularly criticizes “Project JAPAN Prologue” as a pro-Constitution brainwashing program that uses Kyoto University professor Yamamuro Shinichi’s argument that the origins of Article 9 lie in the Hague Peace Conferences, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the United Nations Charter, thereby obscuring the essence of the imposed Constitution.

July 18, 2019.
NHK, borrowing the words of Kyoto University professor Yamamuro Shinichi, insists that the origins of Article 9 lie in the Hague Peace Conferences, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the United Nations Charter.
This is from the original blog of a painstaking work I discovered online the other day, and the following is a continuation of the chapter I posted.
Monitoring “the power of the media.”
The biased reporting of domestic and foreign media, poured out under the shield of “freedom of the press,” is tormenting Japan.
I am also fed up with information manipulation through the “freedom not to report.”
If the media raises “watching power” as its sacred banner, then the Internet must watch “the power of the media.”
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There are probably many people who are irritated by the bias of the historical documentaries that NHK produces by spending, like water, the subscription fees it forcibly collects from the people.
Japanese people are serious and obedient to rules, so even while losing their temper and saying, “I won’t pay the subscription fee anymore!” many of them, one way or another, continue paying out of inertia.
However, NHK’s anti-Japanese programs are given English, Chinese, and Korean translations and are widely viewed overseas, so the concern is not merely that they are unpleasant, but that they may greatly damage the national interest.
The characteristic of historical documentaries produced by NHK is the thorough demonization of the Japanese military.
They have not progressed at all from GHQ’s propaganda program “The Truth Is This,” which claimed that the military was entirely to blame for the last war and that the people and the media were victims.
As former NHK member Ikeda Nobuo has pointed out, deviating from the victors’ view of history has become taboo, so they probably have no choice but to portray defeated Japan and its military badly.
However, even with regard to the victor, America, NHK has recently produced programs that repeatedly denounce the atomic bombings and incendiary attacks on cities as war crimes.
The problem is that there are almost no programs criticizing the Soviet Army, the Chinese Nationalist Army, or the Eighth Route Army, while Koreans are often enshrined as pitiful “victims.”
When Japanese people are portrayed as “victims,” the “perpetrator” is limited to either the Japanese military or the U.S. military, and there are almost no programs that portray the Soviet Union, China, or Korea as “perpetrators.”
The preface has already been posted and is omitted.
【Series “Project JAPAN”】 2009–12.
When dramatizing Shiba Ryotaro’s historical novel “Clouds above the Hill,” which has many conservative fans, the documentary makers, a den of the left wing, seem to have reacted against it and, under the pretext of “taking balance,” mass-produced anti-Japanese programs as a counter lineup, though of course this is an inference.
Among them, some went too far, caused an uproar, and led to lawsuits.
The modern-history part of the “Japan and the Korean Peninsula” series is also incorporated into it.
“Project JAPAN Prologue.”
Directors: Kamakura Hideya, Yanagisawa Shinji, Hashimoto Yo.
Executive producers: Masuda Hideki, Kono Nobuhiro, Wakamiya Toshihiko, Torimoto Hideaki.
Note: It was fine up to the point where it depicted the diplomat Adachi Mineichiro, who became the first president of the International Court of Justice, but midway through it transformed into a pro-Constitution brainwashing program.
It is widely known that Article 9 of the Constitution was imposed on the Japanese government by MacArthur, but NHK, borrowing the words of Kyoto University professor Yamamuro Shinichi, insists that the origins of Article 9 lie in the Hague Peace Conferences, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the United Nations Charter.
The American side would line up all sorts of pretty words and official positions in order to hide its guilt over forcing a war-renunciation clause on a defeated country, but its true intention was the weakening of defeated Japan.
As for Article 9, it was one word from the war-crazed MacArthur, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with civilian constitutional drafts or the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement.
Do not fabricate history.
“JAPAN Debut, Episode 1: Asia’s ‘First-Class Nation.’”
Directors: Hamasaki Kenichi, Shimada Yusuke.
Executive producers: Tanabe Masayasu, Kono Nobuhiro.
Note: It intentionally edited the testimony of interviewed Taiwanese people in an anti-Japanese manner, leading to a lawsuit controversy.
After that, the names of the two directors, Hamasaki and Shimada, were no longer seen in documentary programs.
Recently, have they returned? jfldflgkl;gkd;lakd;f.
“JAPAN Debut, Episode 2: The Emperor and the Constitution.”
Director: Kurasako Keiji.
Executive producers: Hayashi Shin, Kono Nobuhiro, Wakamiya Toshihiko.
“JAPAN Debut, Episode 3: The Frustration of a Trading Nation.”
Directors: Kobayashi Tatsuo, Ogura Yohei.
Executive producers: Masuda Hideki, Kono Nobuhiro.
Note: A good work.
“JAPAN Debut, Episode 4: Military Alliances, National Strategy.”
Directors: Miyamoto Yasuhiro, Misuda Noriko.
Executive producers: Hayashi Shin, Kono Nobuhiro.
Note: A good work.
“World War Zero: The Russo-Japanese War and the Swirling Intentions of the Great Powers.”
Director: Oshima Takayuki.
Executive producers: Toriyabe Hiromi, Tanabe Masayasu.
“Japan and the Korean Peninsula, Episode 1: The Road to the Annexation of Korea, Ito Hirobumi and An Jung-geun.”
Directors: Miyamoto Yasuhiro, de Ono Kenji.
Executive producers: Shiota Jun, Kono Nobuhiro.
“Japan and the Korean Peninsula, Episode 2: The March First Independence Movement and Pro-Japanese Collaborators.”
Directors: Kurasako Keiji, Ikuta Hiroshi.
Executive producers: Aiba Akira, Kono Nobuhiro.
“Japan and the Korean Peninsula, Episode 3: People Mobilized for War—the Era of the Imperialization Policy.”
Director: Kawaguchi Tsukasa.
Executive producers: Shiota Jun, Kono Nobuhiro.
“Japan and the Korean Peninsula, Episode 4: Liberation and Division, the Postwar of Koreans in Japan.”
Director: Unknown.
Executive producer: Unknown.
Note: Throughout the series, the content is pro-Korean and denounces Japan, but it is valuable as source material because it depicts the process by which, after the war, Koreans in Japan teamed up with the Communist Party and rampaged, causing the incident in which they stormed the Hyogo Prefectural Office, the Hanshin Education Struggle, and as a result made the Ministry of Education recognize Korean schools.
“Japan and the Korean Peninsula, Episode 5: How Japan-Korea Relations Were Built.”
Directors: Hamada Yuzo, Jeon Yong-seung.
Executive producers: Shiota Jun, Kono Nobuhiro.
【Constitution Special】
Before the war, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, which had effectively functioned as a state-run broadcaster and incited war to the utmost, restarted after the war as the public broadcaster NHK under GHQ rule.
Former NHK director Shimokawa Masaya boasts that NHK is “a wonderful existence born from the idealistic era of the postwar period.”
When watching NHK historical documentaries, the pattern is that they worship victorious America as a liberation army and, like a fox borrowing the tiger’s authority, lecture the Japanese while acting like one of the victorious powers.
Even after GHQ left, NHK seems to have secretly sworn that its mission is precisely to defend to the death the three remnants of GHQ: the Constitution, the Broadcast Act, and the Fundamental Law of Education, though when it comes to the Okinawa base issue, the U.S. military suddenly turns into evil.
NHK persistently produces many Constitution-related programs, but most of them are programs that guide viewers toward defending the Constitution, and there are no programs made from the viewpoint of Self-Defense Force members whose long-cherished wish is to make the Self-Defense Forces constitutional, nor any programs that explain the necessity of constitutional revision from the standpoint of national defense.
In order to sacralize the Constitution of Japan, they beautify the process of its enactment, and in many cases they use methods that are almost historical revisionism.
On an important issue that divides national opinion, such as the constitutional question, a situation in which a public broadcaster makes only programs biased toward one side cannot avoid being denounced as privatization of the airwaves and theft of subscription fees.
The producers of pro-Constitution programs are often also listed among those who make programs demonizing the Japanese military.
“The Birth of the Constitution of Japan,” 2007.
Directors: Teranishi Kotaro, Yamaguchi Tomoya.
Executive producer: Shiota Jun.
“A Draft Constitution Born from the Burned Ruins,” ETV Special, 2007.
Director: Yamaguchi Tomoya.
Executive producer: Shiota Jun.
Note: A secret meeting scene between Herbert Norman and Suzuki Yasuzo is recreated in drama form. sdfajkfjaeiaieieie.
Yamaguchi Tomoya.
He was once arrested in the act for molestation.
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