Published on July 27, 2019. This essay expresses strong doubts about NHK’s watch9 broadcast on the day North Korea launched a new ballistic missile, arguing that Japanese citizens must read monthly magazines such as WiLL and Hanada in order to understand realities that cannot be grasped through the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, or local newspapers dependent on Kyodo News. It also introduces excerpts from a dialogue between Takayama Masayuki and Nagahama Hiroaki in WiLL concerning Japan–South Korea relations, export controls, Korean Peninsula history, and South Korea.

July 27, 2019.
On the day North Korea fired a new ballistic missile, what NHK broadcast endlessly as a special feature was one of its favorite stories about a single individual.
This time it was the story of an older sister whose younger brother had been born as a disabled child, but the tone was that the state had a problem and bore responsibility.
Last night, I watched NHK’s watch9 from the middle, and even then mostly while doing other things, but I do not think I have ever felt as strongly as I did last night that this broadcaster is truly strange.
On the day North Korea fired a new ballistic missile, what NHK broadcast endlessly as a special feature was one of its favorite stories about a single individual.
This time it was the story of an older sister whose younger brother had been born as a disabled child, but the tone was that the state had a problem and bore responsibility.
Are their heads, to begin with, not abnormal?
Even a kindergarten child should understand the logic that it cannot be the responsibility of the state that someone gave birth to a child with a disability.
Yet they take it into the responsibility of the state in the mode of “self-serving pseudo-moralism.”
If, at least, they were to say, for whatever reason I do not know, that Asahi or NHK bears responsibility and broadcast it as some kind of self-criticism, I would say nothing.
Last night, I thought this deeply.
By inventing the ridiculous title of “caster,” nullifying the journalistic code that says, “In reporting, reporters must not state their own opinions,” and continuing to report in line with a masochistic view of history and anti-Japanese thought, and exactly according to GHQ’s WGIP, in a manner so immature that it can only be called criminal, what on earth did Arima and Kuwako go to university for, and what did they learn?
Kuwako was at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, which produced Matsui Yayori, who, in China, would probably be sentenced to death immediately.
Arima was at Sophia University, where a certain Nakano, who provides materials for attacks on Japan to the bad foreigners who dominate the Japan National Press Club, is a professor.
As someone who went through Waseda University, graduate school, and then became a university professor told me of the unbelievable reality that it is a university redder than Asahi, they must have emerged after being steeped in a red seminar.
When I wondered why NHK had to broadcast such a strange feature last night, the only conceivable answer was one thing.
NHK’s news department is undoubtedly controlled by agents of Chongryon, North Korea, and because it was the day North Korea fired a new ballistic missile, needless to say a violation of United Nations sanctions resolutions, the feature had been scheduled in order to divert the eyes of the Japanese people.
It was such an abnormal and bizarre feature that I can think of it only in that way.
Now then.
This time, my native Miyagi Prefecture, Yamagata Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture, Akita Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, which elected candidates fielded by opposition parties such as the Constitutional Democratic Party and the Communist Party, and I am ashamed that this is almost all of Tohoku, as well as Shiga Prefecture.
Furthermore, Okinawa Prefecture is already in what seems like an irreparable state, and it is no exaggeration to say that its world of speech and education is controlled by anti-Japanese propaganda from China and the Korean Peninsula.
People in these prefectures who possess the intelligence to read books should subscribe regularly to the four monthly magazines I mention, in order not to lead Japan astray.
In particular, they must go immediately to the nearest bookstore to purchase the monthly magazines WiLL and Hanada, which were released today.
The reason is that if you read the Asahi Shimbun to which you subscribe, or local newspapers whose pages are composed of articles distributed by Kyodo News, you will never understand the facts, the reality of Japan and the world, and the truth of things.
Only genuine scholars and journalists can teach these things to you.
Needless to say, such people are not at Asahi or NHK.
The following is an excerpt from the dialogue feature between Takayama Masayuki and Nagahama Hiroaki, titled “Explained by the Latest DNA Research: Japanese and Koreans Are Completely Different Peoples,” in the monthly magazine WiLL released today.
If you read it together with the article by Furukawa Katsuhisa published in today’s Sankei Shimbun, matters should become even clearer.
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The Korean Peninsula Had a Blank Period of Civilization.
Takayama.
Egami is writing out of fantasy.
There is no archaeological proof at all, such as horse gear being excavated from ancient tombs, and yet he says, “However, I believe that this must be a missing link, an element missing from the sequence, and that it will surely be discovered in the future,” which is irresponsible in the extreme.
(Laughs).
He died saying such foolish things.
If one looks at Korean history, there is a blank period even after the beginning of recorded history several thousand years ago.
In other words, neither civilization nor anything else existed.
And yet, there are many keyhole-shaped burial mounds in South Korea.
These were made by Japanese who somehow crossed over to the Korean Peninsula, but the South Korean side deliberately separates them into round mounds and square mounds and claims, “They are not Japanese keyhole-shaped burial mounds.”
The Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group, including the Mausoleum of Emperor Nintoku, was recognized as a World Heritage Site, was it not?
If that happens, South Korea may again connect the round mounds and square mounds and start saying, “We, uri, are also a World Heritage Site.”
(Everyone bursts into laughter).
Nagahama.
At any rate, whether in academic societies or anywhere else, there exists a censorship standard that says, “Do not say anything contrary to China or South Korea.”
South Korea is taboo.
If one says anything that violates that, one is subjected to expulsion from teaching.
Takayama.
This time, export restrictions on hydrogen fluoride and so on have been decided, but the very fact that until now special preferential treatment had been given as a “white country” was itself strange.
That country originally has many shady aspects, and it had been diverting regulated materials that entered from Japan to places such as Iran and Pakistan.
There are signs that it had also been sending them to North Korea.
This time, Japan will be able to inspect properly whether the imported goods are being used correctly as declared, so this is a matter of course.
If left alone, they will go north and be used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons and the like.
Nagahama.
In the public opinion survey conducted by NHK, from July 5 to 7, 45 percent answered that the strengthened restrictions were “an appropriate response,” while 9 percent answered that they were “inappropriate,” so the majority of the people support them.
Takayama.
Until now, when Japan became angry after Takeshima was arbitrarily seized, the Asahi Shimbun and others from within Japan would start saying things such as “That is immature” or “Show the dignity of a great power.”
However, this time, although only the Asahi Shimbun was doing its usual thing in its editorial, saying “Immediately withdraw the retaliatory export restrictions,” the television wide shows on various stations that usually follow Asahi are saying, “South Korea is strange.”
People on the left say things only to the extent of “Show more discretion,” but somehow they are quiet.
It has become visible that the whole nation dislikes South Korea.
(Everyone bursts into laughter).
Nagahama.
Including President Moon Jae-in, I would like them to take a good look at their own footing.
Takayama.
In the demilitarized neutral zone at Panmunjom, Trump and Kim Jong-un patted each other on the shoulder.
That should be seen as an expression of the view that United States Forces Korea are no longer necessary, and South Korea is in a situation where it is difficult to hold them back.
If the United States forces withdraw, then frankly speaking, even if North Korea turns Seoul into a sea of fire, that will be none of America’s concern.
Nagahama.
The Tsushima Strait will become the final defense line, but that is only natural.
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