Monitoring the Bias of NHK Historical Documentaries: The Problems of “Project JAPAN” and Pro-Constitution Programs

Published on August 20, 2019. This article introduces a painstaking blog post found online and criticizes the bias of NHK historical documentaries, including the demonization of the Japanese military, the victorious-nation view of history, programs on the Korean Peninsula, constitutional programs, pro-Constitution guidance, and the names of program creators, while questioning NHK’s role as a public broadcaster funded by license fees.

August 20, 2019.
Yamaguchi Tomoya has once been arrested in the act for molestation…Sasaki Kumi, in Paris, should loudly denounce NHK as the headquarters of molester Japan.
This is from the original blog of a painstaking work I found on the Internet the other day, and the following is a continuation of the chapter I sent out.
Monitoring “the power of the media.”
Biased reporting by domestic and foreign media, poured out under the shield of “freedom of the press,” is tormenting Japan.
We are also sick of information manipulation through “the freedom not to report.”
If the media hoists “watching power” as its banner of righteousness, then the Internet must watch “the power of the media,” must it not?
Please refrain from ethnically discriminatory comments.
There are probably many people who are irritated by the bias of historical documentaries produced by NHK, using as if it were water the reception fees it forcibly collects from the people.
Japanese people are serious and obedient to rules, so in many cases, although they snap and say, “I will no longer pay the reception fee!” they somehow continue paying out of inertia.
However, NHK’s anti-Japanese programs are given English, Chinese, and Korean translations and are widely watched overseas, so the concern is not merely that they are unpleasant, but that they may seriously 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 said that the military was entirely to blame for the last war, and that the people and the media were victims.
As former NHK employee Ikeda Nobuo points out, since deviating from the victorious-nation view of history has become taboo, they probably have no choice but to portray defeated Japan and the military as evil.
However, even toward America, the victor, they have recently often produced programs denouncing the atomic bombings and incendiary bomb 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, and that Koreans are often enshrined as pitiful “victims.”
When Japanese people are portrayed as “victims,” the cases are limited to those in which the Japanese military or the U.S. military is the “perpetrator,” and there are almost no programs portraying the Soviet Union, China, or Korea as “perpetrators.”
The preface has already been sent out and is omitted.
Series “Project JAPAN.”
2009–2012.
When adapting Shiba Ryotaro’s historical novel Clouds Above the Hill, which has many conservative fans, into a drama, the documentary makers, a nest of leftists, seem to have rebelled and, under the pretext of “striking a balance,” mass-produced anti-Japanese programs as a counter-lineup, though of course this is conjecture.
Some among them went too far, caused an uproar, and became the subject of lawsuits.
The modern-history portion of the Japan and the Korean Peninsula series is also incorporated.
Project JAPAN Prologue.
Directors: Kamakura Hideya, Yanagisawa Shinji, Hashimoto Akira.
Executive producers: Masuda Hideki, Kono Nobuhiro, Wakamiya Toshihiko, Torimoto Hideaki.
Note: It was fine until it depicted the diplomat Adachi Mineichiro, who became the first president of the International Court of Justice, but halfway 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 source of Article 9 lies in the Hague Peace Conferences, the Pact of Paris, and the United Nations Charter.
The American side would probably line up all sorts of fine-sounding words and formal principles in order to hide its guilty conscience over forcing a war-renunciation clause on a defeated country, but its real intention was the weakening of defeated Japan.
Regarding Article 9, it was the single word of the war-crazed MacArthur, and private constitutional drafts and the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement have absolutely nothing to do with it.
Do not fabricate history.
JAPAN Debut, Episode One: Asia’s “First-Class Nation”.
Directors: Hamasaki Ken’ichi, Shimada Yusuke.
Executive producers: Tanabe Masayasu, Kono Nobuhiro.
Note: The testimonies of the Taiwanese people interviewed were intentionally edited in an anti-Japanese way, and it became a lawsuit controversy.
The two directors, Hamasaki and Shimada, later ceased to have their names seen in documentary programs.
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JAPAN Debut, Episode Two: The Emperor and the Constitution.
Director: Kurasako Keiji.
Executive producers: Hayashi Arata, Kono Nobuhiro, Wakamiya Toshihiko.
JAPAN Debut, Episode Three: The Frustration of a Trading Nation.
Directors: Kobayashi Tatsuo, Ogura Yohei.
Executive producers: Masuda Hideki, Kono Nobuhiro.
Note: A good work.
JAPAN Debut, Episode Four: Military Alliance, National Strategy.
Directors: Miyamoto Yasuhiro, Misuda Noriko.
Executive producers: Hayashi Arata, Kono Nobuhiro.
Note: A good work.
World War Zero: The Russo-Japanese War and the Schemes of the Great Powers.
Director: Oshima Takayuki.
Executive producers: Toriyabe Hiromi, Tanabe Masayasu.
Japan and the Korean Peninsula, Episode One: The Road to the Annexation of Korea, Ito Hirobumi and An Jung-geun.
Director: Miyamoto Yasuhiro de Ono Kenji.
Executive producers: Shioda Jun, Kono Nobuhiro.
Japan and the Korean Peninsula, Episode Two: 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 Three: People Mobilized for War: The Era of the Imperialization Policy.
Director: Kawaguchi Tsukasa.
Executive producers: Shioda Jun, Kono Nobuhiro.
Japan and the Korean Peninsula, Episode Four: Liberation and Division, the Postwar History of Koreans in Japan.
Director: unknown.
Executive producer: unknown.
Note: Throughout the series, it 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 joined 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 forced the Ministry of Education to recognize Korean schools.
Japan and the Korean Peninsula, Episode Five: How Japan-Korea Relations Were Built.
Directors: Hamada Yuzo, Jeon Yong-seung.
Executive producers: Shioda Jun, Kono Nobuhiro.
Constitution Special.
Before the war, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, which had effectively acted as a state broadcaster and incited war to the fullest, restarted after the war under GHQ rule as the public broadcaster NHK.
Former NHK executive director Shimokawa Masaya boasts that NHK is “a wonderful existence born of the idealistic era after the war.”
When watching NHK historical documentaries, the pattern is that they revere victorious America as a liberation army and, like a fox borrowing the authority of a tiger, preach to Japanese people while putting on the face of a victorious nation.
Even after GHQ left, it is as if NHK secretly swore that its mission was to defend to the death the three remnants of GHQ: the Constitution, the Broadcast Act, and the Basic Act on Education, though when it comes to the Okinawa base issue, the U.S. military suddenly turns into evil.
NHK has persistently produced numerous Constitution-related programs, but most of them are programs that guide viewers for the sake of defending the Constitution, and there are no programs made from the viewpoint of Self-Defense Force members whose cherished wish is to make the Self-Defense Forces constitutional, nor programs explaining the necessity of constitutional amendment from the viewpoint of national defense.
In order to sanctify the Constitution of Japan, there are many cases in which the process of its enactment is beautified, using methods that are almost historically revisionist.
On an important issue such as the Constitution, which divides national opinion, the situation in which a public broadcaster produces only programs biased to one side could fairly be denounced as the privatization of the airwaves and theft of reception fees.
The creators of pro-Constitution programs often also have their names attached to programs that demonize the Japanese military.
The Birth of the Constitution of Japan, 2007.
Directors: Teranishi Kotaro, Yamaguchi Tomoya.
Executive producer: Shioda Jun.
A Draft Constitution Born from the Burned-Out Ruins, ETV Special, 2007.
Director: Yamaguchi Tomoya.
Executive producer: Shioda Jun.
Note: A drama reenacts the secret meeting between Herbert Norman and Suzuki Yasuzo.sdfajkfjaeiaieieie
Yamaguchi Tomoya.
He has once been arrested in the act for molestation.
This article continues.
Sasaki Kumi, in Paris, should loudly denounce NHK as the headquarters of molester Japan.

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