Published on October 2, 2019.
This essay criticizes NHK’s Watch9 coverage of the Moritomo issue and the Self-Defense Forces daily logs, focusing on the comments by anchors Kuwako and Arima, the omission of key details, the use of subtitles to shape impressions, NHK’s alignment with Asahi Shimbun’s anti-Abe stance, and the postwar self-deprecating historical view and political bias that remain within Japan’s media institutions.

October 2, 2019.
In the commentary and subtitles, that part is omitted, and the program simply broadcasts that the Financial Bureau increased the amount.
In other words, it is carrying out insidious manipulation of impressions in the fine details.
At this point, there is no other way to describe it than as the work of operatives.
The following is a chapter I published on May 29, 2018, under the title: The Awfulness of Kuwako and Arima’s Comments Last Night on the Self-Defense Forces’ Daily Logs…
Last night, I was watching watch9 while doing other things, and I had also watched the 7 o’clock news.
Every person with eyes to see must have vividly recognized again how NHK conducts biased reporting.
Director-General Ota of the Financial Bureau said something entirely natural: that the estimate by the Aviation Bureau did not cover all the possible buried materials that might emerge, and therefore the amount should perhaps be increased.
NHK intentionally cut that point out, even while broadcasting the answer itself,
and in the commentary and subtitles, it omitted that part and broadcast only that the Financial Bureau had increased the amount.
In other words, it is carrying out insidious manipulation of impressions in the fine details…
At this point, there is no other way to describe it than as the work of operatives.
The other day, by chance, I watched a late-night program on Nippon Television hosted by Nakai, the former SMAP member, and for the first time I learned about the inside of a television news department and the existence of final editors.
I see…
For the first time, I finally understood the real nature of NHK:
it is this final editing division that is controlled by the descendants of those connected with Chongryon and similar groups who slipped into NHK in the confusion immediately after the war, and by cells similar to Ikeda Eriko and Nagai Akira, who were involved in the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal.
The person responsible for NHK’s final editing division is playing the same role as Tsujimoto Kiyomi and Fukuyama Tetsuro…
People who, in any other advanced country besides Japan, could without exaggeration be defined as spies, are in effect making their living from the taxes of the Japanese people,
while reporting according to the wishes of the Korean Peninsula and China, based on a self-deprecating view of history…
It is no longer at the level of subtle manipulation of impressions.
It is openly anti-Abe administration, and openly aimed at preventing Abe’s third term at all costs…
The other day, for some reason, the evening edition of the Asahi Shimbun was delivered to my home, so I looked at the Soryushi column.
It was truly an insane manner, an abnormal attack on Prime Minister Abe…
Using Labor Minister Kato’s answer as a pretext, it contained an abnormal hatred toward Prime Minister Abe, so disgusting that merely seeing it made me feel revulsion…
What kind of person, on earth, writes such things?
It was just as terrible as the attacks on Prime Minister Abe carried out by anti-Japanese states such as North Korea, South Korea, and China…
In step with this Asahi Shimbun, in order to prevent Prime Minister Abe from winning a third term…
Cells within NHK, and Kuwako and Arima, who are nothing more than errand-runners for them and so childish that even discussing them is ridiculous, are given the meaningless title of “anchor”…
If one is a news reporter, there ought to be an extremely strict unwritten rule that one must convey only the facts, and that expressing one’s own opinion is out of the question.
With brains that have done no verification of facts and no study of the actual situation at all, and that have merely been reading newspapers such as the Asahi Shimbun…
The awfulness of Kuwako and Arima’s comments last night on the Self-Defense Forces’ daily logs…
I even thought that I might no longer be able to watch this program…
Already, as with the Asahi Shimbun before I cancelled my subscription, I have begun watching it only diagonally…
On the day Trump announced the cancellation of the U.S.-North Korea summit, Kuwako said something like, “Deceiving each other… Is diplomacy something conducted by deceiving each other?”
She does not even know the common sense that politics is also a world of Machiavellianism…
With a mind made only of the belief that her own values are correct…
of a self-deprecating view of history implanted at school and further strengthened by subscribing to and carefully reading the Asahi Shimbun…
of sham moralism and political correctness…
She had the audacity to expose the manner of someone who believes that she and her colleagues are the guardian deities of democracy.
There must be no small number of people with eyes to see who were utterly appalled by this.
A woman like this speaks about Japanese and world politics, and issues comments about such matters as the daily logs of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces…
which are confidential matters…
and which no country would ever disclose…
At this point, one can only say that this program can no longer be watched.
As for news programs, I lamented that perhaps I have no choice but to watch TV Tokyo’s WBS or Fuji Television’s late-night news program…
The female anchor on that program is far better than Kuwako, though it is a minor flaw that she sometimes expresses biased opinions similar to theirs…