Published on October 2, 2019.
This essay criticizes Japanese television wide shows and Asahi Shimbun over their coverage of the Moritomo Gakuen issue, arguing that they uncritically treated Kagoike’s statements and secretly recorded audio while ignoring the 1.4-billion-yen discount for the neighboring Toyonaka park site, the 900-million-yen discount for the adjacent school lunch center, and references to Tsujimoto Kiyomi.

October 2, 2019.
The school lunch center to the south was also discounted by the same 900 million yen, but neither television nor Asahi mentions it.
Kagoike’s wife also referred in an email to the fact that Tsujimoto Kiyomi knows the details of the sale of the Toyonaka park land, but her name does not appear in the program either.
This is a chapter republished on November 22, 2017, at 21:28:33, under the title: They say the 800-million-yen discount is strange, but the Toyonaka park site north of Kagoike’s land, almost the same size, was sold off at a discount of 1.4 billion yen.
The following is a chapter published on June 3, 2017.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The centerpiece of the wide shows remains Kagoike of Moritomo Gakuen.
The authorities are already moving in over his vicious fraudulent acts.
Do they feel no shame in elevating the words of such a man as though they were the truth?
“Mr. Sunday” took up Kagoike’s words that “Abe Akie pressured the Ministry of Finance into discounting state-owned land by 800 million yen,” and broadcast, just as it was, the recording that Kagoike had secretly made.
Would a decent person secretly record others?
Does their conscience not ache at all when they broadcast such a thing without resistance?
They say the 800-million-yen discount is strange, but the Toyonaka park site north of Kagoike’s land, almost the same size, was sold off at a discount of 1.4 billion yen.
The school lunch center to the south was also discounted by the same 900 million yen, but neither television nor Asahi mentions it.
Kagoike’s wife also referred in an email to the fact that Tsujimoto Kiyomi knows the details of the sale of the Toyonaka park land, but her name does not appear in the program either.
Kimura Taro, who raised his reputation by correctly predicting Trump’s election victory, appears on Mr. Sunday, but even he did not say a word about the abnormality of believing the words of a fraudster, nor about the connection with the sale of the Toyonaka park land.
Even he would probably be fired if he spoke the plain truth.
Reconstruction Minister Imamura lost his temper at the provocation of an activist, and in the end was dismissed.
If one thinks normally, the more dangerous thing is that an anti-government activist was able to enter a ministerial press conference on a free pass, but there is no voice pointing this out on the wide shows.
On the contrary, amid the criticism of Imamura, Tazaki Shiro said, “A minister must not take the bait of provocation. Reporters provoke anger in order to see the caliber of a minister.”
Speaking as a former reporter, that is a lie.
A reporter’s job is to obtain news, and one can understand the caliber of the other person without testing it.
Provoking someone into anger in order to draw out his true feelings is the method of low-class American courtroom lawyers.
I am astonished that he was once a political reporter for Jiji.
A commentator is a person who can smoothly say, “Constitutional revision is bad. Nuclear power is bad. Abe is bad. Xi Jinping, South Korea, and globalism are good.”