Published on December 4, 2019.
This chapter introduces a discussion by Tsukasa Jonen and Mitsuru Kurayama in the monthly magazine WiLL, analyzing the left-wing business model through the case of Daisuke Tsuda.
It examines the career path from social media to television, universities, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and Aichi Triennale 2019, while criticizing the structure of left-wing media advancement, NHK, Close-up Gendai, and watch9.

December 4, 2019.
Once he became popular on social media, or so it seems, he began appearing on television as a reporter and joined the ranks of cultural figures.
Before long, he had begun working as a media critic.
The following is from the special dialogue between Mr. Tsukasa Jonen and Mr. Mitsuru Kurayama, published in this month’s issue of the monthly magazine WiLL under the title “Japan, a Country Surrounded by Murderers.”
The preface is omitted.
The Daisuke Tsuda Model.
Jonen:
We have been analyzing the business models of the left and the right, and it can be said that the left has established its business model more firmly.
The easiest example to understand is Mr. Daisuke Tsuda.
After graduating from university, he entered the office of writer Masaaki Takayasu and began calling himself vice president on his own authority.
Moreover, it is said that at that time he was putting the company’s money into his own pocket without permission.
After that, he was active as an IT-related writer, but what he was doing was so-called assistance in illegal downloading.
Then, once he became popular there, he started Twitter.
Once he became popular on social media, or so it seems, he began appearing on television as a reporter and joined the ranks of cultural figures.
Before long, he had begun working as a media critic.
With that career behind him, he became a part-time lecturer at Sophia University and then a professor at the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University.
Then he was appointed artistic director of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ “Aichi Triennale 2019.”
It is a splendid career, is it not?
It is almost like a fish that changes its name as it rises in rank.
Kurayama:
In other words, there is a left-wing upward mobility model there.
Jonen:
Mr. Tsuda too was once a livelihood leftist who engaged in left-wing activities in order to make a living.
Their first goal is to move from being people who collect contributions for their livelihood to people who receive contributions.
They then infiltrate universities, labor union circles, anti-discrimination organizations, and, in some cases, become commentators in the left-leaning mass media.
There, they ingratiate themselves with left-wing producers and produce increasingly radical comments.
Then they are used more and more, and their name recognition rises.
Is that not exactly Mr. Tsuda’s career path?
On the other hand, in the case of conservatives, there is not much of a business model like the one the left has.
Universities are also controlled by left-wing people, so it is difficult to obtain professorial posts.
In many cases, there is an element of competing by ability, such as having a separate main occupation as I do, or engaging in writing activities and running a private school as Mr. Kurayama does.
Kurayama:
Those who are at the top on both the left and the right compete by ability, but those who are “below” can survive by flattering others.
This essay continues.
As I have already written, the first time I saw the strange-looking person called Daisuke Tsuda was on NHK’s Close-up Gendai.
Until the outrageous incident called the Aichi Triennale occurred, he appeared there very frequently.
It is surely obvious at a glance what kind of ideology is held by the people involved in Close-up Gendai, who frequently put such a person on the program as a commentator, and by the announcer Shinichi Takeda, with that henohenomoheji-like face, who now seems to control NHK’s announcer room.
I have finally stopped watching watch9 as well.
Last night, for example, I watched a program in which Doi, a leading figure in the culinary world, walked around absolutely delicious restaurants with Emi Hashimoto.
One of the things I found strange about watch9 was that at the end of the program, Kuwako introduces only the next program, Close-up Gendai, and never introduces any other program at all.
From the viewer’s perspective, NHK’s true strength lies in programs such as Darwin ga Mita, Bura Tamori, programs on the world’s nature, documentaries, and the BS program World Documentary.
It does not lie in so-called news programs that use, as commentators, strange-looking left-leaning types who seem to be masses of anti-Japanese ideology.