March 10, 2020. The remarks made by NHK Watch 9 anchor Arima exposed the childishness of criticism aimed at the Abe administration over the novel pneumonia response. His repeated use of “contaminated water” regarding Fukushima Daiichi, without explaining that the treated water contains tritium below international release standards, raises serious doubts about NHK’s qualifications as a news organization.

March 10, 2020
“Do we only have to endure it for ten days?”
Where on earth is there a proper adult who would think, regarding the spread of this novel pneumonia, that we only have to endure it for another ten days?
Just now, while watching Watch 9, I was truly astonished.
That is because Arima asked the expert guest commentator this question.
Even if it was an expression of this man’s stupidity, his desire to criticize the Abe administration.
His inability to help himself from criticizing it.
His attempt to connect everything to criticism.
It was still far too childish.
“Do we only have to endure it for ten days?”
Where on earth is there a proper adult who would think, regarding the spread of this novel pneumonia, that we only have to endure it for another ten days?
Even as I am writing this, he has now spoken about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and said, “water containing radioactive substances accumulated in the tanks.”
Now, with captions on the screen, he has shouted it loudly three times since I began writing.
He says absolutely nothing about the fact that the treated water in the tanks contains tritium below the standard values for discharge from nuclear power plants around the world.
On the contrary, he is now repeatedly calling it contaminated water.
This man is not only disqualified as a person involved in reporting.
He is a criminal.
He should be called a red criminal.
He is a nauseating pseudo-moralist, a man in whom pseudo-political correctness has put on clothes and is walking around.
If it were Masayuki Takayama, he would first investigate how much money the state, or Tokyo Electric Power Company, has so far paid in compensation to fishermen before reporting on the matter.
Kafu Nagai said, “I am not so accustomed to vice as to make justice and humanity into commodities.”
But Arima does not even realize that he is a human being completely steeped in vice.
It is only natural that a TEPCO official, who does real work every day, responded sternly to such a man as Arima.
I truly feel nauseated by the people who completely dominate Watch 9.