Western media outlets, including The New York Times, have attacked Japan’s judicial system over Carlos Ghosn’s arrest. Yet these same nations have tolerated over seven decades of anti-Japanese indoctrination in China and South Korea—propaganda that functions as modern Nazism. This article exposes the hypocrisy of Western criticism, explains the realities of Japan’s democratic legal procedures, and highlights the special treatment Ghosn received inside detention, as revealed by Shūkan Bunshun.

The Western media, which has ignored seventy years of anti-Japanese education in China and South Korea—education that is nothing less than a form of Nazism—has no right whatsoever to criticize Japan, the greatest nation in the world.
2019年01月10日

Regarding the arrest of Carlos Ghosn, The New York Times, in exactly the same foolish contempt they once directed toward prewar Japan, has criticized the nature of Japan’s judicial system.
French media have done the same.
Other Western media appear to be following suit, and although I truly find this troublesome—borrowing the habitual expression of a University of Tokyo professor who is also an NHK cultural commentator—Japan’s judicial system is in no position to be lectured by them.
On the contrary, because it is “too democratic,” interrogations in Japan take far more time than in their countries.

The Western nations that have allowed China and South Korea to continue their anti-Japanese “education”—a modern form of Nazism—for over seventy years have absolutely no right to criticize Japan, the finest country in the world.

To teach them these facts accurately, I had to ask a well-read friend to buy the latest issue of Shūkan Bunshun for me.
First, let us look at the article published online by Fuji Television.

“Does it happen often that someone is arrested so many times?”

Hiramatsu Desk:
“There are many other reports that Ghosn misappropriated or privately used Nissan funds.
If so, he could be re-arrested again on charges beyond this special breach of trust.
A third re-arrest is not impossible.”

“Foreigners say Ghosn’s detention is too long, right?”

Hiramatsu Desk:
“This is an arrest within Japan.
The investigation is conducted according to Japan’s laws.
If foreigners were given preferential treatment, Japanese defendants would protest.
Japanese and foreigners must be treated equally.
As it is, Ghosn receives visits from various embassy officials every day, bringing him items and speaking with him.
Personally, I feel that he is already being given too much preferential treatment simply because he is a foreigner.
If we shortened his detention any further, Japanese detainees would be furious.
There must never be special treatment for foreigners.
In my view, this time we could even be stricter.”
(Explanation: Fuji TV Social Affairs Desk, Hidetoshi Hiramatsu)

Below is from yesterday’s issue of Shūkan Bunshun.
Even inside the detention house, Ghosn has received “VIP treatment.”
He moved from a three-tatami solitary cell to a larger room with a bed.
Ordinarily, lawyers cannot meet detainees during the New Year holidays, but in his case this was approved as a “special exception.”