From the fabricated “comfort women” reports to the North Yard controversy and one-sided anti-nuclear coverage, this essay exposes the deep-rooted bias of NHK Osaka and the Asahi Shimbun. It questions how these broadcasters have systematically damaged Japan’s national strength while evading responsibility.

Yesterday’s news was truly awful.
January 30, 2016.

It was the Osaka headquarters social affairs department of the Asahi Shimbun that seized upon a movement begun by a housewife in Ōita who had been manipulated by Song Du-hoe, along with a pack of lies written by a man who seemed to have been born solely to fabricate falsehoods—Seiji Yoshida—and transmitted to the world the fabricated reports of so-called “comfort women” and “forced recruitment.” This was the very content on which Radhika Coomaraswamy, then a member of a UN commission, based her report.

For three months, I alone fought Kansai Economic Federation, Dōyūkai, and Osaka City Hall, insisting that it was the duty of you so-called elites to do your jobs properly, to sell the North Yard for even one yen more, and to reduce the burden on taxpayers by even one yen, in accordance with the plan that had taken twenty years of public-private wisdom in Osaka to complete.

I believed that the bizarre, abnormal, and foolish advance of evil—such as saying that the second phase of land sales should be halted and the land used as a park—had been stopped. Yet one evening, the very same NHK Osaka evening news program at 6 p.m. aired footage in which cameras were brought into a classroom at Minoh Elementary School, showing students being made to write that they wanted a soccer field built at the North Yard so that the World Cup could be invited there. This was the program that forced me, reluctantly, to choose to step forward and write about these matters here.

It was also NHK that gleefully broadcast the farcical event known as the “Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal,” which the Asahi reporter and notorious activist Yayori Matsui had orchestrated with North Korean spies, and in which Alexis Dudden and others participated.

Masayuki Takayama has explained in his writings how, taking advantage of the postwar occupation policies, large numbers of resident Koreans infiltrated NHK and other institutions. At the same time, there must also be, without doubt, a certain number of former leftists at NHK Osaka who sympathize with them and who follow the policies of the Korean Peninsula.

Yesterday’s news was truly awful.

As Kansai Electric Power was finally moving to restart a nuclear power plant, the broadcast was nothing but a parade of opposing opinions. To make matters worse, they even had a so-called construction company owner—whose Japanese name was displayed on screen but who, judging from his appearance, could be assumed to be a resident Korean—say that it was fine if electricity prices rose and that nuclear power should be stopped.

It goes without saying that they did not touch at all on the fact that the neighboring countries of South Korea and China are massively expanding their nuclear power generation and launching large-scale new construction, that many countries around the world are newly building nuclear plants, or on issues such as global warming and the inherent problems of so-called natural energy.

The biased reporting of this broadcaster is far too extreme. They likely feel no responsibility whatsoever for how greatly they have weakened Japan’s national power. It can no longer be called a broadcasting organization for the Japanese people.

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