This article examines the extreme bias of Tetsuya Hakoda of the Asahi Shimbun, the ideological role of Yonsei University, the unresolved war responsibility of Asahi, suspicions surrounding the KCIA–Yoshida Seiji–Asahi connection, and a decisive discovery prompted by a column from Sankei’s Toshikazu Okada. It further highlights the global significance of journalist Miki Otaka’s investigative work that substantiated these long-held claims.

2017-01-24

All of my readers must surely be astonished.
That everything I have argued has been proven correct, one after another.
The atrocious nature of the commentaries written by Tetsuya Hakoda, who holds the title of international affairs editorial writer at the Asahi Shimbun and apparently occupies the foremost position on Korean affairs within the company today, is nothing less than biased reporting itself.
The fact that I suspected these essays—so unnatural that it was hard to believe they were written by a Japanese, and seemed rather to have been written by a Korean holding anti-Japanese sentiments—and searched into his background has already been mentioned.
It has also already been noted that the period during which he studied abroad at Yonsei University in Korea overlapped with the period when Alexis Dudden was studying there, a coincidence I intuitively sensed.
And it has likewise already been stated that, judging from the current state of affairs surrounding them, Yonsei University itself can be surmised to be a mecca for anti-Japanese propaganda.
When I first appeared publicly in this manner, I wrote that Japan’s world-renowned corporations had extended financial and technical assistance to Korean companies purely out of goodwill and benevolence.
In particular, Toshiba, Hitachi, and others provided enormous support to Samsung.
At the time, I myself had even happened to sit with Samsung employees at a club in Umeda, Osaka, and thus know the circumstances of that era through direct personal experience.
The greatest reason why Japan–Korea relations have deteriorated to the present state is that those who adhere to counterfeit moralism and distorted communist ideology, as well as resident Koreans in Japan, came to occupy key positions, and that during the century of war, the Asahi Shimbun took the lead in inflaming Japanese public opinion day after day with slogans such as “Exterminate the demon Americans and British,” “Fight until the bitter end,” “Do not desire until we win,” and “One hundred million die together,” ultimately driving Japan into the inevitable outcome of defeat in the Japan–U.S. War—an outcome that Prince Konoe Fumimaro sought desperately to avert by attempting direct talks with Roosevelt.
And yet, despite the fact that Japan simply found itself on the losing side of the Second World War as a result of this chain of events, the Asahi Shimbun never spoke of its own war responsibility, but instead continued to publish outrageous commentaries portraying the former Japanese military as an organization of pure evil equivalent to the Nazis.
So-called cultural figures such as Kenzaburō Ōe are equally complicit in this.
I have written that Asahi leapt upon the appearance of Yoshida Seiji, but it now seems chillingly more likely that this was not a simple leap at all, but rather a joint production of the KCIA, the Asahi Shimbun, and Yoshida Seiji.
Triggered by a column written by Toshikazu Okada, editorial writer of the Osaka Culture Department of the Sankei Shimbun, which arrived on my PC on January 20, I made an extremely important discovery for both Japan and the world.
Then, the following morning, as if it were a reward from God, an article appeared that proved the correctness of my discovery.
As you know, I cited and translated into English for global dissemination a site that quoted from the monumental investigative work published by journalist Miki Ōtaka in the September 2016 issue of Shinchō 45.
Within that text, all truly discerning readers must have been struck with the same shock and dread that I felt.
To be continued.