Asahi Shimbun’s “Madness” and Those Farthest from Democracy
This article denounces Asahi Shimbun’s distorted G7 coverage as a form of ideological madness, exposing its totalitarian mindset, manipulation by China and South Korea, and its role in undermining Japan’s democracy and Prime Minister Abe’s diplomacy.
Masato Hara of Asahi Shimbun embodies the abnormality of Asahi—so extreme that it can be called madness without exaggeration. By “madness,” I mean the level of depravity at which, in order to deny those who do not conform to their own principles, claims, and ideology, or in order to impose and realize those principles, claims, and ideology, they will do absolutely anything. As readers know well, they arrogantly believe themselves to be the guardians of democracy. Yet the way they have produced countless fabricated articles in the past, the manner of coverage on “Hōdō Station” on the very day of the recent G7, and the fact that Masato Hara, introduced as the chief economic writer of Asahi Shimbun, appeared and shamelessly slandered the Prime Minister of Japan on the very day of the G7—these things reveal everything. The original draft prepared by Japan as chair country was criticized for being too weak to avoid the risks facing the global economy. Prime Minister Abe visited each G7 nation, worked especially hard to persuade Germany, and managed to move the negotiations forward toward consensus, leaving the final adjustments to be made on the day itself. With Germany and the United Kingdom, the countries most inclined toward China, still not in agreement, Abe pushed negotiations to the absolute limit possible before the summit. President Obama, of course, understood this well. Yet a mere employee of Asahi Shimbun—a company that has long committed grave crimes against Japan and the Japanese people, a man ignorant of both international economics and international politics, and unaware that he himself is being manipulated by China and South Korea—dared, on behalf of the Japanese people, to casually declare the statements of Japan’s Prime Minister, who had traveled to G7 nations in the interest of both national interest and global economic development and reached the correct conclusion at the final hour, to be “nonsensical.” Furthermore, they attempted to brainwash viewers by featuring sympathetic journalists from Germany and the UK, countries that can also be said to be manipulated by China. All of this proves that they themselves are the ones farthest removed from democracy. Asahi, perhaps partly because it too is being manipulated, shares exactly the same nature as China, a one-party communist dictatorship it has long sympathized with since the postwar era, and South Korea, which in reality is a totalitarian state founded on lies that began with Syngman Rhee, especially in its external posture. They present matters only in ways convenient to themselves. Those who do not conform to their ideology are crushed relentlessly. The most ridiculous of all is the 모습 of Okada, the leader of the Democratic Party, whose thinking consists solely of Asahi’s editorials, attacking Prime Minister Abe’s superb efforts and the resulting G7 declaration by claiming that it was “made for his own convenience.” He lacks even an elementary-school-level understanding that today’s G7 represents a struggle between a United States that has finally recognized the threat of China and a China of 1.3 billion people—an uncertain figure that could collapse at any moment—while Germany and the UK, blinded by money, abandon both freedom and intellect. But this, after all, is because both Asahi and the Democratic Party are organizations that have in fact long been steered by China and South Korea.
