Watching Shintaro Ishihara’s press conference reveals the immaturity and moral arrogance of Japan’s media class.
This article exposes how journalists mistake pseudo-moralism for justice while lacking real-world experience and intellectual rigor.

March 3, 2017
I had just been watching Shintaro Ishihara’s press conference on NHK television.
What struck me deeply was the low level of the people who inhabit the world of the media.
I was the first to inform the world of a certain fact: the people working in the media are not Japan’s top-tier talents.
The content of that press conference proved the correctness of my argument one hundred percent.
At the same time, the spectacle of people who are themselves nothing more than a mass of pseudo-moralism and pseudo-communism at a level below kindergarten children, yet believe they are champions of justice and guardians of democracy, was beyond description.
As the head of an organization equivalent to a nation even on a global scale, namely the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Ishihara explained that he entrusted most matters to the metropolitan departments and to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.
This is only natural for the governor of Tokyo, a massive organization comparable to a sovereign state.
The governor of Tokyo is not the head of a small organization like a newspaper company.
It is not an organization composed almost entirely of people whose livelihood consists of criticizing others.
This is true of all major corporations.
What the sheer awfulness of that press conference revealed was that people in the media, who are fundamentally second-rate individuals, have never lived in the world of real business.
They manufacture topics and programs through pseudo-moralism and pseudo-communism, yet have never once engaged in the work of writing a genuine scholarly paper.
In doing so, they exposed every defect that disqualifies them as proper members of society.
Of course, they themselves are completely unaware of this.