Drawing on investigative reporting, this essay argues that labeling certain opposition politicians as SanbyakuDaigen was accurate, and traces a continuous pattern of fabrication and ideological bias within a major newspaper, concluding it posed a serious risk to Japan.

2017-05-02
The following is a revision of paragraphs from a paper published on March 28.
On page five of today’s Sankei Shimbun, there was a feature article titled, “Tsujimoto: How Will She Answer These Questions,” with the subtitle, “Appears in Emails Between Mrs. Akie Abe and Mrs. Kagoike.”
All readers of the Sankei Shimbun must have read it.
It is an article that proves that my description of Democratic Party legislators as SanbyakuDaigen hit the mark precisely.
Even so, one must wonder whether the people at Asahi Shimbun have no sense at all that figures such as Tsujimoto Kiyomi and Fukushima Mizuho are deeply problematic.
From those involved in fabricating the comfort women issue, led by Wakamiya Yoshibumi, to Hakoda Tetsuya, who now writes peculiar articles about Korea,
this is the Asahi Shimbun, whose employees were sent one after another to study at Yonsei University.
At best, their way of thinking is essentially Korean.
Viewed more darkly, there is no choice but to conclude that they have all been perfectly indoctrinated by South Korean intelligence agencies.
The first report on the Moritomo Gakuen issue was almost certainly written by the Osaka headquarters social affairs department—the same department that fabricated the comfort women story.
I repeat: three years ago, in August, this newspaper should have been shut down.