This article examines how NHK’s Watch 9 conducted two consecutive nights of narrative framing designed to revive a GHQ-imposed masochistic view of history. Through anchor selection, emotive storytelling, and selective omission, NHK shaped public perception in line with a specific ideological agenda rather than neutral journalism.
2017-05-05
They carried out impression manipulation over two consecutive nights, attempting to force the past into alignment with their own ideology and to make the audience relive it.
From the moment NHK began appointing Asahi Inoue, who had long served as the female anchor alongside Ōkoshi on the 9 p.m. news, I felt something was deeply wrong.
This followed a period when Ōkoshi, appearing with the weekend female anchor on the 7 p.m. news, repeatedly spoke of “forced mobilization” and openly declared how “deeply moved” he was after interviewing Kang Sang-jung.
The instant the NHK chairman—who had continued to voice unprecedented criticism of NHK’s reporting posture—was replaced, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the spies lurking within NHK began to stir into action.
The two new anchors of Watch 9 are nothing more than ideal puppets for them, a fact that all discerning observers have long since recognized.
These two anchors, raised and trained by carefully reading Asahi Shimbun—that is, people afflicted with what can only be called “Asahi disease”—read their scripts through a lens of pseudo-moralism and pseudo-socialism whenever a politically opportune topic arises.
They completely ignored Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s entirely reasonable statement that the foolish situation which produced claims that the Self-Defense Forces are unconstitutional must be brought to an end, and that the SDF should be clearly recognized as constitutional by 2020.
Instead, they revived the very masochistic historical narrative implanted by GHQ—that Japan committed unforgivable wrongdoing.
In this way, they conducted impression manipulation over two nights, attempting to drag the past into conformity with their ideology.
Using their standard emotional devices—such as stories of war orphans—they sought to manipulate the perceptions of the Japanese public.
I will state this plainly: just like Asahi Shimbun, NHK’s News Bureau is not a news organization of the Japanese nation.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is a broadcaster completely controlled by China, a one-party dictatorship, and by Chongryon, which operates under North Korea.
This is an extremely grave and alarming situation.
I first became aware of the female anchor of Watch 9 when she appeared on Buratamori, but even during the 11 p.m. news, I was disturbed by how her eyes took on a peculiar expression whenever political topics arose.
That expression was almost identical to that of the female newscaster on Hōdō Station, who could without exaggeration be described as suffering from Asahi disease.
Even so, do people at NHK lack even the basic intellectual capacity to grasp the terror of allowing someone who does not even know that the Kurobe Dam is called “Kuroyon” to speak on politics, diplomacy, and international affairs?
For China and Chongryon alike, such a person is probably the most convenient figure imaginable.
According to Wikipedia, NHK—Japan Broadcasting Corporation—is Japan’s public broadcaster, established under the Broadcast Act and overseen by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
As a public broadcaster, its scale is comparable to the BBC, and it operates numerous subsidiaries and affiliated companies both domestically and overseas.