A critical essay examining the deterioration of Japanese media, focusing on Asahi Shimbun and NHK, factional control of discourse, and the abandonment of serious intellectual responsibility in political reporting.

2017-05-31
I will discuss later the appalling quality of Asahi Shimbun’s reporting over the past two weeks, but it had become so dreadful that I no longer even wished to monitor it. For that reason, I completely stopped watching TV Asahi’s News Station, which I had occasionally viewed for monitoring purposes. I decided to leave such monitoring to Noriyasu Hanada, the publisher of the monthly magazine HANADA, and to devote my own time to myself, which is far more valuable for someone as unknown as I am.
I had already felt that the moment the former chairman—an ex–Mitsui & Co. executive of the “leave the lotus flowers in the field” type—was replaced by someone from Mitsubishi Corporation, NHK’s News Watch 9 began once again to take on the atmosphere it once had.
I had frequently seen the current male and female anchors appear on the late-night news program around 11 p.m. No one could say with certainty that among those who control the news of this program there are not people similar to the elite of Chongryon.
Moreover, watching today’s NHK, I am convinced that such organizations—that is, organizations that make their living through speech—must have intensely powerful internal factions.
I had been watching the female anchor Kuwako since her time on Buratamori.
Not only in her case, but in general, I suspect that female television anchors regard as their ideal model that woman who appears on TV Asahi’s News Station, a quintessential Asahi Shimbun devotee—indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to call her an Asahi Shimbun fanatic.
This is because the same tendency can be seen on Fuji Television and elsewhere.
Watching them, I have already noted that I withdrew the concept of “Women in the 21st Century,” which I had written about when I first appeared bearing the banner of “The Turntable of Civilization.”
Watching these women, one sees not “Women in the 21st Century,” but rather Japan exactly as it has been—defeated and turned into an American colony, and manipulated at will by the governments and intelligence agencies of China and South Korea—an utterly outrageous state of affairs.
The level of intellectual deficiency is simply too severe.
It is all very well for those who make their living commenting not only on domestic politics but also on international politics and diplomacy to smile brightly, but
if they are to speak of politics, diplomacy, and peace—that is, if they are to speak the truth—they should first read without fail the genuine scholarly articles filled in the monthly magazines HANADA, WiLL, Voice, and Seiron, before delivering the news.
Broadcasting news based on Asahi Shimbun is something they should realize as soon as possible amounts only to proclaiming themselves to be outrageous traitors, deranged pseudo-moralists, and utter fools being expertly manipulated by countries built on “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies.”
This is because the matter concerns the prosperity, honor, and credibility of the Japanese nation and the Japanese people.
To be continued.