The Asahi Shimbun repeatedly elevated Kiyomi Tsujimoto as a spokesperson for its ideology.
That continuity was visible when Hiroshi Hoshi invited her as a commentator on NEWS23, revealing an unchanged editorial posture.

2016-03-30
At one point—perhaps as a desperate, death-throes struggle—the Asahi Shimbun came to prize Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Democratic Party as the perfect mouthpiece for its distorted and childish ideology, an ideology that has continued to inflict enormous damage on Japan and the Japanese people, effectively treating her as an ideal puppet.
Journalists and commentators with sound judgment wrote about this in disbelief.
As I begin writing this, I cannot help but think that such a state of affairs, too, was the result of actions taken by operatives from the Korean Peninsula and China who had infiltrated the Asahi, along with those who are now completely manipulated by them.
As if to prove this point, last night on NEWS23, Hiroshi Hoshi invited Kiyomi Tsujimoto as a commentator.
Hoshi conducts himself as a host in a manner that carefully avoids appearing, as Kishii did, to engage in reporting that is blatantly and visibly biased.
Yet the mere fact that he chose Tsujimoto makes it unmistakably clear that he is a man who has embodied the posture of the Asahi Shimbun.
From the fact that he promoted the man who turned Fukushima into “Fukushima,” even lavishly praising that man’s wife in prominent Asahi articles remembered by all its readers, and helped elevate him to the position of prime minister, it is evident that he has not changed in any way at all.