Masayuki Takayama’s work clearly illustrates how readers of the Asahi Shimbun were conditioned over time. Those with discernment react with shock and anger, while others continue to rely on the newspaper as a substitute for independent thought.

2016-04-10

The following is taken from 35 Exhilarating Chapters to Awaken the Japanese by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only genuine journalist in the postwar world.
Although these columns appear to have been written around 2007, this chapter also makes unmistakably clear how readers of the Asahi Shimbun were conditioned over time.
All former Asahi readers, myself included, are bound to reflect deeply.
Those with true discernment will feel a chill and, at the same time, anger.
Those without the ability to see truth may understand nothing and may still be using this newspaper as their own brain.
A remark made in a lecture by Sota Kimura, one of the so-called scholars aligned with the Asahi Shimbun, was quietly printed in today’s paper.
His view on the LDP’s proposal regarding family policy sounded exactly like the words of a child raised on the Asahi’s Tensei Jingo.
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