NHK’s reporting is not, in the author’s view, a neutral act of public broadcasting.
Rather, it reflects a specific editorial intent tilted toward anti-Trump, anti-Abe narratives, a masochistic view of history, and accommodation toward China.
Through the reporting style associated with figures such as Asahi Inoue and Ōkoshi, this essay sharply denounces the structure of bias and public opinion manipulation within NHK’s news division.

2019-04-05
It is not an NHK building that speaks….
It is the people controlling NHK’s news division who edit the content, and then, for example….
Female announcers such as Asahi Inoue cheerfully read it out.

I am reposting a chapter I published on 2018-09-22 under the title:
“From the very start of the program, they went on endlessly broadcasting reports from America’s anti-Trump media that kept attacking President Trump.”

Asahi Inoue, who hosts NHK’s 7 p.m. weekend news program….
Is the woman who used to co-anchor News Watch 9 together with Ōkoshi, who kept making truly outrageous remarks, such as calmly saying that Japan had forcibly taken Koreans away, or that he was deeply moved because he admired Kang Sang-jung.
This woman, from the very moment the program begins, keeps running American anti-Trump media reports attacking President Trump without end….
And reports in such a way as to make it seem as though President Trump were in danger of losing power and facing political collapse.

What is the intention behind this?
To diminish the value of the Japan-U.S. summit meeting that is about to begin….
It can be nothing other than an attempt to belittle the achievements of Prime Minister Abe’s diplomacy.

The methods of editing and biased reporting used by the leftist activists who control NHK’s news division are….
Persistent and malicious.
It is not NHK as a company that speaks.
It is not an NHK building that speaks.
It is the people controlling NHK’s news division who edit the content, and then, for example….
Female announcers such as Asahi Inoue cheerfully read it out.

The former chairman, a former Mitsui & Co. man and the sort one might call “best left in the field like a wild lotus,” rebuked NHK’s biased reporting.
That was why the Ōkoshi faction had been removed.
But the moment the previous president stepped down and a figure who was neither poison nor medicine became chairman, the Ōkoshi faction came back into power….
The masochistic view of history, anti-Japanese ideology, and anti-Abe reporting following in the footsteps of Asahi Shimbun all returned openly.

The documents that former MEXT official Maekawa merely brought to Asahi and NHK….
Arima on News Watch 9 claimed….
That internal documents had been found through NHK’s thorough investigation….
This was an obvious lie of the kind characteristic of those who, as seen in the collection of Kiyomi Tsujimoto’s remarks, hold a masochistic view of history and anti-Japanese ideology, and act as proxies for China and the Korean Peninsula….
Arima exposed himself before the whole nation as a typical example of that kind.

After spending the opening segment thoroughly attacking President Trump….
What they then broadcast was….
A laudatory report on China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
They cleverly pretended to be fair by saying that Hong Kong had concerns, but in reality it was praise of China.
And they aired it at great length.

The Japanese people are given no information at all about what sort of people dominate NHK’s news and editorial divisions….
And are made to watch as “news” the programs those people produce and edit.
As a result….
Concerning Prime Minister Abe, a man than whom, among politicians, there is hardly anyone more decent in character….
They include the item “his character cannot be trusted”….
And use it as a leading question every time they conduct an opinion poll….
Then they carry out such opinion polls again and again at abnormally short intervals and report the results.

The moment the Constitutional Democratic Party, which shares their way of thinking….
Had fallen to a level of support unworthy even of discussion as a political party….
They stopped announcing party support ratings altogether….
And instead said that support for the Abe administration was closely contested.
What kind of survey are they even conducting?
They announce every time that the reason for disapproval is that “his character cannot be trusted”….
Repeating it over and over in order to implant this in the unconscious mind of the people….
This is precisely editing aimed at a subliminal effect….
This kind of behavior is also called information manipulation.

As politicians, the ones whose “character cannot be trusted” are….
Shigeru Ishiba and Shinjirō Koizumi….
And yet they do not even possess the intellect to understand what is perfectly obvious….
These incompetents who merely speak while keeping the editorials and articles of Asahi Shimbun’s editorial writers in mind….
Are precisely Shigeru Ishiba and Shinjirō Koizumi….
Anyone with true discernment can see that.
To be continued.