A court ruling against Okinawa Governor Onaga exposed the falsehood of Asahi Shimbun’s narratives. This essay examines how distorted ideology spreads, ultimately portraying Japan as a human-rights violator despite being a nation of freedom and intellect.

2016-09-18
Readers who read the judgment reported yesterday, which ruled that the actions and statements of Takeshi Onaga were illegal, must have recognized that my critique of the Okinawa governor was entirely correct.
I was also the first to convey to the world that the actions of Satoshi Mitsuzono, a former employee of TV Asahi who was elected governor of Kagoshima Prefecture, were illegal, and that the actions of the Asahi Shimbun and others who encouraged his anti-nuclear rhetoric were likewise illegal, making them, in truth, lawless actors.
Asahi Shimbun → the two Okinawan newspapers → Onaga, together with his adviser, a pro-China female lawyer (whose existence was revealed by none other than Weekly Asahi, and whom readers know I have inferred to be a figure akin to a reincarnation of Mizuho Fukushima, who, along with her husband, was deeply involved from the early stages in the fabricated comfort women reporting by Asahi Shimbun), this chain at the beginning of the paragraph resembles the way in which the harm of heavy metals intensifies through the food chain, increasing the degree of evil, and ultimately led Onaga to deliver speeches at utterly fraudulent venues such as the UN Human Rights Council, portraying Japan, a country that has achieved the highest levels of intellect and freedom and in which the turntable of civilization is rotating, as though it were a human-rights-violating state.
As a sensible Okinawan once explained in Newsweek, after seeing ordinary rural scenes of Japan on television, they felt that Okinawans live far better lives and even felt apologetic that taxes which should have been used to improve the lives of people elsewhere were instead being spent on Okinawa. Even on the surface, when comparing the fiscal scales of the prefectures, the local allocation tax grants distributed by the national government to Okinawa stand out as exceptionally high (ranking 14th nationally). In addition, large sums of Japanese taxpayers’ money have been allocated to Okinawa under special categories. In other words, despite the fact that Okinawa has continued to receive, in practical terms, by far the largest subsidies in Japan.
There is hardly any evil greater than this.
When I first saw his face on the news, I felt the same sense of discomfort that I had experienced when being shown Izumida of Niigata. I now skim Asahi, and although the details of the judgment were on the front page, I did not read them. It was only after reading the Sankei Shimbun that I learned a thoroughly natural and reasonable judgment had been handed down.
As for Asahi’s reporting, the front page described the contents of the judgment, making me momentarily think that Asahi had repented. Yet the lower section, Tensei Jingo, was nothing other than the distorted ideology of Asahi’s editorial writers, insisting that their own arguments were correct. It was written in a gentlemanly tone rather than with the bare, particle-like viciousness of the past, but the substance was the same.
Reading the two pages on the reverse side, nothing had changed at all.
The editorial writers had their ideology voiced by two individuals — the president of Okinawa University, likely a subscriber and one of the pillars or spokespersons for the two Okinawan newspapers, and a professor at Yamanashi Gakuin University — members of the so-called cultural elite who align with Asahi.
Those who subscribe to and read the Asahi Shimbun closely are, even unconsciously, having foolish and distorted ideas implanted in them, such as anti-authority sentiments, the notion that the state is evil, and that politics itself is evil.