This essay criticizes NHK’s reporting on the U.S.-China talks, arguing that its framing placed China and Xi Jinping above President Trump, while belittling Trump as merely seeking a political “souvenir” for the midterm elections.
It also condemns NHK’s broader reporting posture toward China, its treatment of Chinese Consul General Xue Jian in Osaka, and what the author sees as an attitude utterly detached from the feelings of the Japanese people.

Then what is the truth?
The following is something that every Japanese citizen must watch.
This is precisely what is meant by “the moon and a snapping turtle.”
Even so, NHK’s attitude is utterly appalling.
It overwhelmingly viewed, or placed, China—Xi Jinping—above Trump, and even demeaned Trump by saying that he wanted a souvenir for the midterm elections.
Are the people belonging to NHK’s news division, from top to bottom, caught in China’s honey traps, money traps, or the like?
NHK’s reporting makes China look as though it were the greatest country in the world, a splendid great power.
Who on earth, anywhere in the world, would want to live in a country like China?
In NHK’s reporting, China is portrayed almost as if it were a country of virtue.
I am left speechless with astonishment.
NHK employees are, in effect, national civil servants.
They are truly contemptible people.
The Japanese people would never, under any circumstances, say things such as, “We will strike off your filthy heads.”
And yet Xue Jian, the Chinese Consul General in Osaka, directed that kind of outrageous remark at Takaichi, the prime minister of our own country.
Then, on NHK Osaka’s flagship news program from 6 p.m., a female presenter who, even in appearance, looked like a union activist, commented, “Mr. Xue Jian is apparently actually a good person,” and so on.
NHK then brought out some decrepit old university professor whom no Japanese citizen knows, and had him go on at length, saying things such as, “Mr. Xue Jian is a good person.”
No genuine Japanese citizen would ever do such a foolish thing.