This article exposes the ideological bias of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club and the long-standing influence of Asahi Shimbun in shaping a distorted international view of Japan.

2016-05-07

The other day, I watched a satellite television program titled Japan Seen by Foreign Correspondents.
Its subtitle claimed that members of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club introduce Japan’s hidden gems.

A female reporter, apparently from the same country as Kumari Jayawardena, appeared and stated that nuclear power plants in Kyushu should be shut down, because doing so would eliminate concerns for disaster victims.

This too is a product created by Asahi Shimbun.
Which disaster victims, I ask, are worrying about nuclear power plants?
She is also one of those who, without any doubt or shame, host press conferences such as the recent one by David Kaye.
I am now convinced that they receive various forms of convenience from Asahi Shimbun.

It is inconceivable that Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has done anything to help them properly understand Japan.
Asahi Shimbun, however, is different.
It has turned them into its sympathizers, manipulating international society at will and tying it to the realization of its distorted ideology.

There is no doubt that they have continuously been treated to meals and provided with information, locations, and various conveniences.

Despite the fact that none of the countries these correspondents come from has achieved a level of intelligence, freedom, safety, peace, and equality comparable to Japan, they casually look down on Japan and speak condescendingly.

This is irrefutable proof that they read Asahi Shimbun.
Unaware of their own foolishness, they brandish superficial moralism.

A gathering of people worthy only of contempt—that is the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan.

In the country of the woman who appeared at the beginning, women likely cannot even ride buses in peace, because they never know when they might be raped by utter fools.
They may not even be able to attend school, because merely being female could mean being shot in the head, or having a bomb fall during class.

Yet people from such countries casually denounce Japan as a nation of human rights violations or hate speech.

This farcical scene is the world today—a world created by the rulers of China, a one-party communist dictatorship, by South Korea, which has pursued seventy years of anti-Japanese education to justify a fabricated history, and by Asahi Shimbun.