Broadcasts and articles by Asahi Shimbun and TV Asahi demonstrate a coordinated effort to damage Japan’s international standing under the guise of press freedom. This chapter argues that such actions constitute a fundamental betrayal of national interests.

2016-04-21

That the true nature of Asahi Shimbun is that of a traitor and an enemy of the nation was made unmistakably clear last night by TV Asahi’s “Hōdō Station.”
A friend informed me earlier that Asahi Shimbun published the very same chart that had been broadcast on “Hōdō Station” the night before.
They ran it under the headline, “Decline in ‘Press Freedom,’ Growing Overseas Concerns About Japan.”
(Without even realizing that they were once again exposing to the entire world just how thick-skinned, childish, and therefore vicious a newspaper Asahi Shimbun truly is.)
As usual, it was a textbook example of match-pump journalism, an article written solely to damage Japan’s honor and credibility within the international community.

Needless to say, this was one of their final desperate acts aimed at bringing down the Abe administration.

Although they themselves are the masterminds behind this affair,
(and although everything has been transparently visible to the Japanese public since August of the year before last,)
they continue to behave as the most malicious possible incarnation of the naked emperor.
So long as it serves to realize their leftist-degenerate, quasi-communist self-righteousness,
and their childish and vicious ideology,
they do not hesitate in the slightest to damage the honor and credibility of the Japanese state and the Japanese people in the international arena.

If it meant securing tenants for the two super-high-rise Nakanoshima Festival Towers,
a building project on which their company staked its very future,
they did not hesitate to throw into confusion the former JNR North Yard land development project,
which had been a central pillar of Osaka’s revitalization,
and which was, in substance, an asset of the Japanese people themselves.
In the end, they reduced the second phase of that project to something utterly incomprehensible.

That is the true nature of Asahi Shimbun.
The Japanese state and the Japanese people must engrave this fact deeply in their minds,
and they must confront these people head-on.

Until I appeared and began pointing this out,
Asahi Shimbun had succeeded in making the world believe,
especially in Western societies,
that it was Japan’s finest and most representative newspaper.
This deception lasted until August of the year before last,
for the entire seventy years of the postwar period.

It goes without saying that the network of correspondents, academics, and other contacts
that they have spread throughout Europe and North America
is of an extraordinary scale.

I have repeatedly praised the Japanese edition of Newsweek,
but recently its Japanese reporters have begun publishing articles
that are noticeably different from before,
articles that read like a quasi-Asahi Shimbun.

For that reason, I had lately been skimming it diagonally,
but this week’s special feature was appalling.

Because of concerns over China,
from the beginning of this year,
Western hedge funds have launched ferocious attacks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange,
the market where enormous sums of money can be earned most reliably and most easily.
They bet on yen appreciation through currency futures,
and carried out massive short selling in Nikkei average futures,
earning enormous profits.

As a result, as I reported previously,
in markets around the world,
unbelievably,
the Tokyo Stock Exchange suffered a violent decline
of roughly thirty percent,
on par with the Chinese market itself.

Stock prices fell back to the level they had been at
when Prime Minister Abe first launched Abenomics,
and Asahi Shimbun, at the forefront,
wrote triumphantly,
“See, we told you so,”
or,
“Abenomics has peeled off.”

We are now on the eve of a House of Councillors election.

Asahi Shimbun has mobilized all of the sympathizers it has cultivated around the world
and has begun a full-scale assault on the Abe administration.

That this once again aligns perfectly
with the intentions of South Korea and China,
which wish to belittle Japan
and do not want Japan to exist as the great nation it truly is,
requires no further argument.

The Japanese state and the Japanese people
must prevail in this final battle
against these lowest of villains,
who, precisely because they are childish,
are the most vicious,
and who are obsessed with tormenting and degrading Japan.

In truth,
these villains are beings who,
under normal circumstances,
should be punished severely for treason against the state
and thrown into prison.

Just think about it.
The damage they have continued to inflict on the national wealth
amounts to as much as
1,400 trillion yen.

That there exist countless fabricated articles
through which they have damaged
the honor and credibility
of the deceased,
of us Japanese citizens living today,
and of the Japanese state itself,
is now a fact beyond any dispute.

To be continued.