The U.S. will never admit to speaking ill of the U.S., even if it slanders other countries.

The following is from "Masayuki Takayama Criticize US, Shina, Korea, Asahi," published on 2013/12/10 by Masayuki Takayama, the one and only journalist in the postwar world, Themis, 1000 yen.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.
Everyone will be amazed at the sharpness of his tongue as he reveals and conveys the truth to us.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is his best book regarding sharpness of argument.
Emphasis in the text other than the headline is mine.

Japanese correspondents who please the U.S. and China are crazy
The underlying intention of the major newspapers to write about the laxity of the U.S. rating agencies after all this time
The result of the world being deceived by S&P　
According to a newspaper, the U.S. government has filed a $5 billion civil suit against Standard and Poor's (S&P) over the so-called subprime mortgage crisis.　
S&P had given high ratings to subprime loans for a long without doing due diligence.
As a result, Fannie Mae went bankrupt, citizens lost their homes, Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, and even Iceland went bankrupt.　
The U.S. government rushed to print more dollars and managed to get out of its predicament.
And if the Big Three were in danger, Secretary of Transportation LaHood could tell a big lie that "Toyota is defective," and G.M. could come back to life.
The reason why the U.S. government had no choice but to do such a terrible thing was due to the irresponsibility of S&P.　
The $5 billion was a punishment, but if it were the company's fault, $5 trillion would have been enough.　
They made it so cheap because of the weakness of the U.S. government, which did not regulate dubious financial products such as prime mortgages.　
In fact, because S&P gave a high rating to a dubious product, the entire world was fooled, and only the United States could enrich its pockets.
In a sense, it was a good collaborator.　
Then it stumbled. Lehman collapsed.
So, if the U.S. government were to punish S & P, the story would be different.　
The reason why they still sued was that S&P came out again and downgraded the U.S. Treasury from "AAA" to "AA+" "because of their unsound financial condition" when the financial turmoil finally subsided.

Nikkei and other newspapers groveled.　
The U.S. will never admit to speaking ill of the U.S., even if it slanders other countries.
Both Clinton, who brought a woman into the White House and performed oral sex on her, and the crook LaHood have been passed off as honorable men.
No matter how bad the finances are, the credit rating of the U.S. Treasury must always be the best in the world.
The U.S. is the best country globally, with high integrity and strength.　
The fastidious S&P put aside its concerns, commented on the financial condition of the U.S., and said, "This is ridiculous.
The U.S. government, feeling that it had been shown its ugliness, decided to file a lawsuit.　
From the outside, it looks like eye mucus is suing nose mucus, but it was interesting to see how the Japanese newspapers reported this dispute.　
I picked up the background from various newspaper reports on the U.S. government's lawsuit against S&P.　
They really know the other side of the story.
If he knows so much, why didn't he write about S&P's laxity beforehand?　
For example, S&P downgraded Japanese government bonds ten years ago to a mere "A" rating.
At that time, Nikkei and others bowed down to S&P's authority and made a big fuss about it.
What is the result?
If the downgrading had gone this far, interest rates on JGBs would have been higher, but the yen sold off then, and, just like now, the economy improved, and interest rates on JGBs fell.
S&P has always been unreliable.
It was just that the newspapers did not write about it.　

Why do you think they are so much in favor of South Korea?
Then, why did they write about it this time?
There is an excellent example to help you understand this.　
Two years ago, a bridge on Koror Island in Palau, a U.S. trust territory, collapsed without wind, killing two islanders.
When the U.S. discovered that shoddy work was the cause, it asked South Korea's Dong-A Construction Company, which had built the bridge, to repair it, but the company refused.　
In fact, just before that, Seoul's Seongsu Bridge over the Han River, which the same company constructed, also fell without wind.
Commuter buses and passenger cars fell off the bridge, killing 32 people.
Amid such a catastrophe, the company said, "We don't have time to deal with Palau."　
As a newspaper reporter, I would have written, "Don't go to another country and do something rash." Still, I never heard any voices pointing fingers at the insanity of the Korean companies in Palau.　
The Sankei Shimbun, on the other hand, carried an unintelligible Korean voice saying, "It is because of the 36 years of Japanese colonial rule that we were able to do such a shoddy job."　
There are only three reasons to be so beholden to South Korea.
The first is when, like Takashi Uemura of the Asahi Shimbun, who fabricated the comfort women story, he has a Korean wife, and his feelings are already Korean.
The second reason is that Koreans would beat him up in a bar if he wrote the truth.
The biggest reason is that government sources, etc., will stare him down, and he will not be able to do his job or eat.　
The S & P issue is the same.
Even though I know it is bogus, I will not get a good look from American officials if I write about it.
They will not like it.
The reason is that writing about it will only make the Japanese people happy, not the American wife or the president.　
However, the U.S. government sued S&P this time, saying it cannot be forgiven.
If this happens, they will be allowed to write the truth.
In other words, the U.S. government has officially lifted the ban on information.　
In other words, newspapers do not write the truth.
So, is it wasteful to read this? Water can leak even from the best hands.
Sometimes, it speaks the truth.

A newspaper's true intentions appear in the "details.　
Take the Asahi Shimbun, for example.
They have been writing that China is a good country.
Even amid the anti-Japanese riots, they wrote, "Still, stores in China" and "Japanese companies are reopening and advancing into China one after another," while Aera ran a feature article, "Still, fighting in China, there is no such an attractive market."
China is a good place," it said.　
Another newspaper published a photo of a half-naked man half-killing a man in a Japanese car.
The man's appearance is reminiscent of the Chinese who gang-raped a Japanese woman in Tongzhou and killed her by thrusting a stick into her genital area, but Asahi doesn't look at him that way.
Three months later, however, an editorial appeared, "A Step toward Reducing China Risk."
Japanese-affiliated companies should leave all trade secrets and management to Chinese nationals.
It would "avoid harm to the Japanese," and Beijing would be pleased.　
The Shina people were the same as they had been in Tongzhou, honestly admitting in print that the Japanese were in danger.　
The interest of the novel lies in the details.
The untold truths of newspapers are found in the details that can be easily overlooked.
(March 2013 issue)