If they don't check their bullshit articles, what is the desk for?I get the impression that they are made up of a bunch of people who are just plain anti-Japanese and say 'wasshoi, wasshoi'.

25 May 2018
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With people who make their living from the print media, such as the Asahi Shimbun, and the TV media who grew up subscribing to and reading it closely,
Why the opposition parties and ruling party politicians such as Koizumi Shinjiro, who make their living as members of the Diet, have been doing that for the past year and a half,
Ibid, p146, Chapter 4: The Most Extensive post-war Regime, The Media Tyranny of the Asahi Shimbun, is a book that perfectly explains why.
Emphasis in the text other than the headline is mine.

The Asahi Shimbun's administrative power has been overshadowed
Watanabe.　
I try to read what Mr Takayama writes without missing anything, but it is really gratifying.
Only Mr Takayama has been so thorough in his criticism of Asahi.　
In the last few years, the divine power of the Asahi Shimbun has been waning, and it is no longer possible for Japanese speech writers to gain social status simply by attacking Japan, whether it is about the Nanking Massacre, comfort women, or anything else.　
If you are somewhat of an intellectual, you must now feel that you can only speak out if you read Sankei instead of Asahi.
Takayama.　
Thank you very much.
The Asahi still contains only ridiculous articles.　
The media must be the first to get Japan back on its feet.　
The US is a good example: the media still don't understand why Trump became president, and they continue to attack him in general, refusing to acknowledge reality.
The same thing is happening to the Abe administration.
Watanabe.　
Many people have realized that those who praise the Constitution and the occupation policy are not quite right and that no one in the defeated interests has anything decent to say.　
The media and cultural figures who have profited from attacking Japan have passed the word on to the next generation, and the Japan Education Society has taught children that it is all Japan's fault.　
The adverse effects of the defeated war profiteers still linger, and those who have built their positions on anti-Japanese speech will not be able to retract their pet theories now, even if new historical facts emerge, because of their prestige.
Takayama.　
I think the Asahi Shimbun is the same, but the core of the Asahi Shimbun during the starting point of the post-war period was its profound connection with the US.
The core of the Asahi Shimbun during the post-war period was its profound connections with the US, including Taketora Ogata (former chief editor and representative director of the Asahi Shimbun) and Shintaro Ryu (former editorial director of the Asahi Shimbun).　
Ogata also entered politics but was a CIA collaborator and an agent of Dulles' operations against Japan.　
What the US feared most was the situation that Mussolini worried about, saying that if Japan became as powerful as it had been before the war and subdued China, and if Japan and China cooperated and joined hands, who could say for sure that Japan would not gain world hegemony, and this was the true nature of what they called the 'Yellow Peril.' 
To prevent this, the international situation in Far East Asia, Japan, and its surroundings should always remain unstable.
The continuing confrontation between Japan, Korea, and China will also cause turmoil in Japan.　
When Ogata Taketora, who was linked to Dulles, a follower of this strategy, died suddenly in 1956, he was succeeded by Ryu Shintaro, who had been a friend since Switzerland.　
Shintaro Ryu had a connection with Dulles, who was head of the US OSS (Office of Strategic Intelligence, the predecessor of the ClA) bureau in Bern, Switzerland, in 1945, when he was there as a European correspondent and conducted under-the-table peace negotiations with the US.　
The Joint Declaration of the Seven Companies on the 1960 Security Treaty is evidence of the links with the US.
Asahi even launched the Asahi Journal in 1959 to agitate against the Security Treaty and for the overthrow of the Liberal Democratic Party.　
Michiko Kaba, a student at the University of Tokyo, was killed in clashes between demonstrators and police.
Then, according to the Metropolitan Police Department, about 130,000 protesters (330,000 according to the organizers) became furious and noisy.
When the enthusiasm was almost pre-revolutionary, Shintaro Ryu gathered all the newspapers and news agencies in Tokyo and had them publish a joint editorial, "Eliminate violence and protect parliamentary democracy."
It is said that Dentsu set this up, but I am sure that Shintaro Ryu did.
Watanabe.　
I see.
That was like removing the ladder.
Takayama.　
We forbade a revolution to take place at the last minute.
Asahi's line, including that of the Asahi Journal, has always been opposition to the revision of the Security Treaty and the resignation of the Kishi Cabinet.　
After overthrowing the government and even inciting the occupation of the Diet building, if a revolution really broke out here and Japan went beyond instability to become an actual socialist state, it would have jumped over the US's intentions.
They likely took hasty steps.　
The seven companies that Shintaro Ryu has gathered on behalf of the US include Kyodo News, so it will also be distributed to local newspapers and published as an editorial.　
The demonstrators who had gone wild over Michiko Kanba's death on 15 June were suddenly calmed down after 18 June by the joint declaration of the seven companies on 17 June.
It was a complete media tyranny.
Watanabe.　
That's right, and they had enormous influence.
Takayama.　
What should we think of Asahi's tone from then to now?
Some Asahi alumni, such as Hiroshi Hasegawa and Nagae Kiyoshi, say that the Asahi Shimbun is occupied with Marxism and that the values of "Japan is bad" blinds their eyes to the facts.
I think that is not true.
It is not because they are occupied with the idea of Marxism but because they have only an arbitrary idea that "anything is fine as long as it is anti-Japanese."　
Nevertheless, until the time of Shintaro Ryu, the media, under the control of the US, disrupted politics and society and did not stabilize it.
But there was a last line that did not allow until the revolution.　
But when Shintaro Ryu died, no one was left to take over the role of window to the US.
So, like an unleashed dog, the Asahi Shimbun has been running around barking anti-Japanese rhetoric.
It doesn't have much to do with Marxism.　
Here are some articles that provide evidence of this.
In a series of articles in the evening edition of 11 September 2010, 'Leyte: Aging Witnesses,' it is reported that "Francisco Diaz, 95, lives in a simple, grass-floored house in Leyte. He traced his memories by rubbing a small fist-sized bump on his neck.
A photograph of the back of the older man's head is included.　
'In 1943, during the Japanese Occupation, Mr Diaz was pumping water in the river with some friends at the request of a Japanese soldier. Another group of Japanese soldiers came there. The soldier hit Mr Diaz on the neck with a gun. That's when the bump was formed". The bump, which was caused by the butt of the gun, has remained swollen for 70 years.
Watanabe.　
You don't grow a bump on the back of your neck like this.
I recognized it as soon as I saw it.
I also fell recently and had a huge bump, but bumps are supposed to retract (laughs).
No bump has not retracted in 70 years.
Takayama.　
They call a mere fatty bump a bump, put a large color photograph of it on the paper, and don't even bother to warn the desk.
So Kim Il Sung got a bump because he was beaten up by the Japanese army, a story that everyone knows is a lie.　
To say that the Japanese army was brutal, they print a ridiculous article saying that it is living proof, which has been hidden for more than half a century.　
This means that both the reporter who wrote the story without backing it up and his bosses know 100% that it is a lie.
As newspaper reporters, they have no desire to tell the truth.
They want to discredit the Japanese people and the Japanese army.　
The argument that anything, even a lie, is acceptable to promote the evil of the Japanese military is well expressed.　
In 2016, the Chunichi Shimbun and the Tokyo Shimbun admitted to lying five months later in a series of articles called 'New Poverty Stories,' when a reporter falsified an episode of poverty among junior high school girls, saying that he had imagined and written the story to improve the manuscript.
It is better to make it public.
Asahi has neither the self-cleansing power nor the ability to recognize a false story as a lie.
Watanabe.　
If they don't check their bullshit articles, what is the desk for?
I get the impression that they are made up of a bunch of people who are just plain anti-Japanese and say 'wasshoi, wasshoi'.
Takayama.　
It is a strange newspaper that exists only to advocate anti-Japanese innocence.
They are not ashamed to write articles everyone knows are lies and publish photographs of them.
Readers also believe that the Japanese army is terrible, so there is nothing that can be done about it.
Watanabe.　
It's interesting, isn't the research on the indelible bumps (laughs)?
Takayama.　
It's a natural monument.
It will become a world heritage site (laughs).