For example, there is not a shred of fact in Honda Katsuichi's "Travels to China."　

The following is from Masayuki Takayama's serialized column in the latter part of the Shukan Shincho, released yesterday.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese people but for people worldwide.

Who are you to say that?
Asahi Shimbun reporters pay little attention to facts.
For example, there is not a shred of fact in Honda Katsuichi's "Travels to China."　
At that time, the president, Tomoo Hirooka, said something like Yasuo Fukuda, "Don't write anything that would be inconvenient for China,'' so the company was full of lies.
The same thing happened with the next president, Seiki Watanabe.　
So, the Miyazaki Bureau Chief wrote a lame "The 23rd Miyakonojo Regiment committed the Nanking Massacre.　
When people who knew the facts protested, he turned them away with, "What do you have to say to the Asahi is absolute master?"　
Akiyoshi Satake, head of the arts and sciences department at the Tokyo headquarters, also reported, "This is the poison gas operation in Nanchang," with a picture of smoke billowing up.　
The Sankei Shimbun reported, "When poison gas rises to the sky, it can only kill crows. It is a smoke screen." The Sankei Shimbun pointed out that this was a bogus report by the Asahi Shimbun.　
Mr. Satake was furious and lashed out at Sankei, saying, "What in the world do you think you're doing to the great Asahi?"　
But no one knew that "Asahi is absolutely master." 
Watanabe was fired when the two stories were exposed as lies.　
It was frustrating for "Asahi is an absolute master."
So the cameraman carved "KY" on a coral and made a "Japanese are the world's leading graffiti people" as revenge.　
The local people, however, suspected that Asahi was acting independently.　
When they questioned Asahi Shimbun, Asahi initially threatened them.
When they again confronted Asahi with circumstantial evidence, he plausibly excused himself by saying, "I made old doodles clear with my fingers."
When they pointed out that doing it with one's fingers was impossible, Asahi said, "With the strobe handle," to adjust its story.
When the newspapers began to make a fuss, Asahi finally admitted that he had carved the coral himself.　
It was the culmination of a series of unsightly evasions.　
President Toichiro Ichiyanagi was fired for this.
The next president, Toshitada Nakae, swore revenge and first had Takashi Uemura write a lie about comfort women to slander the Japanese people.　
Next, he cursed the political and business world at Recruit, but Nakae resigned when it was revealed that he had been sponging on Recruit, too.　
Shinichi Hakoshima, who had been in the same position for a generation, narrowed down Asahi's enemies to Shinzo Abe and had Masakazu Honda write that "Abe had NHK's red program changed."　
The program was a farce court of law to judge the emperor, staged by former Asahi's Yayori Matsui and North Korean agents.　
Honda believed that if he wrote "Abe interfered," he could bury Abe with his red buddy NHK cheering him on.　
However, NHK was noncommittal and said the exact opposite, "Asahi is reporting falsehoods."　
If such malicious fabrication is exposed, it would not be surprising if the paper is discontinued.
Hakoshima quickly resigns, taking responsibility for the fictitious meeting between Yasuo Tanaka and Shizuka Kamei that occurred around the time of Honda's article.
After much deliberation, Kotaro Akiyama, entrusted with taking care of the situation, decided to refer the matter to an "impartial third-party committee.　
But it was not fair at all.
The panel included Yasuo Hasebe, a constitutional law scholar who was a protege of Asahi, and Uichiro Niwa, who had ties to China, among others.　
Asahi paid out gratuities and other expenses like water.　
Nine months later, after all the rumors had died down, the reporter was acquitted as planned, saying that the article was based on a lack of reporting.
No apology was needed.　
After that, Asahi continued to use the third-party committee extensively, which only helped itself by being plausible.　
The lies about comfort women, which had slandered the Japanese people for 30 years, went unpunished, leaving only the resentment of the Japanese people.　
Part of the party ticket income was returned to the Abe faction, which Asahi hates, and was used undocumented.　
Asahi is now making a fuss about the "slush fund."
When CDP member Jun Azumi made a 300,000 yen slush fund, Asahi wrote that it was "undocumented."
Kato Ryusho of the Abe faction was forced to quit his post as MLIT parliamentary secretary because even 100,000 yen was considered a "slush fund."　
Asahi picked up on this in an editorial.
The headline read, "Don't cheat bit by bit."　
The "bit-by-bit deception" was Asahi's response to the coral graffiti incident, wasn't it?　
That's a severe crime of damaging a natural monument.
On the other hand, Abe's faction is a way of disposing of its political party's money.
It is accused of negligence in not providing information.
On the other hand, Asahi committed the crime and perjured itself repeatedly.　
The editorial says, "The truth investigation is not a third-party inquiry.
To say without shame.　
How dare Asahi misrepresent the truth under the guise of a "third-party investigation"?　
If you want to say something to the public, you should first reflect on yourself.
It is a hundred years too early for you to be writing like a big shot.

 

2024/2/13 in Kyoto