すぎやまこういち氏の訃報に際する政治的言及の有無

メディアの選び方

・日本のニュースメディア：有名どころとして、NHKと全国紙をピック
・英語のメディア、英語のゲームメディア：Googleで「Kouichi Sugiyama」と検索して上位に出てきた記事のうち、メジャーなメディアをピック
・日本のゲームメディア：検索であまりヒットしなかったので、「ゲームメディア　有名」で調べてアクセス数が多そうなメディアをピック

日本のニュースメディア（言及あり：2/5）

NHK：言及なし

「すぎやまこういちさん死去 90歳『ドラゴンクエスト』など作曲」

産経新聞：言及あり

「ゲームを愛した『生涯現役の巨匠』　すぎやまこういち氏死去」
「日本ほどいい国はないと思うし、日本に生まれてよかった」。インタビューの際、何度も口にしていたのが、母国に対する熱い思いだ。そうした思いを胸に〝もの言う作曲家〟としての活動にも取り組み、長年にわたって憲法改正や一票の格差問題の是正などを訴え続けた。」

読売新聞：言及あり

「『ドラクエ』作曲家・すぎやまこういちさん死去…『亜麻色の髪の乙女』などＧＳ黄金期築く」
「社会的な問題への関心も強く、『一票の格差を考える会』などの活動を行った。」

朝日新聞：言及なし

「作曲家・すぎやまこういち氏死去　ドラゴンクエストや学生街の喫茶店」

毎日新聞：言及なし

「作曲家のすぎやまこういちさん死去　90歳　ドラゴンクエストなど」

英語のメディア（言及あり：2/3）

Bloomberg：言及あり

"If You Liked Watching ‘Squid Game,’ Play These Video Games" 内の "This week in gaming news"
"Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for the Dragon Quest series, died at age 90. Although his music was popular, his far-right nationalist views were controversial among fans of the series."
※ニュースレターの末尾。掲載しているのが"news"としての全文

Forbes：言及なし

  " ‘Dragon Quest’ Composer Koichi Sugiyama Has Died At The Age Of 90"

techrader：言及あり

  "The best Dragon Quest music, as composed by the late Koichi Sugiyama"
"Unfortunately, Sugiyama's work has been tarnished by some of the man's own views on political and societal issues. While he was undoubtedly musically gifted, his opinions often landed him in hot water.
Sugiyama infamously denied the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in which Japanese soldiers murdered hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians.
The man drew ire in 2018 when he co-hosted a program with anti-LGBT politician Mio Sugita, whose views include axing the education of LGBT issues in schools across Japan."

日本のゲームメディア（言及あり：0/4）

IGN Japan：言及なし

「『ドラゴンクエスト』シリーズの作曲で知られるすぎやまこういちが逝去」

GAME MEDIA：言及なし

「作曲家 すぎやまこういち氏が9月30日に逝去。「ドラクエ」「風来のシレン」などを手掛けた。」

4Gamer.net：言及なし

「すぎやまこういち氏が逝去。ドラゴンクエストシリーズなどさまざまな楽曲を手がけた作曲家」

ファミ通.com：言及なし

「すぎやまこういち氏が逝去。『ドラゴンクエスト』『風来のシレン』などの作曲家」

英語のゲームメディア（言及あり：3/3）

IGN：言及あり

"Koichi Sugiyama, the Pioneering Dragon Quest Composer Known For His Controversial Views, Has Died"
"Sugiyama, however, became a controversial figure in his later years. In 2015, Sugiyama appeared alongside Japanese politician Mio Sugita, where he endorsed claims that the lack of children from LGBTQ+ couples were an issue for Japan. Sugiyama also subscribed to Japan's nationalist rhetoric around World War 2, opposing a resolution to ask Japan to apologize for the use of "comfort women" — a colloquial term for women who were forced into sexual servitude by soldiers during the conflict. Square Enix responded by distancing itself from the composer over those comments, saying that it does not "condone discrimination or harassment of any kind" and that it "respects the diversity of sexuality and gender equality of everyone around the world."

Polygon：言及あり

"Dragon Quest composer Koichi Sugiyama dead at 90"
"Sugiyama also promoted far-right nationalist views and publicly denied Japanese war crimes. He refuted the historical record involving Japan’s role in the 1937 Nanking Massacre, during which Japanese troops killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese people and raped upwards of 80,000 Chinese women, and opposed an apology from the Japanese government for its use of so-called comfort women, a softened term for women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II."

Kotaku：言及あり

"Dragon Quest Composer Koichi Sugiyama Has Died"
"While admired the world over for his musical talents, Sugiyama’s career was not without controversy; he was a notoriously public denier of the Nanking Massacre, and also repeatedly downplayed the role “comfort women” played in the Japanese war effort. He even went as far as joining a number of prominent Japanese politicians in lending his name to a full-page advertisement published in the Washington Post in 2007, aimed at American efforts at seeking an apology from the Japanese government for the country’s inhumane treatment of these “comfort women”—in effect sex slaves—during the Second World War."

所感

いわゆる左派に分類される日本の新聞が、彼の政治思想や差別的考えに触れていないのが意外だった。読売新聞も産経新聞も、どちらかというとポジティブなものとして彼と政治の関わりに触れている。
さらに意外だったのは、海外のゲームメディアでは彼の政治的発言に関する文の量が多い一方で、日本のゲームメディアでは4つ全てで言及が無かったこと。