It is the chapter I sent out on 2020-03-15.
The following is an article I just discovered online.
I didn't know it because I stopped subscribing to Asahi Shimbun six years ago in August, but I was dismayed to see the reality of the Pope's visit to Japan from this article by Mr. Sakai.
I can only say that the Asahi Shimbun is crazy.
What I read in the Weekly Asahi the other day was correct.
Anyway, who is the Pope that such a group of madmen carried?
It is not unconnected to the fact that Italy is now in a disastrous situation.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Pope Francis is most responsible for Italy's disastrous situation.
Why did it widely report the Pope's visit to Japan?
It had no Hong Kong protests and no mention of Uyghur crackdown.
The Pope, the head of the Christian Catholic Church, visited Japan from November 23 to 26.
This visit to Japan was something the Catholic Church in Japan has been requesting, as noted in the 'from one to understand' column on page 2 of the Asahi Shimbun's November 18 morning edition.
Regarding the schedule for the visit to Japan, the same column stated, "He will visit the A-bombed cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
He will meet with the Emperor of Japan and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.
He will also meet with evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and other people affected by the disaster.
The central theme seems to be "warning bells for the use of nuclear weapons," including nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants.
The Asahi Shimbun ran massive coverage on the visit, but the number of articles it ran was quite large.
In particular, a series of significant articles took up most of the paper's front page, including "The Idea of Acting on the Periphery of Society" in the morning edition of April 17 "Message from Nagasaki" in the morning edition of April 18.
"Pope goes to Hiroshima for the first time in 38 years" in the morning edition of April 19, and "One Step Toward Forgiveness" in the morning edition of April 20.
Reading the series of articles, it seemed that the Japanese Catholic Church and the Asahi Shimbun share almost the same views on history and nuclear weapons.
Historical recognition seems to be a view of Japan's guilt history. Of course, nuclear weapons, let alone nuclear power, are the peaceful use of nuclear power to " get rid of nuclear power."
That's probably why the Asahi Shimbun extensively reported the Pope's visit to Japan.
Quoting the Pope's words of opposition to nuclear weapons, the Asahi Shimbun repeatedly criticized Japan under the U.S. nuclear umbrella and has not signed the Nuclear Weapons Convention in its articles.
However, the nuclear umbrella is inevitably necessary in the face of the "nuclear threat" from China and North Korea.
They will never see this reality.
During his visit to Japan, the Pope had many beautiful words on various topics, including abolishing the death penalty.
However, I was not exposed to reports that he spoke about the democracy movement in Hong Kong and the repression in China's Uyghur region, which are severe issues of human rights and human life in Asia.
Isn't that considering China's wish?
The Sankei Shimbun covered the Hong Kong-Uyghur incident many times, and on November 28, as a Kyodo News telegram, the Pope said on the plane on his way home, "I want to go to Beijing. I love China" on the flight home.
The Asahi Shimbun has remained silent on this statement by the Pope.
In an editorial in the December 1 morning edition, Fusako Goh, an editorial writer, said, "I think the greatest power the head of the Vatican, which has no army or factories, has is morals." "Faced with the ultimate moral issue of 'peace,' he went around preaching his straightforward arguments without considering anyone's wish," she said.
It struck me as patently fake news, utterly different from the truth.
＊SAKAI Nobuhiko: Sakai is a former professor at the University of Tokyo.
He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1943.
He received his master's degree from the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Humanities in March 1970.
In April 1970, he began working at the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo, where it engaged him in editing 11 editions and 10 volumes of the Historiography of Japan, focusing on research on ethnic issues in Asia.
He retired in March 2006. He currently writes articles and columns for newspapers and monthly magazines. He is the author of The Asahi Shimbun, which goes crazy for oppressive Japanese hypocrisy.
