It was based on the firm philosophy that no one is more detrimental to the national interest than a person who can speak English.
October 26, 2017
Yesterday, for the first time, three morning editions of newspapers arrived at our house.
Yomiuri joined Asahi and Nikkei, to which we have been subscribing for a long time.
It is because we decided to stop subscribing to Asahi as a way to monitor the news.
I put the front pages of the Yomiuri and the Asahi before me, leaving the Nikkei aside because it is an economic paper.
Seeing is believing.
The front pages of Asahi and Yomiuri would not be so different, but they were, in fact, quite different.
The Yomiuri's front page reads as follows: Prime Minister Launches Push for Pressure on North, Holds Phone Calls with N. Korea's PMs
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a series of telephone talks on April 24 with the leaders of South Korea, Australia, and Malaysia.
They agreed to work together to strengthen pressure on North Korea, marking the start of a full-scale effort to realize the Liberal Democratic Party's pledge in its lower house election.
An emergency nationwide public opinion poll conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun on March 23-24 showed an increase in the Cabinet's approval rating.
Afterword.
To the left of this article, under a smaller headline than this, is an article on the Chinese Communist Party Congress titled Xi's "Successor" Not in Place.
The Asahi Shimbun, on the other hand, has no article at all about the actions of the Japanese prime minister, Xi's ideology, strengthening his authority, or his name being clearly stated in party guidelines since Mao and Deng.
It would be no exaggeration to say that this is no different from China's People's Daily.
It is no secret that China and South Korea have been outrageously antagonistic toward the Abe administration.
Below, this article says that two-thirds of the ruling party is "too much," 51%, according to a poll conducted by the company's headquarters.
Furthermore, the words "crisis of party politics" are printed on the left side of the article.
The Asahi Shimbun and NHK's watch9 are so anti-Abe that they do not even realize they deny democracy.
They are so anti-Abe that they don't even realize that they are denying the Japanese people the results of the election.
Late the other night, I watched a draft-related program hosted by former SMAP member Nakai.
He predicted the draft nominations as a preview of the live program to be broadcast on the day of the draft.
At that time, Nakai commented that the program on the day of the event would make him cry...
I stopped reading the newspaper and missed all the national soccer team's training games, but today, Nakai's program was still in my mind because I watched Yomiuri's program listings.
I turned the channel on, and Nakai's program came on.
It was a true story of a mother and her three children, a family of three and an impoverished family, but the real story of a pitcher who played baseball and was drafted was being played with live music.
I called my friend.
"This show is worth watching...it will make you cry."
Sometime later, I dozed off, and when I woke up, it was just before 9:20.
I switched the channel to Watch9, and the air was strange.
Arima was interviewing Ian Bremmer, who is more of a dissident than a supporter of the Democratic Party of the United States, in a hotel room in Japan.
It reminded me of a true story about selecting a non-English speaker as foreign minister in Yoshida's Cabinet.
The reason for this selection was based on the firm philosophy that no one can be more detrimental to the national interest than a person who can oddly use English.
Speaking of Ian Bremmer, when President Trump won the election, he appeared on NHK or TV Asahi to express his anger about his election prediction being completely wrong and even insulting the American people.
It is the kind of person watch9 invites to give a poor, simplified interview, as usual...
The interviews they conduct are to select people who will speak according to their distorted ideology,
As usual, they conduct really lousy, convenient interviews in which they select people who will speak according to their warped ideology and make them speak according to their wishes.
Watch9 must have forgotten that President Trump is even the president elected by the American people.
It is a news program devoted to attacking President Trump as if he were Prime Minister Abe, which is what watch9 is.
As usual, Kuwako has a strange look in her eyes—a look that is a conditioned reflex of people who have been brainwashed and have distorted ideas, as already mentioned.
She uses a definitive tone to express Arima's opinion that their opinion is absolutely correct.
They say things like, "It's a problem."
The LDP has allowed such a ridiculous, anti-establishment, anti-Abe, insane, and out-of-control (to use their favorite word) group to control NHK's flagship news program, which is, in effect, Japan's national broadcaster, and has left this foolish reality unchecked.
The Japanese government must immediately realize that it is nothing more than negligence on the part of the Japanese government to allow the foolish reality of the situation to continue.
It is the height of stupidity to allow such leftist cranks to control NHK's reporting and editing.
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