日本に暗黒勢力結集か？Are forces of stupidity gathering in Japan Times?

Are forces of darkness gathering in Japan?
BY JEFF KINGSTON
SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES
MAY 16, 2015 ARTICLE HISTORY PRINT SHARE　

via >Japologism

天ぷら大のおっさんーーー笑える



Fackler---Watchdog or Lapdog?
で、日本関連英語記事では、fact-check とか、Corroborating evidence・information とか、seeking alternative points of view　とかほとんど皆無ということを書きましたけど、その典型

implicated Team Abe in getting Shigeaki Koga, a prominent Abe critic, axed from

チーム安倍が、古賀を首にした証拠は？

claiming he was the victim of a political vendetta and corporate media timidity.

テレビ朝日の見解はなぜ、掲載しないのか？

The local correspondent informed him that the Japanese network’s management in Tokyo nixed the interview because it was going to assess how Abe has handled the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, and this topic was deemed too sensitive.

じゃあ、安倍ちゃんの戦後７０周年記念における発言を評価する番組はないわけ？　あったら、どうするの？　楽しみだなあ。

Conservative Abe cronies were appointed to NHK’s top management last year, and Katsuto Momii, a man without any media experience, was named chairman. He later declared to the press, “When the government is saying ‘Right’ we can’t say ‘Left.’”

籾井氏は問題発言が多く、その資質に問題があり、個人的には失敗人事だと思うが、これも文脈から切り取ってしまうのもまずい。

ＮＨＫ籾井会長会見の主なやりとり：朝日新聞デジタル

As for the territorial issue, it is natural that we should support Japan's position. We can't say "left", when Japanese government says "right"

Since Momii began promoting this curious vision at NHK, staff have complained that managers are strictly insisting on wording that hues to government views on controversial topics such as Yasukuni Shrine, disputed territories and the “comfort women.”

これも一方的報道だな。

「そういったルールは一切ない」と

「ＮＨＫが性奴隷言及を禁止」と英紙　籾井会長「理解に苦しむ」 - 産経ニュース

There is no smoking gun, and it could be a routine staff rotation, but an apparent casualty of the purge is NHK’s “News Watch 9″ anchor Kensuke Okoshi, who has spoken out against nuclear power and committed other “transgressions.”

日刊ゲンダイ|真相は「更迭」…ＮＨＫ大越キャスター“３月末降板”の舞台裏

要するに噂にすぎないかもしれないわけですね。

“The systematic suppression of the press and freedom of speech by the Abe government and its functionaries is very, very disturbing in terms of its effects on the future course of Japan and its democracy,” says Ayako Doi, a journalist based in the United States who is currently an associate fellow of the Asia Society. In her view, things have gotten significantly worse under Abe. She cites the Liberal Democratic Party’s summons of Japanese media executives, the Japanese consul general in Frankfurt’s visit to the editors of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and a Foreign Ministry official’s visit to publisher McGraw-Hill in New York to ask for changes in the descriptions of Japan’s comfort women system of sexual slavery written in a U.S. history textbook.

ただ、あの教科書は、歴史家や


Japanese historians seek revision of U.S. textbook over ‘comfort women’ depiction
BY REIJI YOSHIDA

左翼で、日本軍慰安婦に同情的な左翼の人まで、

エミ コヤマさんはTwitterを使っています: "日本政府が抗議しているという、米国の世界史教科書における間違った慰安婦記述の現物はこれ。事実間違っている部分はあるので、そこを普通...

間違いを認めている。

政府が間違いを指摘すると圧力というのかね、アメリカやドイツでは？

“It seems that under the Abe government, efforts to silence critics of his policies and interpretation of history have become systematic,” she says. “It now appears to be a concerted effort orchestrated by Kantei (the prime minister’s office).”

Fact checking and Corroborating evidence please

Japan’s right-wing media also engages in trans-Pacific intimidation. For example, a rightwing pundit slammed the National Bureau of Asian Research’s Japan-U.S. Discussion Forum, making groundless accusations about an anti-Japan bias.

これは誰の話をしているのだろう？そして、その人は官邸に操られているのだろうか？

Clark himself was publicly defamed for his alleged anti-Japanese views because he raised some questions about government and media representations concerning the North Korean abductions of Japanese nationals.

そういうことがあったとして、たぶん、これは安倍政権前の話ではなかろうか？

“Requests to write articles for the magazines and newspapers I had long known dried up,”

それ言ったら、おれが、貧乏なのは、ファクラー記者か、ＣＩＡの圧力のせいだ、みたいなものじゃないか？


意見はいろいろあっていいが、自分の主張をback up する訓練ができていないひとが教授をやっているとすると、Temple の教育は惨憺たるものかもしれない。

それにしても、Ｊａｐａｎ　Ｔｉｍｅｓ

Are forces of stupidity gathering in Japan Times?

と問いただしくもなるわなああ。