The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Characters of abducted "abduction"
Hasegawa
Criticism of North Korea, not limited to the Soviet Union and China, was almost taboo for a while.
As I mentioned earlier, "AERA" had quite a non-Asahi newspaper character that could post an article saying that Ms. Yokota was kidnapped to North Korea, but even then, editing at that time if the chief were another person, I do not know what the result was.
Although the article was surely posted on the magazine, the first big headline was that the girl was abducted by North Korea.
However, it was changed to "being alive in North Korea."
It probably did not want to stimulate North Korea too much.
I tried hard to use the word "abduction" widely.
Since the Asahi Shimbun is a large household, of course there are not a few people who do not have a Marxist insistence, but what do I say, what is the air inside the company?
Watanabe
Well the air moves.
What was the reaction of Mr. Hasegawa's book to such a company in the Asahi Shimbun?
Hasegawa
I sent my book to Asahi Shimbun’s OB and active people about twenty or thirty people, but there are few reactions.
Everyone is silent and quiet as eerie.
From a prominent OB, I got a thank you note written as tightly.
It was content to understand that he carefully read it, but it ended up with "When I read the condolences to the Asahi Shimbun, I feel unspeakable sorrow"
Another person, it was long in the Osaka head office, from OB that is familiar to me comparably, typed on a PC closely, a very long letter of about A4 size 8 pages arrived.
This is considerably read deeply, every single criticism of him is also written, timidly as soon as I opened it, it started writing "Thank you for receiving your book", "It causes a physiologically rejection reaction, I cannot look through it ", it was written.
However, it continues immediately, the Asahi Shimbun Company, at least the Osaka head office where I was living long, is the fact that taking a left wing pose is the greatest means of success in life, it is continued to write endlessly with various concrete examples.
Watanabe
My acquaintance brother was a bright person of the University of Tokyo, but he applied for the Asahi Shimbun and fell down.
What he says repentantly, it seems that it was bad that he said that he was a Communist member.
He thought that it would be loved by rather, but the Asahi Shimbun saw that Marxist is good, but the Communist Party seemed to be in trouble.
Hasegawa
My junior who joined the Showa 40s said that there was a column to write the names of the supporting political parties in the application documents.
He was supporters of the LDP, he wrote with the Japanese Socialist Party in the end, writing and erasing political parties many times, he wondered whether it should be written honestly, or a little bad at the Communist Party of Japan.
Whether or not due to that, he passed the examination, indeed if he wrote it as Liberal Democratic Party he could not pass.
Is this a kind of allegiance test?
This draft continues.