The following is from the serial column of Masayuki Takayama, who brings the weekly Shincho released on Thursday to a successful conclusion.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
Creating International Public Opinion
It was a while ago.
Eriko Yamatani, the minister in charge of the abduction issue, was invited to be a guest speaker at the Foreign Correspondents' Club.
North Korea was silent, and Japan had no way to get the victims back.
In such a situation, a foreign correspondent finally took an interest.
Yamatani went to the press conference with the feeling of seeing a ray of light.
First, a reporter from the British Times, Mr. Perry, stood up, but his question was not about the abduction, but "Do you know about Masuki?
He continued, "I have a picture of us together.
Adelstein, an American reporter, followed up with, "Masuki is a member of the Zaitokukai, isn't he?"
The Zaitokukai is a citizens' group that calls for self-reflection on the welfare benefits provided to residents of Japan, despite their lack of qualifications.
One of the members of the group, Masuki, was friendly with Yamatani. About 10 people, including Shoko Egawa, hung up on Yamatani, saying that was the problem.
Why was such a terrible press conference held?
The clue came from the Asahi Shimbun's confession a month earlier that the story of Seiji Yoshida, the prime mover of the comfort women issue, was "all lies.
The comfort women were just prostitutes. Then there was no position for the foreign journalists who had been riding on Asahi's lies to humiliate Japan.
The same goes for South Korea, which has been squeezing Japan over the comfort women.
They want to quell the public opinion that criticizes Asahi as soon as possible.
At the same time, we must find a story to crush the Abe administration for exposing the lies about the comfort women and get even with them.
What I found was a photo of one of the leaves taken during her speech.
After Yamatani was invited, the plan was to hang her, force her to resign, and hold Abe accountable for her appointment.
For this purpose, I heard that the Korean lobby distributed a lot of money to poor foreign journalists.
The press conference was held, and the beating was widely reported by Asahi and Mainichi the next day.
The Tokyo Shimbun followed up with a report that Yamatani had also appeared in a newspaper affiliated with the Unification Church, which is involved in psychic sales.
However, despite the three red houses' efforts, public opinion was not willing to forgive Asahi for its 30 years of disgracing Japan with lies.
It was not Yamatani who was fired, but the president of Asahi.
Using the Foreign Correspondents' Club as a stage to create a political scene failed, but to tell the truth, the Foreign Correspondents' Club was originally set up by GHQ as a device to create a political scene in Japan.
The first attempt was made in 1946.
GHQ ordered the correspondents to "destroy Ichiro Hatoyama," the next prime minister.
The material was "a memoir glorifying Hitler," according to Mark Gein's Nippon Diary.
Hatoyama was invited to a luncheon meeting of the Foreign Correspondents' Club, but the questions, which lasted until the evening, were all about Hitler.
The next day's newspaper slammed him, and he was expelled as a result.
The same thing happened to Kakuei Tanaka.
He restored diplomatic relations between Japan and China without asking the United States.
This angered the U.S., which saw the Chinese market as a "manifest destiny across the Pacific."
Kakuei also approached the Southeast Asian countries that "Japan had shed blood to make independent" (G. Horn, The Race War).
This was also unacceptable to the United States, which was wary of a revival of Japan.
Kakuei was invited to a meeting of foreign journalists to discuss the current situation. Still, the Los Angeles Times reporter and others asked him about the "Tanaka money line," and that was it.
The same story was repeated incessantly, which was reported in foreign telegrams and caused an uproar in the Japanese newspapers, forcing him to resign as prime minister.
Apart from Kakuei, there was no one else.
Subsequent prime ministers stopped going to Yasukuni Shrine in the US and China, and Korea.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club is also being open but having virtually no business, and now there are only freelance writers who are a little better than them.
The Times reporter who tortured Yamatani is a man who came to Japan after winning a quiz, and Demilia from Italy is an illegal immigrant.
After the Yamatani press conference, Hideaki Kase and others from the "Asahi Shimbun Suitors Association" held a press conference here.
At the end of the questioning, Kase said, "You people don't even know that there were no slaves in Japan," and "You are all ignorant and uneducated."
He is right.
For example, in Yoshiro Mori's article on women, Japanese newspapers are very concerned about international public opinion that demonizes Japan.
It would help if you looked at the Tokyo correspondent's face who writes about it once in a while.
