Yesterday, I read the following article at the Nikkei newspaper's end, and I have concluded that this is what the NHK is all about.
It is NHK, and this is the paper that sums up the true nature of NHK.
NHK is empty.
But isn't this a pathology common to all mass media around the world?
So I ask the question to the rest of the world.
Yukio Mishima's question after 50 years
'Empty' Japan, the eyes that saw through it
The Emperor thought of him as 'the immovable point.'
'There is a growing sense that if things continue as they are, there will be no "Japan" left. Japan will be gone, and in its place will be an inorganic, empty, neutral, intermediate colored, wealthy, shrewd, economic power in the Far East.
About four months before he committed suicide on November 25, 1970, Mishima wrote an article for a newspaper titled 'Unfulfilled Promises.'
Miyadai Shinji, 61, a sociologist and professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, was so shocked by the author's death that he has continued to question its meaning.
Mr. Miyadai believes that 'this article is very important for understanding Mishima's understanding of Japan's nature and the emperorism he advocates,' he said.
Mishima believed that the existence of the Emperor was indispensable to the Japanese people because he felt that otherwise, Japanese society would become an empty shell.
'After the defeat, the Japanese became democrats overnight. In recent years, they have become LGBT and diversity-minded overnight. Mishima saw the Japanese as empty and interchangeable, eager to look around and hold their position.'
Miyadai says that he strongly sympathizes with Mishima's idea that the Emperor fills the "emptiness" of the opportunistic Japanese.
He said, "When you think about whether or not you can be consistent, even if the situation changes, you need an immovable point of reference.
What makes a nation and its people a "fixed point"?
Mr. Miyadai cites the United States and says the following.
'The interpretation of the U.S. Constitution is subject to varying degrees of interpretation at different times. That's why the constitutional scholar Lawreunderstandingd, 'What the Founding Fathers would have said if they had lived, is what fixed to the will of the Founding Fathers. Likewise, Mishima probably thought that what the Emperor would have thought could be Japan's immovable point. It's not a question of the system but factuality.'
Mishima's "Cultural Defense Theory" (1968), in which he regarded the Emperor as the source of all Japanese culture and expounded the idea of the "emperor as a cultural concept," caused a stir in the debate.
The historian of political thought, Bunzo Hashikawa, bitterly criticized Mishima's emperor theory as fanciful and inconsistent with the modern state's logic.
'Mishima replied that he would show himself that "the 'emperor' is neither a mere word nor a personality, but a being as a temporal god. And by dying a singular death, It could see him as betting that he would become a symbol that would remain with us for years to come and would continue to be referred to by future generations."
But how well do the questions that the artist risked his life to ask to resonate with today's young generation?
Before considering these ideas, which could be seen as antiquated, it is crucial to understand the writer himself.
To get a glimpse of the author, Miyadai cites this year's film 'Mishima Yukio vs. the University of Tokyo' directed by Toyoshima Keisuke.
This documentary records the entirety of Mishima's discussion with about 1,000 left-wing students a year before he committed suicide.
Mishima feels enthusiastic about the students who invited him to participate in the debate, even though their ideologies are different, and he uses his words to communicate with them. It would be nice to be taught by someone with such love.
Mr. Miyadai believes that the situation in Japan today is precise, as Mishima predicted fifty years ago. "He knew very well that human beings are fundamentally weak, and that's why he opened the door for us to find a place to live. As long as Japan is 'empty,' Mishima's questions will continue to be valid."
(Yoshinori Kondo)
It is NHK, and this is the paper that sums up the true nature of NHK.
NHK is empty.
But isn't this a pathology common to all mass media around the world?
So I ask the question to the rest of the world.
Yukio Mishima's question after 50 years
'Empty' Japan, the eyes that saw through it
The Emperor thought of him as 'the immovable point.'
'There is a growing sense that if things continue as they are, there will be no "Japan" left. Japan will be gone, and in its place will be an inorganic, empty, neutral, intermediate colored, wealthy, shrewd, economic power in the Far East.
About four months before he committed suicide on November 25, 1970, Mishima wrote an article for a newspaper titled 'Unfulfilled Promises.'
Miyadai Shinji, 61, a sociologist and professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, was so shocked by the author's death that he has continued to question its meaning.
Mr. Miyadai believes that 'this article is very important for understanding Mishima's understanding of Japan's nature and the emperorism he advocates,' he said.
Mishima believed that the existence of the Emperor was indispensable to the Japanese people because he felt that otherwise, Japanese society would become an empty shell.
'After the defeat, the Japanese became democrats overnight. In recent years, they have become LGBT and diversity-minded overnight. Mishima saw the Japanese as empty and interchangeable, eager to look around and hold their position.'
Miyadai says that he strongly sympathizes with Mishima's idea that the Emperor fills the "emptiness" of the opportunistic Japanese.
He said, "When you think about whether or not you can be consistent, even if the situation changes, you need an immovable point of reference.
What makes a nation and its people a "fixed point"?
Mr. Miyadai cites the United States and says the following.
'The interpretation of the U.S. Constitution is subject to varying degrees of interpretation at different times. That's why the constitutional scholar Lawreunderstandingd, 'What the Founding Fathers would have said if they had lived, is what fixed to the will of the Founding Fathers. Likewise, Mishima probably thought that what the Emperor would have thought could be Japan's immovable point. It's not a question of the system but factuality.'
Mishima's "Cultural Defense Theory" (1968), in which he regarded the Emperor as the source of all Japanese culture and expounded the idea of the "emperor as a cultural concept," caused a stir in the debate.
The historian of political thought, Bunzo Hashikawa, bitterly criticized Mishima's emperor theory as fanciful and inconsistent with the modern state's logic.
'Mishima replied that he would show himself that "the 'emperor' is neither a mere word nor a personality, but a being as a temporal god. And by dying a singular death, It could see him as betting that he would become a symbol that would remain with us for years to come and would continue to be referred to by future generations."
But how well do the questions that the artist risked his life to ask to resonate with today's young generation?
Before considering these ideas, which could be seen as antiquated, it is crucial to understand the writer himself.
To get a glimpse of the author, Miyadai cites this year's film 'Mishima Yukio vs. the University of Tokyo' directed by Toyoshima Keisuke.
This documentary records the entirety of Mishima's discussion with about 1,000 left-wing students a year before he committed suicide.
Mishima feels enthusiastic about the students who invited him to participate in the debate, even though their ideologies are different, and he uses his words to communicate with them. It would be nice to be taught by someone with such love.
Mr. Miyadai believes that the situation in Japan today is precise, as Mishima predicted fifty years ago. "He knew very well that human beings are fundamentally weak, and that's why he opened the door for us to find a place to live. As long as Japan is 'empty,' Mishima's questions will continue to be valid."
(Yoshinori Kondo)
