<< Manipulation and brainwash >>
I am now writing about the corruption of Japanese and foreign media.
I think it will take a little more time to complete.
While I am writing, I always keep searching
for information that is relevant to the issue. And I found a good one. I
thought before reading my writing, this would help you understand better about
the issue. And it is more convincing for you to hear an opinion which is
similar to mine.
The information is from Mr. Kent Gilbert
again. I referred to his opinions quite oftentimes here in my blog before. The
reason why I do that is because Mr. Gilbert is American with American
nationality. His family members are all Americans too.
And he spent nearly 40 years in Japan.
However, spending a long time in a foreign country doesn’t mean that he or she
is automatically understanding the native people’s way of thinking. As the
matter of fact, most of people living in a foreign country don’t understand the
local people’s way of thinking. Why I say this? Because I’ve actually seen a
lot of Japanese immigrants who lived in the US and weren’t able to understand
American people’s way of thinking despite living in the US more than 20 years. I
was of course one of them until I ran into some opportunity which made me
understand American way of thinking.
So the chances are very high, if you are
American living in Japan for 20 or 30 years, you will remain to have American
way of thinking without being able to understand Japanese way of thinking.
If you are American or westerner, when you
look at East Asians, you will think “There are good and bad people in any
country”. You don’t let go this idea regardless how long you live in Japan or
Korea or China.
You instinctively reject the idea “Each
county has totally different way of thinking”.
You don’t want to accept the differences by
nationality because you wrongly think “Generalizing people by nationality is
racism” without acknowledging “There are extremely different races and
countries exist where people are homogeneous and have evenly same way of
thinking, therefore “There are only this type of people in this country and
that country” you have to be able to say even though exceptional people exist
in small number.
Therefore, naturally you end up refusing to
learn the differences by nationality, thus remaining to be ignorant no matter
how years you live in East Asian countries. In another word, if you aren’t
stubborn but are flexible and have acute insight, you will be able to
understand the difference by nationality of East Asian without living in East
Asian countries.
Having said that, what’s special about Mr.
Gilbert is, he can recognize the differences by nationality. He knows and
explains Japanese and Koreans are totally different people. He’s very rare. Don’t
you think? He is American, therefore he originally has a belief “There are good
and bad people in any country” thinking all East Asians are the same.
Just like Japanese and Americans, Koreans
also remain Koreans no matter how long they live in Japan although there are
exceptional cases in small number.
Now, let’s listen to Mr. Gilbert’s opinion
about Japanese media.
I copied and pasted his writing (He kindly wrote
in English in his blog) below. His writing was published on July 8 of this
month.
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< Common Knowledge Revisited 124 > by Kent Gilbert
The local political party “Tokyo Residents
First Group” headed by Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike won an unexpectedly large
victory in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election held on July 2nd, garnering
55 seats, including new party members who joined after the election.
With this election, it became clear that a
large portion of the media is in overdrive with its bare-knuckled campaign to
overthrow Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has made clear his intention to amend
the constitution. By contrast, the cabinet and the Liberal Democratic Party
(LDP) are unguarded and on the defensive.
A portion of the media is fiercely biased with reports made solely
for the purpose of image manipulation, as they breathlessly report any
information which may damage the Abe administration regardless of whether it
includes any illegality or is backed by any evidence and at the same time
basically refuse to report any information which is advantageous [to the
administration].
The
“Kaku Gakuen” issue is a case in point. Democratic Party (DP) diet member
Yuichiro Tamaki who is leading the pursuit of this issue has close connections
with the Japan Veterinarians Association which violently opposes the
establishment of a new veterinary department. However, a majority of the media
has ignored this
When
Prime Minister Abe spoke in front of Akihabara Station during the metropolitan
assembly election, some people called out “Go Home!” or “Abe Resign!” and
displayed a huge banner, all election campaign obstruction [which is illegal].
In
response, Prime Minister Abe said, “We must not give in to these people.” Many
people listening to him speak must have felt great satisfaction. However, news
shows ignored the election law violations and only criticized the prime
minister.
Many
television stations are not in compliance with Article 4(4) of the Broadcast
Law which requires that broadcasters must “clarify the points at issue from as
many angles as possible where there are conflicting opinions concerning an
issue.” It seems clear that they really do think that their job is to guide
public opinion through image manipulation.
I
think Prime Minister Abe should come up with a serious policy to deal with the
media. Key flagship terrestrial television stations pay just a few tens of
millions of dollars per year to use the air waves. In other words, they
exemplify vested interests protected by bedrock regulation.
It
is not necessary to cancel the license or block broadcasting by broadcasters
who have no intention of obeying the Broadcast Law. It is sufficient just to
put their rights to use the air waves up for auction. In exchange, I think
Broadcast Law Art. 4, which requires “political fairness,” could be abolished.
I
would also like to work with television manufacturers. Remote controls are
divided into “terrestrial,” “BS [broadcast satellite]” and “CS [communication
satellite]” sections [with the default setting being “terrestrial], which is
very inconvenient. Access to a seamless programming schedule, including
internet broadcasters, would no doubt increase the media literacy of viewers.
I
also have a suggestion for the upcoming cabinet reshuffle. To break the current
deadlock, I suggest a bold move to put the right man in the right job with
Shigeharu Aoyama as defense minister, Yoichi Takahashi as finance minister, and
Tohru Hashimoto as minister of justice.
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Now, the most important parts in his writing,
which I want you to pay attention to, are below.
< A portion of the Japanese media is fiercely biased with reports
made solely for the purpose of image manipulation, as they breathlessly report
any information which may damage the Abe administration regardless of whether
it includes any illegality or is backed by any evidence and at the same time
basically refuse to report any information which is advantageous [to the
administration].>
< It seems clear that they really do think that their job is to
guide public opinion through image manipulation.>
See? < Manipulation; labeling him ”this”
and “that. And “Refusing to report any information that can help turn the
impression of President Abe upward” >
Japanese media became “Anti-Japanese brainwashing
cult” now.
And why I mentioned Koreans for Mr. Gilbert’s
writing? Well, there is a reason for what’s going on in Japanese media that has
very much to do with Koreans.
That’s what I am going to explain in my
writing with many evidences.
That’s about it for today.
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