I agree with this writer. I also want young people to awaken. However, never arouse a feeling of “anger”
and “violence.” Please arouse “wisdom.” Wisdom means to realize the fact as it
is. Take for example, the fact that
deities and alien species exist and are around us.
Masatoshi
Takeshita
March
21, 2013
English translation of an excerpt from a
Japanese article: Shinshu no Izumi – March 20, 2013 –
NHK
Announcer Jun Hori To Resign Will Angry
Young Men Belonging to Mass Media Lauch a Coup?
Let’s Create an Independent New Media!
NHK announcer Jun Hori,
who was an expectant youth, responsible for the next generation, has decided to
leave NHK. From
common people’s point of view, he has been on the career track as an elite
announcer in NHK. However, my guess is that
Mr. Jun Hori, a 36-year-old young announcer, has felt uncomfortable with
(critical over) the coverage of mass media on the harsh nuclear power plant
accident since March 11, 2011, He also felt angry and disgusted at NHK, which
he himself belongs to, because NHK, which plays a role in assisting the force
of vested interests associated with nuclear power generation, not only avoids
providing substantial reports over the accident, following the example of commercial
TV stations but also is being focused on a sort of intentionally biased
coverage. (Photograph: “Gendai Business”)
A 36-year-old clean youth, who is regarded
as the elite in a public broadcast station, had lofty ideals and dreamed of
becoming a respectable journalist.
However, he seems to have had a deep anger at the corporate culture of
NHK he joined in, particularly in the area of news report, hotbed of the rotten
sea.* As Mr. Mad Amano, a parodist, had
a deep insight of the incident, at the end of last year Takeshige Morimoto, an
announcer, who just served as the host of a program “NHK Special: Final Report of Nuclear Power Plant Accident” featuring serious examination of the
severe accident at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, underwent hardship of
arrest in line with the national policy in order to serve as a warning to other
major mass media. The same case was with
Mr. Kazuhide Uekusa, an economist, and Mr. Naoyuki Mikami, the former editor in
chief of the weekly Toyo Keizai, both of whom were accused of unjustly.
Mr. Uekusa, Mr. Morimoto and Mr. Mikami, as
exemplars of real journalists, stick to their beliefs, as professionals or
individuals, that they dare to express their candid opinions to highlight the
huge evil. Mr. Uekusa condemned the huge
evil of the Koizumi administration in its economic and political policies. Mr. Morimoto who faithfully served as a MC in
the above program, incurred the wrath of the nuclear power establishment and
was symbolically turned into a human sacrifice.
Mr. Naoyuki Mikami, the former editor in chief of the Toyo Keizai, had edited
splendid critical articles of TEPCO in the weekly. They are models of real journalists.
According to the “Gendai Business,” Mr. Jun Hori kept twittering apology to “false report” by NHK
as well as criticism, and severely criticized the country as mentioning that
the death of a decontamination worker was unrelated to decontamination
work. In November last year, he called
for thorough disclosure of information and was bold enough to say “It is
useless to count on the country and organizations. Stop counting on them any longer. Let’s move on our own. Let’s think on our own. Let’s change this country on our own. Because it is our country” (twitter: on
December 12, 2011). He also produced an
antinuke film and showed it in UCLA. He
had stuck to his guts even in the rotten sea NHK.
With regard to the force
of vested interests, Mr. Jun Hori, who has such a level of spirit of
rebelliousness, denies the mentality of “Yield to the powerful” and honestly
talks about his belief.
As a result, NHK bullied him and relegated him to an innocent cooking program
to stop his political comments. It is
quite natural that Mr. Jun Hori thinks “Don’t fooling around.” Even if Mr. Jun Hori with strong will power
stays in NHK, he will eventually “suffer being investigated in line with the
national policy.” Therefore, he has made
the wisest judgment of retirement to launch a new career, jumping out of the
cage. There is
no future in Japan unless the young awaken and demonstrate their anger by
action. This writer, a patriotic old
man, has high hopes for “undaunted young people” like Mr. Jun Mori.
(Note)*Rotten sea
It is an image appearing in a film “Kaze no
Tani no Naushika” directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which is a grotesque world where
toxic miasma evaporates. Current mass
media is the very hotbed of rotten sea, grotesque complex of vested interests
and starts causing Japan to corrode with its miasma.
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