Foreign correspondents 'blindly swallowing' anti-Japanese propaganda, writer alleges ? Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
"In his East Asia Anemometer (an anemometer is a device for measuring wind speed) column for the Sankei Shimbun column of March 29, Takao Harakawa accused foreign correspondents based in Tokyo of harboring blind belief in the anti-Japanese propaganda being generated by China and South Korea. He bases this on his observations from a recent press conference that in his view descended into a blame-Japan fest.
China, he alleges, has ordered its embassies in various countries to engage in a worldwide campaign to criticize prime minister Abe for visiting Yasukuni Shrine last December. And South Korea recently went so far as to use the venue of an international comic exhibition to lambaste Japan over the sex-slave (comfort women) issue.
These two neighboring countries persistent efforts to discredit Japan, suggests Harakawa, may finally be starting to show results, as the press event held in mid-March at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Yurakucho, Tokyo, turned into a one-sided affair."
Of course anyone is going to carry their own bias, but the western media does seem to lap this stuff up - nationalist propaganda and all - almost as uncritically as they parrot whatever obama tells them to domestically.
"In his East Asia Anemometer (an anemometer is a device for measuring wind speed) column for the Sankei Shimbun column of March 29, Takao Harakawa accused foreign correspondents based in Tokyo of harboring blind belief in the anti-Japanese propaganda being generated by China and South Korea. He bases this on his observations from a recent press conference that in his view descended into a blame-Japan fest.
China, he alleges, has ordered its embassies in various countries to engage in a worldwide campaign to criticize prime minister Abe for visiting Yasukuni Shrine last December. And South Korea recently went so far as to use the venue of an international comic exhibition to lambaste Japan over the sex-slave (comfort women) issue.
These two neighboring countries persistent efforts to discredit Japan, suggests Harakawa, may finally be starting to show results, as the press event held in mid-March at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Yurakucho, Tokyo, turned into a one-sided affair."
Of course anyone is going to carry their own bias, but the western media does seem to lap this stuff up - nationalist propaganda and all - almost as uncritically as they parrot whatever obama tells them to domestically.
