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【Park Geun Hye was hunted down by an unique law】

《There was the one who killed itself at last…》

…but the President can remain in the position until two terms in a row. Its length is an ordinary one. If being able to be engaged in a single term alone, at the latter of the term of office, its leadership drops. Some of the Presidents who jumped at the anti Japanese easily would appear so as to acquire its support.

Some relatives of the President try to make a profit as much as possible when being in the President. An imprudent fellow may have appeared.

But when looking at the Plea for Park…

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【Park Geun Hye was hunted down by an unique law】

《There was the one who killed itself at last…》

But when looking at the plea on Park Geun Hye, the author said there were some of the pleas which he wanted to tilt his head over. It seemed that she showed the draft on her presidential speech to her acquaintance. Consulting the content on the speech to its acquaintance or a speech writer is ordinary for the President so as to brush up the content on the speech, but it became the suspicion on leaking confidential information.

The author said he found it’s a populism on the prosecution.

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【What is the populism? 】

We’ve heard of the word of populism on the report of an election in America or Europe. It used to mean a political movement criticizing politics done by elite group like educated people so as to break down the existing system.
But it has been translated into the one who goes along with others’ principle easily in Japanese lately. The phrase has been adopted as denial meaning against of working out a policy which is popular with the public alone so as to win an election.

《The merit and demerit on the populism》

As to the populism, both of risk and merit has been…

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【What is the populism? 】

《The risk on the populism》

…both of risk and merits have been pointed out. The populism has almost been made up with a charismatic leader who leads the public, so the power tends to concentrate on the leader, and there is a risk falling into the dictatorship.

It’s apt to incite unrest and to fuel dissatisfaction on the public and to create an enemy and the society often separates. Making much of the majority in the society with regard to the populism, so there is a fear of excluding a minority.

Making much of acquiring the support from the majority in the society…

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【What is the populism?】

Making much of acquiring the support from the majority in the society excessively and emphasizing a temporary benefit on the face, on the other hand, its policy is liable to be inconsistent.

《The merit on the populism》

The populism has a merit of challenging the existing system and causing a transformation on the society. Moreover it develops a policy making much of the profit for the nation and tends to adopt a problem in which lots of people are interested, so the interest on the policy for the people rises.

The people who were disappointed with the existing…

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【What is the populism?】

The people who were disappointed with the existing politics happen to take interest in the politics again.

《The populism in the past》

Nazis rose before the World War Ⅱ in Germany and it has a tendency that lots of people think the Nazis was the political party on the populism. As being the leader who was Hitler in the center of the Nazis, the political party developed the political propaganda and won at an election, then acquired the political power.

《The populism nowadays》

It is said that the populism has spread over America and Europe lately. The description…

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【What is the populism? 】

The description shows us some cases which are said to be the populism like the next.

《Trump who is the previous President in America》

He assumed office as the President in America in 2017, formulating America is the first and got the support from the white labor who suffer from the poverty. He made a statement on making much of diversity or of minority, adopting a hard-line policy against illegal immigrants, or opposing to the international cooperation on the measure against the global warming.

《Withdrawal from the EU, England》

It has been decided that England…

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【What is the populism?】

《England which withdraws from the EU》

It has been decided that England withdrew from the EU in 2016 by the referendum.

According to the Schengen Agreement, everyone can move at will in the area of EU, so immigrants have increased, so the employment on England is oppressed, or other member countries in the EU like each nation in the East Europe where the standard of living is low has a negative effect on England. England seems to have claimed like that.

《The populism in Japan》

The populism in Japan isn’t so active as that of America or of England, but lots of….

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【What is the populism? 】

《The populism in Japan》

…but the former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was pointed out he was the populist in the past. He was engaged in the Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006 and formulated slogans of changing the Liberal Democratic Party, or a structural reform where there was no sanctuary.

《Populism and mass media》

The mass media plays an important role in the populism. The public opinion is easily influenced over the mass media, especially in the populism, it has a tendency to make use of the media skillfully or to control the emotion on the nation.

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【What is the populism? 】

《Populism and the mass media》

An example in which its feature shows extremely was the Nazis adopted before. Hitler took advantage of the media like radio or movie and advertised smartly. Or after acquiring the political power, he controlled all the information which was anti government.

The SNS has been related with the expansion on the populism as well lately. The former President Trump frequently made use of the twitter and repeated radical statements and criticized the content on the report by the newspaper or TV, saying they were fakes.

《There have been …》

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【There have been various opinions on the populism】

As to the populism, there have been various opinions, according to researchers. The meaning on the populism, who the populism is, or which political party the populism is, they are different according to people or to mass media.

It seems that the last description is ambiguous.

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【Park Geun Hye was hunted down by an unique law】

《There was the one who killed itself at last》

It has been pointed out an unique law like the emotional one on the nation is on the jurisdiction in the South Korea. Needless to say, it doesn’t exist actually.

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【Park Geun Hye was hunted down by an unique law】

《There was the one who committed suicide at last…》

The emotional law shows the tendency of issuing indictments or sentences which butters up the emotion on the nation easily. In short, it’s the crime in which lots of people find it inexcusable.

The typical one is the law on confiscating fortune from pro Japanese. It was formed in 2005. At the time when Japan controlled the Korean Peninsula, the fortune made by cooperation with Japan is confiscated from the descendants.

In the first place, in a modern nation, the law can’t go back in the past

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【Park Geun Hye was hunted down by an unique law】

《There was the one who killed itself at last》

If the nation cheers for it, it doesn’t matter even if bending the law in the modern nation. We can see the distortion at the jurisdiction in the South Korea. As the nation is indignant with it, hunting down to the guilty. Park Geun Hye who hit a nerve with the nation was judged by the thing like the law.

【The President Moon Jae-in 文在寅 turns up, to pro the North Korea, anti Japan】

It’s the economy, stupid.

It’s a phrase which used to be adopted at the side of Clinton in the Democratic Party.

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【The President Moon Jae-in shows up, to pro the North Korea, anti Japan】

It was in 1992 when the Presidential election was done in America. The opponent for the candidate Clinton was George H W Bush who was the incumbent President in the Republican Party.

He’s made the Cold War between the East and West come to an end and brought the America a win in the Gulf War, producing a result in the diplomatic policy.

Challenging to the incumbent President with proven result is reckless. There was the mood like that in the side of Clinton, and a staff officer came up with the phrase, it’s the…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared, to pro the North Korea, anti Japan】

It’s the economy, stupid. It’s the slogan come up with by the staff office in the side of Clinton

The side of Bush let its guard down because they thought they got the upper hand over the side of Clinton due to the achievement on the diplomatic policy, but the nation has been irritated because the economy doesn’t turn upward. The ones who aren’t aware of it are stupid. The phrase means like that.

But the slogan wasn’t for the nation, but was put up inside the office in the side of Clinton. Focusing on the economy and…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared, to pro the North Korea, anti Japan】

…and develop the election campaign. In short motivating its own side with the spiritual slogan. Why did the author expressed like that? He said he remembered Moon Jae-in won in the Presidential election May in 2015 in the South Korea.

It is said the President Moon is the pro North Korea and anti Japan. Lots of people may have been surprised that the Presidential candidate who was the pro North Korea won the election at present.

To tell the truth, it’s an amazing thing, but when being in the South Korea, we can know…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared, to the pro North Korea, anti Japan】

….we can know the secret on the popularity of the President Moon Jae-in. At first there is the reality that the youth don’t understand the threat on the North Korea from their own experience.

The author has been to the South Korea so as to interview on the job in the newspaper company May in 2017. What did he see there?

He was surprised at the way of responding to the North Korea between Japan and the South Korea. We the Japanese always panic as if the missile was about to attacked us from the North Korea.

Contrary…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared, to the pro North Korea, anti Japan】

Contrary to it, the South Korea was very peaceful then.

We have been surprised at the expression by the North Korea on TV or the newspaper of being burned to the ground in America, or making the Japan Island sink, but the people in the South Korea have been accustomed to it.

The South Korea would be engulfed in a sea of fire. They have been listened to the threatening words so many times until then, so they thought, oh no, not again…

There is more serious reality for the youths in the South Korea. It‘s difficulty in…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared, to the pro North Korea, to anti Japan】

It’s difficulty of finding job. The surrounding for the youth in the South Korea is severe, for the South Korea is an academic background oriented society 学歴社会. The South Korea is so severe that it can’t compare with Japan.

Attending to a cramming school from schoolchildren in an elementary school, studying intensively. As for the point, it may have taken after Japan, but as long as being able to go into a top ranked university, it’s all right. It doesn’t go well like that in the South Korea.

Speaking of a stable…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared, to pro North Korea, anti Japan】

Speaking of a stable job in the South Korea, its company syndicate 財閥. Students in university put effort into studying on a recruit exam so as to go into the modern company syndicate like Samsung or LG.

Unemployment rate from fifteen to twenty nine years old in 2016 was 9.8%. It’s worst from the year of 2000 when taking the statistics.

As a new graduate from university is advantageous for finding job, and there are lots of people who couldn’t a job but trying to find in the next year in the South Korea, and if including…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared, to the pro North Korea, anti Japan】

…and if including them, the employment rate will be by far higher.

《They call their surrounding the hell in Korean self depreciatingly》

But even if being able to go into the company syndicate fortunately, without being able to join in the management team, it would undergo of being said it’ no longer needed in the latter half of the forties in the company syndicate.

The pension system has never been arranged enough in the South Korea, so they feel anxious in the post retirement years, so the way of calling the South …

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared…】

《They call their surrounding the hell in Korea self-depreciatingly》

…so the way of calling their surrounding in the South Korea the hell in South Korea was born. They have been swamped with preparing for job from their childhood, and even if being able to find a job, they may be fired at any time. They are rushed with the work relentlessly.

There is no emotional leeway in the society, and bullying has spread over there, the number of people who committed suicide is more than Japan, and it’s the worst level in the world.

The youths who hate their…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared, to the pro North Korea, anti Japan】

《They call their surrounding the hell in Korea self-depreciatingly》

The youths who hate their own country and flee to America has increased, so they call their country the hell in the South Korea, so the wish on the youths is working in a stable workplace. In short, the people who applying to become a government central official have increased drastically.

There is a cramming school which specialized in the government central official in Seoul and the hotel facility has been established together. There is a bed in a…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared…】

《They call their surrounding the hell in the South Korea self-depreciatingly》

There is a bed in a small room of which size is no more than 3.2 square. They study being locked in the hotel. Applying for the recruitment on a policeman rushed and its competition ratio reached to the level of forty five levels. It’s unusual.

It was Moon Jae-in who scooped up the anxiety on the youths well. In the middle of the election campaign, he announced being the President on the employment if being chosen as the President, but how?

The highlight on his policy was…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared…】

《They call their surrounding the hell in the South Korea》

The highlight on the policy of the President was an employment for eight hundred ten thousand people, but how?

The President says he is going to increase the number on the public officers, adopting public officers who are policemen, firefighters, or the ones who work in the field of the social warfare.

When hearing of the plan like that, is it all right if coming true a big government at present? Its financial resources is some two hundred ten million yen in Japan for five years. Providing a…

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared, to the pro North Korea, anti Japan】

《They call their surrounding there the hell in the South Korea》

Providing a job with tax. It’s not the economic policy which they can continue.

The economy in the South Korea relies on greatly on the export. When the economy in China is very good, it’s all right, but if the economy in China stalled, the South Korea will be influenced by China directly.

In the South Korea declining birth rate and aging society is worse more than that in Japan. To make matters worse, working age population has also decreased.

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【The President Moon Jae-in appeared…】

《They call their surrounding there the hell in the South Korea》

The working age population is from fifteen to sixty four years old. Both of the unemployment rate and the education cost is so high in the South Korea that lots of people hesitate to get marry and to have a baby, so nothing applies the brake to declining the birth rate there.

As in the desperate situation, the youth went wild for Moon Jae-in who recited to reconcile the East and West and announced to create employment in the South Korea.

But increasing the public officers remind us of the…

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But increasing the public officers remind us of the crisis in Greece. Increasing the public officers every election and reaching a dead end financially at last in Greece. Can Moon Jae-in make the wish on the youths come true?

【Love letter from the North Korea】

The lawsuit on the former force labor or directing the radar beam on the fighter jet in the Self Defense Force in Japan by the warship in the North Korea which made us let a sigh broke out in the relation Japan and the South Korea in 2018.

The former labor force in the South Korea requested that the Japanese government should…

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【love letter from the North Korea】

The former labor force demanded that the Japanese government should pay the compensation for him in wartime in the court, the Supreme Court ordered Japan to pay the compensation to the Japan in the South Korea.

The compensation issue were solved when the diplomatic relation between Japan and China become normal in 1965, but it means the compensation issue turns over from the base.

Needless to say, Japan was repulsive against it, but the President Moon Jae-in said Japan should be humble a little more.

To tell the truth, when the Roh Moo-hyun 盧武鉉…

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【Love letter from the North Korea】

To tell the truth, when the Roh Moo-hyun 盧武鉉 government, Moon Jae-in formed the government view in 2005, the South Korea couldn’t request any compensation to Japan with regard to the issue on the labor force as lawyer.

Though I understand we can’t request, but the court has judged Japan should pay it, so I’m in difficulty, the author said the situation on Moon Jae-in like that.

It is said there is the law on emotional rule on the nation above the formal law in the South Korea. Once it is regarded it’s no, even if the President, or the former President….

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【Love letter from the North Korea】

...even if the President, or the former President were pursued relentlessly and the one who could reach its peaceful later years are rare. The national character on the South Korea is violent like that.

The President Moon Jae-in would act up to anti Japan as internal policy after that. To make matters worse, 2019 is the hundredth anniversary from independent movement from Japan In Korea of 3.1, so it has been thought it would be more severe as well.

What should Japan do? Considering being against the North Korea, Japan is forced to maintain firm...

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【Love letter from the North Korea】

...Japan is forced to maintain a firm amicable relation with the South Korea.

The summit meeting between the south and north Korea has been done in the South Korea for the first time April in 2018, but if the reconciliation between the South and North is done, taking each other's hands and both of them become anti Japan, it will be a nightmare.

The South Korea is the one which is the private opinion and public stance more than Japan. Even if the diplomatic relation deteriorates, the tourists from the South Korea to Japan would increase, international...

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【Love letter from the North Korea】

…international students, or being employed at the companies in Japan have increased as well. Do you go to the country which you hate all the way? They love Japan and the culture in Japan as private opinion.

《The North Korea outgeneraled this game?》

The summit meeting between the America and the North Korea June in 2018 was a big event as if it had been a page of the modern history. As a result, Kim Jong un outgeneraled it.

The North Korea repeated the nuclear experiment and nuclear development, and the economic sanction to the North Korea is only going…

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【Love letter from the North Korea】

《The North Korea outgeneraled this game?》

…and the economic sanction to the North Korea is only going to get tougher, so is it possible there is the pre-emptive strike from America?

Its situation was like that, but the former President Trump has guaranteed the present system in the North Korea.

Kim Jong un continued to send the distorted love letter, asking to turn the North Korea with the nuclear development, Trump responded to it. The second meeting planned in 2019, and the relation between America and the North Korea may have been strengthened then.

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【Love letter from the North Korea】

《The North Korea outgeneraled this game?》

Kim Jong un visited China on his birthday on purpose and talked with Xi Jinping, then inspected a pharmaceutical factory because the North Korea may have been going to reform economy in Chinese style in the future.

China used to show Kim Jong ll who is the father of Kim Jong un the open economy in China, but he tried not to adopt it, for he thought, far from it, for the present system would collapse.

But Trump guaranteed the present system in the North Korea, so it is possible enough that the North Korea would….

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【Love letter from the North Korea】

《The North Korea outgeneraled this time?》

…so it is possible enough that the North Korea would tackle the economic reform. Then what Japan should do? Is there possibility on the talk between Japan and the North Korea?

The Cabinet Information Officer in Japan met a high officer of the North Korea in Vietnam August in 2018 and it was exposed by the newspaper in America.

We should think the American government find it unpleasant, don’t act at your own pleasure! America seemed to leak the information so as to prevent Japan from talking with the North Korea.

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It is a shame the solution on the abduction issue seems to be far away.

By the way, as you know the book was written when Trump was the President in America, so the situation has changed, though I can’t understand the situation at all. I hope the solution on the abduction issue comes true earlier.

【Sinking Japan】

《The distortion on top Abe》

The Imperial succession is done and the Tokyo Olympic was in 2020. The new era was before our eyes, but the news was filled with surmise 忖度, or hiding truth. Why have those things happened? Let’s date back to the basics and think of it carefully

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

There seems to be the word on 忖度 in Japanese. I’ve known recently.

A commentator who met the author on the TV station the other day said like that. When asking for a comment for the commentator at the TV station, the people who surmised on its talk has increased, the commentator said like that.

We hardly come across the word in our daily life. When looking up in a dictionary, it’s meaning surmising other’s thought. Surmising other ‘s thought is thoughtful and seems to be a good thing, but it has been adopted in the media as…

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

…but it has been adopted in the media as denial meaning recently.

Though the other didn’t say anything, is it this? Or it may have been that, surmising it its own way and tries to come true the hope on the other’s being based on its own interpretation. It’s the 忖度 in Japanese.

At the general election on the House of Representatives at the end of 2014, the Liberal Democratic Party showed the request to each of TV station to report the election in a neutral and impartial position. It was unusual. It was the day before the House of…

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

It was the day before the House of Representative was dissolved that the request was showed.

Its content was requesting on the number of remark, and the time on performers, selection on the performers as guest, and the way of using on the person’s street interview, or of way of using the image as evidence.

Intervening in the selection on the performers as guest could have been an infringement on the broadcasting law, so mind your own business, the author said he thought like that.

Without being said like that, they’d broadcast…

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

Without being said like that, they’d broadcast in the neutral and fair position, then though they thought, there was a strong repellence in the world on the broadcasting, after the election was over, the number of broadcasting on the special program handling the election decreased drastically.

As the Liberal Democratic Party said like that, each of the TV station changed the content on the broadcasting, it couldn’t have been, but when inviting various experts and discussing, there is the possibility that there may have been the…

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

… there is the possibility that there may have been a remark criticizing the Liberal Democratic Party and its political power, then the Liberal Democratic Party or the official residence may have complained on it, it’s complicated, so at first let’s stop the plan. The mood like that spread over the world on the broadcasting.

And March in 2015. At the TV program 報道 station on TV 朝日, a former government official in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said like that. He used to receive severe criticism from all of them in…

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

He used to receive severe criticism from all of them in the official residence, including the Chief Cabinet Secretary, and he was made to leave the TV program, saying in a live show and it developed into a big commotion.

Then there was a suspicion on fake of the TV program, クローズアップ現代 in NHK, and the Liberal Democratic Party said it wanted to listen to the situation from both of the TV station, calling executives from both of TV station.

The party in power called executives on the TV station so as to listen to the situation with…

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

The party in power called executives on TV station so as to listen to the situation with regard to the content on the TV program. It’s unthinkable in developed democratic country.

《Even if there was none of pressure, they surmise》

Why was the action on the Liberal Democratic Party problematic?

The reason why the Liberal Democratic Party called was there was suspicion against the law on broadcasting for the both of the TV stations.

Without bending the fact, the report should be done, it’s the law on broadcasting. The Liberal…

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

The Liberal Democratic Party wanted to investigate whether or not the fact was bent, but in fact the law on broadcasting is the one which prevents the power from intervening.

The aim on the law of the broadcasting is guaranteeing the liberty on expression when broadcasting, by making sure of unbiased and without belonging any political party on the broadcasting, by securing the truth and autonomy.

In short, it securing the freedom on expression. The rule prevents the power from intervening by the action that the broadcast…

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

《Even if there was none of pressure, they surmise》

The rule prevents the power from intervening by the action that the broadcasting station disciplines itself. As to the point it becomes clearer in the next clause, without being based on the authority by the law, the program on broadcasting isn’t interfered or ruled by anybody.

Before the World War Ⅱ, the only broadcasting station in Japan became the propaganda organ for the power. As being based on the reflection, contriving the broadcasting station is independent from the power

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

《Even if there is no pressure, they surmise》

It’s the law on broadcasting. As the Liberal Democratic Party doesn’t have any authority ruled by the law, it can’t interfere with the broadcasting station, but the investigation by the Liberal Democratic Party must have caused a big effect, for intelligent people who has an upward tendency are equipped with a splendid ability on surmising.

If making the Liberal Democratic Party get angry, it isn’t good, or taking into action so as not to being complained from the official residence.

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

《Even if there is no pressure, they surmise》

The mood has spread over the broadcasting station, and it’s the situation which the Liberal Democratic Party aimed at.

A well informed political observer interpreted that the Liberal Democratic Party also surmised. The Abe Government and the Chief Cabinet Secretary got angry with the remark on the former government official in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, so the Liberal Democratic Party won the points with the official residence and checked the TV station.

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【The word on surmise spread over and the law on broadcasting】

《Even if there is no pressure, they surmise》

It has never been clear whether or not the Liberal Democratic Party surmised, but it means not only the Democratic Party but the broadcasting station surmised.

The Minister of International Affairs and Communications said in the National Assembly she issued the radio wave stop over to the broadcasting station which was against the law on broadcasting and carried out biased broadcasting. It seems that she doesn’t understand the meaning on the law of the broadcasting.

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It’s a statesman who judges whether or not it’s biased. The statesman who has a specific thought judges whether or not it’s biased. It’s terrible.

【Where has the security treaty been reformed actually?】

The Abe Government made the answer in writing that it doesn’t always mean that exercise of force isn’t allowed on the territory in other country May in 2015.

The former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa answered our country isn’t allowed to use force overseas at the Diet deliberations over the PKO cooperation bill admitting overseas dispatch on the Self Defense Force in Japan.

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