The following is from former Tokyo University Professor Nobuhiko Sakai's really stunning book published on August 5, 2013.
And it is from the chapter 5, Asahi thinking and spirit to perform the behavior of hypocrisy oppressed Japan that appeared to coral incident structure, it is in the p108 ~ p114.
The following chapter represents admirably and perfectly all of the reasons that Sakai subtitled as "Asahi thinking and mental structure of prejudice and discrimination".
All of the people who have a natural course sentence comprehension, everyone would admire its splendor, and should know perfectly what the Asahi Shimbun is.
①The detailed account of the coral caseーThe fabrication and the apology
New Year that year, in 1989 there was a change of ownership of the Emperor by the demise of Emperor Showa, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square incident, although it is global in the year also was a big change, even in the Japanese media history, extremely important incident was the year that happened.
An article with the big color picture to entitle "Who is K · Y" was declared to the front page of Asahi Shimbun evening paper on April 20th.
Of that the coral of it at Okinawa is especially injured with the human hand, it was Asahi Shimbun or strongly arraigned one.
However, after that, the question and the criticism concerning this article sprang.
After becoming in the middle in May, the other mass media like the TV and so on gets to report it.
Because the diver association at Okinawa suggested that this wound must be the one which was damaged by the hand of the reporter in the Asahi, not being before.
On the other hand, the side of the Asahi included the article of the apology plainly finally on May 16th.
By the article that is, to entitle being "apology" "it is overdone to the head office coverage Iriomote-jima Oki's coral photography" therefore, it is described, but the flaw fits originally, fall to the photograph well, it was the one to be the one of which a wound was magnified by cameraman's tracing it with the handle of the electronic flash.
Then, however, only 4 days later, it became on May 20th and an apology article was again included.
This article continues.