"Japan experts" slam the Olympics…Silence on the Beijing Olympics
2022/1/25
The following is from an article by Jason Morgan, Associate Professor at Reitaku University, which appeared in today's Sankei Shimbun "Seiron" titled "Where Have All the Fears of Hosting the Olympics Gone?
It is no exaggeration to say that this article is the first to reveal that academia and the media, controlled by the left, are creating a crisis of democracy.
Thanks to his article, most Japanese people, including myself, have learned for the first time about the realities of the academia and media run by the left in the world, along with the names of their leading figures.
The crisis of democracy is a phenomenon occurring due to the extreme fragmentation of public opinion.
The academia and the media, controlled by the left wing, are devotedly creating this division of public opinion in totalitarian countries like China.
In the case of Japan, the leftist-controlled academia and media, so-called human rights lawyers, so-called citizens' groups, and politicians such as the Constitutional Democratic Party, the Communist Party, and so on are working to divide Japanese public opinion and serve countries like China and South Korea.
It is a beneficial article for today's world.
It is a must-read for the Japanese people and people worldwide.
Recently, an acquaintance of mine said something exciting to me.
"The Beijing Olympics are approaching, but where did anyone want to stop because of the new coronavirus?"
That's true.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics were postponed to 2021 and could only be held with incident.
However, anti-Japanese scholars, journalists, and others who specialize in East Asia have repeatedly called for the cancellation of the Olympics ever since the plague that broke out in Wuhan, China, sickened the world.
"Japan experts" slam the Olympics.
American journalist Jake Edelstein, for example, has been an ardent opponent of the Tokyo Olympics.
In July 2021, under the joint name of the US news site "The Daily Beast," under the heading "Tokyo will send a corps of volunteers who are significantly lacking vaccination to the Olympics, like crazy," mercilessly Bashed the Japanese government and Japan.
"Tokyo seems to be turning its Olympic volunteers into a pack of walking super-spreaders by delaying vaccinations," the article fear-mongered.
Mr. Edelstein is a trusted "Japan expert" in the US.
Other major media outlets in the US picked up Edelstein's and others' Japan-bashing articles.
The Corona disaster is not the only reason anti-Japanese commentators in the West have called for the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics.
For example, Gavan McCormack, a historian emeritus professor at the Australian National University, brought out "Fukushima" at the "Asia Pacific Journal Japan Focus" (APJ / JF) in March 2021 and cast a dark shadow on the Tokyo Olympics. He published a paper.
In 2013, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promised the International Olympic Committee (1.0C) that the Great East Japan Earthquake areas were under control.
He criticized Japan for not having solved the problem yet.
He also emphasized the wrong image of the accident at TEPCO's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, saying that much atomic waste remains.
Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, the Olympic Organizing Committee chairman, also mentioned the misrepresentation that "a board with many women takes time" and maliciously announced that the Tokyo Olympics are a "farce."
This article by McCormack also hinted at the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics, citing the coronavirus disaster as the reason.
He expressed concern that holding the Olympics "could result in the transmission and distribution of large numbers of coronaviruses.
Silence on the Beijing Olympics
Another paper was published in the APJ/JF, making fun of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
The academic circles and media in the English camp tried to criticize the Tokyo Olympics, ironically, another Olympic event.
However, Edelstein and McCormack are silent about the Beijing Olympics.
Recently, Mr. Edelstein wrote an article severely criticizing Japan as a "xenophobic" country over the country's strengthening of waterfront measures against an outbreak of the highly infectious Omicron mutant strain.
However, a search on the Internet reveals no article by Mr. Edelstein criticizing the Beijing Olympics.
The same goes for Mr. McCormack.
A search for "APJ/JF" reveals no articles skeptical of the Beijing Olympics.
In academia and the media, which leftists dominate, there is virtually no criticism of the Beijing Olympics.
On H-Net Asia, an information-sharing site used by Asian researchers, only one scholar dares to take a skeptical stance on the Beijing Olympics, and he is from Sweden.
Information on hitting Japan is still available daily.
Even after the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the new coronavirus has not disappeared from the world, but where did the concerns about the Beijing Olympics disappear?
Are they disregarding "genocide"?
While a fierce battle against the new coronavirus is underway in China, there have been no articles or papers in the Western left-wing media mocking the Beijing government for not canceling the Olympics.
Moreover, it is not only the Corona disaster that is bothering them.
The Beijing Olympics are being called the "Genocide Olympics" is not just a nasty label.
The Uyghurs are now being hunted to extinction in China by the Beijing government.
I would like to know from leftist "experts" and so-called Asia experts why they still do not speak out.
The Corona disaster is unacceptable, but will they disregard the genocide Olympics in Beijing?
It is too unreasonable, even due to the double standard on which the left wing is always dependent.
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