The following is from Masayuki Takayama's column in the latter part of the weekly Shincho, released today.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
It is a must-read not only for the Japanese but also for people worldwide.

The False Accusation Newspaper
Shortly after the previous Tokyo Olympics, a family of four was murdered at a miso company in Shizuoka City.　
The retrial of Hakamada Iwao, who was believed to be the murderer and had been on death row for a long time, began, and I was surprised by the hilarity of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper's coverage of the retrial.　
On the day of the retrial, the newspaper's morning edition carried the headline "God, I am not a criminal" at the top of the front page.　
The evening edition of the newspaper was also on the front page after the retrial, which was fine, but the morning edition of the next day's newspaper was also on the front page.
In addition to the front-page headline, the second page of the morning edition was devoted entirely to Hakamada.　
The front page of the triple-header (Chan) consisted of an article signed by eight people, including Yuri Murakami.
The front page of the Chang newspaper was devoted to Hakamada.
The retrial will be held several times until next spring, when a verdict will be made, but the paper's front page already says that the defendant has been falsely exonerated.　
Is it okay to get ahead of you that much?
As Tetsuo Ito, former deputy chief of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, wrote in a statement to the paper, "A retrial does not equal acquittal.　
Moreover, the Hakamada case falls outside Japan's "Tanemoto Furuhata" pattern of false convictions.　
Mr. Furuhata is not the wrong person.
He is an excellent authority on hematology who proved that there is a type O factor in addition to type A and type B.　
He was a great Nobel Prize-winning mind, but his many expert testimonies as an authority on forensic medicine at the University of Tokyo were all wrong, resulting in a mountain of false convictions.　
If the Hakamada case had been based on Furuhata's testimony, he would have been falsely convicted. Still, at the time of the case, he was the director of the National Research Institute of Police Science and was not involved in the case at all.
He was not involved in the case at all.　
Moreover, the first evidence of the Furuhata test came out in 1971, while Hakamada appealed the case.　
In the Hirosaki University professor's wife murder case, the real murderer came forward after another person was imprisoned based on the Furuhata test.
It was an inexcusable mistake.　
It led to the Furuhata test being reviewed, and three people who had been sentenced to death in the Zaitagawa, Matsuyama, and Shimada cases were acquitted in retrials one after another.　
Such was the time.
In other words, prosecutors and judges were looking at the Hakamada case from the other side of the mountain.
It was a time when it was not possible to make any rash decisions.　
One more thing.
There is a jinx in history that the cases that Asahi made a big fuss about by forming a special task force are all wrong.　
The first case that Furuhata was assigned to investigate was the suicide of Sadanori Shimoyama, the president of Japan National Railways, who committed suicide by jumping onto a train.
Furuhata was unaware of the crime scene and did not know that a run-over corpse had little blood loss.
The diagnosis was that "someone had drained Shimoyama's blood and killed him" and that the body had been run over postmortem.　
Everyone laughed, but Asahi believed Furuhata and assigned Kimio Yada and others as full-time reporters, and through their reporting, determined that U.S. military counterintelligence units committed the crime.　
The U.S. military was reportedly furious, claiming this was an international false accusation.　
In the 1970s, there was a series of incidents in the Tokyo metropolitan area in which ten female office workers were raped, murdered, and set on fire.　
When the Chiba Prefectural Police finally arrested Etsuo Ono, the Asahi Shimbun, in cooperation with Kyodo News, set up a special task force to investigate the case and made a big fuss about the false accusation that Ono had coerced a confession.　
Judges are surprisingly sensitive to the mundane, as the recent LGBT trial has shown.　
In the Ono trial, Shinichi Tateyama of the appeals court thought that Asahi was a decent newspaper and, as he claimed, "the confession is not credible" and declared Ono not guilty.　
Asahi congratulated Ono on his return to the public eye, giving him the title "Hero of False Accusation."　
Ono, however, immediately raped an eleventh young girl and killed a twelfth woman, decapitated her, and burned her body.　
Ono was neither falsely accused nor a hero.　
In fact, when Asahi put a dedicated team in charge of the campaign, the first result was a bonus.　
The comfort women lie continued for 30 years until Abe pointed out in a 2012 party leadership debate that it was an Asahi fabrication.　
It was followed by the "North Korea is a paradise on earth" campaign waged by Hiroshi Iwadare and his team for 20 years, which sent more than 90,000 people back to a hell that was worse than death.　
The Japanese wives of those who fled North Korea recently sued the North, and the appeals court ruled that the "false propaganda" in which Asahi was complicit was also subject to suit.　
Give the final word to the irresponsible Asahi this time.
So, if those involved in the Hakamada Iwao case are happy that "Asahi is on our side," they are in for a world of trouble.
If you believe in false accusations, tell Asahi not to write about it.