I don't think there is anyone who doesn't know the story of the wolf boy.

At the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there was much talk in the Japanese news that the Russian economy would collapse and Russia would not be able to stand due to Western "financial sanctions" and "exclusion from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT).

At this point, however, the Russian economy does not appear to collapse, and Russia continues to fight on Ukrainian soil.

In our country, news of "Ukraine's superiority" appears with a bang, but information on "Ukraine's inferiority" is small and scarce.

In our country, the government, parliament, and even the civilian population are unified in being 'anti-Russian' -- this is a relatively rare case.

As far as I know, no Japanese newspaper or TV station defends Russia, and politicians who speak out in defense of Russia receive flak from all sides.

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Come to think of it, I don't believe the former U.S. president had a good reputation in our country.

Japanese media has been running a mountain of stories that the former U.S. president will be in jail tomorrow, but at this point, nothing like that has occurred.

And I have heard comments from people in the U.S. that 'Japanese news has too much of a 'Trump-hating' bias.

From the American public's point of view, former President Trump's policies 'are not all of them, but some of them make sense,' he said, but this has not been conveyed to the Japanese media.

Anyway, whether it is "Ukraine" or "Trump," I think it is true that the Japanese media only report news that the Japanese people seem to enjoy.

It is understandable. That kind of news will likely get PV (verge views).

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By the way, my daughters criticized my column for 'describing painful realities with numbers and no solutions (solutions).

Therefore, I also remember, 'I must try to write only columns that readers will enjoy' -- to earn PV.