Write Hard To Live Free: Happy Year Of The (Watch)Dog! 番犬報道の年ですよ！謹賀新年
That doesn’t mean the society doesn’t have problems, such as child poverty, gender inequality and discrimination against: the handicapped, women, foreigners, especially Korean Japanese. Japan has a pestilent well-entrenched mob.…
Is Japan’s Press Partially Responsible For The Decline Of Press Freedom?
Government officials have shied away from holding press conferences in the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan (FCCJ) to avoid being faced with tough questions. Instead, they prefer to have private…
Former NYT Chief Explains Japan’s Lack of Journalistic Freedom
Martin Fackler, former Tokyo bureau chief for the New York Times, says Japanese newspapers are too focused on access journalism and getting the scoop before the story can really be…