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Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 (Project Censored)
#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media Sources: Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005 Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story” Author: Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Lauren Powell, … [Read more...] about Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 (Project Censored)
Proof of POW Forced Labor for Japan’s Foreign Minister: The Aso Mines
by William Underwood May 29, 2007 Japan Focus One year after media reports that Aso Mining used 300 Allied prisoners of war for forced labor in 1945, Foreign Minister Aso Taro is refusing to confirm that POWs dug coal for his family's company -- and even challenging reporters to produce evidence. That is not hard to do. … [Read more...] about Proof of POW Forced Labor for Japan’s Foreign Minister: The Aso Mines
Japan’s History Wars and Popular Consciousness
by David McNeill Japan Focus Tokyo -- Ko Bunyu's comic book Introduction to China is not for the fainthearted. In 300 graphic pages, it claims that the Chinese are incapable of democracy, practice cannibalism, and have the world's leading sex economy. In one sequence, famous political figures say the country is the source of most of Asia's contagious … [Read more...] about Japan’s History Wars and Popular Consciousness
Fitting Okinawa into Japan the “Beautiful Country”
by Gavan McCormack June 02, 2007 Japan Focus Three months before he became Prime Minister, in July 2006 Abe Shinzo published his political manifesto, under the title Utsukushii kuni e (Towards a beautiful country). It is well known that Abe's sense of beauty involves a denial of the darkest aspects of wartime history and … [Read more...] about Fitting Okinawa into Japan the “Beautiful Country”