The Asahi Shimbun has a really ridiculous article on the Kisha Club system, implying that the only criticism is that of foreign news organizations. http://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200402210203.html What is totally lacking is any sense that the Kisha club system helps to promote censorship. A site that sheds light on this is that of Ken’ichi Asano, journalism professor and former reporter for Kyodo Tsushin ENGLISH only http://www1.doshisha.ac.jp/%7Ekasano/FEATURES/Eindex.html ENGLISH And JAPANESE (more articles) http://www1.doshisha.ac.jp/%7Ekasano/ Also: Why Japan Remains a Threat to Peace and Democracy in Asia by Kenichi Asano Kenichi Asano is a Professor of Communication Studies at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. from Censored 2004 https://tokyoprogressive.org/tpnews_comments.php?id=P719_0_2_0_C —————————————– On this page, and throughout the TokyoProgressive web site, there are links to unreported and underreported news stories, as well as coverage of self-censorship by the media, Japan-included. Many stories NOT covered by the Japanese press Includes: Government Media Censorship on Mad Cow Disease and many more…. https://tokyoprogressive.org/link2.html And try this, for other underreported issues: http://japanfocus.org/ More links here: https://tokyoprogressive.org/index.php#todaysnews And here http://www.japan-press.co.jp/ And here: http://www.jca.apc.org/jca-net/jpd/issues-ja.html http://www.kinyobi.co.jp/Recent And here: http://www.zmag.org/japanwatch/ And here: http://www.zmag.org/japanwatch/archive.html
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