Suffering a media free-for-all, Japanese press now has the government weighing in

In Japan this year, the reporters have become the reported.It’s seems there’s been one journalism furor after another in recent months: first up, the left-leaning Asahi Shimbun retracted a bunch of stories on “comfort women” that it published on the issue in the 1980s and 1990s.The Asahi also had to withdraw a faulty report about […]

















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