Dirty Fight
Tokyo has created one of the world’s best sewage-management systems but unions warn of the impact of market-driven capitalism and climate change.
David McNeill
Out of the Line of Fire
Japanese media companies have mostly avoided on-the-ground reporting in Ukraine. Why?
Like their counterparts everywhere, Japanese editors have scrambled to keep up with events since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Unlike much of the world’s media, however, Japan’s television and newspaper outlets have almost no staff correspondents
戦火の列から遠ざかる日本メディア なぜウクライナからの報道を避けるのか
Struggle against Union Busting, Police Oppression over Fair Wage
Someone in the Japanese government appears to have ordered an Osaka-based union to be destroyed. The Kan’nama story has triggered alarming constitutional questions – but little media attention.
For nearly three years, Matsuo Seiko, 49, has kept a toothbrush and a change of clothes stuffed into a bag stored in
Japanese media remain silent over legal victory for free expression
Miki Dezaki scored a legal victory for truth and for freedom of expression in a Japanese court, so why is it being ignored?
In June 2019, Miki Dezaki found himself defending his hit documentary Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue to a room full of reporters. Dezaki
表現の自由の勝訴に沈黙する 日本のメディア
My Father-in-Law, the Japanese Radical
Visitors to Japan’s main international hub are still greeted by a sign saying ‘Down With Narita Airport’, a giant middle finger waved by diehards from a different era.
Years before we met, I learned about my Japanese father-in-law in an American newspaper. A story in the late 1990s reviewed