Post by toshi on Jun 16, 2005 22:31:53 GMT -5
Unfortunately, the magazine has been under such pressure that they have finally given up trying to report this issue further. Predictably, the Japanese press failed to follow up on their scoops. More dissappointing, however, was the foreign press in Japan's refusal to follow up their stories. The foreign press was their only hope and they were left in a lunch...
While this may sound like a grim joke, the truth is that the most reliable news source in Japan is the broadcasts on right wing sound trucks, these are followed in reliability by magazines and tabloids while the biggest liars of all are the mainstream newspapers. There is many a scoop to be had for the taking by any non-taboo constrained foreign reporter willing to listen to those sound trucks...
It is an open secret in Japan that all LDP politicians are linked to crime syndicates. Japanese political reporters usually know if a politician is linked to the Yamaguchi Gumi, the Inagawa Kai or the Sumiyoshi crime family (hint politicians from districts south of Nagoya are usually Yamaguchi while Tokyo and Yokohama politicians tend to be Inagawa and Sumiyoshi)...
Koizumi's grandfather, also a politician, was famous for sporting a full-body tattoo and showing it in Parliament. Tattoo are widely associated with membership in yakuza gangs in Japan. "We have no comment to make," was all a spokesperson for Prime Minister Koizumi's office would say...
The foreign press corps has a moral duty to expose the truth behind the false front the Japanese government likes to present to the world. The folk at Friday would be more than happy to provide enough evidence on Koizumi to satisfy the most finnicky lawyers and fact-checkers around. Please give them a call...
Taken from "2. Junichiro Koizumi"
That Canadian author said that Japan has no freedom of the press. How is the Journalism in your country? Chicken as it is like Japan's?
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