An article in the Japan Times and another article in the New York Times discussed some surprisingly dramatic media moments in Japan lately: a on-air resignation and claim by an established TV news commentator Shigeaki Koga that the conservative Abe administration is working hard to stifle free press:
“The Abe government is showing an obsession with the media that verges on paranoia,” said Keigo Takeda, a former editor in chief at Newsweek Japan who is now a respected freelance journalist. “I have never seen this level of efforts to micromanage specific newspapers and TV programs.”
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