The artwork above appeared in the cover of the April 2020 issue of the Number 1 Shimbun, the monthly magazine of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. Weeks after it first appeared, the Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee demanded that it be withdrawn from public circulation.
This SNA Speakeasy features Lawrence Repeta on the theme of “Emergency Powers and the Constitution.”
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the first half of May 2020.
This SNA Speakeasy features Sara Gomez Armas on the theme of “The News Media Under Duterte.”
This SNA Speakeasy features Azby Brown on the theme of “Interrogating Japan’s Covid-19 Data.”
Defense Minister Taro Kono’s denunciation of NHK and the mainstream news media as “fake news” for reporting that his ministry had decided to give up the Araya Training Area in Akita city as host for an Aegis Ashore facility was a cynical ploy on his part, but it did highlight once again that many people misunderstand the news media in rather fundamental ways.
This SNA Speakeasy features Cedric Alviani on the theme of “Press Freedom in East Asia.”
This SNA Speakeasy features Jess Panegyres on the theme of “In the Wake of the Australia Wildfires.”
A roundup of the most significant news stories from Japan reported in the last half of April 2020.
This SNA Speakeasy features Kenichiro Mogi on the theme of “Japanese Society in the Coronavirus Era.”
