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bsmall2> ... an unsettling trend, however. Across our neighborhood, houses are being sold as their elderly owners pass away. The houses are torn down and rebuilt and their exuberant gardens paved over. Many plots that once hosted single idiosyncratic homes are being replaced with multiple identikit houses, and not a tree or lawn in sight.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241002/p2a/00m/0op/005000c
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https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241002/p2a/00m/0op/005000c
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Prime Minister Takaichi...
> Online debate about such viral images tended to obscure, for some, the substance of the Japan-US summit. Because of the press club system, which rewards journalists with monopolistic “turnkey access” to institutional sources,Japanese media coverage emphasized Takaichi’s substantive achievements and downplayed or ignored Trump’s Pearl Harbor jibe, said one NHK journalist.
https://www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shimbun-article/trust-and-betrayal
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> Online debate about such viral images tended to obscure, for some, the substance of the Japan-US summit. Because of the press club system, which rewards journalists with monopolistic “turnkey access” to institutional sources,Japanese media coverage emphasized Takaichi’s substantive achievements and downplayed or ignored Trump’s Pearl Harbor jibe, said one NHK journalist.
https://www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shimbun-article/trust-and-betrayal
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Trust and betrayal | FCCJ
April 2026 | Cover story Sanae Takaichi’s preference for populist messaging has left Japan’s mainstream media struggling to respond Journalists dream of a viral moment in the White House Oval Office. For Chijiwa Morio it came on March 19. A politics reporter and Kantei bureau chief with TV Asahi, Chijiwa asked Donald Trump why he had not shared the decision to attack Iran with America’s allies. Trump’s off-the cuff reply made headlines around the world. “Who knows better about surprise than Japan?” he asked.
> ... Ito has seen off all of the legal challenges launched against her and is one of the few people who can claim to have permanently changed the debate in Japan on sexual assault. Her case was a catalyst for revisions to Japan’s rape laws in 2023, which redefined rape to focus on non-consensual acts. By any definition, she has answered her critics.
https://www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shimbun-article/matter-survival-0
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> Tomomi Akasaka of Kyodo News is among several journalists who have complained about being harassed after covering hate speech against Kurds in Saitama Prefecture. Japan’s small Kurdish community, clustered in the cities of Kawaguchi and Warabi, have been targeted by rightwing groups seeking their expulsion. Reporters who cover the story can often expect a tsunami of abuse.
https://www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shimbun-article/trolling-votes
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https://www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shimbun-article/trolling-votes
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> Takaichi was citing a legal principle established in 2015, that Japan is authorised to dispatch its Self-Defence Forces (SDF) during an armed attack against a foreign country that is in a close relationship with Japan.
> If US military forces were, for example, trying to break a Chinese naval blockade of Taiwan, the SDF could be sent to help.
Discussion has raged since on whether such a scenario actually threatens Japan’s survival.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2025/11/24/japans-iron-lady-weathers-diplomatic-storm-with-china-but-choppy-waters-lie-ahead/
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> If US military forces were, for example, trying to break a Chinese naval blockade of Taiwan, the SDF could be sent to help.
Discussion has raged since on whether such a scenario actually threatens Japan’s survival.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2025/11/24/japans-iron-lady-weathers-diplomatic-storm-with-china-but-choppy-waters-lie-ahead/
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> Death row inmates in Japanese jails are kept in solitary confinement and forced to wait for years, and sometimes decades, while the legal system grinds on. A prison rule that inmates cannot be told of their execution until the morning it happens means they live every day believing it will be their last.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2025/11/06/japans-death-penalty-in-the-spotlight-after-inmate-freed-from-decades-on-death-row/
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https://www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-pacific/2025/11/06/japans-death-penalty-in-the-spotlight-after-inmate-freed-from-decades-on-death-row/
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