With the Internet pressing down on traditional media and interest in news from Japan apparently in decline, many foreign journalists say reporting with a Tokyo dateline is increasingly becoming a challenge.
In this environment, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan is also facing difficulties, due partly to the decline in member journalists since the peak in the early 1990s.
Many foreign media organizations have closed or downsized their bureaus here, but this is taking place elsewhere as well.
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