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CENSORSHIP

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 2, 2018
Bowing to censorship, Google plans to launch search app in lucrative Chinese market, ending long boycott: sources
Google is preparing a version of its search engine for China that blocks results Beijing considers sensitive, according to people familiar with the situation.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 30, 2018
Cambodian leader's party claims all election seats as opposition sees 'death of democracy'
Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) said Monday it had won all 125 parliamentary seats up for grabs in a general election a day earlier that critics said was neither free nor fair.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 18, 2018
China's version of 'Saturday Night Live' pulled amid crackdown on content
China's version of U.S. satire show "Saturday Night Live" has temporarily been pulled from a domestic video site amid a crackdown on content ranging from online blogs to livestreams.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 18, 2018
U.S. academic and critic of Beijing censorship will leave China after losing job
An American professor and vocal critic of Beijing's censorship said he had lost his job at the prestigious Peking University and is leaving China.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2018
Vietnam forces Facebook and Google to pick privacy or growth
Vietnam's new cybersecurity law could force Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Facebook Inc. to choose between access to one of Asia's fastest-growing digital economies and protecting their users' privacy.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 23, 2018
China's Hainan says will partly lift 'Great Firewall' to lure foreign tourists
China's southern province of Hainan will offer foreigners unrestricted internet access to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as part of new incentives to boost tourism.
WORLD
May 27, 2018
Top Egypt court orders temporary YouTube ban over Prophet Muhammad video
Egypt's top administrative court ruled on Saturday that regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube for one month over a video that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad, a lawyer who filed the case told Reuters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 24, 2018
Trump blocking critics on Twitter violates Constitution: U.S. judge
A federal judge in New York on Wednesday ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump may not legally block Twitter users because doing so violates their right to free speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution.
COMMENTARY / World
May 14, 2018
Open skies can clear Beijing's 'Orwellian nonsense'
An agreement to expand market access in China would be the best way to Chinese government avoid censorship.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 30, 2018
China makes defaming revolutionary heroes punishable by law
China has introduced a law making it potentially a criminal offense to defame or deny the deeds and spirit of the country's historic martyrs, state media said, the latest move to protect symbols of party and state.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 10, 2018
Vietnam activists question Facebook on suppressing dissent
Vietnamese human rights activists and independent media groups have written to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc.'s chief executive, questioning whether the social media platform was helping suppress dissent in the communist country.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 5, 2018
Shooter attacked YouTube for filtering her videos, went to gun range before assault: police
An Iranian-born woman who blogged about surviving in a world filled with "injustice and diseases" opened fire at YouTube's California headquarters because she was angry at a site she believed was suppressing her videos, police said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2018
Controlling the web a dream and nightmare
Authoritarian governments regulate what their citizens can see online. The U.S. lets tech companies make similar decisions.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 23, 2018
No laughing matter: China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown
China's media regulator is cracking down on video spoofs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, amid an intensified crackdown on any content that is deemed to be in violation of socialist core values under President Xi Jinping.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 24, 2018
China aims to eliminate online video games that violate 'socialist core values'
Beijing is starting a special investigative campaign into online video games to root out those with "low taste," the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 23, 2018
Bad rap: China takes aim at hip-hop, saying 'low-taste content' must stop
China's censors have a new target in a widespread clamp-down on popular culture: the country's nascent hip-hop scene, which resonated with Chinese youth last year on hugely popular television show "Rap of China."
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2018
What to do when liberals are the censors?
'Offense' and 'hurt' are central concepts in rising efforts on the left to curtail free speech.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 22, 2018
'Fake news' crutch used by Southeast Asian leaders to control media, critics charge
Governments across Southeast Asia have a history of using laws and the judiciary to curb press freedoms — now, they have found a handy crutch to lean on as they intensify clampdowns: U.S. President Donald Trump's "fake news" mantra.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2018
India's culture war comes to Bollywood
While it may seem alarmist to suggest freedom of expression in India is in peril, the atmosphere of intimidation is palpable.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 26, 2017
Vietnam unveils 10,000-strong cyber unit to combat 'wrong views'
Vietnam has unveiled a new, 10,000-strong military cyber warfare unit to counter "wrong" views on the internet, media reported, amid a widening crackdown on critics of the one-party state.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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