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CENSORSHIP

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 8, 2016
Forbidden fruit: China bans 'erotic' banana-eating live streams
Bananas may be China's new forbidden fruit — at least online.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 28, 2016
China prompts criticism with tough curbs on foreign NGOs
China's parliament passed a controversial law governing foreign nongovernment organizations, the Xinhua News Agency said on Thursday, giving wide powers to the domestic security authority and prompting criticism from Amnesty International.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 27, 2016
The muzzling of Japan's media is hurting Abenomics
How can Japan's fossilized politics and business change if media shies away from asking tough questions?
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2016
Being a Russian media mogul is dangerous
Putin now controls almost every wide-reaching news outlet in Russia. All he has to do is jerk the leash from time to time.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2016
Why China's censors silenced a Net sensation
China's leaders, so determined to export their culture to the world, are instead cultivating a neutered entertainment industry with their censorship.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 25, 2016
Beijing auditions foreign agencies to polish China brand
Five global public relations firms have made pitches to the Chinese government for a potential new campaign, four sources said, as Beijing tries to communicate more effectively with the West.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 19, 2016
Abe insider wages one-man campaign to challenge foreign media over reporting 'mistakes'
An Internet strategy adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is keeping his eyes peeled for what he calls "mistakes" by foreign media, because he thinks nobody in the government or the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has ever paid proper attention.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 16, 2016
China adds U.S. online publishing site Medium to list of blocked sites
Medium, a U.S.-based online publishing platform, has been blocked in China, the company said, the latest service to be affected as Beijing exerts greater control over the Internet.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 11, 2016
Press freedoms under attack
Freedom of speech and of the press, a key democratic right, is increasingly under threat around the world.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 11, 2016
China Internet regulator says Web censorship not a trade barrier
China's online censorship system protects national security and does not discriminate against foreign companies, the country's Internet regulator said, after the United States labeled the blocking of websites by Beijing a trade barrier.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 5, 2016
China squelches Panama allegations, but Russia media note contents
China moved to block access to documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm after the data came to light Monday, and its state media characterized the data's release as political.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 3, 2016
Conservatives in academia need to 'come out'
Unless left-wing academics come to value, or at least tolerate, political diversity, intellectual inquiry in the humanities and social sciences faces a bleak future.
EDITORIALS
Apr 2, 2016
China's tight control of speech
Chinese President Xi Jinping's stringent control of speech and media outlets could increase public frustration — a potential source of social instability.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2016
A slow-growing China brokers little dissent
It is no longer only pollution from China that Hong Kong citizens have to worry about.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 30, 2016
China considers banning all unapproved Internet domains
China's government is moving to tighten its grip over the Internet as it rolls out draft rules that will effectively ban Web domains not approved by local authorities, including possibly the most widely used .com and .org addresses.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2016
Dangers of Facebook cozying up to Beijing
Mark Zuckerberg's China ambitions are a no-brainer but he risks being a pawn in Beijing's censorship push.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 21, 2016
Missing Chinese columnist who called for Xi to resign 'taken away' by police, lawyer says
Chinese police "took away" a well-known columnist last week before he tried to board a flight for Hong Kong and his whereabouts are still unknown, his lawyer said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 11, 2016
Intimidation via the Broadcast Law
Communications minister Sanae Takaichi's statement strengthens the case for creating a neutral, independent body to take charge of broadcasting administration, including the issuance and withdrawals of licenses.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Feb 3, 2016
Why the 'comfort women' statues should stay — and continue to disturb
On holiday in Hanoi, I found myself trying to explain 'comfort women' to my 13-year-old son.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2016
Oxford rejects political correctness, sort of ...
University students are free to speak out against whatever they wish, but not to erase history.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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