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No Foreigners Need Apply

Friday, August 27, 2010

Tokyo -- PanOrient News became aware earlier today that Prime Minister Naoto Kan would be making significant comments about yen appreciation and the Japanese economy at a press gathering in Tokyo. We aimed to be at the site to inform you directly about what the Japanese leader said.

Unfortunately, upon inquiring with the relevant Japanese governmental authorities, we discovered that only Japanese news organizations would be allowed to film the event and all foreign media organizations were au...

Okinawan Journalism Honored

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Tokyo -- The Japan Congress of Journalists (JCJ) held a function at the Japan National Press Club this afternoon to honor the best of Japanese journalism of the past year.

The two leading awards were bestowed on the Ryukyu Shinpo and the Okinawa Times, both of them in connection with the Futenma airbase relocation story.

The Ryukyu Shinpo's "Futenma Issue" research squad won the award for a series in which they described the 1996 Henoko agreement as a "spell" that needed to be broken. ...

Japan Times Gets It Wrong on the SDP

Friday, July 30, 2010

Tokyo -- In a Japan Times editorial published today, a flawed analysis of the departure of Kiyomi Tsujimoto from the SDP is offered to its readers.

In the Japan Times' understanding of the event, Tsujimoto's exit "symbolizes the conflict within the SDP between idealism and realism, the former represented by Ms. Fukushima and the latter by Ms. Tsujimoto."

This analysis is mistaken on two accounts: first in its oversimplified vision of the internal SDP conflict being between "idealism" a...

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