Category: Japan
Japan Media Mystery: Neither Print Nor On-Line Succeeding
While Japan’s long economic stagnation has prompted a slow dismantling of the nation’s postwar order, punctuated by a historic change of government last year,
one pillar of that order, the news media, has so far been left relatively untouched.
The new government has taken the initial steps to open up some of the exclusive press clubs that dominate coverage at Tokyo’s powerful central ministries,
but it has yet to follow through with more sweeping changes.
Hoof-and-Mouth Threatens Japan’s Prestigious, Lucrative Beef Trade
MIYAZAKI, Japan — It is a calamity for this quiet cattle community.
A prized black calf born last fall will soon be killed, part of the mass destruction of livestock in Japan’s battle against its worst foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in at least a century.
Japan’s Ultra-Powerful Bureaucrats Undergo Webcast Public Exposure
Seeking to bring its spiraling debt under control, Japan has undertaken an unlikely exercise:
lawmakers are forcing bureaucrats to defend their budgets at public hearings and are slashing wanton spending.
Seeking to bring its spiraling debt under control, Japan has undertaken an unlikely exercise:
