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After the quake

Recommendations to journalists covering the disaster

Published on 15 March 2011Read

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Relief

Abandonment of the claim against a Japanese journalist

Published on 6 August 2009Read

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Reporters Without Borders demonstrates during Olympic torch relay in Nagano

Members of Reporters Without Borders, including its secretary-general Robert Ménard, demonstrated peacefully during the Olympic torch relay this (...)

Published on 26 April 2008 Read

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Authorities finally let well-known Chinese dissident enter Japan

Leading Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng left Japan today for the United States after finally being allowed to enter Japan yesterday. He was (...)

Published on 8 June 2007 Read

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Japan : right-wing extremist arrested for throwing Molotov cocktail at newspaper’s headquarters

20.04 - Japan : right-wing extremist arrested for throwing Molotov cocktail at newspaper’s headquarters Far-right activist Motohide Hiraoka, 42, (...)

Published on 20 April 2007 Read

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Music chart company urged to drop lawsuit against freelance journalist who questioned its practices

Reporters Without Borders appealed today to Koh Koike, the president of the Japanese music chart company Oricon, to withdraw a lawsuit against (...)

Published on 9 February 2007 Read

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Alarm at fire-bomb attack against financial paper

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemned a fire-bomb attack against the offices of the financial newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) in (...)

Published on 21 July 2006 Read

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High Court throws out case against TV channel NHK in protection of sources case

Reporters Without Borders hailed the Tokyo High Court’s decision overturning the city federal court’s action against a journalist on national TV (...)

Published on 24 March 2006 Read

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Killer of freelance journalist Satoru Someya gets 14 years

A Tokyo court on 11 October sentenced Yoshihiro Kumamotoa, 33, to 14 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of freelance journalist Satoru (...)

Published on 17 October 2005 Read