Archive Media Update - First half 2012
Archive Media Update - Second half 2011
Archive Media Update - First half 2011
Archive Media Update – Second half 2010
edited by Alastair Carthew and Simon Winkelmann
FIRST HALF OF 2012:
The death of a video and photo journalist in Syria; a landmark court case in the suing of a journalist over a story about Japan’s nuclear industry; an attempt by freelance journalists to break into Japanese journalism’s famous Kisha Club (press club) in the diet (parliament); and the impact of new regulations on social media were features of the second half of 2012 in Japan.
Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto, who worked for Tokyo based Japan Press, was killed in clashes between rebels and Syrian army forces in the northern city of Aleppo in August. She was travelling with the rebel Free Syrian Army, when they encountered government forces that opened fire, killing her. Yamamoto was a veteran correspondent who covered the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Journalist Minoru Tanaka, an investigative journalist, has written extensively about Japan’s nuclear industrial complex, also known as “the nuclear village”, composed of utility firms, politicians, advertising agencies and retired bureaucrats. In December, 2011 he wrote an article on alleged collusion between the president of a nuclear safety company, the nuclear industry, politicians and possibly organised crime. Tanaka, a writer for the weekly Shukan Kinyobi, was sued by a powerful nuclear industry figure for USD$858,000 in a landmark case, as it was the first time a journalist had been sued over an article but not the magazine that published it. Read more
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| Yomiuri Shimbun |
| Published: | twice daily, 8 million |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | Tokyo Head Office: 1-7-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo |
| Telephone: | +81 3 32421111 |
| Fax: | +81 3 32168749 |
| E-Mail: | int@yomiuri.com |
| Website: | http://www.yomiuri.co.jp |
| The Daily Yomiuri |
| Published: | daily |
| Language: | English |
| Address: | 1-7-1 Otemachi, National Diet building, Chiyoda-ku, Japan |
| Telephone: | +81 3 32178231 |
| Fax: | +81 3 32178247 |
| E-Mail: | dy@yomiuri.com |
| Website: | http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy |
| Asahi Shimbun |
| Published: | daily, 6.1 million |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | Tokyo Head Office: 3-2, Tsukiji Gochome, Chuo, Tokyo |
| Telephone: | +81 3 335450131 |
| Fax: | +81 3 35458450 |
| Website: | http://www.asahi.com |
| Mainichi Shimbun |
| Published: | daily, 1.9 million |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | Tokyo Head Office: 1-1-1 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo |
| Telephone: | +81 3 32120321 |
| Fax: | +81 3 32121609 |
| E-Mail: | kouhou@mbx.mainichi.co.jp |
| Website: | http://www.mainichi.co.jp |
| Publisher: | Masato Kitamura Ltd |
| The Nikkei |
| Published: | daily, 2.7 million |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | 1-3-7 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8066 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 32700251 |
| Fax: | +81 869880248 |
| E-mail: | support@nikkei.co.jp |
| Website: | http://www.sankei.co.jp |
| Publisher: | Tsuneo Kita |
| Sankei Shimbun |
| Published: | daily, 579.000 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | Tokyo Sankei Building, 7-2, Otemachi Itchome, Chiyoda, Tokyo |
| Telephone: | +81 3 32758956 |
| Fax: | +81 3 32758576 |
| E-Mail: | u-service@sankei.co.jp |
| Website: | http://sankei.jp.msn.com/ |
| Publisher: | Nagayoshi Sumita |
| Metropolis (free) |
| Published: | weekly, 30.000 |
| Language: | English |
| Address: | 10F, Minami-Ayama First Building, 7-8-1 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, 1070062, Tokyo |
| Telephone: | +81 3 45502929 |
| Fax: | +81 3 45502859 |
| E-Mail: | letter@metropolis.co.jp |
| Website: | http://www.metropolis.co.jp |
| Bungeishunju |
| Published: | monthly |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | Bungeishunju Ltd., 3-23 Kioi-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 1020094 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 32886586 |
| Fax: | +81 3 32651363 |
| E-Mail: | i-homu@bunshun.co.jp |
| Website: | http://www.bunshun.co.jp |
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Online media
| Wall Street Journal Japan K.K. |
| Online since: | 2009 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | 19F, Otemachi First Square East Tower,1-5-1, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 6269 2850 |
| Fax: | +81 3 6269 2853 |
| E-Mail: | jp-support@wsj.com |
| Website: | http://jp.wsj.com |
| Publisher: | Dow Jones & Company |
| Mainichi Daily News |
| Online since: | 2001 |
| Language: | Japanese, English |
| Address: | 1-1-1 Hitotsubashi,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8051 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 6269 2850 |
| Fax: | +81 3 3212 1609 |
| E-Mail: | media_release@mbx.mainichi.co.jp |
| Website: | http://mainichi.jp |
| Publisher: | The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd. |
| The Japan Times Online |
| Language: | English |
| Address: | 5-4, Shibaura 4-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8071 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 3453 5312 |
| Website: | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/ |
| Publisher: | The Japan Times Co., Ltd. |
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Television
| NHK |
| On air since: | 1925 (radio), 1950 (television) |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | 2-2-1 Jinnan, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-8001 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 4651111 |
| Fax: | +81 3 4698110 |
| Website: | http://www.nhk.or.jp |
| Owner: | National Broedcasting Corporation |
| Nippon News Network |
| On air since: | 1952 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | 1-6-1 Higashi Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-7444 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 62151111 |
| Website: | http://www.ntv.co.jp |
| Owner: | Nippon Television Network Corporation, Chairman and President: Noritada Hosokawa |
| Fuji Television |
| On air since: | 2008 (took over Fuji TV) |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | 2-4-8, Daiba, Minato, Tokyo |
| Telephone: | +81 3 55008888 |
| Fax: | ++81 3 55008027 |
| Website: | http://www.fujitv.co.jp |
| Owner: | Fuji Media Holdings Inc. |
| TXN (TV Tokyo) |
| On air since: | 1951 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | 4-3-12 Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo 1058012 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 54707777 |
| Website: | http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp |
| Owner: | Nihon Keizai Shimbun and Mainichi Broadcasting System |
| SKY Perfect JSAT |
| On air since: | 1994 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | 1-14-14 Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo 107-0052 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 55717800 |
| Website: | http://www.sptvjsat.com |
| Owner: | Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation, President and CEO: Masanori Akiyama |
| TV Asahi |
| On air since: | 1957 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | TV Asahi Corporation, 6-9-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokoy 1068001 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 64061111 |
| Website: | http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp |
| Owner: | TV Asahi Corporation, Chairman: Michisada Hirose |
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Radio
| NHK |
| On air since: | 1952 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | 2-2-1 Jinnan, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-8001 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 4651111 |
| Fax: | +81 3 4698110 |
| Website: | http://www.nhk.or.jp |
| Japan Radio Network |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Address: | 5-3-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 1070 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 3746111 |
| Website: | http://www.tbs.co.jp |
| Owner: | TBS Broadcasting System Holdings |
| Radio Nikkei |
| On air since: | 1954 |
| Language: | Japenese |
| Address: | 1-9-15 Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo 107-8373 |
| Telephone: | +81 3 35838151 |
| Website: | http://www.radionikkei.jp |
| Owner: | TV Asahi Corporation, Chairman: Michisada Hirose |
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