Category Archives: Media

Media Mix, Dec. 25, 2021

Posted on December 26, 2021 by philipbrasor

Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is the usual review of themes and persons that I felt stood out in the media during the past year. It’s also the last Media Mix. The Japan Times’ management has decided they no … Continue reading →

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Media Mix, Dec. 18, 2021

Posted on December 19, 2021 by philipbrasor

Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about Sapporo’s bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics. As pointed out in the column, the Japanese press doesn’t sense a lot of enthusiasm for the bid among Sapporo residents and thinks it may … Continue reading →

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Seshu special: Nobuteru Ishihara unemployed again

Posted on December 14, 2021 by philipbrasor

Last Friday, Nobuteru Ishihara, one of Japan’s most famous dynastic (seshu) politicians, announced he was resigning his post as special advisor to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, after the media dug up a story about his political support group receiving special … Continue reading →

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Media Mix, Dec. 11, 2021

Posted on December 12, 2021 by philipbrasor

Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about a proposed revision to existing immigration laws that would allow more foreign workers to stay in Japan indefinitely. If the revision passes, it would go into effect probably as early as the … Continue reading →

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Media Mix, Dec. 4, 2021

Posted on December 5, 2021 by philipbrasor

Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about Ishin no Kai’s (the Japan Innovation Party) attempt to regulate the distribution to Diet members of funds that cover expenses for mail, correspondence, and transportation, familiarly called buntsuhi. At the time the … Continue reading →

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Media Mix, Nov. 27, 2021

Posted on November 28, 2021 by philipbrasor

Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about the suicide of an Asahi Shimbun reporter and what it says about the state of journalism right now, especially with regards to daily newspapers. I, of course, write this column for a … Continue reading →

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Media Mix, Nov. 20, 2021

Posted on November 21, 2021 by philipbrasor

Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about a suit brought by two people on death row in Japan to do away with the practice of not informing condemned prisoners of their time of execution until only a few hours … Continue reading →

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Media Mix, Nov. 13, 2021

Posted on November 14, 2021 by philipbrasor

Here’s this week’s Media Mix (whose headline is different from the print edition’s and slightly misleading), which is about Toyota’s seemingly blase attitude toward electric vehicles. Based on what the press in Japan is reporting, this reluctance is built into … Continue reading →

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Media Mix, Oct. 30, 2021

Posted on October 30, 2021 by philipbrasor

Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about inherited privilege, especially in politics. Today, of course, is the lower house election, and one of the points that Prof. Doi makes in his Asahi Shimbun interview, and which I didn’t really … Continue reading →

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Media Mix, Oct. 23, 2021

Posted on October 24, 2021 by philipbrasor

Here’s this week’s Media Mix, which is about excessive overtime work for Kasumigaseki bureaucrats. As pointed out in the column, many civil servants have to stay late at the office in order to draft responses to questions from opposition lawmakers … Continue reading →

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