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Testy Team Abe Pressures Media in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Jeff Kingston
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In an April 2, 2015 essay in the Number One Shimbun published by the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan, veteran German journalist Carsten Germis shares his experiences of being harassed by the Japanese government basically for doing his job. In his view, the Abe government is overly sensitive to criticism and responds aggressively in trying to suppress such views. Team Abe has been especially sensitive to criticism about what Germis terms, “a move by the right to whitewash history.” Germis served in Tokyo from 2010-15, but I only met him once very briefly and have not read his articles in German, so am not in a position to judge the content or analysis, but his allegations of government meddling with the press are serious.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 15 , April 2015 , e1
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