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Tatsuya Kato, a Japanese journalist who is the Tokyo newspaper Sankei Shimbun’s Seoul correspondent, is the subject of a criminal libel prosecution over a story about South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s actions at the time of Sewol ferry’s sinking on 16 April. The newspaper had no inkling that Kato’s story would elicit such a heavy-handed reaction from the president’s supporters when it was pos

Reporters Without Borders takes note of prosecutor Eiji Masuhara’s decision to suspend “criminal contempt” proceedings against freelance journalist Mari Takenouchi in connection with her coverage of the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The proceedings were initiated as a result of a complaint by Ryoko Ando, the head of an organization called Ethos, after Takenouchi tweeted that