Japanese newspaper apologises over Fukushima and sex slave errors

One of Japan's leading newspapers has been forced into a climbdown over serious errors in articles about two of the most contentious issues in the country: the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the use of wartime sex slaves. Executives at the Asahi Shimbun, a left-leaning daily whose morning edition has a circulation of 7.6m, said the newspaper's executive editor, Nobuyuki Sugiura, would be dismissed

[D_Amon]

朝日新聞は確かに歴史修正主義者を勢いづけた。だが、吉田証言の虚偽性は既に知られており、欧米のメディアが慰安婦を戦時性奴隷と認識し続け、否定論者が歴史修正主義者と認識され続けることに変わりはないだろう

[kmiura]

これを海外からの視点で読むと「日本のトップの新聞も極右化した安倍の手に陥落」という印象になる。例えば吉田所長が喉頭がんで死亡に被曝の影響なし、なんて、ほとんどプロパガンダ以外のなにものにも見えない。

[feather303]

"the Asahi's errors have encouraged(活気づける) historical revisionists who insist(強く主張する) the women were not forced to work in frontline brothels(娼館)."

[carl_s]

「the Asahi's errors have encouraged historical revisionists who insist the women were not forced to work in frontline brothels.」

[ping-back]

イギリスThe Guardianの記事。吉田調書が９割、慰安婦１割。