'Comfort women': anger as Japan paper alters description of WWII terms | World news | The Guardian
It was the latest media row about how to define notorious parts of the country’s wartime record. The Japan Times, which marked its 120th anniversary last year, said in an editor’s note in Friday’s edition that it would ditch the commonly used term “forced labour” to describe Koreans who were made to work in Japanese mines and factories during its 1910-45 colonial rule over the Korean peninsula. So
The Guardian view on al-Jazeera: muzzling journalism | Editorial
‘Since the TV station gave voice to the Arab spring, many autocrats no doubt wish it would be taken off air, permanently.’ Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters ‘Since the TV station gave voice to the Arab spring, many autocrats no doubt wish it would be taken off air, permanently.’ Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters
Japanese TV anchors lose their jobs amid claims of political pressure
Their imminent departure from evening news programmes is not just a loss to their profession; critics say they were forced out as part of a crackdown on media dissent by an increasingly intolerant prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and his supporters. Only last week, the internal affairs minister, Sanae Takaichi, sent a clear message to media organisations. Broadcasters that repeatedly failed to show “fa
Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away? | George Monbiot
‘Children are being prepared for evacuation in warships already some have choked to death. Species are going up in smoke at an untold rate.’ Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images ‘Children are being prepared for evacuation in warships already some have choked to death. Species are going up in smoke at an untold rate.’ Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images
Japanese newspaper retracts term ‘sex slaves’ from wartime coverage
Japan’s biggest-selling newspaper has apologised for its past use of the term “sex slaves” to describe tens of thousands of women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during the second world war. The move by the Yomiuri Shimbun, a conservative broadsheet with a daily circulation of more than 10 million, has fuelled concern that sections of the country’s media have signe
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
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