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Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2021
1,000 people and firms in Japan linked to tax havens in leaked documents
The files, dubbed the 'Pandora Papers,' reveal high-profile figures' use of tax havens at a time when managing wealth through offshore tax shelters has drawn criticism worldwide.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 31, 2019
How Abe works, or doesn't work, with the media
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers questions in brief, on-the-spot interviews with beat reporters far less frequently than before, according to journalists who have intensively covered the country's longest-serving prime minister.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2019
Freed Japanese journalist Jumpei Yasuda has been attempting to obtain new passport for five months
Journalist Jumpei Yasuda, who returned home last year after more than three years in captivity in Syria, has been attempting to obtain a passport for five months but the Foreign Ministry has yet to make a decision on his application.
WORLD / Society
Sep 14, 2018
Female journalists seen facing 'relentless' sexual harassment and abuse
Female journalists are facing a "relentless" barrage of attacks and harassment, with nearly a third considering leaving the profession as a result, media support organizations have warned.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 28, 2018
Two reporters and driver kidnapped near Colombian border: Ecuador
Two journalists and their driver were kidnapped in a troubled area near Ecuador's border with Colombia, which Quito has said is rife with dissidents of the former FARC guerrilla group, Interior Minister Cesar Navas said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 20, 2017
Myanmar mum on whereabouts of Reuters journalists week after their arrest
Two Reuters journalists completed a week in detention in Myanmar on Tuesday, with no word on where they were being held as authorities proceeded with an investigation into whether they violated the country's colonial-era Official Secrets Act.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2017
Japan, rights expert trade barbs over Tokyo's record on freedom of expression
A senior Japanese diplomat and a U.N. rights expert traded barbs Monday at the U.N. Human Rights Council over a report released in May that criticized Tokyo's record on freedom of opinion and expression.
JAPAN
Apr 27, 2017
Japan stays 72nd on press freedom list but falls to last in G-7
Japan ranked 72nd on a 2017 list of press freedom around the world — its same overall position from a year earlier — but fell to last among its Group of Seven peers as Italy climbed to 52nd, according to the 180-nation World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 13, 2017
Pyongyang tells foreign journalists to prepare for 'big and important event'
Foreign journalists visiting North Korea have been told to prepare for a "big and important event" on Thursday, although there were no indications it was directly linked to tensions in the region over the isolated state's nuclear weapons program.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 25, 2016
Colombian pair vanish while reporting on Spanish journalist's disappearance
Two journalists are missing in Colombia's northeast conflict zone while covering the disappearance of a Spanish reporter feared kidnapped last weekend, the government said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 17, 2016
Kin say freed American journalists have left Bahrain
An American journalist and her camera crew who were arrested in Bahrain and accused of participating in an illegal gathering have left the country after being released on Tuesday, their families said in a statement.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2015
Reporters Without Borders retracts Yasuda hostage comments
France-based Reporters Without Borders withdraws comments claiming a Japanese freelance journalist is being held hostage by an armed group in Syria, following criticism the premature announcement may have endangered his life.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 1, 2015
Myanmar navy holds migrant boat in limbo, blocks journalists from gaining access
Myanmar's navy briefly detained and turned back journalists on Sunday near a migrant boat being held off the country's southern coast, according to Reuters witnesses, as officials remained guarded over what would be done with the people on board.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 9, 2015
Egypt sets Feb. 12 retrial date for jailed Al-Jazeera journalists
The retrial of two Al-Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt will start on Feb. 12, the lawyer for one of the defendants said on Sunday.
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2015
Japan journalists press for talks with Islamic State group
A journalists' association has called on Japan to engage in dialogue with the extremists holding Kenji Goto, a day after an image emerged appearing to show the dead body of fellow hostage Haruna Yukawa.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 20, 2015
Snowden documents show U.K. spies tapped fiber-optic cables, stored journalists' emails: Guardian
Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency stored emails from journalists working for several large media organizations, according to documents released by fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Guardian newspaper reported.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 9, 2015
Abe pays respects to victims at French Embassy
Expressing solidarity with the people of France, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday signed a book of condolences at the French Embassy's residency building in Tokyo as police near Paris hunted the gunmen behind a massacre at Charlie Hebdo magazine.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2014
Uber under fire after exec suggests digging up dirt on critical reporters
An executive at Uber Technologies Inc. has come under fire for saying that the mobile car-booking startup should hire a team of opposition researchers to dig up dirt on journalists who are critical of the company.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 25, 2014
Kidnappers free U.S. journalist missing in Syria since 2012
Kidnappers in Syria have freed a U.S. journalist missing since 2012, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday, following what Qatari-owned Al Jazeera said were efforts by the Gulf Arab state to win his release.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 11, 2014
Myanmar jails reporters, newspaper boss for 10 years over chemical arms report
Four journalists and a newspaper boss were sentenced in Myanmar on Thursday to 10 years in prison with hard labor for reporting about an alleged chemical weapons factory, legal and media sources said.

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