
Reference / Special Presentations | WITNESS TO WAR Aug 17, 2007
Journalism in the service of war authority
by Setsuko Kamiya
Kanji Murakami began his reporting career in January 1941, joining the Asahi Shimbun's bureau in Seoul, or Keijo as it was then known, when the Korean Peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule. At that time media censorship was strong. A 1909 law imposed many restrictions ...