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JAPAN / Media
May 28, 2016

Shooting the messenger: journalism under siege in Japan

Journalists who refuse to toe the official line are under pressure, experts say
The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2023 launch event in Seoul in 2023. Studies have shown connections between social media use and eating disorders.
WORLD / Society
Jun 2, 2025

How social media can 'trigger' eating disorders in young people

The glorification of thinness and promotion of fake, dangerous advice about diet and nutrition push the vulnerable toward developing eating disorders.
A group of media companies have launched a fact-checking initiative for election-related online information, beginning with this month's Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 4, 2025

Media firms launch election fact-checking initiative

The collaboration between Jiji Press, the Yomiuri Shimbun group, Saga Shimbun and Nippon Television Network aims to enhance the fairness and credibility of fact-checking work.
The trouble between U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk started brewing days ago, when Musk denounced Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 6, 2025

Trump and Musk trade barbs on social media as alliance crumbles

Within hours of Trump criticizing Musk in the Oval Office, the once-close relationship had disintegrated in full public view.
Kenji Shimizu, the incoming president of Fuji Media Holdings, said in an interview in Tokyo on Monday that the company has yet to finalize its long-term strategy.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 10, 2025

Fuji Media keeps real estate spinoff in play as activists circle

"All options” remain on the table, says incoming President Kenji Shimizu.
The Fighters' Ryota Isobata reacts after a hit during a game against the DeNA BayStars in Yokohama on Saturday. The Fighters had announced a policy of allowing spectators to post videos and photos to social media at games, but backtracked after opposition from NPB.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 10, 2025

Japan's baseball world divided on fans' social media use

NPB introduced a ban in February on posting photos and videos of players on the field during play to social media sites.
Reporters question Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Prime Minister's Office in April.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2025

Survey finds nearly 70% of people in Japan trust mass media

A combined 68.7% were very or moderately trustful of mass media, while 6.7% said they do not trust mass media at all.
The Japan Fair Trade Commission said that moves by Nippon Professional Baseball could violate the antimonopoly law, and urged the organization to prevent any recurrence.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2025

Japan Fair Trade Commission warns NPB over Fuji TV media pass denial

The antitrust watchdog said that such moves could violate the antimonopoly law, urging NPB to prevent any recurrence.
A man hangs flowers on the fence of Francoise Dolto middle school in Nogent on Wednesday, a day after a secondary school pupil was arrested after killing a 31-year-old school assistant with a knife during a bag search.
WORLD / Society
Jun 12, 2025

France eyes social media ban for kids under 15 after school stabbing

A ban on the sale of knives to minors is also planned for implementation.
Voters in Tokyo listen to a speech by a candidate in Japan's Oct. 27, 2024 general election.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 13, 2025

Japan news media association pledges accurate news for elections

The statement says that social media platforms should take proactive measures against fake and false information on the internet.
A growing number of consumers, particularly people in their 50s and older, are seeking advice on troubles involving social media.
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2025

Social media user worries swell to record level in Japan

Consumers in Japan sought advice on social media-related problems in a record 86,396 cases in 2024, an annual government report showed Friday.
A library on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, late last month
WORLD / Society
Jun 13, 2025

Foreign students scrub social media as U.S. expands visa vetting

Digital rights lawyers argue that the level of scrutiny that appears to be under consideration could set a dangerous precedent for digital surveillance in immigration processes.
A draft interim report calls on social media service providers to introduce voluntary regulations designed to suspend monetization in the event of a disaster, to curb the spread of disinformation.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 24, 2025

Japan aims to regulate social media monetization in disasters

The report calls on social media service providers to suspend monetization in the event of a disaster, to curb the spread of disinformation.
A voter takes a photograph of a candidate running for a Tokyo assembly seat, in Tokyo on June 21.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 27, 2025

Lawmaker hints at new social media regulations as misinformation taints elections

Under a new law, social media sites can remove posts defaming political candidates if creators don't respond within two days, but lawmakers say that's too long.
An internet influencer (Tina Tamashiro) loses her identity to AI in Daisuke Miyazaki’s “#Mito.”
CULTURE / Film
Aug 24, 2023

‘#Mito’: Sharp satire riffs on the dark side of AI and social media

Daisuke Miyazaki’s drama offers an intimate look at an influencer’s life and career stripped of surface glamour and glitz.
Elon Musk, owner of X, attends an event in Paris on June 16.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 6, 2023

Musk to integrate xAI with social media platform X

The billionaire also said xAI released its first AI model, a bot named Grok, after making it available to all X Premium+ subscribers.
Sony Group has raised its full-year outlook after its media divisions outperformed.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 9, 2023

Sony raises sales and profit outlook as media helps offset mobile

The adjustments suggest resilient consumer spending and a weaker yen are stabilizing the business.
In Japan, most of the trending hashtags on X on Thursday are related to the platform's outage.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 21, 2023

Social media platform X back up after wide-scale outage

Social media platform X suffered a global outage on Thursday, with users being unable to view posts.
The number of elementary school children who became victims of crimes through social media totaled a record 139 last year in Japan, National Police Agency data showed Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 14, 2024

Child victims of social media-related crimes on the rise in Japan

The number of victims has grown fivefold in the past decade.
BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda takes questions during a news conference. The bank's monetary policy overhaul announced last week was known by some Japanese media before it was made public.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 25, 2024

The BOJ has sprung a leak. Japan must investigate.

The bank's policy of disclosing information selectively to certain media is harmful and needs to be looked into, as slip-ups in other countries show.
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich (right) with then-wife Dasha Zhukova in 2014. Zhukova's mother, Elena Zhukova, is engaged to media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2024

The oligarch, his ex-wife, her mother and Rupert Murdoch

Were it not for other stories coming out of Russia, Rupert Murdoch's engagement to Roman Abramovich's ex-mother-in-law would have made more headlines.
The number of consultations made by consumers regarding troubles on social media marked a record high in 2023, with people in their 50s or older particularly vulnerable.
JAPAN
Jun 14, 2024

Japan sees social media linked consultations hit record in 2023

In 2023, there were 910,000 consultations, and consumer damage from problematic transactions amounted to a record ¥8.8 trillion.
A bus stop where a Japanese mother and child appear to have been attacked in Suzhou in China's Jiangsu Province
JAPAN / Society
Jul 1, 2024

Chinese social media companies condemn hate speech against Japanese people after knife attack

Wechat owner Tencent said it had tackled 836 instances of content related to the attack that infringed its rules.
A prison van that is believed to carry media mogul Jimmy Lai, the founder of Apple Daily newspaper, leaves the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts on the day of the national security trial, in Hong Kong on Dec. 18, 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 12, 2024

Hong Kong court dismisses bid by media tycoon Jimmy Lai to overturn conviction

Lai, the founder of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, has been held in solitary confinement for more than three years since December 2020.
The Chiba Prefectural Police headquarters in the city of Chiba. Police have arrested two men over a break-in at an 86-year-old woman's home in the city of Kamagaya at around 2:10 a.m. on Oct. 14.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2024

Suspect held over Chiba break-in received instructions via social media

The man said he received instructions through social media platform X as well as Signal, an encrypted messaging app.
Rupert Murdoch arrives for a probate court hearing in Reno, Nevada on Sept. 16.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 10, 2024

Murdoch loses 'Succession' battle for son's control of media empire

The media mogul sought to make Lachlan, his eldest son who is understood to share his worldview, as the controlling player in the family empire after his death.
Yuko Obuchi, head of the LDP's Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2025

LDP to actively use social media for election victory

Achieving a victory in the election for the upper chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, is the most important challenge for the party this year.
Demonstrators gather as members of the California National Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stand guard in response to protests against immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, California, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 11, 2025

Korean Americans criticize Donald Trump Jr. for 'reckless' social media post

They accused the U.S. president's son of mocking the current Los Angeles unrest by referencing 1992 riots in which members of the community reportedly opened fire on looters.
Foreign nationals applying for U.S. student and exchange visitor visas will now be asked to set their social media profiles to public so that they can be reviewed.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 19, 2025

U.S. orders social media vetting for student visa applicants

The move steps up measures to restrict foreign nationals’ entry to American campuses over national security concerns.
England's Lucy Bronze says its not just players who receive negative comments on social media.
SOCCER
Jun 19, 2025

England women to avoid 'awful' social media during European Championship

Chelsea forward Lauren James said the abuse never really stops.

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