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Looking at "Press Freedoms Status" is enough to know it's bullshit
Grumpy Gramps wrote:Depends on anyone's definition of "free"...
Press freedom watchdogs reported media self-censorship in response to government complaints about coverage, with three television presenters losing their positions in March due to perceived government pressure.
An October 2015 report by the free expression advocacy group Article 19 found that the country’s access to information legislation, which came into force in 2001, has not always been implemented effectively, with requesters encountering high fees and lengthy waits. All 47 of Japan’s prefectures have also enacted laws ensuring citizens’ access to information.
The 2013 Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets allows for unclassified information to be automatically shared with the public, but it also empowers state agencies to protect information on a range of security or diplomatic matters, with criminal penalties for those who reveal designated secrets, including journalists.
Under the traditional kisha kurabu (press club) system, institutions such as government ministries and corporate organizations have restricted the release of news to those journalists and media outlets with membership in their clubs, essentially exchanging access for moderate coverage and discouraging critical articles.
There were reports in 2016 of government pressure on media outlets to refrain from critical coverage. In March, three prominent television news presenters were removed from their positions by their respective networks following indirect warnings from the government in February that broadcasters could theoretically be shut down for political bias. After a country visit in April, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression noted apparently high levels of self-censorship in print and broadcast media.
Police may detain suspects for up to 23 days without charge in order to extract confessions. Foreign analysts have questioned the high rate at which they say warrants are issued, and have claimed that people are often detained on flimsy evidence, arrested multiple times for the same alleged crime, or subjected to lengthy or coercive interrogations. Observers have also argued that trials often favor the prosecution.
The constitution prohibits discrimination based on race, creed, sex, or social status. (ONLY IF YOU'RE A CITIZEN) Entrenched societal discrimination prevents Japan’s estimated three million burakumin—descendants of feudal-era outcasts—and the indigenous Ainu minority from gaining equal access to housing and employment, though such forms of discrimination are slowly waning as traditional social distinctions weaken. Japan-born descendants of colonial subjects (particularly ethnic Koreans and Chinese) continue to suffer similar disadvantages.
Antidiscrimination laws do not cover sexual orientation or gender identity, and laws on rape and prostitution do not address same-sex activity. LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people reportedly face social stigma and in some cases harassment.
Although women enjoy legal equality, discrimination in employment and sexual harassment on the job are common. Violence against women often goes unreported due to concerns about family reputation and other social mores. A 2015 Supreme Court ruling upheld a law requiring married couples to use the same surname, and a Tokyo court ruled in October 2016 that a married female plaintiff did not have the right to use her birth name at work. Women remain underrepresented in government, with some 9 percent of seats in the Diet’s lower house and about 21 percent in the upper house, though by the end of 2016 women held the important positions of Tokyo governor, leader of the opposition, defense minister, and internal affairs minister.
Traffickers frequently bring foreign women into the country for forced sex work in brothels and clubs by arranging fraudulent marriages with Japanese men. Some Japanese women and girls are also at risk of sex trafficking. Foreign workers enrolled in state-backed technical “internships” sometimes face exploitative conditions and forced labor; in November 2016 the Diet passed legislation designed to strengthen oversight of the program and punish violations.
Takechanpoo wrote:have the freedom to not report voluntarily
LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people reportedly face social stigma and in some cases harassment.
Taka-Okami wrote:LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people reportedly face social stigma and in some cases harassment.
These LGBtz people are mentally deranged. Certainly should never be accepted as 'normal'.
Russell wrote:Taka-Okami wrote:LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people reportedly face social stigma and in some cases harassment.
These LGBtz people are mentally deranged. Certainly should never be accepted as 'normal'.
I take it you're joking, right?!?
Taka-Okami wrote:Yeah, all you retards who believe a person born a male can magically be a female just because they say so are living in fuckin make believe lala land as well. This, among other alt left wing lunatic social engineering attempts, is what will be the Wests downfall.
Taka-Okami wrote:Yeah, all you retards who believe a person born a male can magically be a female just because they say so are living in fuckin make believe lala land as well. This, among other alt left wing lunatic social engineering attempts, is what will be the Wests downfall.
Taka-Okami wrote:Yeah, all you retards who believe a person born a male can magically be a female just because they say so are living in fuckin make believe lala land as well. This, among other alt left wing lunatic social engineering attempts, is what will be the Wests downfall.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:World Press Freedom Index.
I remember years ago talking about this guy with other ex-pats and students in Japan. Overall, the general consensus was that he was a nutter and a bully, even by the lefties who agreed with him on general principle, mostly because he picked targets on how easily they could be made to break to his lawfare and harassment rather than the egregiousness of their "racism". He always picked small Mom and Pop businesses on the fringes of profitability, and never anyone with actual power or money.
The fact I've never heard of this dipshit speaks volumes about his relevance. Thanks for the info
Wow this guy is still alive and active. I remember reading about this guy years ago causing problems in Japan but haven't heard anything since.
Knowing what we know now about Californians, Japan should not have let him immigrate. According to this article Debito left Japan after 24 years. I am unsure which year he first entered Japan and where he is now (Hawaii?)
did you really have to use Logan Paul? Logan is hardly an example of the typical foreigner, much less the typical American
Many Americans feel that the country has become unrecognizable due to decades of globalization and a technological revolution that has eroded middle-class livelihoods and deepened social divides.
Victor Davis Hanson
Taka-Okami wrote:
These LGBtz people are mentally deranged. Certainly should never be accepted as 'normal'.
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