This is a must-watch for anyone who wants to know more about Japan as it is right now. Japansese politics and media can be such a mystery even to those who have spent a considerable amount of time in Japan. This is why work like Jake's is so important. Free speech is in danger, journalism is being turned into public relations and carefully calibrated damage control. We all need to understand and do something about this because, really, it can happen anywhere.
The Japanese Government didn't give the "Peace Preservation Law" its name in English, as far as I can tell. Its name, more accurately translated, is the "Public Safety (chian) Preservation Law." While the former is well established now in academic discourse about the 1925 law, you can hardly launch some sort of discourse analysis about the official naming of Japanese laws on the basis of the English name of the law. Also, NHK's earliest forerunner was founded in 1924, before the law was enacted and in a period you are describing as an era of free speech and it was consolidated into its first "national" incarnation in 1926. It was created by the military government of the 1930s.
The sad thing is many of the people berating Jake and defending the Japanese media will be other foreigners residing in Japan. Before I lived in the country I never would have imagined there would be so many sycophantic, enchanted apologists who take it upon themselves to defend its political, sociological and economic issues to their last breath. Don't get me wrong, I think Japan is fantastically beautiful and like every country it has its incredible nuances and upsides, but so many of my fellow migrants would vehemently try to justify its transgressions. I heard people furiously defend its stances on child pornography, gender relations, working conditions and political corruption, taking a "cultural relativist" stance to things they would never accept from their home countries. I can't accept that. I too am more comfortable criticising my place of origin where I better understand how things work, but I personally believe there are some things that are objectively wrong, and we should call them out wherever we see them. This speech is an example of that, and good on you for taking your role as a journalist (and citizen) seriously mate. Big thumbs up from me.
because David McNeill is one of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, foreigner is always hearing their propaganda from media. he is a IRA fellow of Ireland, having climinal records as anti-government activity. blog.livedoor.jp/catnewsagency/archives/4210866.html
I wish to see more person like you there, hopefully doing this in Japanese. Wiping away LDP hasnt been possible. There were questions on DJP's governance (I derailed from the topic, sorry). Koumei put another risk on the fair politics and transparent journalism...I take criticism if you will I am afraid of the direction the Japan is heading to. 鎖国 again? :)
Most of us don't need to deal with truth, we don't deserve it anyways. The way it has been, and it is now- 1% rules the rest, is the right thing to happen to us, human.
As of 2017 Japan Ranks at 72 on the world freedom press ranking. united states is at 43. North Korea is sitting at 180. Saudi Arabia is at 168. Which is a close U.S. Ally. Yeah.
Very good talk, but there is one line that unfortunately kills it: Your take on literature is reductive and deplorable ("making up stuff is silly"). What about the creation of beauty via language,visions, imagination and sublimation, the power and alchemy of poetry and art? There are other forms of "truth" beyond the mere factual one!
@@JakeAdelsteinpaladin Ouch, as an aspiring writer that stung me a little bit. Nonetheless, I must say that; I believe that we who create stories, try to reflect within them one of our personal truths. If you ever read this Mr. Adelstein, I hope you're doing fine.
The talk might have been more convincing had Adelstein delved into specifics. What, for example, is being kept out of the mainstream media in Japan now...?
TEPCO'S Darkest Secret. It is one of the mysteries of Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis: How much damage did the March 11 earthquake do to the Fukushima Daiichi reactors before the tsunami hit? The stakes are high: If the quake structurally compromised the plant and the safety of its nuclear fuel, then every other similar reactor in Japan will have to be reviewed and possibly shut down. The issue of structural safety looms over the decision to restart every one in the months and years ahead. www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/12/tepcos-darkest-secret/ Reference www3.nhk.or.jp/news/genpatsu-fukushima/20110606/2110_hoanin.htm Here is what the independent investigation committee had to say about the problem years after our report. 国会事故調が、地震による損傷の可能性を排除しない主な理由は以下の6 点である18。 ① 平成18(2006)年の耐震設計審査指針に照らした耐震バックチェックと耐震補強が未了であったことから19、発電所設備が今般の地震動に耐え得ない可能性があること ② 地震直後に大規模な「冷却材喪失事故」（LOCA）は確認されていないが、小さな配管破断とそ れによる炉心損傷や炉心溶融の可能性があること（独立行政法人原子力安全基盤機構の解析結果） ③ 1 号機A 系の非常用交流電源喪失が津波到着前に生じていること ④ 地震発生当時、1 号機の建屋4 階の作業員数人が原因は特定できないものの出水を目撃してい ること ⑤ 1 号機の運転員は、地震直後の非常用復水器（IC）操作にあたって、配管からの冷却材の漏れ を気にしていたこと ⑥ 主蒸気逃がし安全弁（SR 弁）が、2 号機・3 号機には開閉記録があるものの、1 号機にはないため、作動しなかった可能性を否定できないこと dl.ndl.go.jp/view/download/digidepo_3526040_po_0756.pdf?contentNo=1
Jesus, this CJ dude sure is stalking Jake hard. As controversial of a figure Adelstein is, I'm not entirely sure that bullying someone with a bunch of alts and spreading lies of your own is the best way to conduct yourself under any situation. For anyone here researching, take Tokyo Vice and Adelstein's journalism with a grain of salt for sure, but also keep an eye out for oddly hateful criticism (eg Yaesu Kita) against him cause there is a LOT of targeted slander by specific individual(s) in any media relating to him.
