Japan resorts to press restrictions Japan, demoted from 22nd to 53rd place, recorded the biggest drop of any Asian country. The reason was the ban imposed by the authorities on independent coverage of any topic related directly or indirectly to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Several freelance journalists who complained that public debate was being stifled were subjected to censorship, police intimidation and judicial harassment. The continued existence of the discriminatory system of “kisha clubs”, exclusive press clubs which restrict access to information to their own members, is a key element that could prevent the country from moving up the index significantly in the near future.
2014年版の日本についての言及
Censorship of Fukushima Arrests, home searches, interrogation by the domestic intelligence agency and threats of judicial proceedings – who would have thought that covering the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster would have involved so many risks for Japan’s freelance journalists? The discrimination against freelance and foreign reporters resulting from Japan’s unique system of Kisha clubs, whose members are the only journalists to be granted government accreditation, has increased since Fukushima. Often barred from press conferences given by the government and TEPCO (the Fukushima nuclear plant’s owner), denied access to the information available to the mainstream media (which censor themselves), freelancers have their hands tied in their fight to cover Japan’s nuclear industrial complex, known as the “nuclear village.” Now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has tightened the legislation on “state secrets,” their fight will get even more dangerous.
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「2013年版 [rsf.org](PDF全文 [rsf.org])」と「2014年版 [rsf.org]」とでだいぶレポートの書き方が違うんですが、
2013年版だと、ランクが大きく変わった国については、何が原因だったのか明記されていたのですが、
2014年版だと、その国に起きたトピックを上げているだけで、それが原因で下がったのか、明記はされていないですね。
2013年版の日本についての言及
2014年版の日本についての言及
「日本」ではなく「福島」について別枠で述べてるんですよね。
あと去年に引き続き「記者クラブ」についても。
去年に比べると、法案に関することだけ追加されてるような感じではありますが、それだけで順位が後退したんですかね？
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日本だけじゃなくて、レポート全体で、順位について言及してないんですよ