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The Asahi Shimbun's Foiled Foray into Watchdog Journalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Martin Fackler
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In Japan's public disillusionment following the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the Asahi Shimbun, the nation's second-largest daily and the “quality paper” favored by intellectuals, launched a bold experiment to regain readers' trust.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 24 , December 2016 , e3
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1 The Asahi Shimbun Corporate Report 2012, p. 4.

2 The Committee for Restoration of Trust and Resuscitation, Jan. 5, 2015. See here.

3 Onishi and Fackler, “Japan Held Nuclear Data, Leaving Evacuees in Peril,” Aug. 8, 2011.

4 The Asahi Shimbun Company, “Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th-Century Japan,” London: Bloomsbury, 2015, pp. 273-274.