Special Reports
Mickey Mouse Journalism: How Some Foreign Newspapers Covered the Emperor’s Enthronement
In the United States and the United Kingdom, “Mickey Mouse” is used to mean something trivial, insignificant, or sense
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] ‘Washington Post’ Engages Toro Toro Bomber to Attack Japan
On August 29, 2019, the Washington Post published an article, “Japan is a Trumpian paradise of low immigration rates. It
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] Japanese Virgin Sturgeons
The spring and summer months of 2019 have seen a spate of articles about the allegedly high rates […]
Culture
[Mythbusters] KIMZNICKERS and the Crass KIMONO Flap
For much of May, my Google news alert was peppered with stories about a slug that had allegedly brought […]
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] White Makes Right When It Comes to Whaling
On the last day of 2018 the editorial board of The New York Times (NYT) issued one of its […]
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] More Cats, Dogs Than Children in Japan? That’s Pet Poop in the Press
Numerous English language articles have claimed that Japan has “more pets than children,” as though this was a singula
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] Vaccinating Against Fake ‘News’
Foreign pundits and journalists occasionally invent stories about Japan. But more typically they take something that h
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] ‘Happiness Report’ Uses Western Thinking to Measure Japan
(Second of Two Parts) Part 1: [Mythbusters] The ‘Happiness Report’ that Makes Me Very Unhappy Japan’s […]
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] The ‘Happiness Report’ that Makes Me Very Unhappy
(First of Two Parts) Journalists and pundits writing about Japan seem to love league tables (lists of rankings) [&he
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] ‘Brand Japan’: Who is Tarnishing Whom or What?
On January 17, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by Jeff Kingston, a professor at Temple University Japan
Special Reports
[Mythbusters] Foreign reporting on the Japanese population and birth rate reaches a new low
The last weeks of 2018 saw a spate of articles in the English language press reporting that the […]