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Gender
The revival broadcast of a popular Japanese television show in the 1980s featuring offensive stereotypes of gay men generated public outrage.
Japan Highlights
Japan
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
Recent reports of increasing political pressure on the freedom of the media raise serious concerns that the Japanese government may be trying to prevent journalists from fulfilling their role as watchdogs of democracy.
Japan
Free Expression & the Law
Article 21 of the Constitution of Japan guarantees freedom of assembly, association, speech, press and all other forms of expression.
Japan
Digital Rights
Japan's entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will see a wide range of changes sweeping the economy and the community. These include copyright changes, which unlike in many other TPP countries have sparked national attention.
International Press Institute
Japan
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
3 July 2015
Reporters Without Borders
Access to Information
Japan
Free Expression & the Law
18 December 2014
Committee to Protect Journalists
Access to Information
Japan
Free Expression & the Law
5 November 2014
Reporters Without Borders
Japan
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
4 June 2014
Reporters Without Borders
Access to Information
Japan
Censorship
Free Expression & the Law
13 March 2014
International Federation of Journalists
Access to Information
Japan
Free Expression & the Law
13 December 2013
ARTICLE 19
Access to Information
Japan
Free Expression & the Law
13 November 2013
Electronic Frontier Foundation
International
Japan
Digital Rights
30 July 2013
Reporters Without Borders
Japan
Censorship
9 November 2012
Committee to Protect Journalists
Japan
China
Free Expression & the Law
17 August 2012
Reporters Without Borders
Japan
Free Expression & the Law
11 July 2012
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch
Reporters Without Borders
International Federation of Journalists
ARTICLE 19
Japan
10 July 2008
Reporters Without Borders
Freedom House
International Federation of Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
International Federation of Journalists
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