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For Press Freedom
Sweet Bananas, Bitter Work
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Sweet Bananas, Bitter Work (9): “I can’t go home — I’ll be killed”
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Sweet Bananas, Bitter Work (8): Leaving for the Gulf
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Sweet Bananas, Bitter Work (7): Life under the crop duster
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Sweet Bananas, Bitter Work (6): Dreaming of Yamashita’s gold
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Sweet Bananas, Bitter Work (5): Kida-san is coming
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Sweet Bananas, Bitter Work (4): 3,863 pesos in unpaid wages
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Blowing Unsmoke
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Blowing Unsmoke (4): Donations and advertising by big tobacco OK under lenient Japanese regulations
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Blowing Unsmoke (3): Philip Morris’ marketing strategies during Covid-19 around the world
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Philip Morris Japan penalized record-high 550 million yen
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Blowing Unsmoke (2): Insufficient proof for “modified health risk”
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Blowing Unsmoke (1): Philip Morris Japan uses Covid-19 for IQOS ad campaign
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On the Hunt for DNA
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Original or “inspired”? The Asahi’s reporting on the police’s DNA database
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On the Hunt for DNA (7): Police directive encouraged DNA collection for non-felonies
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On the Hunt for DNA (6): Lip service to legislation
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On the Hunt for DNA (5): A DNA database to rival the West
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On the Hunt for DNA (4): Police unresponsive to questions
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On the Hunt for DNA (3): Police take DNA for any offense
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The Missing Nuclear Scientist
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The Missing Nuclear Scientist (8): Suspicion of abduction apparently prompted no action
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The Missing Nuclear Scientist (7): Japan vocal on leaked nuclear tech — when it’s another country’s problem
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The Missing Nuclear Scientist (6): Nuclear agency and police dropped the case
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The Missing Nuclear Scientist (5): Job offers used as bait for abductions
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The Missing Nuclear Scientist (4): American plutonium welcomed to Japan
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The Missing Nuclear Scientist (3): Job change — but to where?
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Burying Japan’s Nuclear Secrets
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Burying Japan’s Nuclear Secrets (10): The Asahi Shimbun demanded Waseda Chronicle delete part of this series
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Burying Japan’s Nuclear Secrets (9): Competitors pounced on the floundering Asahi
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Burying Japan’s Nuclear Secrets (8): “Comfort women” coverage and a conservative administration
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Burying Japan’s Nuclear Secrets (7): Enter the crisis manager
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Burying Japan’s Nuclear Secrets (6): Follow-up article would have examined the lessons of Fukushima
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Burying Japan’s Nuclear Secrets (5): Awards over responsibility to readers
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A Cancer Study’s Secret Funder
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A Cancer Study’s Secret Funder (13): Chugai Pharmaceutical’s “off-label use” request to the Japanese Breast Cancer Society
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A Cancer Study’s Secret Funder (12): Japanese Association of Medical Sciences took action
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A Cancer Study’s Secret Funder (11): Kyoto University Hospital threatens to call the police
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A Cancer Study’s Secret Funder (10): Doctor in charge avoids questions
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A Cancer Study’s Secret Funder (9): “Refer your inquiries to Dr. Toi”
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A Cancer Study’s Secret Funder (8): “No donation comes without strings attached”
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Unabated Quest for Coal-fired Plants(Now investigating)
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Unabated Quest for Coal-Fired Plants (3): Hyundai Engineering and Construction implicated in Cirebon power plant bribery case
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Unabated Quest for Coal-fired Plants (2): South Korean power company suspends involvement in Cirebon 3, but Japanese trading giant presses on
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Unabated Quest for Coal-fired Plants (1): The reality of “high-quality infrastructure exports”
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Money for Docs(Now investigating)
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Money for Docs: Kagawa University professor received 19 million yen in additional income in a year from Japan’s six pharma companies selling dementia drugs
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Money for Docs (4): Drug Pricing Organization chairman advocates doctors’ “voluntary restraint” from pharma-sponsored events
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Money for Docs (3): Drug Pricing Organization chairman hands off responsibility to health ministry
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Money for Docs (2): Drug Pricing Organization members received up to 11.7 million yen in additional income from big pharma
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Money for Docs (1): Big pharma paid doctors 26.6 billion yen in a single year
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Forced Sterilization(Now investigating)
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“Forced Sterilization” wins poverty journalism grand prize
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Forced Sterilization: The health and labor ministry demanded family medical and criminal history
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Forced Sterilization: Junko’s story
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Forced Sterilization: Prefectural review board decisions on forced sterilization “comparable with Nazis”
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Forced Sterilization: Japan’s prefectures competed for decades to sterilize people with disabilities, under instructions from the health ministry
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