Media in Japan
In magazines and journals:
Media Coverage of Fukushima, Ten Years Later (The Asia-Pacific Journal, Sept. 1, 2021)
Sinking a Bold Foray Into Investigative Journalism in Japan (Columbia Journalism Review, Oct. 25, 2016)
The Silencing of Japan's Free Press (Foreign Policy, May 27, 2016)
The Asahi Shimbun's Failed Foray into Watchdog Journalism (The Asia-Pacific Journal, Dec. 15, 2016)
In The New York Times:
Rewriting the War, Japanese Right Attacks a Newspaper (Dec. 2, 2014)
In Reporting a Scandal, Media Are Accused of Just Listening (May 28, 2009)
Efforts by Japan to Stifle News Media Are Working (Apr, 26, 2015)
New Leaders in Japan Seek to End Cozy Ties to Press Clubs (Nov. 20, 2009)
Fukushima
In The New York Times:
(including Pulitzer Prize-nominated series)
In Japan, a Culture That Promotes Nuclear Dependency (May 30, 2011)
In Nuclear Crisis, Crippling Mistrust (Jun. 12, 2011)
Japan Held Nuclear Data, Leaving Evacuees in Peril (Aug. 8, 2011)
Reporter Suits Up for First Visit to Fukushima Nuclear Plant (Nov. 14, 2011)
Japanese City's Cry Resonates Around the World (Apr. 6, 2011)
Fukushima's Long Link to a Dark Nuclear Past (Sep. 5, 2011)
Japan's Nuclear Refugees, Still Stuck in Limbo (Oct. 1, 2013)
With a Plant’s Tainted Water Still Flowing, No End to Environmental Fears (Oct. 24, 2013)
Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (Nov. 19, 2017)
Tsunami
In The New York Times:
Powerful Quake and Tsunami Devastate Northern Japan (Mar. 11, 2011)
Tsunami Survivors Return to See What, If Anything, Is Left of Their Lives (Mar. 13, 2011)
For Elderly, Echoes of World War II Horrors (Mar. 14, 2011)
In Remote Japanese Towns, Survivors Tell of a Wave's Power (Mar. 15, 2011)
Severed From the World, Villagers Survive on Tight Bonds and To-Do Lists (Mar. 23, 2011)
City, Destroyed and Yet Hopeful, Begins to Move On (Apr. 10, 2011)
Before It Can Rebuild, Japanese Town Must Survive (May. 15, 2011)
Japanese Coastal Town Still Struggling to Rebuild From 2011 Tsunami (Mar. 12, 2015)
Tsunami Warnings, Written on Ancient Stones (Apr. 20, 2011)
History and Territory
In The New York Times:
Japan's Last Zero Pilot Sees an Old Danger on the Horizon (Apr. 3, 2015)
In Shark-Infested Waters, the Resolve of Two Giants is Tested (Sep. 22, 2012)
Japanese Unearth, and Their Nation's Past, on Guadalcanal (Nov. 29, 2014)
Pressure in Japan to Forget the Sins of War (Oct. 18, 2014)
A Western Outpost Shrinks on a Remote Island Now in Japanese Hands (Jun. 9, 2012)
In Test of Will, Japanese Fighter Pilots Confront Chinese (Mar. 8, 2015)
Ahead of World War II Anniversary, Questions Linger Over Stance of Japan’s Premier (Apr. 9, 2015)
In Okinawa, Talk of Break From Japan Turns Serious (Jul. 5, 2013)
In The Wall Street Journal:
Reef or a Rock? Question Puts Japan in a Hard Place (Feb. 16, 2005)
Guadalcanal, 2014. Photo by Martin Fackler.
Crime and Scandal
In The New York Times:
A ‘Black Widow’ Case Strikes a Nerve in Japan (Dec. 8, 2014)
In Japan, a Beloved Deaf Composer Appears to Be None of the Above (Feb. 6, 2014)
Star Envoy's Frankness Puts Kennedy Mystique to the Test in Japan (Jan. 24, 2014)
Tokyo Gas Attack Arrest Reawakens National Trauma (Jun. 7, 2012)
With Risk, a Japanese City Takes on a Once Accepted Fact of Life: the Yakuza (Feb. 2, 2012)
Japan Stalls as Leaders Are Jolted by Old Guard (Jan. 19, 2010)
Mayor’s Death Forces Japan’s Crime Rings Into the Light (Apr. 21, 2007)
In Bloomberg News:
Meet the Racketeer Who Took Down Japan's Largest Financial Companies (Independent, Aug. 17, 1997)
Culture and Pop Culture
In The New York Times:
Going From Bond Girl to ‘a Normal Life’ (Mar. 3, 2017)
Old Ways Prove Hard to Shed, Even as Crisis Hits Kimono Trade (Feb. 9, 2015)
American's Star Power is Unrivaled in Japan (Aug. 22, 2014)
A Way of Life Moves With a Market (Sep. 16, 2013)
Rubber-Suit Monsters Fade. Tiny Tokyos Relax. (Sep. 1, 2013)
As Japan’s Mediums Die, Ancient Tradition Fades (Aug. 20, 2009)
Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place (Oct. 20, 2007)
Honoring a Westerner Who Preserved Japan's Folk Tales (Feb. 20, 2007)
Splitting a Hip Neighborhood, in More Ways Than One (Oct. 2, 2006)
With Haruo Nakajima, the actor in the original Godzilla suit. Photo by Ko Sasaki.
China
In The Associated Press:
History and Hardship Shape China’s Elderly (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 23, 2003)
Chinese Provinces Police Salt of the Earth (Los Angeles Times, Nov. 24, 2002)
Hainan: Sunny with Shady Side (The Seattle Times, Apr. 8, 2001)
Dam Leaves Some Residents High, Dry (Feb. 17, 2002)
Growing Slave Trade of Chinese Women (Jan. 21, 2002)
China Races to Save History (Jan. 19, 2002)
Damming the Mekong (Sep. 29, 2001)
China Hunts Culprits in Disco Fire (Dec. 28, 2000)
Koreas
In The New York Times:
In Ferry Deaths, a South Korean Tycoon's Downfall (Jul. 26, 2014)
A Korean City With 250 Holes in its Heart (Apr. 30, 2014)
In Korea, a Boot Camp to Cure Internet Addiction (Nov. 18, 2007)
A Stolen Buddhist Statue Becomes a Symbol of Two Nations' Anger (Jun. 3, 2013)
Sony's International Incident: Making Kim Jong-un's Head Explode (Dec. 14, 2014)
On North Korean TV, a Dash of (Unapproved) Disney Magic (Jul. 9, 2012)
Young Heir Faces Uncertain Transition in North Korea (Dec. 19, 2011)
In Artillery Exchange Between Koreas, Fishermen Take the Brunt (Jun. 23, 2009)
Big dreams for North Korean industrial park (Aug. 20, 2008)
For North Korean Resort, Symbol of Engagement, Nuclear Test’s Fallout Is Financial (Nov. 1, 2006)
On Yeonpyeongdo, 2009. Photo by Martin Fackler.