July 7, 2008
Mainichi to announce results of investigation into inappropriate articles in WaiWai column
The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd. is conducting an in-house investigation into the publication of inappropriate articles in the WaiWai column of the Mainichi Daily News.
We will announce the results of the investigation, such as why inappropriate stories were run on the site, in the middle of this month.
We will ask the Open Newspaper Committee, a third-party organization comprising of outside experts, for opinions on the investigation results and report it on our Web site.
- Mainichi Daily News to start over again
- The Mainichi Shimbun pledges to learn from its serious errors
- Investigation of problems with English site (1)
- Investigation of problems with English site (2)
- Investigation of problems with English site (3)
- Chronology of problems with English-language site
- Analysis of the investigative team
- Two more punished following in-house investigation
- Comments from Members of the Open Newspaper Committee (1)
- Comments from Members of the Open Newspaper Committee (2)
- Comments from Members of the Open Newspaper Committee (3)
- Comments from Members of the Open Newspaper Committee (4)
- Image of Japanese newspaper (Page 1) showing results of the investigation [PDF/1.7MB]
- Image of Japanese newspaper (Feature Page 1) showing results of the investigation [PDF/966KB]
- Image of Japanese newspaper (Feature Page 2) showing results of the investigation [PDF/696KB]
- Mainichi to announce results of investigation into inappropriate articles in WaiWai column (July 7, 2008)
- Punitive measures over Mainichi Daily News WaiWai column announced (June 28, 2008)
- Apology to readers for WaiWai column (June 25, 2008)