David McNeill

BBC will next week broadcast a documentary about Johnny Kitagawa, detailing decades of sexual abuse of children, mostly ignored by the TV firms that relied on his 'boys'. ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jw7y?fbclid=IwAR0w9bPx7SVqrQegLjeIbpsvMdW2KLHrGDLQ6yQqDmnksqUAYDMTUeXZZm0

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David McNeill

@DavidMcNeill3

2020年10月9日

At the fccj today from noon.

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David McNeill

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2023年3月18日

C’mon Dave Spector, this misses the point and dismisses the victims of childhood sexual assaults. The journalists who took the biggest risks reporting Kitagawa’s misdeeds were Japanese. Why didn’t mainstream media - the outlets you work for - follow up?

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@dave_spector

2023年3月18日

渦中のジャニー喜多川についてのBBCドキュメンタリーを拝見しました。短期間だけしか滞在していないリポーターの、くどい欧米型の「正義感」や被害者主義と、実際の当事者らの温度差に驚く。観れば誰もが思うが、そんなにお怒りだったら、ジャニー氏が生きてるうちに、ユー、やれよ、と言いたくなる。

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I rarely see this sort of protest graffiti in Tokyo, let alone in Shibuya 商店街.

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Kauan Okamoto, former member of Johnny’s Junior, at the FCCJ today. He said that he was repeatedly abused by Johnny Kitagawa and alleges that 100-200 teens were similarity victimized at kitagawa’s penthouse Shibuya apartment while he was a member from 2012-2016.

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David McNeill

@DavidMcNeill3

2017年12月12日

Charles Jenkins, the hapless American soldier who drunkenly defected to North Korea in 1965, married Japanese woman Hitomi Soga, and lived out his remaining years on Sado Island, passed away this week, aged 77. My interview with him from The Independent.

independent.co.uk

Charles Jenkins: Prisoner of Pyongyang

Charles Jenkins describes the moment in 1965 when he left his US Army post and defected to North Korea as the biggest mistake of his life. In the next 40 years he was beaten, starved and lost his...

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David McNeill

@DavidMcNeill3

2021年3月19日

Is there a sadder sign in Tokyo this week?

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David McNeill

@DavidMcNeill3

2020年4月3日

Piece in Tokyo Shimbun argues that many people who recently died in Japan could have been infected with coronavirus and were not counted because so few are being tested. H/t Toshi Osaka.

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David McNeill

@DavidMcNeill3

2022年10月24日

Ai Weiwei. He said conflict between the West and China is inevitable, America should be more reflective about its own authoritarianism, but got the biggest round of applause for defending Julian Assange. “If we don’t protect someone like that we have lose something precious.”

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David McNeill

@DavidMcNeill3

2023年7月19日

Here's Dewi Sukarno telling her followers that Johnny Kitagawa "loved and cherished the children" he mentored and that to suggest otherwise is a "desecration" of his memory and a disgrace to Japan... x.com/dewisukarno/st

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Johnny & Associates launches 'in-house' probe into multiple allegations of sexual abuse against founder Johnny Kitagawa. Why don't the authorities manage this investigation, and who believes that a company investigating itself will have any credibility?

apnews.com

Japanese talent agency's probe into alleged abuse by Johnny Kitagawa aims to prevent future cases

TOKYO (AP) — An investigation by a major Japanese talent agency into sexual abuse allegations against its founder won’t address monetary or criminality questions but rather aims to prevent such cases...

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RIP Ryuichi Sakamoto. I always found found him as keen to discuss politics as music. He said his environmentalism and criticism of the US-led war in Iraq had cost him but "I feel my responsibility to speak out for my own children and future generations" apjjf.org/-David-McNeill

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A video made *34 years ago* by Kita Koji, a former member of the group Four Leaves, warning about sexual abuse in Johnny & Associates, the company set up by Johnny Kitagawa. He was ignored. H/t Kashida-san.

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樫田秀樹

@kashidahideki

2023年5月2日

ジャニーズ喜多川のタレントへの性虐待問題はもう半世紀も前にあった。それを最初に告発したのがジャニーズ初期のフォーリーブスの北公次。北は1988年出版の「光GENJIへ」で自身の性虐待被害を明かした。だがメディアは北を無視。だが北はネットが普及していない1989年にこの映像を残した。

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The wall of silence is crumbling.

「ジャニーさんから性被害」元ジャニーズJr.会見　「未遂」証言も：朝日新聞デジタル

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Something missing in this picture…can’t quite put my finger on it.

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Japan doesn't get enough credit for its remarkable strides in earthquake resilience. Last night's M7.3 quake would surely have caused far more destruction in most other parts of the world. We looked at tis in The Economist in 2016:

Preparing for the Big One

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In the 朝日新聞: メディアの甘い追及と日本型幕引き　「ジャニーズ問題で繰り返すな」

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メディアの甘い追及と日本型幕引き　「ジャニーズ問題で繰り返すな」：朝日新聞デジタル

　「誤解を与えた」「重く受け止める」。政治家や経営者の釈明会見で繰り返される、あいまいな謝罪。まかり通るのは、責任追及という当たり前のことをメディアが怠っているからだ――。そう指摘するのが、英紙インデ…

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Feel the diversity here.

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Yuko Takeo

@grey_whistle

2020年2月26日

Another day, another coronavirus meeting.. this time government asks that major sporting/cultural events be cancelled or scaled back for the next two weeks

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David McNeill

@DavidMcNeill3

2023年6月1日

Artist Yuki Iiyama, who says her work on the massacre of Koreans after the Kanto earthquake in 1923 has been censored by both the Tokyo and central governments, confronts Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike. H/t William Andrews. Previous tweet deleted because I made an error. Apologies!

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iiyama yuki 飯山由貴

@mmmeshi

2023年5月31日

偶然、小池百合子都知事の登庁の場に居合わせたので、思い切って「都知事は作品を見られましたか？？」とお話をしにいきました。完全無視でした。東京都が関東大震災の虐殺の歴史を封印することは、追悼を不可能にし、差別を煽動し、人々の心身に不安を与え続けます。応答をしてください。

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The Meguro River runs by about 10 meters from our apartment. I’ve never seen it this fierce. You hope those high walls will keep the water in but who knows..

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David McNeill

@DavidMcNeill3

2023年9月14日

Always amazed by the carefully considered, nutritious monthly menu offered to our kids in Tokyo public school, complete with calorie and carb count, all for about ¥8000 ($54) per month. And not a turkey twizzler in sight.

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Blood tests of 387 people in Okinawa who mainly live near US military bases show some had PFAS ("forever chemicals") values up to 14 times higher than the national average. Major story on Okinawa right now.

PFAS血中濃度、沖縄で全国平均の最大14倍　水道水を飲む人は高く | 沖縄タイムス＋プラス

okinawatimes.co.jpから

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David McNeill

@DavidMcNeill3

2021年4月3日

Olympic torch relay, screened live on NHK. you can just hear the voices of some protestors saying “hantai” (against the Olympics) before the sound cuts out. Isn’t that like, y’know, censorship?

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Helium

@heIium_com

2021年4月1日

沿道から「オリンピックはいらないぞ〜」という声があがった1:00前後からNHKの中継音声がなくなる。高橋貞雄さん | 聖火ランナー | 東京2020オリンピック聖火リレー | NHK sports.nhk.or.jp/olympic/torch/

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David McNeill

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2023年6月15日

"The End of the Johnny's Myth" - my cover story in Newsweek Japan.

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ニューズウィーク日本版

@Newsweek_JAPAN

2023年6月13日

【本日発売】特集：ジャニーズ帝国の落日エンタメ界の「神」の性加害はなぜ黙認された？噴出する告発でジャニーズ神話が終わる日 ▶︎Special Report タブーとジャニーズの神話が終わる日 Kポップファンは善の循環をめざす newsweekjapan.jp/magazine/44999 #ニューズウィーク日本版

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Bunshun reminding readers that it spent years covering claims of abuse by Johnny Kitagawa and (understandably) patting itself on the back. "Now, the heads of TV stations are being asked at their press conferences why they did not report the news before"

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朝日新聞は「自戒しなければならない」と…「ジャニー喜多川氏の性加害」告発会見を日本の新聞各紙はどう報じたか | 文春オンライン

「週刊文春」が報じてきた、ジャニーズ事務所創業者の故・ジャニー喜多川氏によるジャニーズJr.への性加害問題。今回大きな動きがあった。元ジュニアのカウアン・オカモト氏（26）が初めて実名・顔出しで週刊文…