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• Japanese Mass Media Buries Self-Immolation Protest Over Abe Government's Constitutional Coup

  Open Access•John Kingston, Jeff Kingston et al.•ARTICLE•Japan focus•2012

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  The reverberations of the act of self-immolation next to Shinjuku Station on June 29, 2014 seem akin to the sound of one hand clapping. Japan's mass media reliably jumps all over any sensational story, but not this one. While not ignored, it was certainly not pursued, as the story of a man reciting an anti-war poem by Yosano Akiko, a national legend, before igniting himself in front of throngs on a Sunday afternoon at Tokyo's most crowded commute…

• Japanese Mass Media Buries Self-Immolation Protest Over Abe Government's Constitutional Coup

  Open Access•John Kingston, Jeff Kingston et al.•ARTICLE•Japan focus•2012

  Incluir item

  The reverberations of the act of self-immolation next to Shinjuku Station on June 29, 2014 seem akin to the sound of one hand clapping. Japan's mass media reliably jumps all over any sensational story, but not this one. While not ignored, it was certainly not pursued, as the story of a man reciting an anti-war poem by Yosano Akiko, a national legend, before igniting himself in front of throngs on a Sunday afternoon at Tokyo's most crowded commute…

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