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Increasingly chilly media climate in Japan
"Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Sanae Takaichi said the government can order broadcasters to suspend operations if they continue to air TV programming that is deemed politically biased, a remark that may be perceived as repressing free speech."
"During a Lower House Budget Committee session Tuesday, Takaichi, a conservative Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker, repeated her assertion from the previous day that the government is legally authorized to order stations and networks to cease broadcasting if they ignore official calls to remain “politically neutral,” as stipulated in the broadcasting law."
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/09/national/politics-diplomacy/minister-warns-that-government-can-shut-down-broadcasters-it-feels-are-biased/#.VrvFo1h96Uk
This is becoming increasingly worrying.
