Japan: Free Press Association · Global Voices
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Carrying on the mission of abolishing the monopoly in information in Japan [en], a group of freelance and online journalists founded the Free Press Association of Japan (日本報道協会, Nihon Hohdoh Kyohkai). The name of the non-profit association is still tentative but the first speaker has already been announced: Ichiro Ozawa, a former leader of the ruling party and one of the first politicians who proposed to open news conferences to all.