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Paris Syndrome, Japanese Tourists, and Modern Journalism
Byjay June 13, 2011

There is news going around that seems to reference a 5 year old BBC article that calls up 20 year old research and has been recycled into an article on the internet that points out that nearly a dozen (nearly a dozen! That could be 10 whole people or more!) Japanese citizens are treated for…

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Halloween in Japan and CNN’s Lack of Research
Byjay November 2, 2010November 2, 2010

I have many times during the early years of this blog been surprised and appalled by how little research CNN puts into its articles about Japan. I’ve noted before that there seems to be a belief somewhere that “everybody knows about Japan”. There are a lot of people who have spent a few months or…

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